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9:17 AM

Kinda desperate, kinda dead... can I get any help?

Q: Fixing firmware - Debian 8.5 fresh install on Toshiba Satellite

I just installed Debian 8.5 CD install on my Toshiba Satellite machine, not in a VM. As it was setting up it told me that some iwlwifi and rtl files were missing, but it didn't really matter as I thought I could add them later. Using a usb stick, I downloaded firmware-iwlwifi and firmware-realte...

9 hours later…

tchrist

6:13 PM

Hey all you ghosts and zombies, I'm having a senior moment. What's the right way to do this without resorting to mkfifo on temporary files?

exec 5>&1 6>&1; ( echo one >&5; exec 5>&-; echo two >&6; exec 6>&1) | paste /dev/fd/{5,6}; exec 5>&- 6>&-;

Plus preferably one that works. That doesn't, for obvious reasons: the original prefork descriptor is still open.

@terdon Hither, sir, if you please.

terdon

@tchrist No idea, I very rarely use named pipes. Gilles will know if he's around.

tchrist

Oh, but I know how with fifos.

terdon

Ah, yes, you want to avoid them.

tchrist

But I don't care to use mkfifo on two mktemp'd names, then unlink when done.

Basically, I want to pipe two different processes into paste without resorting to temporary files to do so.

I think bash may have some funky way to do that.

And yes, I did search the site, amongst others.

terdon

@tchrist Would paste <(com1) <(com2) be enough?

tchrist

6:18 PM

tries

Yep, that was it.

I had forgotten it because it wasn't in the Bourne shell.

$ paste <(perl -le 'print for 1..3') <(perl -le 'print for 7..9')
1	7
2	8
3	9

Thanks very much!

terdon

@tchrist You're very welcome.

tchrist

Awfully quiet room.

terdon

Yeah, we've had periods of activity but this ain't one of them.

2 hours later…

jimmij

8:41 PM

Can't we really think of anything cool for the badge icons? There have to be plenty of great things, specific to *nix world, worth presenting! meta.unix.stackexchange.com/q/4075/80886

cas

9:13 PM

@terdon, sed -c on centos7 = use copy instead of rename when shuffling files in -i mode

@Gilles - if you can't find fedora man pages, install latest fedora on a minimal VM. that's one of the reasons I keep a FreeBSD vm, for testing portability and checking man pages.

Gilles

9:42 PM

@jimmij I don't think that's very important. OTOH I wish we weren't stuck with the default images for /404, /error and /captcha

Q: 404 Image Nominations

According to the Top 7, we need to select a 404 image - an image that will be displayed when users try to bring up a page that does not exist. Please quote the source so the team can negotiate rights if necessary.

feature-request design

Q: Error image nominations

The 404 page, error page and captcha page have very generic images. There have been proposals for 404 images and captcha images before. This is a call for error image nominations. Furthermore, the text on these pages should include standard unix error messages: 404: No such file or directory...