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northerner
northerner
12:20 AM
I use text Beyondcompare for text comparison. I was surprised to learn it still doesn't have the option enable word wrap, though people have been asking for it since 2008. I wonder why this is.
 
 
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William Hilsum
William Hilsum
1:21 AM
Hi all, anyone around?! Going crazy with a small issue, and, wondered if anyone had a second or has a clue what's going on (I've solved, but, don't understand the problem...
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I have a second
can't promise a clue :D
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
heh! Hi... :)
So... I have a folder with hundreds of CSV files... I want to merge in to one file so I can do a complex operation once on a column instead of hundreds of times...

Anyway, I tried a few things first to merge easily and I used powershell - get-content *.csv | add-content merge.csv

pretty simple... but I first tried a few things like "type *.csv > merge.csv" ... this failed because it tried piping merge.csv itself... so, went in a loop... can solve by having the merge in a different folder... but, don't care because the powershell worked.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ah
its mentioned in copy /? :D
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
and, then even weirder... I tested the above by putting the following:

test 1a,test 1b
test 2a,test 2b


In test.csv, and copied to test2.csv

When I tried running copy *.csv merge.csv, it did do what I expected... but, it additionally added garbage at the bottom... (I'll try a screenshot...) why on earth did that happen :/
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
> To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files
for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format).
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
1:28 AM
hmm... :/ I feel silly, that's completely new to me...
well, it still isn't working...
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
what's the garbage and where's it coming from?
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
there we go...
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
hm
are they really CSVs? :D
looks a lot like some flavour of control charecter
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
hmm...
test.csv is double the size, I wonder if encoding messed up...
but, still, I don't get why it's merging like that :/ just one of those things... I don't care too much as the problem is solved, but, it's driving me crazy that I couldn't understand why it didn't work the simple way!
Maybe there is an encoding issue... no idea how/why they changed... it was literally one file I copied to another :/
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
one is unicode, one is ansi... :D
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
1:36 AM
I have no idea at al how one became ansi... just tried again with the unicode and it seems to work... I had no idea copy could be used this way (THANK YOU!... and, I wish I read help!)... but why on earth did one file get created in different formatting, and, why does this cause an issue?!
lol... I was trying with proper commands, e.g. type (instead of cat in linux) then piping/output to a new file... I had no idea copy could be used this way :/
And, I love powershell, but, the older commands do seem simpler!!
Anyway! Thank you! :) and, hope you are well? Been a while...
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
doing alright, considering the state of the world :D
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
1:52 AM
heh! :)
 
northerner
northerner
Looking for recommendation for free/open source app to trim mp3 audio file. Very simple.
 
William Hilsum
William Hilsum
@northerner - Try VLC, the convert option under advanced has a start/stop time... If not, I've had some success with quick edits on Windows Movie Maker or Imovie on my phone... saving as a movie then doing a convert to audio...
the video editing tools typically make it much easier to visually trim!
 
northerner
northerner
2:13 AM
thanks Wiliam!
 
 
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bwDraco
bwDraco
11:44 AM
roar
@WilliamHilsum Long time no see ;p
 
Sagar V
Sagar V
12:30 PM
Hi everyone, how to get windows 10 product key from my system?
I tried the wmic path method on cmd but it doesn't work
Tried the (Get -Wmi...) on powershell but doesn't work
slmgr /dlv shows partial product key
I then created a vbs file, as mentioned in this blog and it did alerted a product key
But the product key in the message box and partial product key shown by slmgr doesn't match
 
 
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djsmiley2kStaysInside
djsmiley2kStaysInside
3:31 PM
What do you want it for?
 
Hammad
Hammad
I have a question about my laptop battery.
I am using my laptop every day at home while plugged into the AC.
Playing CSGO causes my CPU fan to run loudly and the fact is, heat is the enemy of lithium battery. The point is I want to know whether to remove or disable the battery is the best decision?
 
 
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XKCD
XKCD
8:20 PM
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
9:11 PM
@XKCD lol
@Hammad What laptop? If the battery is removable, try removing it while it's plugged in.
Disabling a non-removable battery will not help as that does not prevent it from being exposed to heat. However, some laptops have the ability to limit charging to a particular charge level, which can help extend the service life of the battery. (My ThinkPad T14 lets me set a cap between 45% to 95% in 5% increments.)
 

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