You've got two problems here
ls -G stops outputting in colour when the output doesn't go to a terminal (here to a pipe instead). Set the environment CLICOLOR_FORCE to a non-empty value to tell it to always output in color.
Colors are achieved by output escape sequences that are a sequence of ch...
I've been trying to install ia32 libs for ADB and fastboot through apt-get but I get a message stating I have held broken packages. So I have tried Aptitude and instead Aptitude keeps telling me that I need to downgrade a whole bunch of packages and uninstall a further four; Is this a safe operat...
if you have a question, just ask it. a lot of people pop into the chatroom later and read the backlog. if you haven't actually stated what your question is they won't be able to reply
@FaheemMitha I've noticed you making small edits to tags and stuff recently. I'd be fine with it except that it pushes the question to the front page again. shouldn't we keep edits substantial? for reference, I'm thinking about e.g.
@strugee I don't make tag edits. Perhaps you are thinking of someone else. I usually do typo fixes, and minor grammar corrections. Yes, it puts them on the front page. So what? Granted your example was a pretty minor change. I generally make slightly larger changes. Actually, I think I was planning to make more changes to that question - the grammar is slightly dodgy - but ran out of energy.
I don't understand this AIX.
How do I do sudo apt-get on AIX?
-bash-3.00$ sudo
-bash: sudo: command not found
-bash-3.00$ apt-get
-bash: apt-get: command not found
It's also perfectly on-topic on Super User though. How do you plan to migrate it?
@pauska also note that it has received three perfectly good answers on Super User. It would indeed be welcome here but I see no reason to migrate it from a site where it is both answered and on topic.
@terdon - not sure it's worth your time. Seems like there should be copious amounts of info on internet for pkg. mgmt. for AIX. This user just didn't understand that OSes are diff.
@strugee Minor edits are fine by me, as long as you don't do a bunch of them at once. Pushing one question to the front page isn't a big deal, flooding the front page is. That is, provided you have enough rep that your edit doesn't go through the edit queue. Of course, its still best to fix all issues with a post in one edit.
heh. seattleacademy.mrooms3.net is my school's instance of Moodle (online homework submission/calendar/etc.)... so clearly I have a unix.se/Tumblr addiction
Suppose I want to search an entire tree for all CPP files where "Foo" occurs. I might do:
find . -name "*.cpp" | xargs grep "Foo"
Now suppose I want to list only those instances where some other string, say "Bar" does not occur within 3 lines of the previous result.
So given two files:
a.cp...
+1: Excellent. Thanks so much; I'm sure it wasn't easy to figure out the correct regex. I very much appreciate your efforts. This seems to be working exactly as I wanted. — John Dibling1 min ago
"I'm sure it wasn't easy to figure out the correct regex. ": Yeah, right.
@davidkennedy85 good for you, see if anyone can help you in the place where you posted your question. You might want to wait a bit more than an hour before badgering people in random chat rooms.
especially rooms of sites that have nothing to do with your question.
@davidkennedy85 It is really not that hard to run free Unix-like systems these days. You don't have to be some wizard. Check out the people on Ask Ubuntu for example.
This may have not been the case in 1992-1994 for example. I don't know. I wasn't really using computers much then. When I started with Red Hat in 1998, it was already quite usable, though not comparable with where these systems are today.
I know anyone can install Ubuntu instead of Windows and most users would probably not notice a difference, but I was still under the impression most users didn't have a reason to choose any distro over Windows
I guess the free argument is pretty convincing however
There are occasionally times when one has no choice but to use proprietary systems. Tax preparation programs for example.
@davidkennedy85 I take it you don't literally mean my mom. There are lots of people in the world you aren't professional computer people but who care about privacy and freedom. Not to mention viruses. :-)
Back in 1998 when I started using RH, there wasn't even a decent free browser. Or a proprietary one. The only thing available was Netscape 4.77, which froze my computer all the time.
@davidkennedy85 Well, the programming is generally a side-effect of the research projects I work on. I'd actually be quite happy to do much less programming. It is way time-consuming.
Sometimes it can be interesting, but mostly it just slows one down a lot.
And once you've written a certain number of lines in most languages, the novelty has pretty much worn off.
@davidkennedy85 I've worked on projects in the area of applied probability, applied statistics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. A bit of a mix. Some of my stuff is online.
I should probably have all of it online. I need to set up a web page.
@davidkennedy85 : i mean computing from the human perspective. Debian for example has tons of stuff available, all ready to go - you just need to pull it off the network. Try reproducing that on a Windows machine.
@davidkennedy85 no worries, it's just considered bad for so to speak, to post Qs in chat rooms unless you've given them a chance to be answered through the usual channels.
@davidkennedy85 I was one for years. I was using Linux for quite some time before I learned how to write my first bash loop.
As for why, a lot of research involves manipulating loads of text files. *nix is extraordinarily well suited for this and has a great set of core utilities that makes that very easy to do.
My work (I do bioinformatics/computational biology) would be almost impossible on Windows systems. Even without programming, simply the core utils are essential.
And it appears you can't delete your answer from the mobile app, so had to wait until I was back in front of a browser... It wasn't loading in Firefox on my tablet for some reason.
I only got 5 pings on it :-/
/me wonders why neither his original message nor repost (sent via Google, instead of directly) have made it to [email protected]
Of course, nothing else new has either... so maybe it's just having issues.
You've got two problems here
ls -G stops outputting in colour when the output doesn't go to a terminal (here to a pipe instead). Set the environment CLICOLOR_FORCE to a non-empty value to tell it to always output in color.
Colors are achieved by output escape sequences that are a sequence of ch...
I don't understand this AIX.
How do I do sudo apt-get on AIX?
-bash-3.00$ sudo
-bash: sudo: command not found
-bash-3.00$ apt-get
-bash: apt-get: command not found
Suppose I want to search an entire tree for all CPP files where "Foo" occurs. I might do:
find . -name "*.cpp" | xargs grep "Foo"
Now suppose I want to list only those instances where some other string, say "Bar" does not occur within 3 lines of the previous result.
So given two files:
a.cp...
