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Forum: Ubuntu 08-26-2017
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Prevent xed editor from creating backups
This is the oddest thing I've seen in any text editor in the three OSes I've used since buying my first home computer in 1993.

Short version: "where's the switch?"

the xed GUI (version 1.0.6)...
7,587
Posted By iamwrong
apmcd47: Thank you very much. I saved your sample...
apmcd47: Thank you very much. I saved your sample script as autotouch-b and it works great. I think what I was forgetting to do was use the 'superdate' in my .bash_aliases file, so I wrote a separate...
7,587
Posted By iamwrong
How much egg is on my face now?
All of you are going to hate this. (I'd tell the folks on linuxquestions.org too but the site seems to be down at the moment.)

It turns out "autotouch," along with existing as a script, was a...
1,064
Posted By iamwrong
Linux correct permissions for .bash_aliases
Above is a search string I tried on Google that produced lots of hits but not much in the way of clues. And I wasn't looking for clues.

So I decided, for the first time, to ask the question here....
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Posted By iamwrong
I said bash in the subject line
GNU bash, version 4.3.48(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
LinuxMint 18.3 KDE 5.5.x

I wish to export the value of a variable (a date in MMDDYYHHMM.SS format; in the script: tdate or TDATE) set in a...
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Posted By iamwrong
Automate "touch" bash script not working.
#!/bin/bash -i
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$"\n\b"

picc=$*
if [ -f "$picc" ]; then
echo $TDATE
if [ ! -z "$TDATE" ]; then
touch dummy
touch -t "tdate" dummy
touch -r "dummy" "$picc"
else
...
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