/dev/chat

looks like a candidate for the twitter bot

I'd protect it but it doesn't have the button yet. @MichaelMrozek - perhaps you could?

It's actually a bad question since it doesn't qualify "legitimate"

Though everyone that's answer it has >100 rep.

save 2

Michael Mrozek

@slm 2. But yeah, for the most part it wouldn't have helped

so scratch that

@MichaelMrozek - what's the recommended action on these, just leave it or do you start to merge answers or what? Just curious.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised a bunch of computer geeks getting excited about "touch"

Michael Mrozek

As long as they're not duplicates it's probably fine. Several of them probably are

2:12 AM

@strugee it has been twitted

A: Community Promotion Ads - 2014

9

heh

weird how it goes

too bad we can't actually close it

yeah

oh well...

2:15 AM

let it lie

I did that for Programmers, because they really suffer from their twitter bot, and they don't care for it, but their bot is at +5 now and my anti-bot is at +0

This is epically funny, but not quite the message we want to send. — GlenH7 Jan 8 at 15:51

I also made a version for Server Fault, who really hate their twitter bot (-16), but

Subtly amusing, but no - not really in the spirit of the site. I'd hate to see someone take it seriously. — Mark Henderson Jan 3 at 10:30

@Gilles I thought Programmers was the only site that hated their bot more than we do?

A: Community Promotion Ads - 2014

@strugee no, that's SF

-16

This is a demonstration post to indicate how this should look when an ad is posted. It also doubles as your twitter ad, but it's up to you if you wish to promote it by voting. As the Twitter selection still hasn't changed, this will probably be nuclearated in votes for the third year running. — Grace Note Dec 6 '13 at 9:46

@Zenexer: The twitter bot is pretty good at spotting questions that should be closed but that's not it's purpose. — Iain Dec 21 '13 at 14:50

the comments on that are the best

does anyone notice how mdoc.su and bxr.su have appeared a lot this year?

casey

Its amusing my answer to the touch question is now my highest rated answer. Didnt see that coming...

2:21 AM

@strugee I use the freebsd site directly

@casey the easy questions get the most votes

@Gilles yeah, seems like a lot of people everywhere hated those ads. I've seen copies on Programmers, here, and on SF and it got downvoted everywhere

Q: What's the story behind Super Cow Powers?

@casey there is a relationship to ease of understanding of both Q and A to a broader audience and upvoting. See @deroberts stupid cow Q if you need more evidence 8-)

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As we know, apt-get has Super Cow Powers and aptitude does not: $ apt-get --help | grep -i cow This APT has Super Cow Powers. $ aptitude --help | grep -i cow This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers. and of course, APT has an Easter egg to go with i...

debian apt history

there's a guy in SU that became the 6th most upvoted answer in less than 2 days...

The one about his kids?

or a new one?

this

Q: Turning off Google search results indirection

2:33 AM

My first question on Web Applications became the most upvoted question on the site, I think on day 1

132

In Google search results, in Firefox or Chrome, I get URLs that go through Google and not directly to the target site. For example, at http://www.google.com/search?q=foo the first result is http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=foo&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia...

google-search privacy url tracking

it's now been overtaken by a more recent question

Q: How do I make a machine "blank screen" for a period of time (as a penalty) if certain noise levels are reached?

1211

My kids (4 and 5) yell a lot when playing games on the computer. I found an effective cure for this. When I hear loud noises, I ssh into the game computer and do: chvt 3; sleep 15; chvt 7 This will turn off the screen for 15 seconds on Linux. I've told them that the computer doesn't like lo...

linux audio shell

@Gilles I can't believe you asked that? I think you just disable it in your Google preferences.

nope, you can't

@slm if you have another answer to propose, go for it

@Gilles - I'm looking for it, I did it before through the Google search settings.

I think it's tied to the anticipated searching where they make suggestions to you.

I'll dig it up and post it.

@Gilles - damn your question is spamming every other result. It even got picked up by lifehacker and redistributed.

lifehacker.com/…

@slm that's SE's corporate objective

2:44 AM

ugh

but it pushed away the other method for doing this.

@slm what other methods?

which didn't require any software it was a setting on google.

Or they're pushing it away in the results.

at the time I posted, there weren't any that I could find

I'll look through my delicious

or maybe only if you're logged in?

