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macOS, the command line developer tool missing after updated to Monterey 12.6
I ran into the same error yesterday, it took a while to notice that the error itself has the solution :)
Please ensure Xcode packages are up-to-date — try running 'xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch'.
Indeed,...
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Accidentally deleted log file of running process `python something.py 2>&1 | tee .log`. Is there a way to still save the output on the tmux-pane?
The file continues to exist as long as the tee process holds an open file descriptor, and everything is still being logged there. You can recover its current contents by copying them through /proc:
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macOS, the command line developer tool missing after updated to Monterey 12.6
Run
sudo xcode-select --install
You might be prompted to accept a license. Do so.
If you try to run git, you’ll still get an error, run this:
sudo xcode-select -switch /Library/Developer/...
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grep is not recognized as an internal or external in windows
Use findstr instead grep, because cmd doesn't cover grep syntax as it works on Linux.
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Pip install doesn't work on m1 Mac
I am really sorry for this question
I just recognized that i have to type pip3
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How to check if Night Light is enabled on Windows 10 using a batch file and enable/disable it?
This is a straight copy/paste from another superuser answer (by Ben N) that I found by following your link. Is there a reason this doesn't work for you? To be honest I shouldn't get an upvote ...
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ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)
If you are working within a corporate environment that decrypts your traffic, or possibly proxy servers as part of a VPN, then I have found that the certifi library fails to include the certificate ...
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Is it OK to host a Python's http.server accessible from the Internet?
I'm running python3 -m http.server 8080 together with port forwarding to have access to files from my laptop from anywhere.
This can roughly be translated to:
I'm ripping a giant hole in my laptop's ...
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merge 3 txt files with custom format
Yes, it is possible to merge the three files into the format you described. You can use a simple script to do this. Here is an example of how you could do it in Python:
# Open the first file in read ...
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How to figure out why meld takes a long time to start?
I experience this very slow start of meld on a headless Debian 11 server accessed through SSH with -X forwarding enabled.
The problem seems to be described in this bug report:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/...
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How to properly upgrade gcc on Centos 7?
I've confirmed that you can upgrade gcc from the default version 4.8 on centOS 7.
First, we need to install "Software Collections" in order to access some of the community packages including ...
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Ubuntu systemctl service fails with: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
journalctl -u charge_check.service -b
to chech what is going on wrong
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Pip install doesn't work on m1 Mac
The error message WARNING: The scripts pip, pip3 and pip3.9 are installed in '/opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this ...
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Kill specific started process in Windows
If you have only one such process, you may kill the executable:
taskkill /im python.exe
If the process is stubborn and doesn't terminate, add the
/f parameter to forcefully terminate the process.
For ...
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How do I check if files have been encrypted by Ransomware?
Yes, attempting to open the files will let you know if the files are encrypted. If they are able to be opened, then the files have not been encrypted by a third party.
If the files are not openable, ...
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Windows 11 command prompt printing characters instead of coloured text
Those ] things are part of the ANSI sequence for formatting. The terminal in VS Code supports ANSI sequences so obviously you'll see color properly. The one you're seeing on the screenshot is conhost....
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PYTHONPATH defined on multiple vs single line in fish shell
When you add to PYTHONPATHS on two lines, set is handling it & it knows that there are two Items : this will work.
When you add to PYTHONPATHS on one line, you have included a space, set is ...
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SSH connection through Python cannot run Shell scripts
Found the problem.
Whenever I try to run a script, it asks for my password (a strange setting from the IT Team). So my script was not able to run the commands for the scripts (but it was able to run ...
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GUI Windows Not Appearing in Auto Startup Script
Most such tutorials neglect to explain dependencies – quite a few things happen during startup, and for some people "on startup" means "before event Y", while for others it means &...
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Automatically answer command input from .py script
Try:
echo 3 | python Algo_demo.py
or
echo %var% | python Algo_demo.py
where %var% is a variable you previously defined....
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How to Access Mapped Network Drive on Windows from the Ubuntu app?
Try the following:
map the network drive on Windows, e.g. as drive T:
start the WSL2 system
create a mount point
sudo mkdir /mnt/t
mount the mapped network drive
sudo mount -t drvfs T: /mnt/t
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PIP error on MacOS
Is there the problem in the path of Python, is it possible you have removed.
In this case use these commands:
brew --prefix /lib/python2.7/site-packages
pip install -U pip
pip3 install --upgrade ...
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How to figure out whether a path is the root of a ZFS dataset mountpoint?
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to tell whether mountpoint is a parent or child. You could use e.g. property usedbychildren that should be 0B for leaf (lowest child) node.
$ zfs list -o name,...
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IDE for Chromebooks without Developer Mode Acess
I know it's been a while since this thread has had a post,
but I thought I'd put in my two cents
in case anyone else is wondering like I was a couple months ago.
I had the exact same problem, just I ...
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Find outdated/updatable pip packages
pip list --outdated | gawk -F ' ' 'NR>2{print$1}' | xargs pip install --upgrade
handy way to update all outdate package without install any extra package
alias pip-update='pip list --outdated | ...
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Disabling bracketed paste mode in Anaconda-Python REPL on Mac
\e is nonstandard; \033 is standard.
The place to look is not in csh/tcsh, but Python, e.g., Pasting into Python REPL broken in recent brew Python builds (HomeBrew #68193).
According to a comment by ...
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symlink points to correct binary, but still another is executed?
I suggest using command -v instead of which. You can find more about the reasons behind this in this Unix SE Q/A. The short version: which is a non-standard tool of times long past. command -v is a ...
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symlink points to correct binary, but still another is executed?
You have installed python once in one place.
Then you changed the symlink to another location.
I think that you have run into an optimization of bash for not
having to search $PATH every time you type ...
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How to run scrapy splash on a Virtual Machine
You'd have to use the following docker command:
docker run -d -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash --max-timeout 3600
You forgot the -p parameter for the port forwarding, causing docker to assume that ...
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