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1:16 AM
@AndrasDeak Should be Slackware if they want to list some "pure" Linux.
 
stackware
 
 
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11:00 AM
@FaheemMitha here's a question that might interest you emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/64595/…
 
@AndrasDeak Yes, once you could order manuals from the FSF. Perhaps you still can, but I doubt anyone does any more.
 
I don't even order books I plan to read ;)
 
@StephenKitt I wonder what the last time was someone ordered that.
I'm trying to understand the flow control here. I'm not sure it's worth asking a question on SO.
Any Expect users here?
The commented version works. The uncommented version below doesn't.
It's not clear to me what the difference is. I've been looking at the debug output too.
It seems that the exp_continue statement has something to do with it.
Oh, there are expect questions on U&L too.
 
11:18 AM
@FaheemMitha yes I was about to say this would be on-topic here too, no need to wade into SO ;-)
 
No pexpect questions on U&L, though.
@StephenKitt Well, it's Tcl programming. So it's not obvious why it's on topic here.
 
@FaheemMitha Expect is also a useful sysadmin tool, so I suspect quite a few people come across it without even realising it’s Tcl programming
 
@FaheemMitha I would guess "Verify password: " do not always come, so commented version goes to "exp_continue" ?
And this is a legitimate question for StackOverflow IMHO.
 
@Archemar yes, definitely, and more likely to get an answer there
 
All my expect knowledge came from SO anyway.
 
11:23 AM
@Archemar Why would it not always come? It's just the zip program running.
@Archemar I was reading a manual.
 
@FaheemMitha AFAIK it was only available in November and December last year, so five months ago
 
@StephenKitt Looking at that page, I would assume that those products were manufactured/printed on order. Is that incorrect?
 
@FaheemMitha no, I think the bundles were put together to get rid of existing stock
 
@StephenKitt Oh. What's that based on?
On demand like Lulu or something. Though they probably don't use Lulu.
 
@FaheemMitha the announcements
 
11:30 AM
@StephenKitt Oh. What announcements were that?
 
@FaheemMitha when the FSF announced the bundles in the shop
 
@StephenKitt OK. I don't see anything on the site. But maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
 
@FaheemMitha they were announced by email
 
@StephenKitt Oh. OK.
 
at least not the dreaded IRC ;)
 
11:40 AM
I think the issue is that without exp_continue, expect doesn't allow the zip program to complete before returning.
Though I don't see why that wouldn't be normal behavior.
Using expect eof also works.
@AndrasDeak Why is IRC "dreaded"?
I've never used expect before, though it seems the original TCL version has been in existence for around 25 years.
Live and learn, I suppose.
 
@FaheemMitha because you always note how IRC doesn't let us study history :D
 
12:02 PM
@AndrasDeak That's a feature. Not a desirable feature, if you want the history, certainly.
Though as far as I know there is nothing stopping anyone from archiving the logs and putting it online.
 
1:00 PM
@αғsнιη Is it a bad idea to give credit to someone who presents better idea?
 
1:43 PM
@PrabhjotSingh no, personally sometimes when I see on someone's answer that the command they used, those can be shortened and simpler, I give that suggestion, and I don't expect them to add it with my attribution on it. that's it
if my idea was differ from the other answers, of course I will add my own answer there instead
 
 
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3:53 PM
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Q: How to filter the highest value using awk command or other command

CMIT LEVEL 2 SUPPORTcommand |awk -F'|' '{print $4}' | sort -nrk1 Duration 300 300 1000 500 20 10 80 100 0 0 0 0 0 I want to show the highest value using awk command like this 1000 500 300 300 Not including the lower value.

 
Hello again, @PrabhjotSingh. How are you?
 
I suppose that makes us CMIT’s level 3 support...
 
@FaheemMitha Hello elder brother. I am well.
How are you?
 
@StephenKitt I think that would actually be CMIT's level 2 support support.
Possibly equivalent, but sounds funnier.
@PrabhjotSingh I'm OK so far. How fare things with the virus?
No vaccines to be had here. Short of theft, perhaps. How about you?
/me inagines a daring heist on SII.
 
@FaheemMitha You know about this. Yesterday the number of new positive cases were 4 lakh.
@FaheemMitha Huh?
Here vaccination speed depends upon health workers.
 
4:03 PM
@PrabhjotSingh I thought they had come down. And the numbers are imaginary, anyway. Everyone says multiply by 5, at least. At least in states ruled by the fascists.
@PrabhjotSingh Serum Institute of India.
 