2:46 AM

I know i had it b/c I turned it on one day after getting thoroughly annoyed with the inabilility to copy.

I didn't explicitly mention that I'm never logged in to Google, but nobody assumed I was anyway

perhaps the login, but I'm always logged in.

APZ

3:19 AM

Hi everyone

Can someone tell me please whats the relation between vm_enough_memory() and out_of_memory().

@Gilles - I take back what I said. It looks like the option has been removed from Google and the other workaround I used to use was www.google.com/ncr no longer works either.

4:24 AM

@slm sadness forever. this bugs the crap out of me, especially since I use a tablet without GreaseScripts a lot

Yeah they changed the mechanism so it's tied to the onmousedown now, so it's only by-passed via javascript.

yeah, I saw that in Gilles' question

5:26 AM

@Gilles remember when we were talking about remote X11 vs. Wayland a couple weeks ago? I don't think I ever sent you this

►

gideon

7:20 AM

Hey guys, quick low level question.

I'm reading linux kernel development, and I was going through a chapter on interrupts. There is a line that says For a real time clock, on a PC the IRQ is 8
Where does one get information like that from?
And what is really meant by "on a PC" ?

8:33 AM

hi, I rencetly posted this question: unix.stackexchange.com/q/108525/41302 and it seems better to ask in chat. Is anybody here know such a tool that I can simulate different distro without installing all of them (e.g in a VM)

Apart of this how to make a LF in chat? I tried ctrl-return, alt-return and return but all post the message

A: Is there any linux server with public ip on the internet?

1:18 PM

@ruffp did you check out the links I gave in my last comment?

5

There's the SDF Public Access Server (http://sdf.org/?signup) and it is free forever (but they accept and appreciate donations).. Really easy to sign up (connect, and your account is created within the SSH session). Has some file storage, SSH, screen, etc. Even more options are available after a ...

Oh and the line feed is done by simply posting the message, then posting another. They will appear together.

1:29 PM

Hi guys. Could anyone help me with my question, please? It's been 2 hours since I asked it, and had 1 comment since: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/109120/…

@Kevdog777 - 2 hrs. isn't that long, ppl will look at your Q when they have time, but please don't badger everyone in here every time you have a Q. This isn't paid support, if you issue is that critical then try official channels since you're dealing w/ Oracle.

@slm thanks, will look.

1:53 PM

@Kevdog777 1) as @slm said, wait a bit. 2) your question is not t all clear. Are you somehow attempting to change an installed system from 32 to 64bits? Or is it only your oracle server you are trying to change? What does compile64 do? What is test.o? What's in /opt/test?

@Kevdog777 the reason no one has answered is that your question is, no offense, a very bad one. You need to explain what you are trying to do.

@Kevdog777 @terdon - additional tips, when you have a Q that no one appears t o be helping w/ the best course of action is to continue to work the problem yourself and add updates to as you learn new things. Maybe debug the compile script to see what line it dies on, etc. etc.

@Kevdog777 - I think he wants to compile 64 on 32? See even that point is unclear as @terdon said. You have to work your Q the most, not us.

@slm he says:

> I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5, and want to change the bits to 64bit from 32bit.

??????

He then goes on to talk about oracle so I guess he has an oracle DB somewhere and that's what he's trying to change

@terdon, yes but this sdf is a paying service, didn't find a way to create a user

@terdon - yeah it was completely unclear what he wants to do. And we have lots of other things to do, so I skipped that Q quite honestly. @Kevdog777 - has been on this site long enough now to know the policies.

@ruffp that same answer had this link too: shells.red-pill.eu

2:00 PM

yes I skip this one... they seems to have ubuntu and centos... just missing the redhat; otherwise how do you test your scripts (bash) if you need them cross distro?

@ruffp and also SDF is free, did you actually read the webpage?

> Linux/UNIX users can type 'ssh new@sdf.org' at their shell prompts.

Just open a terminal and ssh in, that will create your account.

yes and it asked me a password and it says "access denied"

@ruffp If I really needed to, I would do virtual machines

@ruffp did you run

ssh new@sdf.org

Worked fine for me.

ok i understand... i was thinking the new should be replaced by the new username

Q: How can I reliably get the operating system's name?

Anyway @ruffp, the answers you received and the nice script in @slm's linked answer should give you everything you need.

