How to get the running process’ pid in C / C++? In C and C++, you can call the getpid() library function which is a function from the POSIX library. #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> pid_t getpid(void); getppid() returns the process ID of the calling process. An example C program to get self process ID getpid.c:
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How to get the running process’ pid in Go?
Posted onHow to get the running process’ pid in Go lang? In Go, you may call the os.Getpid() func from the os package to get the parent process’ pid. func Getpid() int Getppid returns the process id of the caller. One example is as follows. $ gore gore version 0.2.6 :help for help gore> :import “fmt”
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Getting the running process’ own pid in Python
Posted onHow to get the running process’ pid in Python? In Python, you can get the pid of the current process by import os os.getpid() From the official doc: os.getpid() Return the current process id. One example os using os.getpid() to get process own ID: $ python3 Python 3.8.10 (default, Jun 22 2022, 20:18:18) [GCC 9.4.0]
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How to get the running process’ pid in Bash?
Posted onHow to get the running process’ pid in Bash? In Bash, you can get the process ID from the variable $$. Note that in a subshell invoked by ‘(…)‘, $$ is actually the parent process’ pid. In Bash 4, you can also use $BASHPID to get the process pid.
How to Debug a Bash script?
Posted onHow to debug a Bash script if it has some bugs? Common techniques like printing varibles out for checking apply for bash too. For bash, I also use 2 bash-specific techniques. Use errexit option Run the script with -e option like bash -e your-script.sh or add set -o errexit to the beginning of the script.
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How to get all the keys in an associative array in Bash?
Posted onHow to get all the keys of an associative array in Bash? There are at least 2 ways to get the keys from an associative array of Bash. Let’s start with an example associative array: $ declare -A aa $ aa[“foo”]=bar $ aa[“a b”]=c We can use the @ special index to get all the
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How to find the disk where root / is on in Bash on Linux?
Posted onQuestion: how to find the disk where the Linux’s root(/) is on in Bash? The root may be on a LVM volume or on a raw disk. 2 cases: One example: # df -hT | grep /$ /dev/sda4 ext4 48G 32G 14G 71% / For another example: # df -hT | grep /$ /dev/mapper/fedora-root ext4
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How to set Zimbra web service’s hostname and port?
Posted onIn Zimbra server, how to set Zimbra web service’s hostname and port? Set Zimbra Web service’s host and port (to mail.domain.com:80 as an example) for a mail domain domain.com: zmprov md domain.com zimbraPublicServiceHostname mail.domain.com zmprov md domain.com zimbraPublicServicePort 80 Reference: https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/When_using_a_proxy,_the_’change_password’_box_doesn’t_load
How to get the one character’s next character in ASCII table in Bash?
Posted onHow to get the one character’s next character in ASCII table in Bash? For example, if I have ‘a’ in variable i, how to get ‘b’? First, we need to get the integer value for the character. char=’b’ charint=$(printf “%d” “‘$char'”) Then, we increase the integer by one let charint=$charint+1 Last, we can get the
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How to get the version of Zimbra?
Posted onHow to get the version of Zimbra I am using in a Zimbra server? In Zimbra, to get the version of Zimbra you are using, you can call zmcontrol -v: $ zmcontrol -v Release 7.2.6_GA_2926.F13_64_20131203115902 F13_64 FOSS edition.
How to disable DHCP in dnsmasq on Linux?
Posted onHow to disable the DHCP service in dnsmasq on Linux? That is, to leave only dnsmasq’s DNS service. The `/etc/dnsmasq.conf` file may have lines that enable DHCP service of dnsmasq. By default, the DHCP is disabled in dnsmasq (check one example dnsmasq.conf file). To disable DHCP service in dnsmasq, in `/etc/dnsmasq.conf`, remove or disable the
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How to split a string by string in PHP?
Posted onHow to split a string by string in PHP? For example, “a string separated by space” => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “space”] and “a,string,separated,by,comma” => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “comma”] The commonly used `explode()` is not enough here because multiple delimiters should be consider as one (such as ” “, 3 spaces together, is consider
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How to delete or get the number in the tail from a string in shell script?
Posted onHow to delete or get the number in the tail from a string in shell script (bash script)? Okay to call other tools. For example, from “/dev/sda8”, I want to get “/dev/sda” and “8” separately. This can be achieved by using sed as follows. To get the string after deleting the tailing numbers, we can
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How to split a string by string in Bash?
Posted onHow to split a string by string in Bash? For example, “a string separated by space” => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “space”] and “a,string,separated,by,comma” => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “comma”] You can convert a string to an array using the grammar like inarr=(${a}) If the delimiter is not space and delimiter is a single character
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What’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects in C?
Posted onIn C, what’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects? In C, one common way to store a list/collection of objects of the same type is to use one-dimensional arrays. In C, an array is a collection of data objects of the same type. An array is in a contiguous memory
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What’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects in C++?
Posted onIn C++, what’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects? In C++, the common data structure for a sequence (“list”) of objects may be std::vector. A vector is a dynamically resizable array. It is “The most extensively used container in the C++ Standard Library …, offering a combination of dynamic memory
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Most important aspects or features of the C++ programming language?
Posted onCould you list the most important features or aspects for the C++ programming languages that describe its most important features/domains that are different from the others? For C++, as in Going Native 2012 Keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup: light-weight abstraction Key strengths: infrastructure software resource-constrained applications
How to get the hostname of the node in Go?
Posted onIn Go lang, how to get the hostname of the node? In Go, you can use the os.Hostname() function to get the hostname of the node. func Hostname() (name string, err error) Hostname returns the host name reported by the kernel. One example is as follows. The main.go source code: package main import ( “fmt”
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How to get the hostname of the node in C++?
Posted onIn C++, how to get the hostname of the node? In C++, the C way works too. However, with Boost, you can use the boost::asio::ip::host_name() function to get the hostname as a std::string: namespace boost { namespace asio { namespace ip { /// Get the current host name. BOOST_ASIO_DECL std::string host_name(); … More at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/boost/asio/ip/host_name.hpp
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Getting Hostname in C Programs in Linux
Posted onIn C, how to get the hostname of the node? In C, you may use the gethostname function. #include <unistd.h> int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen); The gethostname() function shall return the standard host name for the current machine. The namelen argument shall specify the size of the array pointed to by the name argument. The
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