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How can I combine many directories, recursively?
I recently exported a cloud drive to change storage providers. When I exported the drive, I had to download it in 25 GB parts. Directories (especially noticeable with large directories) were split ...
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Copy piece of text from one file to another in console
Assume the situation: you are sitting at physical terminal which consists of display + keyboard, no mouse, of the machine with some modern UNIX-like system (assume one of: some Linux-based OS, FreeBSD,...
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Nov 9, 2025 at 13:52
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chmod and setfacl not working on samba share after mount
I want file permissions on mounted share to match the files stored on the server as well as allow the connected user to change them.
I needed smb3 unix extensions enabled to see the same file ...
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Jun 15, 2025 at 22:18
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How to sync Unix passwords to Samba 4 on Debian 12?
How do I sync Samba passwords with Unix passwords so that if passwd command is executed then Samba passwords are updated to match a new unix password?
Problems:
unix password sync = yes updates unix ...
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Jun 7, 2025 at 23:36
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OpenVPN connection drops because keepalive does not work
I have Arch Linux with OpenVPN installed and I noticed the connection drops and restarts after the keepalive timeout.
With the keepalive ping of the .ovpn, connection drops from inactivity; with a ...
1
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May 11, 2025 at 13:47
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ddgr not showing relevant results
the number of search results is always limited to 10. even if I pass argument as 5,ddgr shows 10 results. would you please be kind enough to pass some examples of search results with number of results ...
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Apr 15, 2025 at 15:27
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Get Proportional Resident Memory (PSS) of processes on MacOS
I have been scouring the depths of the web in search of a way to obtain programmatically (No Activity Monitor) the Proportional Resident Memory (PSS) of processes on modern (Sequoia, Apple Silicon) ...
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Mar 16, 2025 at 7:33
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1st character is getting replaced when trying to insert character at the end of a line of a csv file - Unix Bash
I have a csv file (new_test.csv) with below contents,
202503,47330,2025,2022,1,0,0,1
When I tried doing this,
cat new_test.csv | while read line; do echo ${line}","; done
I am getting an ...
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Why does sudo -i -u fail to pick up the correct home directory?
On a fresh vast.ai instance configured with their pytorch template, I am trying to figure out why I can't create properly configured users. After doing useradd --shell /usr/bin/bash -m jason, the ...
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Jan 2, 2025 at 19:31
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How can an OS be POSIX-compliant without being basically UNIX?
As I understand being POSIX-compliant means being able to present an API layer that satisfy all the unix system calls.
However many of these calls assume users, files, processes, permissions, virtual ...
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Dec 19, 2024 at 11:18
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confusing `rm` command corner behavior
I am trying to understand the corner case behaviors of rm command. In a folder owned and grouped by root, I have a file owned by user alice. However, user alice does not have any permissions on the ...
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Dec 11, 2024 at 0:04
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Accute sign does not work as first character of a line
I have a problem when I type ´+E or ´+A, it should produces É and Á but it is deleted instantaneously. In firefox search bar it works as expect, but in skype or whatsapp it doesnt. My keybord is abnt2....
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How to fix incomplete grep
So I constantly make the mistake of mis-typing my grep commands.
I mean to type grep searchstring * However, I often forget to put the * and end up hitting enter after typing grep searchstring.
This ...
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Nov 7, 2024 at 20:37
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Man command broken (MacOS 14.6.1)
Entering "man (anything)" returns "No manual entry for (anything)(anything)", e.g. "man man" return "No manual entry for manman".
I've tried new shells, ...
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Sep 14, 2024 at 15:40
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What format does a Postfix Milter use?
I am attempting to write a custom miller for postfix , but am not sure what format I need to use before I begin writing my logic.
So far, I have postfix sending mail to a miller with:
...
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Jul 14, 2024 at 13:27
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Unix Sockets as Portrayed via Netstat
I do not have much experience with Unix sockets, but I hope this is the place to start. I want to start with understanding what is going on with a netstat -n command. Is it normal behavior to have ...
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Issue when creating a new user and group on macOS
I need to create a user and a group called postgres on my mac but I seem to have issues with that. The reason for needing this user is because I've installed postgresql@15 via brew and it created a ...
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May 12, 2024 at 17:51
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How to let root use sudoedit as if it was a user?
I'm writing a wrapper for myself around vim that detects when the user's trying to edit a file that doesn't belong to them, and suggests sudoedit or visudo instead. I want to use sudoedit rather than ...
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How to detox filenames in a bash script with no errors posted?
