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12:58 AM

Anyone familiar with installing GitLab?

1:47 AM

Nm fixed

2:24 AM

$ sudo dmidecode -t processor
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 42 bytes
Processor Information
	Socket Designation: CPU 1
	Type: Central Processor
	Family: Other
	Manufacturer:
	ID: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	Version:
	Voltage: 3.3 V 2.9 V
	External Clock: Unknown
	Max Speed: 2000 MHz
	Current Speed: Unknown
	Status: Unpopulated
	Upgrade: Other
	L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005
	L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006
	L3 Cache Handle: 0x0007
	Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
	Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

@NoahHuppert don't ask questions in chat. ask on Unix & Linux instead.

The two portions of the output are showing different information.

The second is the processor information, I think. What is the first section?

@AsheeshR don't ask questions in chat. ask questions on Unix & Linux.

@strugee This should be very basic stuff. I am not sure because I don't deal with this a lot.

@AsheeshR looks OK to me.

it may get moved to Super User, but I doubt it.

2:30 AM

@strugee I meant that this is too simple to be really worth a question.

@AsheeshR shrugs

we get very little traffic here. I think you'll be OK.

we don't mind simple questions as long as you've demonstrated an attempt to solve your problem by yourself first.

e.g. "I've looked through the manpage, I've Googled and I've tried this snippet of code, but none works"

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Q: What are the two sections of this dmidecode output?

I ran dmidecode on my system to AMD E-450 verify certain processor information. However, I am not sure what the two sections of the output indicate. $ sudo dmidecode -t processor # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.7 present. Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 42 bytes Processor Information Socket Designatio...

multiprocessor dmidecode

awesome

@AsheeshR you looked at the dmidecode manpage?

@strugee Yes.

No information beyond the command line options.

gotcha

2:41 AM

@AsheeshR - can you mention which sections are which when you're asking about them?

@slm Updated

11 hours later…

1:14 PM

@Braiam please don't remove relevant tags. editors was both relevant and useful.

2:13 PM

@terdon he was asking about "vi/vim" and no other "editors"

why you must add a tag that superseed others?

2:43 PM

@Braiam Because that's how tagging works. Tag from the general (editors) to the specific (vim):

> Try to use broad tags. For example, you usually want to include the version with the .NET tag rather than the language. While tagging a question c#2.0 might convey exactly the information you intend (it implies C#, .NET, and version 2.0 all in one tag), tagging it .net c# .net2.0 will bring your question lots more attention, since more people will watch the generic .net and c# tags.

> There is of course a trade-off: you used 3 tags to convey the same information you could have done with one. However, it's hard to understate how many more views the generic tags will bring to your question.

@terdon ok, let me put this logic forth: is about any editor apart vi/vim?

@terdon and you reasoned we are different than a programing site, in AU, and that logic won't apply

@Braiam 1) That's completely irrelevant. Vim is an editor, both tags apply. 2) Yes actually, all editors use a similar process to detect file types and set syntax highlighting.

@terdon but he's asking how "vim" does, not how "all editors does" and your answer is geared towards only vim and won't apply to any other editor

@Braiam The logic is the same here. We want broad tags. On U&L, on AU and everywhere. That's what the FAQ states, that's what the help pages state, that's clearly the position of the various communities. Why do you insist on doing it your way?

@Braiam The ideas do. In any case vim is an editor! Are you going to start removing shell-script from questions that are also tagged as bash?

come on @terdon, you are tagging vim with a editor tag because vim is an editor, not because the question is general to all editors or affect more than one editor.

and that's not how tags are supposed to be used

2:52 PM

@Braiam Yes, exactly. And I would tag a scripting question using bash as both shell-script and bash. This helps brings in views and both tags are applicable.

Removing the editors tag simply makes people miss the Q who might have been able to help, it means that the Q will not be found when searching for "editor" questions and does not improve it in any way. I've never understood why you dislike overlapping or redundant tags but please stop removing them. Do we need to have a whole new meta discussion on this site as well?

@terdon both are applicable in that case, but you are adding a tag that it's already implied with another tag.

@Braiam Yes, exactly, and that's a good thing.

