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May 2	comment	How to find out UUID of a non-block USB device? @krokoziabla yes I believe they are assigned by virtualbox. My iPod gets a different UUID every time.
May 2	comment	Is there a postexec/predisplay hook for ZSH? zsh cannot tell if there is going to be output because in order to do so it would have to give the command a pipe instead of the tty which would interfere with interactive programs.
May 2	comment	/usr/bin/env: zsh -: No such file or directory @slm sure - SUS stands for "single unix specification", the old name for the Open Group Base Specification that I linked in my answer.
May 2	answered	/usr/bin/env: zsh -: No such file or directory
May 2	comment	/usr/bin/env: zsh -: No such file or directory The 'guideline' "To make scripts portable, use #!/usr/bin/env <cmd ...> rather than #!/path/to/cmd <...>." is bad advice. The correct solution to portability is to modify the scripts to contain the correct path (/bin/zsh, /usr/bin/zsh, /usr/local/bin/zsh) at installation time, and there is example code as part of the SUS standard for how to do this.
Apr 19	comment	'ps' command hangs those `TTY=?` outputs are suspicious, particularly since these look like commands that are clearly actually on a tty. It's possibly looping through something trying to find the tty and then giving up.
Apr 19	comment	How can I hook functionality to the “go to line”-command in Vim? You can actually just use `175zz`.
Apr 19	comment	How to determine which module taints the kernel? G is always printed when P isn't, it doesn't necessarily imply an external module (though the O flag does).
Apr 10	comment	open() console for default file descriptors It's not closing "all file descriptors but 0, 1, and 2", it's closing a single extra file descriptor to the console that it just opened. It doesn't close anything that was already open before the loop executed.
Apr 4	awarded	Yearling
Apr 1	comment	Mapping intr to del key @JamesA See my edit.
Apr 1	revised	Mapping intr to del key added 140 characters in body
Apr 1	answered	Mapping intr to del key
Mar 27	comment	Key letters? Option letters? What are these things? The tar example is different because it groups all of the options together, whereas the conventional style does not allow options that have arguments to be grouped together. You couldn't do `foo -hxgczf 10 12` in place of `foo -h -x 10 -g -c -z 12 -f` - that's something only tar does (well, i think there are a handful of other programs that do it too)
Mar 25	comment	*How to forbid the execution of /bin/rm -f ?** If you find yourself getting into the habit of working around your alias, then your alias is too intrusive and should be replaced with one that's still safe, but less annoying. What exactly is your "alias of mv"?
Mar 22	comment	How to change Vim's command type mode programmatically? Right but then I don't have it in the command line if I want to modify it for subsequent `:s`'s - I'd be locked into doing / again then :s//... again, and can't see my capture groups in front of me.
Mar 22	comment	How to change Vim's command type mode programmatically? I very often want to use the incremental hilighting to get feedback while building a regular expression for a `:s` command (or, conversely, go back to `/` to get the benefit of incremental hilighting to figure out where I screwed up my regex)
Mar 21	comment	Read only mode in gdb Wait. Back up. Did you say "attaching a debugger to the production server"?
Mar 19	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 16	comment	What are guarantees for concurrent writes into a named pipe? PIPE_BUF is, by the way, guaranteed to be at least 512. Note that you also have to guarantee that your process actually writes each line to it in a single write call. Enabling line buffering (`setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOLBF,512)`) will do this without requiring you to use low-level functions.