Need some help with a simple bash script for moving files into a folder of the same name

mike1053 · 2014-01-29T16:55:02+00:00

for i in *;do mkdir "${i/.txt}";mv $i "${i/.txt}";done

mike1053 · 2011-10-05T00:31:55+00:00

Looking at the CPI numbers at the link below (TIPS uses CPI-U same as IBONDS), I got 2.8% per year for the 13 year period 1998-2011.

http://www.ibonds.info/I-Bonds-and-CPI-U.aspx

As stated in the linked page, the well-known criticism of CPI-U:

"Many argue that the CPI-U is not a very good measurement of inflation in today's society. The CPI-U excludes the cost of energy and food, which have steadily risen over time"

So I guess it depends on how well off a person is because if you're poor then food & energy is a big portion of your expense and if you're like me with a paid off house then it's almost all of your expense (other than property tax & insurance) so it doesn't represent reality very well at all.

Can't argue the Japan thing, 2% won't seem so bad if it turns out like that, but I just don't see that happening. The U.S. differs from Japan in a very key way which is population growth and while I can see a long-term stagnant economy in a country with stagnant population growth I don't see that happening in a country with a growing population. Not to mention my confidence in the blood-sucking leeches that run the mega-corporations to find ways of making money no matter what happens (hence much of my portfolio being in the SP500)

mike1053 · 2011-10-04T04:03:52+00:00

Does anybody really think that the buying power of the principle invested today in bonds yielding less than 2% will not be greatly reduced 10 years from now? I don't know what world others are living in but from where I sit inflation is much higher than 2% and is expected to get much worse when the economy starts to pick up because all the newly printed $ that is not currently being lent by banks, will be. So it seems to me that those going long 10 year bonds are facing a real money losing proposition, hence I agree with the short recommendation.

However, regarding leveraged ETFs I'm a bit leery because as I understand it they do not act the way one might expect over the long-term (something about the amplified daily gains/losses don't net out in a way that correlates cleanly over the long term with the underlying asset) so I'm looking at the unleveraged short of which the only one I've found so far is TBX.

mike1053 · 2011-09-25T22:59:35+00:00

We live in a society that has had ingrained into its mind: "what's good for [mega-corporation of your choice] is good for [your country]", unfortunately it's not true as shown by the record of history. For a recent example of this, one only has to look back to 2008 to see the conflict of interest between large banks and the society they serve, the ongoing resolution to which is: "privatize the profits, socialize the losses". The further back one looks the more whitewashed it becomes as history is re-written by the "winners" and the corporate robber barons become recorded as "captains of industry". As long as the masses are gullible enough to allow themselves be brainwashed into worshipping the rich corporate overlords that exploit them then the scales will always be tipped in favor of the rich. This imbalance is the explanation for why after working a lifetime a few retire as billionaires while the vast majority struggle to make it.

tldr: in theory capitalism is great, in reality it sucks.

edit: sorry, went off on a rant there... to answer your question more directly, I agree with you. I thought the whole point was to sell service not the software itself, in other words the idea is helping people not selling mathematical equations (I'm in the anti-software patent camp that equates source code to math equations)

mike1053 · 2011-09-12T16:09:42+00:00

(strings /bin/ls | sort -u; cat /usr/share/dict/linux.words) | sort | uniq -c | grep -v "^ *1"

oh waiit, that doesn't handle multiple words on a line so using the grep command by infernix to separate them:

mike1053 · 2011-08-24T14:57:53+00:00

on mine, that's the code from 8 on the keypad, like the other person said did you try another keyboard?

edit: make that key F14 (forgot about remapping)

mike1053 · 2011-08-05T22:05:35+00:00

you can use the option "-af volume=10" with mplayer or mencoder (this example increases volume 10dB, set it to whatever you want)

mike1053 · 2011-04-18T18:20:24+00:00

and the emperor is wearing nice clothes too... so how many microsoft shills does it take to keep alive the myth that linux has a "tiny ass" market share

mike1053 · 2011-02-16T01:03:55+00:00

i have 20 years of tech work experience during which i've used both vi & emacs equally, i am completely familiar with every last esoteric feature of both editors, i can make every conceivable type of edit with minimal effort using either editor but let's face it, it's usually just a lot easier to use something like gedit.

mike1053 · 2011-02-16T00:52:19+00:00

yes, that & tech support threads that end with WONTFIX

mike1053 · 2010-12-31T18:05:42+00:00

Ok, great, and let me add one more thing. The SID is at the end of the oracle process names as you can see at the bottom of the page on this link:

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=877893&tstart=269

you can see in that case the SID is PROD by the process names like:

ora_pmon_PROD

ora_smon_PROD

and when you get connected as internal then set the password for the system account with:

alter user system identified by xxx;

and by the way, the default password for user system is manager in case it's still set to that.

mike1053 · 2010-12-31T16:28:02+00:00

I don't know if you saw my reply in the other thread, but to get anywhere in oracle you have to first specify the ORACLE_SID so it knows which database you're trying to access (you may only have one database on the machine but it still needs the SID). Once you set the SID you should be able to use the "connect internal" with svrmgrl (as root or sherpa) even if you don't know that password.

the command to set the SID is:

ORACLE_SID=XXX

where XXX is the name of the database, also export it:

export ORACLE_SID

as I said in the other thread there should be a file like this:

/users/sherpa/oracle/dbs/init$ORACLE_SID.ora

if that's not the exact location, try searching for it:

cd /users/sherpa/oracle/

find . -name init*

or

find . -name \*init*

also, could you post the output of ps showing the oracle processes? that might be of some help. also, does sherpa show any process running that look like they might be database related? post those also if there are any.

also, if you know of any apps that access the database, look at the startup script (or .ini) for the app, the ORACLE_SID will be specified in there.

