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MSYS2-built Linux applications internally rewrite Linux paths to Windows paths. This can be problematic if those are supposed to interface with other, proper-Linux applications (e.g. in my case, MSYS2 ...
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On Msys2 env.: $ cd /c/msys64/mingw64/lib/ $ ln -s libz.dll.a libzlib.dll.a But confusingly why ln command did copy instead of linking it symbolically ? $ ls -l libz* -rw-r--r-- 1 abdu None 108700 ...
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I work on a legacy system originally written in C for 3b2 SVR3, later in C++ for Sun/Solaris, now mainly for Linux. We have a few users who require our apps to run on Windows Servers, so we have ...
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I have found a similar question on https://askubuntu.com/questions/144547/how-to-package-a-single-text-file-into-a-deb - unfortunately there is no answer I can use. Basically, I want to manage a text ...
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I recently started using tmux (in addition to screen), both in a Linux environment and in msys2 (which is also new to me and for which I cannot install screen). Very similar to screen, starting tmux ...
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I installed the Git for Windows SDK on Windows 11 to have the pacman package installer available to install tmux. A lot of stuff works like it used to be on other platforms, but scrolling back using ...
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On Windows, with MSYS2, I want to add the file extension for an executable back to the output of which, if it has one. Here's a one-liner: locAlt="$(which "mingw32-make")" ; echo &...
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Is it possible to use resources exchanged with the BitTorrent protocol in pacman's PKGBUILDs?
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For rsyncs that involve a large number of potentially transferred files, I mean to have a "clean" log, with only what was transferred. I worked with stdout, since: I did not know how to ...
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I started a git-bash window, and type following commands : git-bash ~$ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.4.23(1)-release git-bash ~$ type cd cd is a shell builtin git-bash ~$ cd tmp git-bash ~/tmp$ # Change of ...
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I mean to copy files from one remote server to another. If using scp -3, command succeeds (I have remote1 and remote2 in my ~/.ssh/config) $ scp -p -3 remote1:dir1/file1 remote2:dir2/ but when not ...
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Okay, so I'm kinda stumped here. I'm in the midst of a deep-dive into BASH, for the purposes of writing some automation scripts for my employer. Also, full disclosure here: I'm a web guy; hitherto I'...
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i require to count the number of occurrences of first field in txt file and to print output file as two column file having first field of input file & no. of occurrences of fist field in input ...
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Let's say I have the following trivial script, tmp.sh: echo "testing" stat . echo "testing again" Trivial as it is, it has \r\n (that is, CRLF, that is carriage return+line feed) as line endings. ...
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I did a disk image, as per How to dd a remote disk using SSH on local machine and save to a local disk : ssh user@remote "dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz` Now, I would just like to ...
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