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Hey, Jim, thanks for the tip, it is really encouraging! You are right, it is not a problem of size of the storage. It is my program error. My unfinished makefile didn't automatically delete the old...

hey, jim, thanks for reply. I am not sure 64bit executable is what I want since I am using a 32 bit machine :(.

I experienced a lots of error while using gnu c library time.h functions, where...

hey, I believe I once saw a post in this forum, about enable an GCC option to enable long types. I simply cannot find it any more. Can anybody give me a hint? I am on 32bit Ubuntu, and I would like...

by ASCII characters, I mean the ASCII range (U+0000 to U+007F)

(it seems that this post is best put here, where shell programming people use "iconv" and "file" all the time. it was posted in the Linux Application and got no replies)

Dear there, I tried to use...

thanks Franklin52 and jimbalaya. After replying the jimbalaya's first post, I realize that the pipeline might leads to a subshell, and then see both of your replies. Thanks!
really need to go...

Dear jimbalaya, I just added "echo $$" to see which shell I am in, it turned out that I am in the same shell all the time. however the value of $TO is not updated inside the while loop!...

dear jimbalaya, it seems doing the opposite thing. What I want is to let ${TO} to hold values after the while loop. It seems that the subshell prevents that. Since I didn;t use subshell, I expect the...

dear there,

this kept me awake last night, the variable ${TO} in the following script doesn't seem to hold its value.

I have a file ./filelist, which lists all files of interests. I group them...

make -d
will gives lots of debug information generated by `make`. however the variable expansion is not shown in the output.

hey, thanks for the reply. with the make -d option I am able to pull about more info for diagonosis. This is the paragraph in the makefile I am working on:

$(EXE): $(OBJS)
bla=;\
for...

hey, what's $$varname in a script? I used to see $varname only. search on google didn't help. thanks.

hey, within a shell script file I know how to turn on tracing using "-x"
#!/bin/bash -x

now I have a complicated makefile which contains lots of `command`, and i would like to trace these...

hey, while reading a makefile coming with a package, i see this path

/something/otherthing/smi_stable/lib/../share/doc/coin/Clp/clp_addlibs.txt

why doesn't the makefile just use:
...

thanks! works like a charm. for i in 'find ...' is so commonly seen as an example, it seems I should always use the while statement in future.

by the way, "man read", "man while" didn't give me...

hey, somebody can help me on this broken script?

for i in `find . -name index.html`;do
echo "$i"
awk '{print $0}' $i
done

the path to index.html has space in it. For example,
./10...