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Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal and the Web Editor for linuxjournal.com.


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baseem
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Thu, 03/29/2012 - 09:38

Hello Mitch,
You probably get a load of messages about your article:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/overlay-images-video-using-mplayer-a...
But it's mainly because it's the only one that has value online for overlaying image with mencoder.
I needed to ask you something. the script worked but the output file is huge. do you have any idea how can I convert it to flv for example or a smaller file? i tried using lavc instead of raw but the watermark disappeared in the output video.
This is very important for me I would really appreciate your reply and thanks for the artilce.

kachunyu
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Fri, 03/23/2012 - 16:13

Hi Mitch,

Great posts, so thank you for them. I've noticed that the comments for http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-auto-incrementing-build-number-y... are now locked. Do you have any control over the status of the comment board? I've run into an issue implementing the build trick, and would like to post.

--kachun

nullzero
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Wed, 11/30/2011 - 00:34

like burchett
"I am new to the site. I registered so I could leave you a comment . However I cannot find anyway to submit a comment. Can you tell me how to submit a comment? "

I have a problem with "http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bash-complete-command" . It can't match file that contain space character. How to solve it ?

Thank you

cocal
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Wed, 09/14/2011 - 15:27

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burchett
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Fri, 07/08/2011 - 03:36

I am new to the site. I registered (and accessed the verify link) so I could leave you a comment about a bug in your HOWTO article with the normalize_path function. However I cannot find anyway to submit a comment. Can you tell me how to submit a comment? Regardless, the bug is that the regular expression string needs to be put in quotes as shown here:
while [[ $path =~ '([^/][^/]*/\.\./)' ]]
If you don't, then the \.\. becomes .. and the expression will match directory names that are 2 characters in length.

Other than this, the normalize_path function is exactly what I was needing. Just ignore the naysayer comments at the end of the comments. I would tell them what I think of their comments if I could comment! As I am sure you know, what normalize_path returns is quite differnt that what readlink -f returns when the path location is on a mounted are such as NFS. Also your function works even it the path does not exist.

Anyway... Thank you.

gimper
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Sun, 02/20/2011 - 14:08

Hi!

I have little troubles with http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-auto-incrementing-build-number-y... . I try to implement version-info's such as build-number, git info's into app. I dont know your post as well. Please can you make one little example and update your "how-to"? I need know how work your code, if i create structure of 5 char* members in every .o(bjects) as declaration in his .cc, walk trought section does not work well. (I dont know why...). Next, asm say me msgs like: Warning: entity size for SHF_MERGE not specified, Warning: group name for SHF_GROUP not specified
as: main.o: warning: sh_link not set for section `.build_info', how fix it? But yea, one little example are so best.

Thanx a lot!

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Inifok
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Thu, 09/30/2010 - 02:10

Hi, Mitch,

I'm now studying how to program under linux, but I have a question about ptrace(). I need to get a program's code section and compute it's MD5 before executing. But I don't konw how to use ptrace() to compute the addresses of code section. Could you please give some advice? Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Inifok

Mitch Frazier
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Mon, 04/26/2010 - 14:42

Yeah the dash thing has tripped me up before on ubuntu. After discovering that sh != bash I also stopped writing "sh script.sh" in my posts when I mention running a script, I now put "bash script.sh"

As I recall there are actually quite a few differences between bash and dash.

Doug.Roberts
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Fri, 04/23/2010 - 09:44

Hey Mitch.

Your article on bash was interesting. As another bash side note, in Kubuntu 9.10, sh is linked to dash instead of bash:

roberts@igor:/bin$ ls -l sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-01-20 11:49 sh -> dash

There are a few differences between dash and bash which were enough to cause my installation of Juniper Network Connect to fail. It took a bit of hunting to nail down dash as the cause. the fix was simple: relink sh to bash. I need Juniper NC to connect to my company's corporate network...

On another note, I'm enjoying the ride as one of Linux Journal's new bloggers -- I'm anticipating having some fun with my posts!

Cheers,

--Doug

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