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Posts by Quasímodo
Alternating between the two patterns seems to work! \(abc.*\)\@<!bird\|bird\(.*xyz\)\@! As a bonus, you can enable the very magic mode with \v to avoid backslashes! The resulting expression is ...
1st issue As others have said, echo "$array" only prints the first element of the array; I suggest printf '%s\n' "${array[@]}" to print each element on a line. 2nd issue More importantly, th...
Indeed, the $HOME/.application-name is the old way. Doing that nowadays is frowned upon (this is an example of what happens if you try), mostly because, as you said, it clutters the home directory....
In a Qt application I have nothing more than a window with a button as its direct child. I set its background color and all is fine: Window::Window(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent) { but...
In the C program below, I make a mistake and call the function with (ld, ld) instead of (d, ld). #include <stdio.h> #include <limits.h> void print_int_long(int n, long l){ pri...
The console.readline tag has been created for Q: How to read lines into an array in Bash, which uses a while read loop. That tag is inappropriate because Readline, the console and the read built-...
On branch-x, I do git merge branch-y Now there are some conflicts, and git status shows Changes to be committed: new file: a new file: b Unmerged paths: (use "git a...
git checkout --ours -- * --theirs would do the opposite, i.e. keep the changes from branch-y. Don't forget to git add later!
The documentation seems to me to hint that WORD will be expanded whether I want it to be, or not. I don't agree, because as quoted: (1) If PARAMETER is unset or null, the expansion of WORD ...
