Questions tagged [gnu-fileutils]

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Binary "tail" a file

I would guess most people on this site are familiar with tail, if not - it provides a "follow" mode that as text is appended to the file tail will dump those characters out to the terminal. What I am looking for (and possibly to write myself if…
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`ls` exit status

EDIT: nothing to see here!!! 127 return means the command wasn't found - had to give an absolute path to the command for some reason :/ (I didn't delete in case someone else has this problem) Is there a reference of return statuses for common Linux…
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How to load XML file from internet into a string

Currently I have a java application that loads XML from a local file into a string. My code looks like this private String xmlFile = "D:\\mylocalcomputer\\extract-2339393.xml"; String fileStr = FileUtils.readFileToString(new…
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