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS x86_64
detox 1.4.5
To display above:
neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:'
detox -V
Here is a toxic filename, starts with s1:
s1 Ä Ö Ü - ä ö ü Science & < > " 1 \ 2 ⁄ 3 ...
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Broken pipe, write error: An epidemic of unnecessary output
In the last few months, a problem has been spreading across my systems. That of broken pipe errors:
# Solution:
# silenced by replacing /bin/bzip2 -> bzip2-reference
# to /bin/...
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Mar 17, 2024 at 19:52
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How can I use the last changed file as an argument in linux?
I'm thinking of using the last changed file as an argument to commands like ls, echo, or cat, is there a simple and efficient way? this question arose when I was faced with analyzing the latest log ...
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Split a large gz compressed file into smaller compressed file gz
My requirement is to load a gz file from gcs to BQ. I am using python and Airflow but it is throwing an error that if a single compressed file size is greater than 5 GB, then we can't load it. I have ...
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display path to files with same names
with this command in Terminal:
ls -R |sort | uniq -d | sort -r
I can display a list of files with the same names located in the running directory and subdirectories.
But I would like to display also ...
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Jan 30, 2024 at 10:39
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How to run Homebrew service with flags?
I'm running on macOS Sonoma and trying to run this service called AutoRaise. Someone made a Homebrew package for it here. I installed it using Homebrew with my desired flag, brew install autoraise --...
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Shell command to tar directory excluding certain folders
In Bash 4, I want make a tar.gz with excluded folders, and while tons of answers about this simple case exist, nothing works in my case.
I would like to keep the directory mentioned in exclude, ...
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what does ARG_MAX mean when I run a script?
Up to now I know what ARG_MAX means (thanks to EdMorton):
ls foo bar
The command is ls and it has three arguments: foo, and bar. It's 7 characters, so the arguments of ls in here is 7.
Now let's ...
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Nov 2, 2023 at 19:17
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awk string replacement - properly escape '&' character
I am working on one of our applications to update the docker image from using static configs for each environment to a single template using dynamic variable insertion with awk. Our Dockerfile calls a ...
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Permission denied on writing into the hard drive
I am trying to download files into an Azure virtual machine. It seems that I have 400 GB hard drive but as a not experienced user, I have saved the files within the /dev/root filesystem, which is ...
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Sep 10, 2023 at 14:06
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Why are simlink loop not an issue?
So I learned that hardlink on folders are forbidden to avoid infinite loops in the file system. Seems a good idea! But why is it not a problem to create an infinite loop with simlinks on folders? Why ...
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Sep 7, 2023 at 15:31
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Connection refused PuTTY to VMWare workstation guest Rocky Linux
I have Windows 10 Pro, in which VMWare Workstation 16 is installed. The guest system I use there is Rocky Linux 8.8.
The problem I’m getting Connection refused PuTTY to VMWare workstation guest OS ...
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### [How can I combine many directories, recursively?](https://superuser.com/questions/1933535/how-can-i-combine-many-directories-recursively)
I recently exported a cloud drive to change storage providers. When I exported the drive, I had to download it in 25 GB parts. Directories (especially noticeable with large directories) were split ...
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### [Are there any standard/best practices for replacing special characters in file names? \[closed\]](https://superuser.com/questions/1933382/are-there-any-standard-best-practices-for-replacing-special-characters-in-file-n)
Linux/Unix forbids / (forward slash), while Windows forbids (source) the following: \< (less than) \> (greater than) : (colon - sometimes works, but is actually NTFS Alternate Data Streams) " ...
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### [Copy piece of text from one file to another in console](https://superuser.com/questions/1929931/copy-piece-of-text-from-one-file-to-another-in-console)
Assume the situation: you are sitting at physical terminal which consists of display + keyboard, no mouse, of the machine with some modern UNIX-like system (assume one of: some Linux-based OS, FreeBSD,...
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### [Why am I experiencing a Postfix virtual delivery service permission issue?](https://superuser.com/questions/1922556/why-am-i-experiencing-a-postfix-virtual-delivery-service-permission-issue)
My Postfix server correctly delivers mail to external addresses. However, internal addresses receive this error: Aug 31 17:06:13 --- postfix/local\[-\]: -: to=\<-@-\>, relay=local, delay=0.02, ...
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### [Is it safe to symlink \`/opt\` and \`/snap\` to an external drive which is not always going to be connected at boot?](https://superuser.com/questions/1916163/is-it-safe-to-symlink-opt-and-snap-to-an-external-drive-which-is-not-alway)
Nothing breaks when I symlink my Documents folder to the same drive, even with that drive not attached to my system. opt is short for ‘optional’, I’m told, so it shouldn’t break boot or anything. It ...