13 mins ago, by terdon

> Try to use broad tags. For example, you usually want to include the version with the .NET tag rather than the language. While tagging a question c#2.0 might convey exactly the information you intend (it implies C#, .NET, and version 2.0 all in one tag), tagging it .net c# .net2.0 will bring your question lots more attention, since more people will watch the generic .net and c# tags.

@evilsoup When a tag is overly-specific, though, that negatively affects searching by filtering out too much. Search will still look at the full text of answers, of course, so your sed-based answer is likely to come up when you are looking for it. — mattdm ♦ May 8 '13 at 12:18

@terdon is different in principle, the question is about the three things .net, c#2.0 and c#,

Yes, but the idea is the same: broad tags == good, specific tags == less good.

broad + specific == best

@terdon your reasoning is so wrong at several layers

@SJMP Let us disagree on that. A lot of your edits got approved by robo-reviewers not because it helps someone... — rene yesterday

@terdon recent discussion about someone adding editors tags to all vim questions on SO

@SJMP did this question really needed that tag? The vi and vim tags already indicate the question is about editors. There is no need to add another high-level tag. Please stop doing that. — rene Apr 18 at 18:56

@terdon my point exactly ^

3:06 PM

@Braiam Yeah, so you found another user who does not understand how to use tags. So? We've had this discussion so many times now and just about everyone disagrees with you. On U&L I'd be willing to accept Gille's view on this since he's done most of the tagging, but I believe that here, he would also want the editors tag.

I don't know if I would have added it if it weren't there but removing relevant tags is wrong.

@gilles HALP ^

and sorry @terdon the one that doesn't understand tagging is you. There's no tag hierarchy here, hence only the most and directly relevant stays, everything else is just noise

Yes well, I know you think so. I also know you've repeatedly tried and repeatedly failed to convince others and still persist with this. Just please stop removing relevant tags.

@terdon explain your point to Shog then chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta

3:22 PM

Silly question alert!!
I was looking for a men's necklace and I see 3 dimensions mentioned. Length, width and height. I understand what is length and width. But what is height supposed to be?

@Ramesh all objects in the real world have 3 dimensions... or volume

meh!! I should have learnt math better :(

3:47 PM

I see many questions asking exactly the opposite :( — Braiam 7 secs ago

3:57 PM

@Braiam @terdon Unfortunately the SE people never implemented a tag hierarchy. But unless its changed recently, I thought the practice was to put both specific and general tags on a question. E.g., java as well as apache-hibernate.

@derobert if the question is about both java and apache-hibernate, is ok

Well, if you're using it, you're writing in Java....

mm... but if I'm just trying to do general configuration to the hibernate thingy?

ie I don't write a line of Java

I suspect it'd still get tagged Java, but I'm not even sure if it has a configuration. I haven't written any Java since about 2000.

wut? if I'm trying to install it? or prevent it from start at boot?

4:03 PM

I think Hibernate is a data serialization library. Maybe I'm mistaken. But yeah, presuming it had those functions (say we're talking MySQL instead), then no.

You don't tag a question about configuring MySQL a c because it's written in C.

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Q: A proposal for tag hierarchy on SO

Executive summary Introduction of a partial inheritance relation into the set of tags on SO, in order to allow more efficient question organization/filtering/tagging (especially via "Interesting"/"Ignored" mechanism). The proposal is designed to achieve its goals while adhering to two principle...

discussion feature-request tags tag-hierarchy

@derobert tagging something as the language is written is ridiculous, which is the same thing as JS/jQuery

@Braiam Sure. But the language it's being used in less so. E.g., that question is about trying to follow all the Perl questions.

And the answer there is that they should all be tagged perl

(that's on SO, where of course most of the related non-programming questions are off topic)

@derobert funny thing is that you can follow [perl*] and get all questions that any of the tags starts with perl

[perl*]: perl, perl-cpan, perlmonks, etc.

@Braiam Sure. But most perl things aren't named starting with Perl.

btw, can this be downvoted? askubuntu.com/a/453398/169736

@derobert but, but, it takes just a second to follow a tag ;)

4:17 PM

@Braiam dbi, dbix-class,

... there are a lot of Perl related tags not containing Perl.

It's not easy to find them all. More get added all the time.

@derobert libraries?

