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5 questions
11 votes
2 answers
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regular awk - easily sort array indexes to output them in the chosen order
[edit: clarified that I need an in awk solution, and corrected that I need to sort 'indexes' (or rather, output them in a sorted way) instead of the ambiguous 'values')] In awk, I often count things, ...
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3 votes
4 answers
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How to find files with specific extensions, while excluding some names in the current directory only?
I want to find some files, in a non GNU environment in the current directory only with extension *.ext1 and *.ext2, but not name1.* or name2.* The following command works, but may be not efficient, ...
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1 vote
0 answers
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How to interpret the explicit references to GNU in the LSB specifications?
The LSB is a specification, and as such, should be provider neutral. But it contains many “hard‑coded” reference to GNU at many places. Ex. the ELF Linux's specific entries PT_GNU_STACK, PT_GNU_RELRO ...
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27 votes
6 answers
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Any options to replace GNU coreutils on Linux?
I've been thinking about discontinuing the use of GNU Coreutils on my Linux systems, but to be honest, unlike many other GNU components, I can't think of any alternatives (on Linux). What alternatives ...
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7 votes
3 answers
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Calculate the date from 1125 days ago on non-GNU systems?
On the Unix Bash commandline, I want to calculate the date from 1125 days ago using the base operating system (e.g. No Perl or Python). On systems running GNU Date, I can do something like this: ...
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