Huh, sorry, I thought I had given you the link, I don see it on your Q. I meant this one @ruffp :

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Say I am logged into a remote system, how can I know what it's running? On most modern Linuxes (Linuces?), you have the lsb_release command: $ lsb_release -ic Distributor ID: LinuxMint Codename: debian Which as far as I can tell just gives the same info as /etc/lsb-release. What if t...

linux distros

2:08 PM

@terdon, yes that was from where the script in my question was from (Legroom script section in your mentionned post)

@ruffp is it? The answer that @slm gave to my Q is much much more detailed and inclusive. If all you are interested in is debian/ubuntu/fedora, this work:

 lsb_release -i | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/'^\t'//

Unless you are on a VERY old version (>10years or so), lsb_release will be available on all three of debian/fedora/ubuntu

An even better way might be the files /etc/os-release and /etc/lsb-release

again, they should be present in all version of those three distros.

at least the legroom script works well for my centos, i just needed to test it on redhat and ubuntu without switching between VM's (i can only run once a time)

it is based on the LSB

@slm Thanks @slm for trying to help. I know in the past you have been very helpful - but saying that "I have been on this site a long time and should know the policies" is a little offensive TBH. I thought the question was quite full, and don't want to give details of my company out to everyone (company policy), hence why the files are test, etc. - my boss helped me, and now have sorted this question out. Next time, I will make it clearer.

@Kevdog777 you have not even told us what it is you are trying to do! How was your question full?

We don't care about your company, we need to know 1) WHAT do you want to change from 32 to 64? The OS or a program? If the latter, which program?

2) how does oracle come into this? Is that what you are trying to change?

3) what are these files and directories you mention? What are they supposed to be doing?

I am not trying to give you a hard time here @Kevdog777, I just honestly do not have any idea what you are trying to do.

2:24 PM

@terdon, the problem with sdf, is that they have a netBSD, it cannot simulate a different OS. Anyway this could be a good resource for just testing scripts

@terdon Nevermind @terdon, I have deleted the question as I have sorted it now. Thanks for helping.

2:47 PM

@Kevdog777 I try very hard to not offend anyone so I apologize for that. @terdon's reply states everything I was frustrated w/ by you Q (from a tech. perspective b/c it didn't have nearly enough info to begin solving it). I'll just add that you've done this several times before where you come in and nudge ppl in the chatroom, that really isn't how you should view the room. ...continue...

It's here for that on occasion but it shouldn't be abused either, and 2 hrs. is hardly a long time for a Q to go unanswered. I would expect at least a day or 2 before you start eliciting help for it in here.

@Kevdog777 - This criticism is not meant to be mean, I'm just trying to help you get the best help you can and if you treat each Q like you did this one you'll likely get less not more. I'll always try to help but this is something to just be aware of.

2:59 PM

@slm That's a play on words, right? :-)

@slm Yes, that one was ridiculously upvoted. Must be lots of closet cow fans out there.

I assume the question with twitter is that dumb questions get sent to twitter and then get even mor views and answers. Is that it?

@Gilles I upvoted meta.serverfault.com/a/6058/73432

3:36 PM

Thanks @slm, maybe I did push it a little too far, but I hate sitting around twiddling my thumbs... So I do apologise.

3:51 PM

@FaheemMitha ummm...maybe 8-)

4:18 PM

@FaheemMitha heh. yes

4:36 PM

@FaheemMitha reading the backlog, eh? (me too.)

@strugee Sometimes I do.

@FaheemMitha I usually do but I skip when people are debugging long problems

Unlike IRC, SE Chat has unlimited backlog.

yeah, the backlog's really nice

they both have their uses.

IRC's harder to use properly unless you have a bouncer

I think IRC doesn't keep history by design.

Some channels don't keep logs.

4:38 PM

it doesn't, any history provided is done so via a bot in the channel

@strugee True.

still, I <3 IRC.

@strugee what channels?

the free software zealot in me berates me for using a proprietary, centralized service like SE chat whenever I'm on here.

@strugee: yes, I'm not happy about the proprietary aspects of SE either.

4:40 PM

@FaheemMitha I used to hang out in a couple Mozilla channels when I was more involved with the Mozilla project a couple years ago.

Surprised Stallman hasn't said anything about it.

during the summer I hung out on Freenode a lot, until my server's hard drive died and took down ZNC with it

@strugee More involved... a couple of years ago? You're 15, right?

