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Jonathan Leffler
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About

Long-time Informix user and developer, experienced in C and Unix (many variants).

Email: [email protected]

Some of my answers to (or thoughts about and experiments towards answers to) Stack Overflow Questions are available on GitHub in my SOQ repository.

FSF Member since April 2011

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How do I use extern to share variables between source files?
Sep 16, 2009
1559
How can I pipe stderr, and not stdout?
Feb 26, 2010
1310
Capturing multiple line output into a Bash variable
Mar 5, 2009
808
"static const" vs "#define" vs "enum"
Nov 4, 2009
680
How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"?
Apr 17, 2009
643
How to allocate aligned memory only using the standard library?
Oct 22, 2008
616
What's a concise way to check that environment variables are set in a Unix shell script?
Nov 21, 2008
609
What are the differences between Perl, Python, AWK and sed?
Dec 14, 2008
498
#define macro for debug printing in C?
Oct 29, 2009
484
How to represent multiple conditions in a shell if statement?
Sep 29, 2010
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Stack Overflow should not invite you to move a discussion to chat when one of the participants doesn't have enough reputation
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How can we stop SO suggesting both C and C++ tags on questions?
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Deleted question audit 2018
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Why is the Community User so determined to bump this question?
69
Dealing with an answer that wasn't accepted (maybe because a user is a newbie on Stack Overflow)
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Message decoder
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How to specify group with 'chmod'
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Unix command to delete two folders at once?
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How to compare file timestamps in bash?
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