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### [chmod and setfacl not working on samba share after mount](https://superuser.com/questions/1905210/chmod-and-setfacl-not-working-on-samba-share-after-mount)
I want file permissions on mounted share to match the files stored on the server as well as allow the connected user to change them. I needed smb3 unix extensions enabled to see the same file ...
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### [Why are surrounding single quotes missing if output of ls -1 is passed to a pipe?](https://superuser.com/questions/1904634/why-are-surrounding-single-quotes-missing-if-output-of-ls-1-is-passed-to-a-pipe)
Scenario: \$ ls -1 'x y.pdf' \$ ls -1 \| cat x y.pdf Here we see that surrounding single quotes are missing if output of ls -1 is passed to a pipe. Why does this happen? How to keep the surrounding ...
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### [How to sync Unix passwords to Samba 4 on Debian 12?](https://superuser.com/questions/1904225/how-to-sync-unix-passwords-to-samba-4-on-debian-12)
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### [OpenVPN connection drops because keepalive does not work](https://superuser.com/questions/1897048/openvpn-connection-drops-because-keepalive-does-not-work)
I have Arch Linux with OpenVPN installed and I noticed the connection drops and restarts after the keepalive timeout. With the keepalive ping of the .ovpn, connection drops from inactivity; with a ...
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### [ddgr not showing relevant results](https://superuser.com/questions/1892315/ddgr-not-showing-relevant-results)
the number of search results is always limited to 10. even if I pass argument as 5,ddgr shows 10 results. would you please be kind enough to pass some examples of search results with number of results ...
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asked Apr 15, 2025 at 15:27
2 votes
1 answer
280 views
### [Get Proportional Resident Memory (PSS) of processes on MacOS](https://superuser.com/questions/1886486/get-proportional-resident-memory-pss-of-processes-on-macos)
I have been scouring the depths of the web in search of a way to obtain programmatically (No Activity Monitor) the Proportional Resident Memory (PSS) of processes on modern (Sequoia, Apple Silicon) ...
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asked Mar 16, 2025 at 7:33
1 vote
1 answer
81 views
### [1st character is getting replaced when trying to insert character at the end of a line of a csv file - Unix Bash](https://superuser.com/questions/1885417/1st-character-is-getting-replaced-when-trying-to-insert-character-at-the-end-of)
I have a csv file (new\_test.csv) with below contents, 202503,47330,2025,2022,1,0,0,1 When I tried doing this, cat new\_test.csv \| while read line; do echo \${line}","; done I am getting an ...
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asked Mar 11, 2025 at 6:01
0 votes
4 answers
163 views
### [How to print all lines matching the pattern 1 and print only line with pattern 2 which is the line before line containing pattern 1?](https://superuser.com/questions/1875855/how-to-print-all-lines-matching-the-pattern-1-and-print-only-line-with-pattern-2)
Say I have two patterns (pattern 1 and pattern 2) Want to print all lines matching the pattern 1 and print only line with pattern 2 which is the line before line containing pattern 1: eg: I have a ...
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asked Feb 1, 2025 at 13:48
0 votes
1 answer
586 views
### [How to use WinRAR for Linux to verify rar archive files and print errors](https://superuser.com/questions/1869048/how-to-use-winrar-for-linux-to-verify-rar-archive-files-and-print-errors)
I am using rar (WinRAR for linux). How can I verify each rar file in a directory and print potential corruption errors to a log file? I tried using -ilog\[name\] but rar does not even make a log file ...
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asked Jan 3, 2025 at 8:13
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### [Why does sudo -i -u fail to pick up the correct home directory?](https://superuser.com/questions/1868981/why-does-sudo-i-u-fail-to-pick-up-the-correct-home-directory)
On a fresh vast.ai instance configured with their pytorch template, I am trying to figure out why I can't create properly configured users. After doing useradd --shell /usr/bin/bash -m jason, the ...
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asked Jan 2, 2025 at 19:31
1 vote
2 answers
469 views
### [How to use git diff-index --check in .git/hooks/pre-commit without "new blank line at EOF." error after you end files with new lines?](https://superuser.com/questions/1868772/how-to-use-git-diff-index-check-in-git-hooks-pre-commit-without-new-blank-li)
git ships with .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample. I used the following commands: cp .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample .git/hooks/pre-commit sed -i'' 's/diff-index --check/\\0 --ignore-blank-lines/g' ".git/...