@Braiam Yep. Those are libraries.

meh, I'm sure they should get tagged as perl too

29 out 40 tagged perl too

the system works!

that's the point, they should pretty much all be tagged perl

don't we have a tag about packagekit?

4:22 PM

I'm not sure in our case what editors is for. If people are following it because they want questions about text editors, then the vim question should be tagged editors.

@Braiam doesn't seem so, guess you can create it

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 57 mins ago, by Shog9

This is why the fact that there are no clear usage guidelines for [editors] bugs me: I see folks using it for specific questions on the use of specific editors, and for things like editor recommendations, editor design, etc.

@derobert you are not the only one ^

and my internet is as crappy as it could get, time to restart the thingy

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 57 mins ago, by Shog9

@terdon which suggests that [vim] and [emacs] are probably better tags, unless there exists a class of questions where both would apply and also other editors

...and indeed, vim and emacs are definitely better tags.

Chrome fans would love this softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/3776/226

@Braiam well, the site tells me that all of two people follow editors. We just need to find them and ask them what they want it for :-P

shouldn't this be closed? unix.stackexchange.com/q/124705/41104

@slm seems to be one of those

he has answered 6 questions which only have the editors tag

4:31 PM

@Braiam Yeah.

you guys do what you want on the tags, I trust your judgement more then my own w/ them 8-)

heh, are you really following the "editors" tag?

@Braiam I have no idea how to find out who's following it. That's 2 on Unix & Linux, didn't check on Stack Overflow.

@derobert yeah, I checked in SE for a way, but apparently that's private

373 follow vim; 111 emacs

so honestly if you want to burninate editors I'm fine with it. There would appear to be no experts following it. (Well, or close enough.)

btw, delete has 0 followers. Same with remove.

4:49 PM

how this should be tagged? unix.stackexchange.com/q/85603/41104

So sad that I get famous Q for a robocopy Q on SF before anything here. Come on Unix users we can do so much better then this 8-)

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Q: How do I get robocopy to use a log file which includes spaces?

I'm trying the following command: robocopy "x:\dir" "y:\dir" /mir /z /tee /fft /nfl /ndl /eta /log:"x:\path to logs\12-15-11 01 file with spaces.txt" I'm getting this error: ERROR : Invalid Parameter #10 : "/log:x:\path to logs\12-15-11 01 file with spaces.txt" EDIT #1 Turns out that the a...

windows robocopy

5:26 PM

@slm heh, I have two famous questions badges, none in my most used sites :(

wait, I have one in AU :D

@derobert nah, there are questions that need the tag

5:56 PM

@Braiam @terdon unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127411/… is specifically about vi (actually about vim), so it warrants the vi tag and the vim tag, but not editors nor ubuntu

this question is for Vim users

there's nothing particular with Ubuntu there, so no ubuntu

it is of no interest to users of other editors, so no editors

@Gilles while you are at it, apparently Shog found confusing the use of the tag, so something more specific may be needed for the tag excerpt/wiki, but I'm not sure which side take: anything that is editor agnostic, or when there's more than an editor involved or the tag doesn't exist

@Braiam anything that is editor-agnostic, e.g. looking for an editor with a specific feature, or general workings of editors (e.g. save behavior)

6:13 PM

ok, that's fair

1 hour later…

7:32 PM

@Gilles OK, but would you have removed the tag? I wouldn't have added it but I wouldn't have removed it either. While the question was indeed about vim, the concept (syntax files for different file types) applies to all editors so editors does not seem out of place.

8:18 PM

@terdon Tags belong to the community. There is no requirement or reason to leave the author's initial tagging. If we think a tag belongs, we add it. If we don't think it belongs, we remove it.

8:30 PM

I think Gilles said this before but it seems like you should be able to upvote your own stuff after some period of time has elapsed. I've forgotten how to do X, and searched for how to do it and found my own A'ers via google to help myself.

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A: format output of xargs

Below are a dozen or so examples of how you can take a file such as this: $ cat k.txt 1 2 3 and convert it to this format: 1,2,3 You can use this command to create the above file if you'd like to play along: $ cat <<EOF > k.txt 1 2 3 EOF The examples below are split into 2 groups. Ones t...

perhaps it could be a high rep perk?

