Questions tagged [bsd]

BSD is a family of Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

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bash: query timestamp of UTC date on BSD

What I intent to get is $ xxx 2019-10-11 <= insert your command 1570752000 The output is timestamp in Oct 11 00:00:00 UTC 2019. I find a good way to do this in gnu, but not in bsd
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Strange bash message when source-ing file

ql_get_latest(){ . "$BASH_SOURCE"; } export -f ql_get_latest; when I run bash, I drop into a shell: and then when I run ql_get_latest I get: bash: environment: No such file or directory anybody know what that's about?
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How to show the first line of `top` non interatively?

top on Mac shows something like this on the top of the screen. Processes: 1104 total, 187 running, 917 sleeping, 2761 threads 19:41:00 I don't want to run top interactively. Is there a…
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grep -v -f of empty file different between script and command line on OS X

In bash, in Terminal on my Mac, (but not in Linux), grep -v -f behaves differently depending on whether it's executed at the command line or in a script. From the command line: $ touch empty-file #create an empty file $ printf 'foo' | grep -v -f…
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Bsd correction possible?

I am looking at using the BSD checksum described here at wiki BSD does anyone know if you can use it for basic error correction?
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How to determine the standard gateway address in C on BSD/OS X systems?

I'd like to get the IP address of the standard gateway on BSD/OS X systems. That's a simple question, however, I have enormous difficulties getting an answer. This post: Getting gateway to use for a given ip in ANSI C already answered the…
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No such process (3) when not connected to a network (AF_ROUTE)

When I am connected to a network, I can send a struct rt_msghdr* to the kernel and receive a corresponding route. However, when I disconnect from the network and try to send the same route message header, the socket fails at send() with errno =…
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Multiple PID Files in newsyslog.conf

In the newsyslog.conf file you can define a PIDFile for each log file being rotated. What I'm wondering is can you define (2) two pid_files per logfile being rotated? -- /var/log/file.log root:group 644 7 * $D0 GZ…
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bash show for loop variable twice

Why does this only show the entry from data.csv one time? for i in `cat ~/Downloads/data.csv` do echo $i $i done I have tried $i$i and the += operator and none of them seem to do what I would have expected. The goal is to create links from…
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Search variable for multiple substrings

Working on a BSD system and having difficultly searching a variable to see if it contains any of multiple different substrings. This is what I have that works: > echo $lenck if test "${lenck#*$pattern1}" != "$lenck"; > then > if…
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Issue assigning a SED to a variable

I am working on a BSD machine and what I am attempting to do is assign a variable the output from a SED command that uses a variable as input. Been working on this for 3 days, tried multiple different things, and always end up with './subscript:…
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Client software c/c++ socket multiple interfaces(bonding?)

Hardware: 1) Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32) 2) Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) OS : Linux mint Cinnamon …
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Replace substring only in lines that match a pattern

How can I run a replacement in sed only when part of a line I don't want to replace includes one of a list of substrings? For example, say, the substrings used to mark lines I want to replace are 123, 456 and abc in the following sample input: #…
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Control Memory of Java process via environment variables

I need to run a script that contains a call to java. I cannot change that script (as it must be run on a variety of machines), but I can change the environment around it. I can run a wrapping script around it, if that helps. My underlying problem is…
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Unix interpretation of symlinks?

I'm working on hybrid semantic-hierarchical filesystem using FUSE and VFS-only interface. One of primary solutions to simplify i/o is to use symlinks in search results instead of actual files/ It also gets rid of i/o middleware. While files are…
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