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compatibility issues with regex between Mac and Linux machines

Original Question: “I developed a program on my Mac using Xcode 8’s latest LLVM 8 compiler (clang 8/3.8?) which made heavy use of regular expressions out of c++14. I was then unable to get my code to give me the correct output when running on linux. There seem to be some regular expression compati…

Using SED to convert sensors command output to a loggable entry

Consider the following sensor command output: I’m trying to turn this into a log entry, like this, where the “temp1” values are placed next to the PCI adapters, and the board (it8721-isa-0290): I think sed is the correct tool for this, but if it’s not please let me know. I have already…

Ethernet frames from NIC

I’m searching for help and an opinion-advice for a network project, in which I’m working lately. This requires a Linux machine to be a passive network appliance. Network packets come in from one network interface and come out from another interface ( net–eth0–>Linux PC–eth1&#8…

vi command to copy certain lines to another file

I have a log file with thousands of lines. I want to copy certain logs ranging between two line numbers to another file so that I can share them within team. For example – I want to copy text from line number 1000 to line 1200 to another file say issueLog.log What is the shortest way to do this? Note:

Why does tar -c command remove leading `/’ from member names

Looking to find the practical reasons the command tar -c /filea > /fileb gives the following output: tar:Removing_leading / from member names. I have researched it quite a bit but only come across very vague reasons such as protects against some sort of attack etc. The majority just give explanations on a …

Permission Denied when trying to read file w/644 permission

I am trying to write a PHP script for a Web server (lighttpd) to read a file in another user. The Web server runs under user http: The file the script is trying to read has the following permissions: Which I thought meant that any user can read it. The fopen in the script results in a Permission denied: I