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Possible improvements for this small C program?

I'm learning C and today I wrote a program that displays info about my hardware on ubuntu. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { char ch, file_name[25] = ...
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Need some advice and feedback on my C code calling Bash functions

My intent is to use Bash functions defined in functions.sh in a C program. I am doing this so that I don't have to rewrite the Bash functionality again in C. I want to use one common library for ...
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Bash script to swap out, edit host files

So this is my first useful bash script. It's meant to make it easy to switch between a "work" hosts file (that blocks sites like reddit.com, youtube.com, etc.) and my normal hosts file, and also to ...
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How to improve the way I handle greping in this script

What my script does is: Append data to a file on a continuous basis. If an error pattern is observed, then do something. I need feedback on the way I am grepping for patterns in the continuously ...