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How to achieve accurate timer in linux kernel

When i write a infrared remote control driver, I have to control delay accurate time during enabling and disabling PWM. At first i used udelay() function in kernel, but i found it’s not accurate at all as i said in another post AFAIK, other timeout functions provided by kernel can’t provide accura…

Validating file records shell script

I have a file with content as follows and want to validate the content as 1.I have entries of rec$NUM and this field should be repeated 7 times only. for example I have rec1.any_attribute this rec1 should come only 7 times in whole file. 2.I need validating script for this. If records for rec$NUM are less tha…

how to auto complete files names on bash script?

I have a bash shell script that cd to directory according to a variable. After that I press Tab and files don’t appear like in terminal. Ex: on read code ups, the files don’t appear when I press tab. Answer The read command requires the -e flag in order to use the readline library to edit the comm…

Bash script unexpected result for while loop

I have following bash script to stop Apache server. I am not getting error but an unexpected result. I got the following answer which I do not expect to be, with an infinite printing: I expect to print: Could anybody please tell me what is happening? Answer This doesn’t work the way you seem to think it…

FFmpeg audio crossfade

I’m trying to merge several videos using ffmpeg and apply the cross-fade transition in between. I got video cross-fade working by referring to this. At the same time I need to have audio also to have cross-fade applied for original audios associated with each video. I referred several places but they re…

How to remove python in /usr/local/bin/ [closed]

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How to get lines of a file with exactly 3 characters in Linux

I need a command to find the lines of a file that have 3 characters. I do the command wc -w field.txt to list how many lines, but now I need to know the lines with 3 characters, exactly. Answer This will count (-c) the number of lines which match the regex (-E) “^.{3}$”, which is “start of l…