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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Wildcard with xdotool Post 303031719 by drew77 on Monday 4th of March 2019 11:29:04 PM
Old 03-05-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Presumably, according to you, those tools give you output that contains the window IDs you want. If that isn't relevant to getting the results you want, I have no idea how we can help you.

If you're unwilling to show us sample output produced by those commands, we have no way of knowing what the format of the output produced by those commands might be.

If you are just going to dismiss our questions as an unreasonable waste of your time, then any attempt on our part to help you is a waste of our time.

I'm am sorry that I wasted your time trying to help you. I won't make that mistake again.
The commands produce simple numbers as shown in my post.


I would think you would test my xdotools command to learn how it works. Maybe I should not have assumed that?


Code:
#16777782 #16777491 #16778087

When I do my best, but am criticized, I start to wonder if someone is really tried to help me or just complain.

Last edited by drew77; 03-05-2019 at 12:35 AM..
 

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INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

NAME
intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) DESCRIPTION
Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using exit codes as defined in sysexits(3), while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1). SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), intro(2), intro(3), sysexits(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), security(7), intro(8), intro(9) Tutorials in the UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents. HISTORY
The intro manual page appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
October 21, 2001 BSD
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