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Symbolic Link Edits and differences to hard link [closed]

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Linux command line for find & replace not working

Im having an issue with this code in the command line: For some reason i think it isnt working since the ’email’ but that is how the code is & i cant change it. Also im running it through the shell_exec for php. but i tried it directly and it wasnt working as well. any ideas? Answer Because yo…

Sending linux commands in Perl – Grep piped to grep

The basic code: Why wont Perl complete these commands correctly? $fail2ban is already defined to 0, so that’s not the issue. The fail2ban.log does contain a line that should match(when running command from shell it matches): The error i keep getting is: All the commands run fine from bash/shell, seems a…

Remove newline before a match – Linux

I want to remove the newline before the </script> in my HTML file with a Linux command (sed, awk…). Sample input: Sample output: I tried different syntax, but none of them could do. Answer First of all, as mentioned in the comments Don’t parse XML with Regex! Never do it, never think about i…

How to grep within a loop to exclude?

I have a NPM_RESERVED_SCOPE that contains a comma-separated list of forbidden scope. I have a NPM_ALLOWED_DEV_DEPENDENCIES_PACKAGES that contains a comma-separated list of exception. I want this script to passe if the devDependencies does not contains any of the NPM_RESERVED_SCOPES, except the list of excepti…

C code to access environment variables

I created an environment variable SHELLCODE which contains a 200-byte long NOP sled and a shellcode. It is stored at 0x7fffffffe285, but I’ll try to access 0x7fffffffe2e5, which is around the middle of the NOP sled. Then I wrote the following code to try to access the variable. I used gdb to see the mem…