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“Unix” articles

Watch out for Python's fcntl.flock on Solaris

2010-06-03T18:13:00-04:00

I encountered a very aggravating problem in which it looked like Python's fcntl.flock was simply not working, for an unknown reason. I finally figured it out, and this is what I learned.

Safe and powerful use of xargs with bash and find

2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

This article provides a detailed examination of one use-case that combines xargs with bash and find, taking care to correctly handle strings that are passed between these utilities.