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Where should one put a bin directory in Linux? [closed]

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unexpected behaviour of ACL linux [closed]

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Copy file only after all directories are copied

I have a folder A. It contains another folders data and opt, which contains many folders and files. And a complete.txt file, which denotes all files in data and opt are correct. I need to copy folder A completely. But the complete.txt file should copy only after all other files and folders are copied. Is ther…

libelf corrupts ARM elf binaries

I’m trying to manipulate ARM elf binaries on linux using the libelf library without success. Even a minimal test-case corrupts my binaries, and I don’t know why. Here is my minimal test-code which reads an elf-file and then simply writes it back: If I run this code on a ELF 64-bit x86-64 executabl…

linux get specific fields from several files

I have several files starting with the string “file” then a number (file1, file2, etc). The content of these files is similar and looks like this For each file, I want only keep the index of the element and the 2 numeric fields just after coordinates (in the same file or in another file): file1: W…

Generate log4j timestamp format in linux date

I want to mimic the format used in log4j for timestamps using the linux date (just some quick scripting) On log4j the format is defined as %d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS} That would translate into lines like: 2016-03-10 07:01:09,778 2016-03-10 07:01:09,784 Can this be accomplished in date? The closer I got was u…

Pointers given from user space to kernel space are null

Sorry if this question has been asked before as it seems kind of basic, but I can’t find it anywhere on this site. I’m doing OS programming with linux (debian) and I’m trying to give a pointer from my user space to my kernel space function. Namely in the userspace I do and in the kernel spac…