What is the recommended place to ask philosophical question about Unix/Linux?
If you review the questions that I have asked, they are philosophical questions.
I ask those at unix.stackexchange.com because I believe people who have jobs as system administrator/system engineer/software engineer of Unix/Linux are here.
Those jobs certainly requires the ins and outs of Unix/Linux.
Somehow, I cannot find better place to ask my questions because my questions are Unix/Linux oriented.
By Unix/Linux oriented, I mean my perspective is on *nix-like operating system.
I mean this in a nice way not negative at all: these philosophical questions I find a waste of time and don't actually solve anything and so are unproductive. The best ways in my 20+ years of using Linux/Unixes has been in finding solutions to actual problems. I would suggest that you frame your questions so that they're specific to a particular technology and how to do X, Y, or Z. After asking many of these nuts & bolts Q's you'll have your higher level A'ers to your "philosophical" Q's.
I am dealing with a situation where I need to create a comma separated list from an array into a heredoc and remove the last comma. I am using bash for piped into sed which is erasing all commas instead of the last one. A simplified example is as follows:
x=$(for i in a b c; do echo "${i}",; do...
@terdon The 'philosophical' for me means the science behind it. The answers that I have received so far are factual and really useful that it deepen my understanding about *nix.
@slm Personally, knowing the science behind *nix is important because it helps in analyzing a problem and thus solve the problem.
@Anthon I only see me as the closer on it right now. There was a cross post but it appears to be gone now. You can see the remnants of it in this google search google.com/…
It's dated oct 2013 in the 2nd link
@Anthon - when I voted this morning there was someone else that had started the cycle to close and I hadn't seen who
@slm thanks. I googled before on the title but had missed that string. People initiating a cross post close should always comment where the cross post is IMHO
@RonVince yes but I've worked w/ people that have tried to "understand" unix by simply reading about things in a vacuum and have never been able to move past the entrance. Better to have practical applications in mind with "real" problems you're trying to solve to grok how technologies work.
Unix users of every kernel, please help!
I'm currently working on a serial port library which already uses special frameworks
to get information about serial ports on the system. Though, serial ports are a fundamental
design in Unix, as an answer such as this one proves, so I thought that a good...
There are many Clipboard Manager for Unix-based Operating System but is there a way to actually know which one is being used?
I am on Fedora 20 under Gnome 3.10.1 and I know that I'm using GPaste 3.10.
But I would like to know if there is a command line which would ouput GPaste 3.10 (except gp...
@slm I don't think it has anything to do with the actual clipboard. The OP is using whichever manager (parcelite, clipit, gpaste or whatever) they installed.
I think he's confused and believes that pasting goes through gpaste.
@terdon I took the Q to mean which app is responsible for governing the clipboard. I know that the mangement apps don't actually manage it persay but rather collect the results as they come into the primary, clipboard & secondary but figured I'd double check w/ the rest if they had any ideas on the matter.
@terdon - yeah that's what I was trying to direct him to. The managers sit at the end of the pipe so they're taking in and providing a "service" around the pipe of items that are selected and added to the clipboards.
@terdon - gave him the link, thanks for the reminder, maybe it will help bridge the understanding gap 8-)
After that, the last thing to do is to get it to print the back side of the passes, too. That's just a matter of adding a second page to the PDF, which I already know how to do, and aligning it correctly.
Aligning it should just take a test print or two and a ruler.
Not sure which ruler to use. Nebuchadnezzar, maybe?
I'm currently working on a serial port library which already uses special frameworks to get information about serial ports on the system. Though serial ports are a fundamental design in Unix—as an answer such as this one proves—I thought that a good way to test whether a file is a serial port is ...
@slm I don't feel strongly at that one, but if you find a suitable close reason just use that ;)
with my comment I wanted just to point out that if a question deserves closure it should be closed, the CW isn't for questions that should be closed but to gather the community for a common goal
I am dealing with a situation where I need to create a comma separated list from an array into a heredoc and remove the last comma. I am using bash for piped into sed which is erasing all commas instead of the last one. A simplified example is as follows:
x=$(for i in a b c; do echo "${i}",; do...
There are many Clipboard Manager for Unix-based Operating System but is there a way to actually know which one is being used?
I am on Fedora 20 under Gnome 3.10.1 and I know that I'm using GPaste 3.10.
But I would like to know if there is a command line which would ouput GPaste 3.10 (except gp...
