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How do file descriptors work?

Can someone tell me why this does not work? I'm playing around with file descriptors, but feel a little lost. #!/…

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Read from File, or STDIN

I've written a command line utility that uses getopt for parsing arguments given on the command line. I would also …

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How can I "intercept" Ctrl+C in a CLI application?

How can I intercept Ctrl+C (which normally would kill the process) in a CLI (command line interface) Java application? …

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how to redirect STDOUT to a file in PHP?

The code below almost works, but it's not what I really meant: ob_start(); echo 'xxx'; $contents = ob_get_contents(); …

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How to feed mysql queries from bash

I'm trying to make a bash script that creates a mysql user and database but I can't find a way …

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I am not able to flush stdin

How to flush the stdin?? Why is it not working in the following code snippet? #include <string.h> #…

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How to make ssh receive the password from stdin

How can you make SSH read the password from stdin, which it doesn't do by default?

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How to trick an application into thinking its stdout is a terminal, not a pipe

I'm trying to do the opposite of "Detect if stdin is a terminal or pipe?". I'm running an application that's …

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How do you read from stdin in python from a pipe which has no ending

I've problem to read from Standard input or pipe in python when the pipe is from a "open" (do not …

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How do I check if stdin has some data?

In Python, how do you check if sys.stdin has data or not? I found that os.isatty(0) can not …

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