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10:00 AM
@GAD3R please don't add question marks on "How to foo". If you want to make it into a question, you need to change it to something like "How can I foo" because "How to" is a declaration, not a question.
So you'd use "How to foo" as a title, but "How can I foo?" as a question. "How to foo?" isn't grammatical. And yes, I know it's used all over the internet.
 
 
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12:15 PM
@terdon A man after my own heart.
Reminds me of that little scene in TBBT.
 
@FaheemMitha Which one?
 
 
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1:28 PM
I need to create a HTML file which contains a table of all directories and files in the home directory using bash
each directory will have a separate table
and the rows in the table list all files and directories in the directory for which the table was created
I need to display the sizes of the directory and files too
any suggestions on how I should approach this problem?
 
1:41 PM
@Yashas Which part is giving you trouble? Start writing it, and if you have difficulties with a specific part of the task, ask a question on the site.
 
@terdon I have already done it but it uses recursion and takes a few seconds
 
@Yashas Well, it has to use recursion, doesn't it? And it makes sens that it will take a while if you are using deep directory trees with many files.
But you can post a question on the site if you want. Show your script, show the directory tree you are testing it with (ideally, also include a command we can use to reproduce it) and then ask how you can make it more efficient.
 
 
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3:45 PM
@KrishnShweta Hi! Have you joined this community (Unix & Linux StackExchange)?
 
Hi Pandya.
Not yet... but soon.
 
or you may join it.
@KrishnShweta ok. It can be useful for your learning regarding all the topics related to Unix and Linux.
Also have a look at the topics of this site.
 
Thank you :)
 
You're welcome :)
 
@Pandya Done.
 
3:51 PM
@KrishnShweta Welcome to the Unix & Linux StackExchange!
 
Ok. Feel free to have U&L related discussion here or question on the site. Bye! @KrishnShweta
 
@terdon I looked for a clip, but didn't find one. Apparently not everything is on Youtube.
 
@Pandya Bye..
 
At one point, Amy receives a "drunk" text from Sheldon, and remarks:
> He used a period instead of a question mark. He's so wasted!
I thought that was pretty funny.
Much of the humor in TBBT isn't really funny. The earlier seasons were better. I think they fired the writers who had a sense of humor, and kept the ones who had a sense of racism, sexism, and homophobia.
That's actually quite typical of Chuck Lorre. I think he has his finger on the pulse of Modern America.
 
4:15 PM
@FaheemMitha heh :)
@FaheemMitha Dunno, I haven't really watched it in a few years.
 
@terdon You're not missing much.
Speaking as someone who still watches it regularly. Often I'm not sure why.
 
4:35 PM
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Q: What Happens if a Device Is In a Device Tree but Not Physically Present

John FryeProbably a very newbie question: I have a Zynq 7100, zc706 board. I am playing around with the ARM Processing System with Xilinx's PetaLinux distro. What would happen if I added a device to the device tree, say and EEPROM on the I2C bus, but in reality I never physically attached the EEPROM to t...

 
 
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5:58 PM
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
0  1000 27948 27947  20   0 220857360 7096456 - Sl+  pts/38     6:54 /usr/lib/git-core/git pack-objects
... that must be a good thing, right, when VSZ is measured in terabytes? (in top) :-/
 
@derobert :-) Are you storing data in bulk in a git repo?
 
@Kusalananda yep, playing around with bup
 
@derobert bup?
 
bup.github.io ... it's a program that uses the git packfile format to efficiently store binary deltas, of large files
or directory trees
 
Aha.
I'll have a look at that at some point...
I'm just now ordering a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad x230 to finally have a real OpenBSD machine (been running in VMs for too long).
 
6:01 PM
git-annex supports it, but uses it in a weird way (one branch(!) per file). So playing with it to see if I can get the performance to not suck, despite there being 18k branches so far
git-annex also has ddar, but that appears unmaintained. I suspect its faster though, as it doesn't use the git packfile format. Presumably it uses something designed for what it's trying to do.
But yeah, I'm trying git-repack on a 200GiB git repository to see how much space its delta compression can save. Of course, it's really slow and I might just give up...
 
I thought bup was a backup program.
 
6:19 PM
it can be used for backups, yes
 
 
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8:07 PM
"Disk Clearly Wants Retirement"
(that's reallocated sectores)
 
8:49 PM
... ok, gave up on that git-repack, it'd done less than ½%
vcscompare.blogspot.com/2008/06/git-repack-parameters.html suggests its mostly linear with --window size, so going to try 2 instead of default 10.
 
9:25 PM
I'm watching a pretty good documentary "Inside Job". Has anyone seen it?
 

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