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WX_CONFIG_OPTIONS: command not found

I’m trying to build Aegisub on linux mint, I’m getting the following error during ./autoget.sh Is there a specific package that I need to install or what exactly is the problem here? Answer There used to be an Arch Linux packaging page which stated that aegisub only supported version 2.9 of wxGTK …

How to display the process currently holding a semaphore?

In userspace Linux, I have a process blocking on a semaphore, as found by strace. Once the error condition occurs, the blocking is repeatable, so there must be another process that holds the semaphore and did not release it. Is there a way to know which other process is currently holding the semaphore? ipcs l…

How can I get name of the user executing my Perl script?

I have a script that needs to know what username it is run from. When I run it from shell, I can easily use $ENV{“USER”}, which is provided by bash. But apparently – then the same script is run from cron, also via bash – $ENV{“USER”} is not defined. Of course, I can: But it…

How to remove all .svn directories from my application directories

One of the missions of an export tool I have in my application, is to clean all .svn directories from my application directory tree. I am looking for a recursive command in the Linux shell that will traverse the entire tree and delete the .svn files. I am not using export, as this script will be used for some…