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Pcregrep include file extension bug

I’m using pcregrep to search for a multiline pattern, and I only want pcregrep to search through files with specific file extensions, i.e. pcregrep -Mrl –include=*.sv -e ‘<my_multi-line_pattern>’ /path/to/search However, this throws an error: pcregrep: Error in ‘include&#82…

Stop timesyncd from polling hard coded Debian timeservers

The systemd-timesyncd daemon repeatedly tries to contact the following hard coded (compiled) time servers if neither an NTP server is specified manually nor one received via DHCP: Since I’m operating behind a corporate proxy, it will never be successful to reach these servers. Is there a way to prevent …

ODBC Error Connecting Teradata

I have installed Teradata ODBC driver on Debian via alien. Dependencies checked via ldd and are fufiled.. But when attempting to connect to the DB I am getting following errors (with Debug) Any idea how to get rid of those errors? It seems to be a root cause of failing connections Architecture X64 OS Debian 7…

Using MySQL INTO OUTFILE not writing to tmp

I’ve recently moved a project to a live VM instance, it worked perfectly during development and testing on my macOS box using XAMPP. Essentially the web app has 3 export options: XML, PDF and CSV. XML works fine and is created using a SELECT statement then looping through the results and pushing that in…

Searching and selecting strings from a file

I have a trouble in separating few exact ‘fields’ with strings and then putting them into .txt file. I need to extract ‘nologin’ users from /etc/passwd file and that is an easy step. I’m using this command: cat command gives me for example: and it is saved to file1.txt Now I have…

Buggy simple function for binary search (C++)

I wrote a simple function for binary search, but it’s not working as expected. I have a vector with 4000000 32-bit ints. Usually, when I search for a number, if it’s there, it’s found and the index is returned, if it’s not, -1 is returned (the index always corresponds to the value, but…