8-)

8:56 PM

@slm They should do it as an April 1st feature, with it not actually doing anything. IOW, you can upvote your own posts, but it doesn't do anything but make you feel good :-/

Or maybe announce it as a feature unlocked at half a million rep.

You'd need to get a few SO users to play along. Like, 4 maybe.

Anyway, I'm tempted to add in an answer with "the c++ command" :-P

1 hour later…

10:11 PM

@derobert Agreed, I just feel there is a difference between allowing a tag to remain and actively adding it. In any case, my main issue is with a tendency that Braiam has to remove general/broad tags in favor of specific ones. This is coming from many discussions/meta Qs on AU.

10:24 PM

@terdon and you still misunderstand me... I'm against any irrelevant tag. Gilles already said that that question holds no importance to users of other editors, he's right, I just had the same through and remove the irrelevant tag. You are the only one that believes it was relevant to the question, I told you it wasn't. That's as far my argument goes. I'm fine with broad tags as long as they are used in the question that it were meant to be used, not just because "it fits", which is this case.

@Braiam In this particular case, I did indeed fail the WWGT test, true. I just don't want you to start the kind of retagging campaign you've done on AU here. That was the first such case I saw and I may have overreacted.

@terdon - didn't we have a discussion a while back along these lines wrt the linux tag?

@slm I think so yes.

also remember that removing irrelevant tags also helps the tag suggestion work better

mind you I'm not siding here just trying to understand the best use of tags

10:27 PM

@Braiam Please stop talking about irrelevant tags, that's not the issue. Your problem is with redundant tags and those are the ones I want to keep.

@terdon - you though that the tags should be applied if they were on topic, so your thinking was that Q tags should progress from linux, editors, vim?

Irrelevant tags should always be removed, no argument there.

if I had a Q about vim on the linux platform?

@slm No, I've been convinced about the Linux tag, not defending it any more.

I generally shy away from tagging discussions b/c I find myself getting mentally twisted about them

10:28 PM

5 hours ago, by Gilles

it is of no interest to users of other editors, so no editors

My position is that in general, borad tags are good and redundant tagging is a good thing.

that was my sole argument

@terdon remember, not "chapter 3, page 10, paragraph 6"

@Braiam I know, I said I failed the WWGT test. I still disagree with it for the reasons I explained but I won't argue against Gilles on tagging on U&L.

@terdon - that's my position as well

@terdon on other matters, what you think about localhost?

10:29 PM

@Braiam OK, stop that. I never said that and I don't want it. Please read everything that Shog said if you want to use him an a referee here, don't cherry pick.

@terdon weirdly enough you keep cherry picking whenever I use all of them as basis

not missing 1 point

this is a friendly discussion, right?

@Braiam Seriously? You want me to copy paste everything he said here? It was bad enough you brought him into this you now ignore what he said?

@slm Friendly, just heated.

8-)

let me explain clearly how **I** work:
1) complies X condition
2) complies Y condition
3) complies Z condition
4) complies A condition
5) if any not true, then remove it

10:31 PM

@Braiam seriously, this is not personal and I do consider it a friendly discussion. I mean, I'm pissed off but that does not mean I have a problem with you.

you mean applies?

You mean cumple?

Fulfills?

mm... is well written: 3rd person present: complies

at least google say so

my ignorance, I've never heard that word used in that way

yeah, is the word I meant: (of an article) meet specified standards. "all secondhand furniture must comply with the new standards"

10:34 PM

@Braiam Yes, but you can only comply with something, I think you mean cumplir una condicion in which case, you want fulfills a condition

@terdon synonyms :P

k, I think I'm thinking if it said compiles with X condition it makes more sense, but I'm not a word guy

Yeah, but there's no logic in English :)

you're telling me 8-)

Anyway, @Braiam my position is exactly what Shog said:

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 7 hours ago, by Shog9

if one tag is a subset of another, but neither is too broad, then using both is fine

10:35 PM

yeah, but you see the big "but" there ;)

So yes, not chapter 3 page 10 paragraph 6 but not "Historical Fiction" either.

@Braiam Yeah and we have different opinions on what defines too broad.

