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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
We would like to make an interactive exhibition piece foolproof, requiring as little staff presence as possible when recovering it from anything anyone made it do.
It has a text input and then it ...
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How to reference previous parameter in interactive bash shell?
I'm trying to do something like:
mv doc1 $1.html #equivalent to mv doc1 doc1.html
but the problem here is that, because I'm in an interactive shell, $1 refers to the first parameter passed to "bash",...
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What's the purpose of the Linux filesystem checkers' "interactive mode"?
Linux's fsck disk-repair tool often runs in an "interactive mode" by default. This means that, if it finds problems, it may ask me questions. But these questions tend to assume that I am a filesystem ...
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Running a shell script in a web server as if it was interactive
I have a shell script (csh) - I didn't write it so I can't change it now. The script does a lot of parsing of log files, calls other scripts in languages like Perl and Tcl, creates new files and calls ...
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Is there an interactive firewall for outbound traffic on Ubuntu?
I wish to prevent some programs from "phoning home", and to allow other programs to access only specific web servers.
Is there any way to interactively allow or decline outbound communication from ...
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