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100,000 Computer Trivia Questions Answered by Users

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Just noticed that our successful computer trivia feature (stats here) (https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php) has surpassed over 50,000 questions answered by users:
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Hi Ravinder,

It seems, at least based on your posts, that you are still thinking about web development in terms of the "obsolete" or more politely the "legacy" or "original" model of the web where...

The thread as a whole (at least my following post) might be suited better to the Lounge part of the forum. Depending on which direction the following takes i might transfer it to there eventually but...

Hi.

I didn't look at the entire code, but it seems to be a rule in bash, ksh, zsh, and dash:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1 Demonstrate placement of function definitions.

LC_ALL=C ;...

GNU date can be used more simply than that with its -r reference file option:

DT=$(date -r summary_file.sql +"%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")

GNU date might be available on some Solaris as gdate or...

man grep:So Corona688's proposal should be slightly modified likeecho "ABC,123" | awk '$0 ~ "(^|[^A-Za-z0-9_])"P"($|[^A-Za-z0-9_])"' P="ABC"
ABC,123
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For a US English translation of the integers in the range from 0 up to and including 999999999999999999999999999999999999 into ordinal numbers, you could try something like:
#!/bin/ksh
awk '
BEGIN...

Rather than whereis, use type; It tells you what the shell will actually use:


$ type [
[ is a shell builtin


With the -a option, it gives all the possible commands that could be executed:
...

Hmm. try this -

cd /XYZ
mkdir /ABC
find . -type f -mtime +14 |
while read fname
do
tar cf - $fname
done | (cd /ABC && tar xf -)

Dear Users of this Board!

i would like to thank all the good and knowledgeable experts - you - for your ongoing support. You have helped countless people with your expertise and the willingness to...

How about using absolute path?

In-place move to the top of the file of the final 5 lines without using any variables or temp files:

dd if=/dev/null of=fname bs=1 seek=$(tail -n5 fname | tee >(wc -c) 1<>fname)

Note: The...

If you need to write the password to a file as "*****" just write a literal "*****" to the file. So long as you know there's no way to read it back as the entered password!

Here's something to...

In any version of ksh newer than November 16, 1988, you can also use:
for ((i=2; i<=6; i++))
do <statements>
done
Although not available in the original 1993 version of ksh, the:
for ctcol in...

Not quite. The first time through this loop with the sample data specified by the OP would try to move /Data/Data/abc.csv to /archive/Data/abc_timestamp.csv.

I would tend to parameterize it a...

How about:
left=${A[@]#"${A[0]}"}
if [ -z "$left" ]; then
echo Ok
fi

Hi Balajesuri,

Sorry if anything goes wrong from my side I am new to this forum.. Yes I accept i should mention that but forgot to mention.I will take care of these things in future posting...

We definitely plan to keep the option to disable the toolbar and also plan to add more options to disable other features when members think important.

Based on the various forums I visit, we are...

Hi pravin,

The '-flag is not in the POSIX specification of the printf utility itself:printf utility: extended description...

$ cat one.pl
#!/bin/perl
use Time::Local;
my $date = $ARGV[0];
$date =~ s/\s+$//;
$date =~ s/^\s*//;
my ($year, $month, $day) = unpack "A4 A2 A2", $date;
eval{
timelocal(0,0,0,$day,...

[ $(du -b archive.tar | awk '{print $1}') -gt 1600000000 ] && echo "file size is high" || echo "file size is low"

1) The du command posted gives the result in 512 byte blocks.
2) The -b...

What does $LOG_DIR/lastrun contain ?

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Actually, POSIX compliant shells should not require dollar signs when using integers in an arithmetic expansion:


Shell Command Language: 2.6.4...

@balajesuri: from man bash:

@balajesuri: -a is also the equivalent of -e in older Korn Shells.