I like big butts 8-)

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@slm You're not helping :P

@slm well played sir

just trying to lighten the mood, we're all trying to improve the usage of the site

is this chap 3, pg 10, para 6 reference an analogy for how the tags should work?

10:37 PM

@slm how they shouldn't work ;)

ah

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 7 hours ago, by Shog9

@terdon as a rule of thumb, I would say a tag should be something you might find a book about, or at least a section in a book. Not a library, and not "chapter 3, page 10, paragraph 6".

they shouldn't overlap then?

Lecture about tags

8 hours ago, 26 minutes total – 54 messages, 5 users, 2 stars

Bookmarked 5 secs ago by Braiam

i personally actually dislike the tags

10:39 PM

@slm No, his point is that they should not be too broad nor too specific. They should be at the level of a book, not a library and not a paragraph.

and obviously no meta tags

lecture about tags, really?

@slm he was teaching us how to tag :P

shog works for SE, right?

yup

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10:40 PM

seems like tagging should have 4 or 5 rules/tests and that's the extent

yeah I was reading about him last night ironically

@slm No, that's just what Braiam named it when he bookmarked, not what Shog himself called it.

@terdon - yeah I understood that

the trouble w/ tags is they're almost too fluid

they were meant to be flexible, but there's always a break point with that

the words are imprecise so you'll find that a word used as a tag can have double meanings leading to issues

Yeah, that's why we need to have good tag wikis I guess.

10:43 PM

so to me if a few individuals are doing the tagging i think they work best

the tags on UL are very good b/c basically it's been Gilles + 1-2 others that have been doing them

this is what we should aim stackoverflow.com/tags/python/info with tag wiki's

ah that's a good idea, duh, saying when to use the tag in the wiki...

@Braiam Yeah, that's a damn good wiki.

@terdon I'm all jelly!

?

Mmmmm jelly...

10:46 PM

jealous ~= jelly :P

strawberry

...

This conversation is veering into the realms of the surreal...

sorry I was trying to follow this earlier today but was in an out and didn't follow the whole thing

UNICORNS!

@terdon ^ there

> I am a fairly new linux user. ... I want to install JRE from sources

:(

10:52 PM

@Braiam Ouch... Where's that from?

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Q: How to install JRE on Ubuntu

I am currently using Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 64bit. I have never before installed software from source. I want to install the java plugin for chrome for running applets and all. I presently need it for downloading youtube videos from keepvids. I downloaded the jre-7u55-linux-x64.tar.gz file from orac...

java software-installation

By the way @slm, keep an eye on this guy:

370 3

sed linux text-processing awk bash grep shell

I lured him over from AU, he's posted some great command line fu answers over there.

k

We should get him some rep.

@terdon - I'm working on it now 8-)

10:56 PM

You're welcome, actually I think @sim's grep solutions are nicer - although I'd probably have written egrep -vw '([A-Z])\1+' — steeldriver Apr 28 at 22:47

We could probably use some more A'ers on this one 8-)

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Q: How can I print the longest number in a string?

I am looking for a method to print the longest number in a string. E.g.: If I have the string 212334123434test233 how can I print 212334123434 ? Note: I am looking for the longest continuous sequence of numbers, not for the numerically higher value. Edit: Thanks for the answers, every...

text-processing sed awk

Is 12 enough?

@Braiam now that was really weird. I was in the process of re-tagging a question and I got the "This post has been edited", I refreshed and I found that you had retagged it in exactly the same way as I had :P

:P

and you have the inline retaging thingy

:)

@slm That was a fun problem though :)

yes I actually enjoyed reading all the A'ers to see how others did it

11:00 PM

Yeah me too. And I got to spot a flaw in one of yours. Don't often have that pleasure :P

awk have if and length() right?

And then you went and made your answer brilliant but I'd already upvoted.

@Braiam Yeah. go for it :)

Actually, no Hauke's already done it.

meh, upvoted, that's the way I would do it

thanks I got yours as well.

UV that is

I hadn't really read through Gnouc's, that's pretty neat.

11:10 PM

@terdon - yeah that was an impressive use of swartzian transform, I hadn't thought to use that there. He has these very compact unassuming looking A's but you have to always run them to see how they work 8-0

@slm I'm still trying to work out what the hell he's doing. The nested map syntax he's using is hard to parse.