@FaheemMitha yes

@strugee being doing this long? :-)

4:42 PM

well, I say "involved". I wasn't really all that involved, I would occasionally help people out on Live Chat or on [SUMO](support.mozilla.org), and I still use Firefox Nightly and file bugs. I'm on a couple mailing lists too, but I never submitted patches or anything

@FaheemMitha what, computers? or UNIX? :P

When I was 15 I was busy being a nervous wreck. I definitely was not doing free software development. Though, since free software barely existed at the time, doing so would have been quite an accomplishment. :-)

@strugee Either. Both.

I heard rumors of a 14 yr old involved in GNOME development a couple of years ago. Apparently he was good, too. That wasn't you, was it?

I think it was GNOME, at least.

@FaheemMitha computers, since I was really little. when I was 5 or 6 I used to go around to the then all-Windows machines in my house and apply updates. it bugged my parents so much

@strugee That's funny. So you're like a computer prodigy? :-)

someone showed me Ubuntu when I was about 8, and I used it for maybe 3 years before getting an iMac. I got back into GNU/Linux about a year and a half ago, still on Ubuntu. but I got angry with Canonical really fast so I'm on Arch now

@FaheemMitha heh, I guess so. and no, the GNOME kid wasn't me, but I wish he was

I'm not all that good of a coder, I'm mostly a good sysadmin. I don't even know C all that well

@strugee That's pretty early, yes.

4:46 PM

I can do your basic integer definitions but I can't do malloc or free or pointers

@FaheemMitha yeah, I never really did a ton. I learned super, super basic command-line stuff but I was never very good

@strugee Well, you've got time. :-) If you are looking for languages to learn, I recommend Common Lisp. Probably the nicest language I've ever used, except basically nobody uses it. Which is a bit of a bummer.

@strugee When I was 8 I wasn't doing much beyond sucking my thumb (metaphorically), so I'd say you are way ahead of the game.

I have a distinctive memory of changing to vt7 (X) to open Activity Monitor so I could look up a PID, then changing back to vt1 to kill it, since i didn't know ps

Just don't burn out like that Sidis guy. I don't know if you know of him. It is a sad story.

@strugee distinctive -> distinct perhaps?

@FaheemMitha I don't

@FaheemMitha yes :P

@FaheemMitha I use a dialect

William James Sidis

William James Sidis (; April 1, 1898–July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical abilities and a claimed mastery of many languages. After his death, his sister made the unverifiable claim that his IQ was "the very highest that had ever been obtained," but any records of any IQ testing that Sidis actually took have been lost to history. He entered Harvard at age eleven and, as an adult, was claimed to be conversant in over forty languages and dialects. It was later acknowledged, however, that some of the claims made were exaggerations, with a researcher s...

4:55 PM

I hadn't heard of him. looks like I'm covered, since I'm still in high school :)

although speaking of tragedy, let's have a moment of silence for Aaron, even though his death was two days ago

@strugee Aaron? Swartz?

Sidis is a fairly famous example of a child prodigy gone badly wrong.

Norbert Weiner talks about him in his autobiography for example.

I think that is where I first heard of him.

@strugee Clojure?

yes, that Aaron.

Clojure?

5:11 PM

@strugee You said you use a Lisp dialect.

Is it Clojure?

look at the link. Emacs Lisp.

@strugee I missed your link. Sorry.

no problem, it was kind of unnoticeable

A: What are the legitimate uses of the `touch` command?

Oh boy, now Stephane's weighing in on the touch Q.

0

echo -n > file, or even better : > file (or > file with most shells) is destructive (it would truncate file if it existed beforehand), touch file isn't. : >> file (or (set -C && : > file)) wouldn't be destructive, but it wouldn't update the modification time of an existing file. Another differe...

This Q now has 15 A's.

casey

5:30 PM

It is a bit out of hand, but we're both guilty of contributing to it :)

It reminds me of that song from Rocky Horror.

►

Creatures of the NIGHT! Oh yeah :)

@casey I think I posted the 3 A, yours was early too.

I too want to post throughly pointless questions and get lots of upvotes.

casey

Mine was first or if it was second the first came in while I was composing it.

5:49 PM

@slm where is the A?

@casey Yeah I read yours after I posted mine. But I generally wait until I'm done A'ing to read others. But we were in the 1st wave.

