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modprobe generated by apache - security issue?
I find myself very confused by something happening to one of my servers. I noticed that it was running very slow so I did a ps and saw the following two lines (among other things of course): apache-user 18250 1.4 1.5 22736 13932 ? S 21:16 0:22 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start...- mmmdoughnuts
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- Forum: Linux (server)
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Merge two files in awk more efficiently
Hi Feherke. Okay, I think I fixed the problem. There were actually two. The first had to do with inconsistent formatting of the data files which I couldn't see unless I used vi. Some lines had spaces, others had tabs, and some lines in b.txt had both double quotes (") and commas (,) within...- mmmdoughnuts
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- Forum: AWK
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Merge two files in awk more efficiently
Thanks Feherke for your response. If you don't mind, I'd like to learn this a bit better and some stuff is in the man (like FNR, NR, etc.), but I think I'm missing the logic. Is it possible for you to break down your post so that I can understand what the line is doing? Also, part of the...- mmmdoughnuts
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- Forum: AWK
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Merge two files in awk more efficiently
Hi! I'm not very experienced at programming but I wrote a script to manipulate two sets of data into a third file, but it's ugly and probably not very efficient. Here is the problem: Suppose I have two files, a.txt and b.txt; a.txt contains five columns (separated by spaces) and b.txt contains...- mmmdoughnuts
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- Forum: AWK
