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How may I watch for the creation of a particular "trigger file"?
I need to create a shell script that executes an application when a file called start is created in a particular directory. How may I write a shell script that waits for the creation of a file with a ...
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Why does the following bash script delete itself?
If you create an executable file with the following contents, and run it, it will delete itself. How does this work? #!/bin/rm
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On executable files in Linux [closed]
It is said that in linux, unlike Windows, there's not a clear border between executables and other files. Well, in Windows, I write a C++ program, then it is precompiled, compiled and then linked to ...
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