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Qt5 Change Softlink of Currently Running Executable

I created 2 simple Qt5.5 test apps on Linux, “red” and “green”. I setup an initial soft link in the current directory that looks like this: I want to be able to launch the gui app at any time and have it switch the softlink to the other ‘color’ app. So when I run gui and it…

passing bash array to python list

I’m trying to pass an array from bash to python using the old getenv method however I keep getting this error: could someone please explain why the $mdcNo isn’t passing from bash to python successfully? Code .sh: code .py: Answer If you want to pass a shell array to the Python script, your best be…

Shell Script file access

I have written a shell script on my mac. Following code: The problem is that the program wlalink gives me an error message: LOAD_FILES: Could not open file “temp.prj”. It seems that there are problems with some rights. The script is creating a file and there is the right content in the file. Same …

struggling with a shell script in linux

I am trying to create a script that takes two arguments, source folder and target folder. I am trying to show an error message if the source directory is not found and exit the program. If target directory is not found, I would like it to create that directory. Then I would like to copy all the contents from …

Date manipulation in awk variable : Non Military Format

In the mentioned code : | awk ‘{ print $1, $2 }’ AWK $2 is having “Thu Nov 19 17:00:00 2015” in it. I want to manipulate this date String there only in inline awk in Non Military format “Thu Nov 19 05:00:00 PM 2015”. Please help. Answer This line should give you the expecte…