How can you pdfjoin smartly different sized pictures?
I’m running the default pdfjoin and getting results like this:
Unix & Linux
A program that could buffer stdin or file
Aside from using a temporary file to help, is there a way/program could buffer input from stdin but does not output the contents until getting the EOF. I don’t want to use a shell variable either(e.g. buffer=$(cat)).
How do I capture the return status and use tee at the same time in korn shell?
Consider Source code: 1. Parent.sh #!/usr/bin/ksh # No tee ksh Child.sh; exit_status=$?; echo "Exit status: ${exit_status}" # Using tee ksh Child.sh | tee -a log.txt; exit_status=$?; echo "Exit status: ${exit_status}" 2. Child.sh #!/usr/bin/ksh … exit 1; Output: Exit status: 1 Exit status: 0 Variable $exit_status is capturing the exit status of Child.sh and so is … Read more
Debian workaround 838871: dhcp network configuration without blocking boot process
Is there a workaround for Debian Bug #838871?
Circular name references in bash shell function, but not in ksh
I’m writing a set of shell functions that I want to have working in both Bash and KornShell93, but with Bash I’m running into a “circular name reference” warning.
Tab completion errors: bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
When using the tab bar, I keep getting this error:
How to make unix service see environment variables?
I have set my environment variable using /etc/profile:
Find the line number which contains the pattern using custom regex delimiter
As in example I’m trying to get line numbers which contains the pattern. My pattern contains slashes so I wanted to add custom delimiter.
How do you kick a benign user off your system?
I was googling this a bit ago and noticed a couple of ways, but I’m guessing that google doesn’t know all. So how do you kick users off your Linux box? also how do you go about seeing they are logged in in the first place? and related… does your method work if the user is logged into an X11 DE (not a requirement I’m just curious)?
Download using wget to a different directory than current directory
I need to use wget to download a file to the directory /var/cache/foobar/ (so, as an example, if I download stackexchange-site-list.txt, it’d be downloaded to /var/cache/foobar/stackexchange-site-list.txt)