I know what the command watch -n does. I would like to do something like the following: Essentially I want to repeat a command every 5 seconds, then stop after 30 minutes has passed. I’m missing the stop 30 minutes part. What command should I use to achieve this? Thanks. Answer Use timeout:
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Difficulty with python while installing YouCompleteMe in vim
I’ve followed these instructions, in order to install YouCompleteMe in Vim, but when I issue: The following error message comes up: and now I’m stuck, what should I do? Answer I checked YouCompleteMe’s build system and it uses a custom build script that uses the Python module distutils to find the paths to Python’s library and include directories. Your /usr/local/
Login to Amazon EC2 via ssh
I have a question and am stuck at something. I recently created AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance with default settings. I have an Ubuntu machine locally as well and so far I managed to connect successfully to the Ubuntu instace with this command However I want to know if there is a simpler way to login to ssh without passing the
Change output filename when running a command in a loop
I am using the Tracer software package (https://github.com/Teichlab/tracer). The program is invoked as followed: tracer assemble [options] <file_1> [<file_2>] <cell_name> <output_directory> The program runs on a single dataset and the output goes to /<output_directory>/<cell_name> What I want to do now is run this program on multiple files. To do so this is what I do: This works in priciple, but
can’t upload file to wordpress
I move my wordpress website to my vps with Cpanel, after move every thing is working well, but my media option can’t upload file to my library, I try to set permission for uploads folder and subfolders to 755,775 even 777 but media uploader get me this error : The uploaded file could not be moved to wp-content/uploads/2016/10. I try
jsreport failing on looking up extensions
So I recently started working on a linux machine (ubuntu 16.04) and followed the installation instructions here http://jsreport.net/downloads/. When I run npm start –production I get And I have no idea why. It was working fine on mac but now it is looking for this non-existent tmp file in ember. I’m at a loss, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Capture output from external command and write it to a file
I am trying to create a script that calls on a linux command from my Ubuntu server and prints the output of aforementioned command to txt files. This is literally the first script I’ve ever written, I just started learning python recently. I want 3 files in 3 separate folders with filenames unique to date. It is failing at the
Compile libxml2 get “error: storage size of ‘hints’ isn’t known”
I download libxml2 2.9.4 in here, when i ./configure; make, i get following error: the full output is here here is my environment: I try version 2.9.2 and 2.9.3, i get same error, how to compile libxml2 success? Answer I find the solution: in nanohttp.c, the error line: so i can disable ipv6 to don’t compile this block code. I
Node “No such file or directory” with certain packages
I installed two packages via npm: alsatian@1.0.0-alpha.7 gulp@3.9.1 As I am using nvm to manage my node versions, the CLI files for the two packages were installed at the following paths: /home/james/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/alsatian/cli/alsatian-cli.js /home/james/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/gulp/bin/gulp.js When I run the command gulp, the command runs correctly. However when I run the command alsatian I get the following output: I replaced both CLI files
Run bash whiptail script after login with sudo
I’m creating a virtual machine configuration script using whiptail that I’d like to have automatically start after the user logs in. The thing is, that I don’t want the user to be root, however because the user will need to be able to change things like hostname, ip address, add directories, etc. they’ll need sudo privileges in order for the