is there such a thing as "bytecode" for bash scripts? à la java "bytecode"? ...

2025-09-06 Thread lbrtchx
do corporaresearch with any kinds of "texts". lbrtchx

HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

2025-09-02 Thread lbrtchx
virtual machine. I would stress test using Windows Subsystemfor Linux just fine. I like the java on Linux environment.  Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within Linux?  How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense?  lbrtchx

how do you clear the cache of a firefox's instance running on Debian/Linux programmatically?

2025-08-28 Thread lbrtchx
"${_URLs}" but in this way youstart an instance every time. I need to: 1) open a number oftabs at once; 2) once I close thelast one ff should clear the cache or shut down and re start It shouldn't be sohard, but I haven't figured it out yet. lbrtchx

Any general way of logging output from utilities in Debian/Linux? ...

2025-08-14 Thread lbrtchx
en _UTIL="${_L_AR[1]}" # which "${_UTIL}" "${_UTIL}"${_L_AR[2]} 2>&1 | head -n ${_L_AR[3]} # _V=${_L_AR[4]};"${_UTIL}" ${_L_AR[2]} 2>&1 | head -n ${_L_AR[3]} |awk '{print $'${_V}'}' # can't get the version .. else echo "// __\$_L: |${_L}|, \$_L_ARL: |$_L_ARL|" fi ~ lbrtchx

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread lbrtchx
MSS|00:19:09|, seconds=1149 // __ $_HHMMSS|00:19:08|, seconds=1148 // __ $_HHMMSS|19:09|, seconds=68940 // __ $_HHMMSS|19:08|, seconds=68880 $  ~  I will have to go over, learn from Greg's reply when I get the chance. I still think that there should be a way to make what I need straight forward using date's own formatting.  lbrtchx

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread lbrtchx
_HHMMSS="19:09" means 19*60 + 9 = 1149 seconds _HHMMSS="19:08" means 19*60 + 8 = 1148 seconds so, it seems date is also somehow parsing that value as octal even though it is being formatted in a date friendly way. is there a way to exactly specify the encoding of the input for date?

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread lbrtchx
OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal system is from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but not with "10" which would then be "8" in octal), but why would command line utilities assume you are encoding numeric values as octal? Now I notice many people h

Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread lbrtchx
: _SEKNDS + 08: value too great for base (error token is "08") ~ yet, it works for _HHMMSS={"3:54:14", "20:01", "20:00", "19:07", "19:06", "19:05", ... } and all other similar conversion?! lbrtchx