He deleted it

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/109003/…

/me needs 10k already...?

now you need 10k rep to see it. I left him a joking comment "Didn't want to miss the fun on this Q?"

The hiding of deletes should be given once you get 10k on any site IMO

there isn't a big mystery there

@casey wow 50 amazing.

Risto Salminen

6:24 PM

Why do people ask a question, then when somebody (or many of them) answers it, the OP doesn't react in any way to the answer? That's not the way SE works, and in addition to that, it's also annoying behaviour.

6:58 PM

@RistoSalminen no one knows.

Risto Salminen

@strugee Apparently.

@RistoSalminen because they have their answer (either on SE or elsewhere) and they don't care anymore

Does anyone know where I can find an explanation of the colors in the top bar?

@terdon which colors?

@Gilles Flags/pending edits etc appear on the new top bar in different colors, I've figured out that brown are pending edits and I think that red are flags, but there seem to be more.

7:08 PM

@terdon the flag indicator is yellow and the suggested edit indicator is orange (on U&L, it depends on the site)

Risto Salminen

@Gilles I see, but that's still annoying behaviour, although I can't blame those guys for not being "good" SE user nor being here at all

on AU is red and brown...

the colors were chosen to fit the theme of the site, and weren't changed when the top bar was made the same color everywhere

Yeah, I just found this which explains it:

Q: Top bar should be consistent on all sites... but it's not

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The top bar is showing (again) the suggested edits count and 10K flags count, like it was before. On Stack Overflow it looks like this: (that's the original color, same as in old top bar) And on this very Meta site: Same top bar. But different colors! Consistency broken. I've just...

feature-request design top-bar

Q: Top bar should be consistent on all sites... but it's not

7:09 PM

18

The top bar is showing (again) the suggested edits count and 10K flags count, like it was before. On Stack Overflow it looks like this: (that's the original color, same as in old top bar) And on this very Meta site: Same top bar. But different colors! Consistency broken. I've just...

feature-request design top-bar

:) yes, that one

and inb4?

OK, I had just noticed various colors and had not twigged to the fact that they depended on which site I was on.

@Braiam I had an easy time finding it because meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/213121/…

love that bounty message

7:29 PM

@Braiam best thing

A: Script Execution at user logout (non root user)

7:48 PM

since I don't use Gnome, can someone test whether this works?

0

This is the step by step procedure of gnome_save_yourself method. Let's do a test. Save following code as ~/Desktop/execute_script_on_shutdown.sh (From http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/gnome-run-script-on-logout-724453/#post3560301) #!/usr/bin/env python #Author...

8:28 PM

[  608.216995] do_IRQ: 2.229 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
[ 1267.959629] do_IRQ: 1.183 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

well, my annoying messages are still present w/o the proprietary nvidia drivers and on a Linux kernel built from git head

I have one commit to pull out as a random guess (git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/…) ... this affects my board, I got that warning on 3.12, and turned off the IOMMU in the BIOS. Never had any of the problems that I'm supposed to see, though, before...

8:50 PM

@RistoSalminen That's the minority case, but I've noticed it as well. It is extremely annoying.

@RistoSalminen Even if the OP doesn't respond, the rest of the community can (and should!) give you encouragement via upvoting. And the answer is around, in a nice easy to find place, for the next person with the problem.

@RistoSalminen A lot of times, especially with new users, the user may not even know about accepting answers, etc. Or may no longer really have access to the account.

just me or I detect irony?

> This is a Meta Stack Overflow. Why isn't anyone trying to answer the question?

you want an answer on "meta"?

@Braiam Where is that from? BTW: You can copy comment links into chat, and they'll onebox

@derobert from here and it wasn't a comment but the question final sentence

"But I don't recall ever having one of my questions answered by, nor have I ever answered a question by a female programmer here at Stack Overflow." ... wow. How would he/she know?

8:57 PM

the very fact that there's a meme around about the gender of some dude should be proof enough that we really don't know anything of the one answering/asking questions

@Gilles I would test it later on

brb, time to reboot to test this new kernel

@derobert you need to dissect the kernal!!!!

@derobert @RistoSalminen - I'll add that you should look at SE as a place to store things that you find interesting or problems that you come across with answers too. Not just a place to A other ppl's Q's. The community will support you via UV and critiquing your Q&A's too!