Schwartzian transform

In computer science, the Schwartzian transform is a Perl programming idiom used to improve the efficiency of sorting a list of items. This idiom is appropriate for comparison-based sorting when the ordering is actually based on the ordering of a certain property (the key) of the elements, where computing that property is an intensive operation that should be performed a minimal number of times. The Schwartzian Transform is notable in that it does not use named temporary arrays. The idiom is named after Randal L. Schwartz, who first demonstrated it in Perl shortly after the release of Perl ...

Plus, I'm not comfortable with the arrow operator. What exactly is this doing?

$_->[0]

Randal Swartz' baby

hash

oh wait that one

different arrow

i think that's a pointer for an array reference

I don't use it...ever

Yeah, that's either calling an method from an object or dereferrencing for me.

But exactly, I don't use it ever too.

11:13 PM

this A needs upvotes unix.stackexchange.com/a/115811/41104

> "-> " is an infix dereference operator, just as it is in C and C++. If the right side is either a [...] , {...} , or a (...) subscript, then the left side must be either a hard or symbolic reference to an array, a hash, or a subroutine respectively. (Or technically speaking, a location capable of holding a hard reference, if it's an array or hash reference being used for assignment.) See perlreftut and perlref.
Otherwise, the right side is a method name or a simple scalar variable containing either the method name or a subroutine reference, and the left side must be either an object (a bl…

@Braiam True.

11:25 PM

OK, figured it out! Phew.

@slm so, array[-N] prints the Nth element from the end of the array?

yeah

map is probably one the best commands to use in perl

i use it all the time, you can do a lot with it on one line

my @dupUNums = map { 1==$seenUNums{$_}++ ? $_ : () } map { $_ =~ m/^U(\d+)\|.*/ } @uNumDB;

D: I don't have delete votes in AU :(

@slm Nice! I'd never thought of mapping maps before. I mean passing one map as input to another. I'd always save as an array and pass the array instead.

wasted everything in answers :(

@Braiam - you gotta UV the Q's I'm usually about 1/3-1/2 Q's and 1/2 - 2/3 A's

@terdon I do/did too

I also love to use hashes to tally things when I'm looking for "stuff"

11:32 PM

@slm I meant delete votes... apparently they are used on answers

each time I find X I do a hash{X} == 1 and then get all the keys where values are == 1

my first +100 answer on AU askubuntu.com/a/363083/169736

@slm Whaaaa? What's X here? A specific key?

@Braiam Nice, almost there, have a +1

yeah

I didn't have an example of code handy though

all that code I used it in is locked up at my old employer

@slm old employer being kodak or is there something you'd like to tell us?

11:36 PM

nope kodak

OK, just checking.

i would've told you already

;)

Still don't get that hash though. How will that return all keys whose value is 1?

mikeserv got to 3k!

Cool!

11:38 PM

trying to encourage him to go the distance for 10k

5k should be easy though

I always have fun deciphering his answers. He has a completely different coding style than I.

@terdon - yes me too

his attack vector for doing the A's is always different then how I'd do it

Argh, @slm you've sent me on a wild goose chase! You actually meant you do hash{X}=1, not ==1

sorry yes

1 equal there

I thought that was some kind of cool trick to magically extract all keys whose value is X :)

11:40 PM

@Braiam 5 to go now

Hmmm... I think it's near my bedtime.

Give him some encouragement

2

A: How to get multiple lines out of a file by a regex?

#begin command block #append all lines between two addresses to hold space sed -n -f - <<\SCRIPT file.xml \|<tag1>|,\|</tag1>|{ H #at last line of search block exchange hold and pattern space \|</tag1>|{ x #if not conditional ; clear buffer ; branch to script end ...

I dunno, @slm. Im beginning to see im learning less and less here - maybe ive outgrown its usefulness. I gotta think about it. ive barely even come to the site last couple weeks. — mikeserv 12 mins ago

The first thing I typed to answer this was "you can judge beauty by her breast size" and that seemed... horrible, especially out of context :) What can I say, the developers of this game had very... particular views about what constitutes beauty. — agent86 ♦ 25 mins ago

11:58 PM

@slm Yeah, I've been wanting to take the time to work through that step by step. I should learn that side of sed.

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