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- 61
asked Dec 31, 2024 at 23:22
0 votes
0 answers
849 views
### [rsync: \[sender\] read errors mapping "file" : Input/output error (5)](https://superuser.com/questions/1867152/rsync-sender-read-errors-mapping-file-input-output-error-5)
Everytime I try to copy a file from one USB disk to another one (does not matter which one),I get this kind of error : mario@Z390-AORUS-PRO-DEST:/mnt/zroot-133/A\_FILES/Backup/FreeBSD\# rsync -avxHAXP ...
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asked Dec 23, 2024 at 8:35
2 votes
1 answer
718 views
### [How can an OS be POSIX-compliant without being basically UNIX?](https://superuser.com/questions/1866454/how-can-an-os-be-posix-compliant-without-being-basically-unix)
As I understand being POSIX-compliant means being able to present an API layer that satisfy all the unix system calls. However many of these calls assume users, files, processes, permissions, virtual ...
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asked Dec 19, 2024 at 11:18
0 votes
1 answer
132 views
### [confusing \`rm\` command corner behavior](https://superuser.com/questions/1864508/confusing-rm-command-corner-behavior)
I am trying to understand the corner case behaviors of rm command. In a folder owned and grouped by root, I have a file owned by user alice. However, user alice does not have any permissions on the ...
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asked Dec 11, 2024 at 0:04
1 vote
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62 views
### [Accute sign does not work as first character of a line](https://superuser.com/questions/1862255/accute-sign-does-not-work-as-first-character-of-a-line)
I have a problem when I type ´+E or ´+A, it should produces É and Á but it is deleted instantaneously. In firefox search bar it works as expect, but in skype or whatsapp it doesnt. My keybord is abnt2....
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asked Nov 19, 2024 at 21:13
1 vote
1 answer
217 views
### [How to fix incomplete grep](https://superuser.com/questions/1861047/how-to-fix-incomplete-grep)
So I constantly make the mistake of mis-typing my grep commands. I mean to type grep searchstring \* However, I often forget to put the \* and end up hitting enter after typing grep searchstring. This ...
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asked Nov 7, 2024 at 20:37
2 votes
1 answer
425 views
### [Is it possible to transfer files and copy text from VirtualBox with QNX to Windows 10 without Guest Addition?](https://superuser.com/questions/1859142/is-it-possible-to-transfer-files-and-copy-text-from-virtualbox-with-qnx-to-windo)
I have a task like this: I have a virtual machine with QNX. There are old Fortran programs (hydrodynamic problems) there. I need to extract them and process them for Matlab. The problem is that I can'...
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asked Oct 18, 2024 at 9:14
0 votes
1 answer
138 views
### [Man command broken (MacOS 14.6.1)](https://superuser.com/questions/1855763/man-command-broken-macos-14-6-1)
Entering "man (anything)" returns "No manual entry for (anything)(anything)", e.g. "man man" return "No manual entry for manman". I've tried new shells, ...
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asked Sep 14, 2024 at 15:40
0 votes
1 answer
52 views
### [Added group to user's secondary groups but still unable to edit (resize) file with permissions 664](https://superuser.com/questions/1853675/added-group-to-users-secondary-groups-but-still-unable-to-edit-resize-file-wi)
The output of groups user1: group1 group2 group3 The output of ls -l dir/: total 20 -rw-rw-r-- 1 group2 group2 277 Aug 26 01:52 file ... The output of ls -l outside of dir: drwxrwxr-x ...
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asked Aug 26, 2024 at 23:59
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0 answers
501 views
### [How can I create a command to activate a Python virtual environment across different shells with minimal complexity?](https://superuser.com/questions/1852002/how-can-i-create-a-command-to-activate-a-python-virtual-environment-across-diffe)
I'm developing a tool that needs to activate a Python virtual environment using a custom command. Currently, I'm using the following alias in my .bashrc file: alias activate\_env="source ./env/bin/...
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asked Aug 11, 2024 at 20:26
0 votes
1 answer
221 views
### [Linux shell coding for adding a column with % (percentage) \[closed\]](https://superuser.com/questions/1849976/linux-shell-coding-for-adding-a-column-with-percentage)
I need help with Linux shell code for adding a column with % percentage calculation. file1: Name Count Tom 10 Tom 7 Tom 5 Tom 4 Result in file2 as shown file2: Name Count Percent Tom 10 38.5 ...
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asked Jul 23, 2024 at 12:37
0 votes
1 answer
658 views
### [What format does a Postfix Milter use?](https://superuser.com/questions/1849061/what-format-does-a-postfix-milter-use)
I am attempting to write a custom miller for postfix , but am not sure what format I need to use before I begin writing my logic. So far, I have postfix sending mail to a miller with: ...
