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Parse command `watch` with `InputStream`

I have this command: How I can to parse output from this command? When I get InputStream of this Process, I get an empty line every time. — I used to restart the command via Java, creating a new thread and all over again. Now, I decided to implement it with the help of watch. Snippet of code: Answer A

optimizing awk command for large file

I have these functions to process a 2GB text file. I’m splitting it into 6 parts for simultaneous processing but it is still taking 4+ hours. What else can I try make the script faster? A bit of details: I feed my input csv into a while loop to be read line by line. I grabbed the values from the

Kill all processes from C in Linux

I am writing a Linux C program that will be executed as init. It will eventually need to shut down the system. I have code for unmounting all the filesystems and actually turning off the system; now I just need a way for it to send SIGTERM to all processes, sleep(5), then send SIGKILL to any remaining process…

dynamic string search in shell script

I have a string in shell script which is I need to find DS_BLS_max(sequence number).dat here DS_BLS_max(sequence number).dat=DS_BLS_739.dat Answer Output: DS_BLS_739.dat See: The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ

Enable a linux service to show popup window

I developed an IP messenger using C language and I wish to share some of it’s implementation details to make completely understand my problem. Used GTK+-2.0 library for showing GUI windows. It has a listening socket and whenever a new connection arrives then it will create a new process to serve the con…