I am using html2text from Github in-which I was able to run-it on all the .html files in my folder using for file in *.html; do html2text “$file” > “$file.txt”; done but it’s some-what slow. How can I use html2text with parallel on all my .html files? Answer The original answer was: The & sign at end of command tells
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Directory: Is a directory
I’ve set up a cron job to run a Python script to scrape some web pages. /etc/crontab However, the emails are informing me that… /bin/bash: /usr/bin: Is a directory When I manually run the script, it pipes data into my database, but when the cron job executes the script, nothing… What does the /bin/bash: /usr/bin: Is a directory message allude
Python does not find custom installed modules when running from a cronjob
I’m trying to set a python script to run every two minutes using a cronjob, the crontab line is below. The python script is called by a shell script, script.sh, posted below. This python script starts a selenium webdriver, gather some data and saves it to a csv file. A snippet is also bellow. crontab The export DISPLAY=:0 is needed
Why does loading the libc shared library have “‘LibraryLoader’ object is not callable” error?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface the ctypes module can load C functions from shared libraries/DLLs on-the-fly and translate simple data types automatically between Python and C semantics as follows: On Lubuntu 18.04 I was wondering why loading the libc shared library has “‘LibraryLoader’ object is not callable” error? See also https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/449107/what-differences-and-relations-are-between-the-various-libc-so Answer You’re confusing lower case cdll (which is a LibraryLoader) with upper
Pass input/variables to command/script over SSH using Python Paramiko
I am having issues passing responses to a bash script on a remote server over SSH. I am writing a program in Python 3.6.5 that will SSH to a remote Linux server. On this remote Linux server there is a bash script that I am running which requires user input to fill in. For whatever reason I cannot pass a
How can one allow python app to change system time
I am working on a project that has python software running and handling data from multiple devices and sensors on a single board computer. Since one of the devices is an INS (Inertial Navigation System) and we try to match our data with the time provided from it (which it takes from GPS satellites). For setting the actual time from
Startup with Django runserver error
I am starting up with Python-Django in Ubuntu 18.04. I have python3 installed. python3 –version says Python 3.5.2 After installing Python, I installed Django as below: I also have Django installed. django-admin –version says 2.0.5 In my project, startproject worked successfully, but when I am trying to run the following command inside my project: It gives following errors: Following command
Installing and running pypy on linux
I have been attempting to install and run pypy3 on a linux machine but am running into troubles. I have been using pypy on a mac but installed it using homebrew so didn’t encounter any of these troubles. I downloaded the most recent build and unpacked the tar file as described by their documentation. I followed the steps exactly (except
Discard images from a group of similar images
I am generating images (thumbnails) from a video every 3 seconds. Now I need to discard/remove all the similar images. Is there a way I could this? I generate thumbnails using FFMPEG. I read about various image-diff solutions like given in this SO post, but I do not want to do this manually. How and what parameters should be considered
SyntaxError on input() supposedly in Python 3
I have a script for sending emails using SMTP_SSL. The code is working fine in PyCharm but in the terminal I get an error. This is the code: When I run this in my terminal its giving this after i enter the email: When I am trying to put the email between quotes, e.g. “mahmoud.wizzo@gmail.com” its working fine. How can