@FaheemMitha I am intoxicated with this. I try to forget but with little success.
 
@PrabhjotSingh Huh?
Oh, I see there's a link, but I still don't follow.
 
@FaheemMitha When police does not register crimes, crime rate comes down. Somalia has lowest crime rate.
 
@PrabhjotSingh Quite so.
 
@FaheemMitha very brave and true statement.
 
4:06 PM
Based on news reports, it sounds like the fascists are deliberately choosing not to register cases.
@PrabhjotSingh I don't see what's brave about it. Only like 3 people read it, anyway.
 
@FaheemMitha Do you have any link?
 
People like the BBC published reports where they went and checked for themselves.
@PrabhjotSingh Links for media reports? Not off hand. But you could do a search for like "BBC covid deaths" or just "BBC covid". And the Washington Post is doing some coverage. And the NYT. But both WP and NYT are behind paywalls.
I think you can download the html page and then view it in a brower. Sometimes that bypasses the paywall.
 
@FaheemMitha Post demands $1 these days. Guradian too.
@FaheemMitha lynx --dump url?
 
@PrabhjotSingh I normally use wget -c, but that might work too. Probably better, actually, since it's actually a web browser.
@PrabhjotSingh No, the Guardian doesn't have a paywall. Yet.
 
@FaheemMitha According to one BBC report, Russia is dividing Europe over vaacine. At least one PM has resigned. Russians find ways to harm them.
 
4:12 PM
@PrabhjotSingh I don't follow. Who has resigned?
 
@FaheemMitha PM of one European country(i don't remember name) resigned because coalition partners say she didn't consult them before ordering vaccines from Russia.
 
@PrabhjotSingh Oh. I didn't hear about that.
But there is too much news to follow at any time.
 
Ignore all news to be uninformed, follow the news to be misinformed
 
@FaheemMitha Yes another BBC exclusive is that Saudi Arab and Iran are holding talks in Iraq. At least some good news in these times.
 
@PrabhjotSingh That's a weird combination of players.
SA is a US ally. The SA dictatorship depends on the US to protect them from their own people, as far as I can tell. Though I know little about SA.
Just talked to a few people who've lived and worked there. From what I can tell, India is normal in comparison.
 
4:17 PM
@FaheemMitha This is good for peace in region. MBS has said they want Iran should prosper. And they want good relation with Iran(He said that in a 90 min interview.).
 
Recently they allowed women to drive. That was their big social advance. Sometimes I think all those Middle Eastern countries are all intent on giving Islam a bad name.
@PrabhjotSingh MBS?
 
@FaheemMitha Their crown prince.
 
@PrabhjotSingh The guy who murdered that journalist?
 
@FaheemMitha yes , Jamal Khashoggi.
 
@PrabhjotSingh Eww.
 
4:21 PM
What thousand Yemen people death could not do. only death of that journalist have done that. in Turkey if I remember correctly.
@FaheemMitha I had sent you links about unemployment news. You got that?
 
@PrabhjotSingh I did get an email from you, yes.
@PrabhjotSingh Did you read the remarkable news about the US backing the vaccine IP waiver? E.g. business-standard.com/article/international/…
That was a pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming moment.
 
@FaheemMitha TRIPS is used for waiving patent for poor countries. But it is under WTO. And we all know what is WTO.
 
@PrabhjotSingh I don't know much about it. But I know it's bad news.
 
US have fought against it most of the times.
 
Often used as a weapon against poor countries.
 
4:34 PM
@FaheemMitha If you recall 2-3 years back somewhere in Europe they seized a ship of generic medicines going from India to Africa.
It has been there. Before WTO its name was GATT.
 
@PrabhjotSingh No, I don't recall.
But once upon a time there was this insanity - nature.com/articles/37838
I think it's been mostly forgotten now, but it caused quite a stir at the time.
 
@PrabhjotSingh Of course the funny part is that big pharma is mostly funded by taxpayer money. As is the case with many big corporations. E.g. Microsoft.
Most of the research leading to the development of the personal computer was publicly funded research. Mostly military, I think.
 
@FaheemMitha How can you say that about pharma?
 
@PrabhjotSingh Well, it's largely true.
If you want references, I don't really have any, though.
 
4:44 PM
I thank you for this and this. I will read these articles tomorrow. Reading about WTO has been refreshing to me.
Wow Curcuma longa has US patent.
 
stuck at initramfs, need your help unix.stackexchange.com/questions/648824/…
 
 
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6:30 PM
@PrabhjotSingh Slovakia, probably
 

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