Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. We don’t allow questions about general computing hardware and software on Stack Overflow. You can edit the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 8 months ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 2 months ago and … Read more
This question already has answers here: How can I exclude directories from grep -R? (14 answers) Closed 5 years ago. When I grep my Subversion working copy directory, the results include a lot of files from the .svn directories. Is it possible to recursively grep a directory, but exclude all results from .svn directories? 11 … Read more
I want to run ‘make install’ so I have everything I need, but I’d like it to install the things in their own folder as opposed to the system’s /usr/bin etc. is that possible? even if it references tools in the /usr/bin etc.? 7 Answers 7
I want to remove some n lines from the end of a file. Can this be done using sed? For example, to remove lines from 2 to 4, I can use $ sed ‘2,4d’ file But I don’t know the line numbers. I can delete the last line using $sed $d file but I want … Read more
For testing purposes I have to generate a file of a certain size (to test an upload limit). What is a command to create a file of a certain size on Linux? 13 Answers 13
This question already has answers here: set up device for development (???????????? no permissions) (30 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I have a problem connecting HTC Wildfire A3333 in debugging mode with my Fedora Linux 17. Adb says: ./adb devices List of devices attached ???????????? no permissions my udev rules (first rule for Samsung which … Read more
I have a little problem with ~ in my paths. This code example creates some directories called ~/some_dir and do not understand that I wanted to create some_dir in my home directory. my_dir = “~/some_dir” if not os.path.exists(my_dir): os.makedirs(my_dir) Note this is on a Linux-based system. 3 Answers 3
I am trying to compile Android source code under Ubuntu 10.04. I get an error saying, /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz Can you please tell me how can I fix it? What does cannot find -lz mean? Here’s the full error message: external/qemu/Makefile.android:1101: warning: overriding commands for target `external/qemu/android/avd/hw-config-defs.h’ external/qemu/Makefile.android:933: warning: ignoring old commands for target … Read more
I’ve always been amazed/frustrated with how long it takes to simply output to the terminal with a print statement. After some recent painfully slow logging I decided to look into it and was quite surprised to find that almost all the time spent is waiting for the terminal to process the results. Can writing to … Read more
I have a shell script that runs on Linux and uses this call to get yesterday’s date in YYYY-MM-DD format: date -d “1 day ago” ‘+%Y-%m-%d’ It works most of the time, but when the script ran yesterday morning at 2013-03-11 0:35 CDT it returned “2013-03-09” instead of “2013-03-10”. Presumably daylight saving time (which started … Read more