@derobert @RistoSalminen Always make sure to nudge the OP to accept and UV you if they found your A worthwhile. I've run into many ppl that do not know they're suppose to do this. Don't hound them about it but gently remind them.

9:14 PM

Thanks.

@derobert we all are like that inside...

@Braiam Nah, I have more blubber!

And may or may not be a mushroom.

> thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue found under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds and sirenians.

so, we have another "not-human" in the room...

Well, they're definitely convinced I'm a mushroom over on #TheFryingPan.

But I'm not sure if that's true outside said room or not

Its a crazy place over there. Second only to the incompressible room, I hear.

9:23 PM

The Bridge has opponents?

@derobert funny, you don't look like a mushroom

3

so says the mushroom

@Gilles I don't look like a human, either...

Its important to not let the folks over at #TheFryingPan see what you actually look like, else you might wind up in one of their stock pots

At least, if they consider you edible.

@Braiam I keep getting mistaken for a mushroom, you mean

I'm not a mushroom, I'm a part of a mushroom's reproductive apparatus

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@Gilles Indeed, and Wikipedia even has your picture.

10:22 PM

Evening

Anyone here is familiar with ImageMagick and can help solve a memory/cpu problem?

Can be found here

10:35 PM

When you top it, can you see the memory consumption for that convert process? It looks like you are making a REALLY large image there.. 2048*1152*30*2 (if it is 16bit )= 135MB. That would be the minimal memory requirement before adding any layers.. — Moe Tsao 12 mins ago

@MadaraUchiha That comment seems to be an answer?

@derobert I've just replied to it

How come it's like that when the total weight of the images isn't even 10MB?

Q: What is a windowing system?

Don't we have a Q that answers this already?

1

Can someone provide me with a very clear and practical example of a "windowing system"? I was reading on Linux, and although I've always known that it's a kernel, I didn't really know what a kernel is because I haven't taken an OS class yet. My understanding of it is that it's basically the layer...

linux kernel gnu

@MadaraUchiha uh? Moe's calculation is correct

I remember a pretty extensive Q&A that had a bounty on it not so long ago.

@MadaraUchiha Added my own comment

10:43 PM

I think this Q had a weird title, which is why it's hard to find via search.

@derobert @Gilles so how much RAM do you think I need?

Can I get ImageMagick to consume less memory?

@MadaraUchiha Not sure. I do my best to forget about every time I've used ImageMagick.

I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but there are libraries to manipulate JPEG without actually decompressing—if you can use one of those, that'll greatly reduce time & memory requirements.

And, btw, 256MB was beefy for a server in, ummm, maybe 1996 or 1997.

I suppose you're talking about virtual servers, where yeah, RAM is more limited

Today, if you asked for a server that was beefy w/r/t RAM, I'd think you meant >100GB.

Yeah, I'm on a VPS

My budget isn't up for a 100GB server :P

having fun @terdon with this "awesome" Q?

Q: tcsh - source list of files using find failing

10:59 PM

If anyone is bored, please help out this Q&A before it get's mucked up more.

1

I'm constrained to doing this in tcsh on CentOS due to the environment at work. When executing find . -type f -executable -exec source '{}' \; the only result is find: 'source': No such file or directory for each appropriate file. Not sure why this isn't working in tcsh as it's pretty straightfo...

shell centos tcsh

@MadaraUchiha try koding vps to check about how much ;)

Q: Shell attempts to interpret Perl script in spite of correct shebang

Should this one be closed?

0

I have looked through the forums and I can't seem to find how to fix this. I have a very simple perl code that works fine on Windows, but when I try it on Linux and Solaris I get the following errors: bash: ./test.pl: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `(' bash: ./test.pl: line 2: `print...

linux solaris perl

@MadaraUchiha Also, depending on what you're doing, if you can batch process a bunch of them, this is fairly cheap to spin up an AWS spot instance for...

@Braiam - there should be a much more elegant way to do this one. Those answers are weak.

@slm wut?

Q: source list of files using find failing

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I'm constrained to doing this in tcsh on CentOS due to the environment at work. When executing find . -type f -executable -exec source '{}' \; the only result is find: 'source': No such file or directory for each appropriate file. Not sure why this isn't working in tcsh as it's pretty straightfo...

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@derobert It's singular, it only happens once in a while, and never simultaneously.

@Braiam I saw you edited it, are you going to answer it? Please feel free.

@slm yes

@Gilles Just did.