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Scripting a fancy chooser for recently used files

By Bob Mesibov 17/08/2015 Tutorials

I recently scripted a GUI dialog that lists my 10 most recently modified files in reverse chronological order and allows me to choose more than 1 file for opening. The dialog is launched with a keyboard shortcut and is shown here with 2 files selected: The script is in copy-and-paste form at the…

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How to read a file N lines at a time in BASH: 3 methods

By Bob Mesibov 29/06/2015 Tutorials

The file I'll be using for this demonstration is called demo and looks like this: demo is plain text with 2 tab-separated columns. The first column is sorted alphabetically, but the second column isn't sorted. What I want to find out is how many different letters are in the second column for each…

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UBports Launches Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-8

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How to Add, Edit, or Remove Metadata in Media Files

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