William Pursell

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Why is “while( !feof(file) )” always wrong?

c file while-loop eof feof asked Mar 25, 2011 at 11:42

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157 votes

Multiline syntax for piping a heredoc; is this portable?

bash shell pipe sh heredoc asked Aug 12, 2011 at 21:12

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67 votes

How do you annotate a branch?

git asked Jan 20, 2011 at 18:13

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49 votes

Idiomatically buffer os.Stdout

go asked Nov 16, 2012 at 18:32

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47 votes

Is it necessary to specify traps other than EXIT?

bash shell ksh zsh sh asked Nov 14, 2011 at 14:08

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14 votes

Is it possible to bind commits to each other to make them atomic in terms of bisect, cherry-pick, revert, etc?

git workflow asked Jun 3, 2011 at 14:42

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13 votes

uname is broken: how do I determine the currently running kernel?

linux glibc asked Jul 21, 2017 at 19:37

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13 votes

How portable is it to use semi-colons as command separators in sed?

sed asked Jun 8, 2011 at 14:41

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12 votes

Etiquette for thanking an editor

discussion edits etiquette thanks be-nice-policy asked Jul 30, 2009 at 18:33

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11 votes

How best (idiomatically) to fail perl script (run with -n/-p) when input file not found?

perl asked Dec 6, 2019 at 17:19

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