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Faheem Mitha

00:19

I just learned that David McKay died yesterday. He was only 48.

9 hours later…

Faheem Mitha

09:31

I'm sorry, that should have been David MacKay.

Random obit: theregister.co.uk/2016/04/15/sir_david_mackay_obituary

11 hours later…

derobert

20:50

Apparently been too long since my last apt-get upgrade... taking a whole two minutes to download packages... (at 10MB/sec)

Faheem Mitha

Hi Anthony. Do you know who MacKay is/was?

derobert

Not really

Faheem Mitha

21:21

@derobert Ok.

1 hour later…

Faheem Mitha

22:48

So, if I get output like:

borg list --short .
orwell-2016-04-17:03.02
orwell-2016-04-17:04.00

And I want to loop over those individual strings, what's the easiest way of doing that?

Michael Homer

23:22

Q: What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question

It turns out the the recent question regarding the misuse of rm -rf in Ansible was actually just a hoax in some kind of viral marketing effort. It become quite famous on various media and gathered a large number of views. Since I don't think we should allow ServerFault to be abused in such way...

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What a surprise.

Faheem Mitha

23:38

@MichaelHomer What a moron.

Jeff Schaller

23:55

@FaheemMitha maybe I don't understand you correctly, but why not: for str in $(borg list --short .); do something with $str; done ?

Faheem Mitha

@JeffSchaller Would that automatically save to an array?

Jeff Schaller

it would not -- that's a loop, as requested :)

Faheem Mitha

Well, borg list --short .returns a newline separated list.

Which needs to be processed, a line at a time.

Gilles

@FaheemMitha unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

but it would actually be a duplicate

Jeff Schaller

In bash, I'd do: array=( $(borg list --short .) )

Faheem Mitha

23:58

@Gilles I wasn't planning to ask it.

@JeffSchaller Yes, that's one way to go. I found:

Q: Store output of command into the array

This is command: pdc status -a 2>&1 | grep 'okay' It gives the following output [okay ]: you are currently listening: 33 [okay ]: you are currently listening: 22 [okay ]: you are currently listening: 11 I have written this command in shell scrip file. But I want to store the outpu...

scripts

There does seem to be a lot of duplication across these sites, doesn't there?

Gilles

Q: How to loop over the lines of a file?

Say I have this file: hello world hello world This program #!/bin/bash for i in $(cat $1); do echo "tester: $i" done outputs tester: hello tester: world tester: hello tester: world I'd like to have the for iterate over each line individually ignoring whitespaces though, i.e. the las...