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Extra percent sign appears in echo bash

I’ve got the following script below which is supposed to demo CPU utilization: For some reason, when the percentage is echoed out, two percent signs appear instead of the last digit of the number and a percent sign. For example, the output is sometimes 2.7%% instead of 2.72%. Everything works fine when …

How to disable encoding in a text-editor?

This is such a basic question I am surprised I could not easily find an answer to it: I use Notepad++ to write my scripts in. Someone sent me some code for a shell script (.sh) that I could modify to suit my needs. I simply changed a small bit of text using Notepad++ (on Windows) and used FileZilla (SFTP)

Problem running “Hello World” linux module

I’m trying to compile and run a “Hello World” module from the book “Linux Device Drivers” the program ~/ldd3/hello.c I’m trying to compile is: And the Makefile is: When I run make, the compilation seems ok: But when I run : the “Hello World” message doesnt get p…