Skip to content

Tag: linux

Variable reset after scanf

I wrote the below function : I print the currentPlayer on any level to see what’s going on -> here what I get: Why the current player is 0 after scanf? I didn’t touch it. Answer The buffer location has only room for 2 characters and scanf puts an extra NUL character at end. Therefore you have a…

Completely remove Qt environment?

How to completely remove Qt environment? I installed Qt Creator Integrated Development from the Ubuntu Software Center,then I compiled and installed Qt 4.8.6 .There were few errors when I try to compile an Application. I Uninstalled / Removed via the Ubuntu Software Center. But when I tried to install QT 5.3 …

SSH – Entering a Passphrase Only Once

On $ ssh localhost, I was being asked to provide password. It was tedious and kind of annoying to provide password for every login. So, I have created ssh keys with passphrase.. I have copied the content of the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Now, on $ ssh localhost I was being asked to provide pa…

Linux command for public ip address

I want command to get Linux machine(amazon) external/public IP Address. I tried hostname -I and other commands from blogs and stackoverflow like and many more. But they all are giving me internal IP Address. Then I found some sites which provides API for this. Example : curl http://ipecho.net/plain; echo But …

Infinite while not working with os.execvp

I am programming in python which involves me implementing a shell in Python in Linux. I am trying to run standard unix commands by using os.execvp(). I need to keep asking the user for commands so I have used an infinite while loop. However, the infinite while loop doesn’t work. I have tried searching o…