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How can I create a .txt file containing data being generated in real-time in Linux terminal when a program is running?

I am running an AutoDock Vina program (using a Perl script) in Linux.  It generates lots of important data (regarding binding free energy of protein-ligand docked complexes).  However, I cannot save ...
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Extract function string before function name with regex

I want a regex that would search for something like: package_name.some_function_name.foo() that would be part of a line and would and extract the some_function_namebut it should be able to work ...
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Expanding comma separated list in a tab-delimited file into separate lines

I have a very similar problem to this question, but have no idea how to adapt the answer to my own issue. I have a tab-sep file with 2nd column containing comma-sep list, such as: TRINITY_DN1_c0_g1 ...
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What does \L$2 mean in perl rename tool?

I see this command advised, whenever a person asks online about renaming all uppercase files to lowercase: find "$(pwd)" -depth -exec rename 's/(.*)\/([^\/]*)/$1\/\L$2/' {} \; I understand ...
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how to assign values to intervals with overlapping regions?

I have two big files, the first file contain some intervals with 85K rows: head data.intervals id id_uniq numberA numberB 1 g1 5 20 1 g2 6 29 1 g3 17 35 1 g4 37 46 1 g5 50 63 1 ...
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How to start a new column after every nth row?

I have a file (comma separated) on a Linux system with 3 columns. I want to start new column after every 4th row. Input: col1,col2,col3 1,disease1,high 1,disease2,low 1,disease3,high col1,col2,...
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Perl command line regex to modify all pattern matches

I'm trying to use some arithmetic over the matched patterns in perl command line. I'm able to do it for one match but not for all. str="a1b2c3" perl -pe 's/\d+/$&+1/e' <<<"$str" a2b2c3 ...
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Remove multiple strings from file on command line, high performance [closed]

Is there an elegant, high-performance one-liner way to remove multiple complete strings from an input? I process large text files, e.g., 1 million lines in inputfile, and 100k matching strings in ...
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awk/sed/perl one liner to edit json file

We want to add the folwing lines: export KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS="-Xmx8g -Xms8g" and: export KAFKA_JVM_PERFORMANCE_OPTS=" -XX:MetaspaceSize=96m -XX:+UseG1GC-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=20 - XX:...
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replacing values in one with the values in another file

I have a csv file named eche in following format: INCON,--,INITIAL,CONDITIONS,FOR*****,ELEMENTS,AT,TIME ,0.315570E+13 VC76,0.10000000E+00,0.2837726135782E+08,0.6756896308414E+02 1K02,0.10000000E+00,0....
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pairwise combination of string based on two columns

I am trying to obtain the pairwise combination of of string available for each stack of data, input file contains two columns: col1 is genenames, col2 is name of various stressors. gene1 ...
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Install program with Perl?

I'm trying to install GTK YouTube Viewer from GitHub (https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer) in Q4OS (Debian-based). I downloaded the .zip file and extracted it, then tried to run the first ...
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What Type Of Data does the Input File Contain?

I have a folder with more than 10000 text files. The files can be of two types: Type1: called “DNA” Format: header information starting with “>” Line 2 onwards contains only the following letters:...
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Transpose CSV file by the value of a column

Input: X Y 1 11 1 12 2 21 2 22 Desired Output: 11 12 21 22 I want to transpose the CSV file by the value of column 1. In this example, for X = 1, transpose (11, 12)^T to (11, 12); for X = 2, ...
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Rename command to delete substring

I am trying to batch rename the following files: art-faculty-3_29060055362_o.jpeg fine-arts-division-faculty-2016-2017-5_29165851925_o.jpeg theatre-faculty-2016-2017-1_29132529356_o.jpeg art-...
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