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asked Jul 14, 2024 at 13:27
0 votes
1 answer
538 views
### [Unix Sockets as Portrayed via Netstat](https://superuser.com/questions/1844596/unix-sockets-as-portrayed-via-netstat)
I do not have much experience with Unix sockets, but I hope this is the place to start. I want to start with understanding what is going on with a netstat -n command. Is it normal behavior to have ...
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asked Jun 3, 2024 at 6:01
1 vote
1 answer
695 views
### [Issue when creating a new user and group on macOS](https://superuser.com/questions/1842178/issue-when-creating-a-new-user-and-group-on-macos)
I need to create a user and a group called postgres on my mac but I seem to have issues with that. The reason for needing this user is because I've installed postgresql@15 via brew and it created a ...
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asked May 12, 2024 at 17:51
0 votes
0 answers
21 views
### ["find" command does not find all files from root unless folder is specified \[duplicate\]](https://superuser.com/questions/1841705/find-command-does-not-find-all-files-from-root-unless-folder-is-specified)
I am trying to find the files that are named setenv.sh on this machine, I am logged in as root and am searching from the '/' using the following syntax and receiving the output: \# First \[root@...
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asked May 8, 2024 at 8:26
0 votes
1 answer
424 views
### [How do I find files by last day in a month? (or how to copy the latest file per month)](https://superuser.com/questions/1838951/how-do-i-find-files-by-last-day-in-a-month-or-how-to-copy-the-latest-file-per)
I know there is "find" and I use something like find "/backup.stats/30days" -mtime +30 -type f But I wanted to know if anyone knew of a way to pick out the oldest file by month; ...
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asked Apr 13, 2024 at 15:50
1 vote
0 answers
135 views
### [How to let root use sudoedit as if it was a user?](https://superuser.com/questions/1838235/how-to-let-root-use-sudoedit-as-if-it-was-a-user)
I'm writing a wrapper for myself around vim that detects when the user's trying to edit a file that doesn't belong to them, and suggests sudoedit or visudo instead. I want to use sudoedit rather than ...
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asked Apr 8, 2024 at 0:30
2 votes
0 answers
165 views
### [How to detox filenames in a bash script with no errors posted?](https://superuser.com/questions/1837286/how-to-detox-filenames-in-a-bash-script-with-no-errors-posted)
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS x86\_64 detox 1.4.5 To display above: neofetch --stdout \|grep 'OS:' detox -V Here is a toxic filename, starts with s1: s1 Ä Ö Ü - ä ö ü Science & \< \> " 1 \\ 2 ⁄ 3 ...
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asked Mar 30, 2024 at 15:56
0 votes
1 answer
1k views
### [Broken pipe, write error: An epidemic of unnecessary output](https://superuser.com/questions/1835516/broken-pipe-write-error-an-epidemic-of-unnecessary-output)
In the last few months, a problem has been spreading across my systems. That of broken pipe errors: \# Solution: \# silenced by replacing /bin/bzip2 -\> bzip2-reference \# to /bin/...
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asked Mar 17, 2024 at 19:52
2 votes
1 answer
126 views
### [How can I use the last changed file as an argument in linux?](https://superuser.com/questions/1834577/how-can-i-use-the-last-changed-file-as-an-argument-in-linux)
I'm thinking of using the last changed file as an argument to commands like ls, echo, or cat, is there a simple and efficient way? this question arose when I was faced with analyzing the latest log ...
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asked Mar 11, 2024 at 6:47
0 votes
1 answer
452 views
### [Split a large gz compressed file into smaller compressed file gz](https://superuser.com/questions/1834178/split-a-large-gz-compressed-file-into-smaller-compressed-file-gz)
My requirement is to load a gz file from gcs to BQ. I am using python and Airflow but it is throwing an error that if a single compressed file size is greater than 5 GB, then we can't load it. I have ...
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asked Mar 7, 2024 at 19:18
0 votes
3 answers
230 views
### [display path to files with same names](https://superuser.com/questions/1828042/display-path-to-files-with-same-names)
with this command in Terminal: ls -R \|sort \| uniq -d \| sort -r I can display a list of files with the same names located in the running directory and subdirectories. But I would like to display also ...
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- 1
asked Jan 30, 2024 at 10:39
0 votes
0 answers
372 views
### [Pgbouncer: Multiple Instances on same host receiving same TCP connection when using SO\_REUSEPORT](https://superuser.com/questions/1827297/pgbouncer-multiple-instances-on-same-host-receiving-same-tcp-connection-when-us)
I was able to setup two pgbouncer instances for database connection pooling, on a single VM (CentOS 7.0) listening to same port (6432) on two different TCP socket (I believe) using Linux Kernel ...
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