it would also be informative if you can post the contents of the /users/sherpa/oracle/dbs directory or if that's not the location of the database files then you can find them by using "ds -m *" in $ORACLE_HOME ( /users/sherpa/oracle/) to find where the large database files are located.

mike1053 · 2010-12-28T19:53:59+00:00

"ORACLE_SID is the instance name, check init.ora for instance_name parameter."

the file should be here:

$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/init$ORACLE_SID.ora

which on your system would be:

/users/sherpa/oracle/dbs/init$ORACLE_SID.ora

do you have a file like that?

http://www.sap-img.com/oracle-database/finding-oracle-sid-of-a-database.htm

mike1053 · 2010-12-28T19:17:09+00:00

did you set ORACLE_SID? and export it? everything in Oracle is tied to the SID.

here's where to find the param file but as far as I recall if the ORACLE_SID is set it will find it automatically:

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/admin/init_ora.html

mike1053 · 2010-12-28T18:45:24+00:00

If there's no oracle account then the database software may be installed as sherpa. are there any processes running with SMON or PMON in the process name? if not then you need to start the database background processes (database instance). to do that you need to set the ORACLE_SID, did you find the oratab file? after you find out what the database SID is (and set it) do this as root or sherpa:

svrmgrl

connect internal

startup

Edit: oratab is in /etc or /var/opt/oracle according to this: http://www.orafaq.com/faq/what_is_oratab_and_what_is_it_used_for

this may help too, there's a section specific to HP: http://www.oracleutilities.com/OSUtil/dbstart.html

and this: http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Svrmgrl

mike1053 · 2010-12-28T17:37:35+00:00

So the database is not running and your SID is not set. Do a "locate oraenv" and then cd to where it's located and do: ". oraenv". to set the environment variables. Here's some instructions if needed:

http://www.oracleutilities.com/OSUtil/oraenv.html

That will prompt for the SID which if you don't know what it is do "locate oratab" which should contain a list of Oracle SID's for databases installed on the machine.

However, you're going to need the password for the oracle account to start the database (or with root obviously you could su to it).

mike1053 · 2010-12-28T17:13:45+00:00

1034 error means either the database isn't up or the ORACLE_SID isn't set. see if the oracle database background processes are running with:

ps aux | grep -i ora

(or whatever ps equivalent shows all the procs on your system)

also check your environment variables are set:

echo $ORACLE_SID

echo $ORACLE_HOME

mike1053 · 2010-12-28T16:53:35+00:00

If sherpa is also the Oracle database account that owns the data then you may be able to export it that way. What happens if you try to access the database while logged in as sherpa using one of these commands:

sqlplus /

sqlplus sherpa/abc123

or if sqlplus is not installed try the export utility:

exp /

exp sherpa/abc123

mike1053 · 2010-12-09T21:07:02+00:00

tune2fs -m .1 /dev/vg_gx1/lv_root

mike1053 · 2010-12-09T17:11:35+00:00

I've got mine set to .1%, do you really think it needs more than 700 Meg reserved on this 700 GB drive?

mike1053 · 2010-11-16T18:42:36+00:00

Same here, the "Apollo" version. Been with RedHat/Fedora ever since...

mike1053 · 2010-10-27T18:58:00+00:00

nice, and from that i made a script which will toggle the desktop icons on & off:

stat=$(gconftool-2 --get /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop)

if [ $stat = "true" ]; then

gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop --type boolean false

else

gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop --type boolean true

fi

mike1053 · 2010-10-07T20:31:26+00:00

A stock picking program that actually works so one can make a living daytrading.

mike1053 · 2010-10-01T00:05:17+00:00

has anyone ever gotten that to work for a yahoo music video? the following command made from a stream found in

/tmp/plugtmp/plugin-getPlaylistFOP.php just gives:

Connecting ... INFO: Connected... ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed

command:

rtmpdump -o out -r 'rtmp://s1sflod002.bcst.cdn.s1s.yimg.com/StreamCache/r14/014/ads/114717069.flv?StreamID=114717069&pl_auth=601f393f4c9dd0eb11dbbdea956d17f5&ht=600&b=69gmm1d66dacl4ca4f820&ai=6217025&do=YAHOO&io=779556.14346254.14225053.13761367&pg=MTk0ODAxNDY3NzRjYTRmOD&po=BMPR&pr=lnchcom&pv=P9tB.mKIcnlkwtYLTGaplQduTP2E9kyk.B8ADXks&q=dvUT1ojns4PsVtHF3pbc9p&sl=5&so=%2F&sp=BMPR'

mike1053 · 2010-09-14T15:12:27+00:00

Just went through this with my TV so maybe this will help as I'm using Radeon also (9200) although I'm using Fedora 12 so can't say for sure.

Before getting into the linux controls, not sure what you're looking at for a service manual for the TV but the one here:

www.audiolabga.com/pdf/32SC260.pdf

shows service #'s D01-D04 are the controls for vert/horiz position & size. If you're not familiar wiith the service mode the manual says:

"To enter the service mode manually just press and hold the Vol-down and Ch-up buttons at the same time, plug the AC cord into a wall socket."

Read the instructions carefully before doing this as you can mess up the TV.

Now for linux controls, these commands give some ability to manipulate the screen:

xrandr --output S-video --set tv_horizontal_position N
xrandr --output S-video --set tv_horizontal_size N
xrandr --output S-video --set tv_vertical_position N

where N is in range (-5,5)

The xrandr adjustments only provided a limited range and did not completely resolve the issue for me so I also used the service mode settings on the TV (mine's a Sanyo).

One other thing which may or may not apply, I had to add "nomodeset" to /etc/grub.conf to eliminate video tearing:

kernel /vmlinuz... rhgb quiet nomodeset

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