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How Can I Automate the Change between a Python Script and a Nohup Python Script?
I have a Raspberry Pi connected to a digital temperature probe, which measures my fermenting beer. A python script reads the temperature every second and prints it to the console, and stores it in a ...
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setcap error on Debian Squeeze: “unable to set CAP_SETFCAP effective capability: Operation not permitted”
My python script needs at least the CAP_NET_RAW capability, because it's using a pcap library, but I don't want to use sudo (and in fact sudo causes my script to not work properly, with the script's ...
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Hybrid code in shell scripts. Sharing variables
This answer discusses how to run a multi-line Python snippet from the command line in a terminal. I noticed that the answer works great within shell scripts, even with nested indentation, which is ...
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How can I have more than one possibility in a script's shebang line?
I'm in a bit of an interesting situation where I have a Python script that can theoretically be run by a variety of users with a variety of environments (and PATHs) and on a variety of Linux systems. ...
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Problems running python script from motion
I'm trying to set up the raspberry pi with my webcam as a motion detecting cctv that uploads the videos to google drive using Jeremy Blythe's script
I have motion working correctly and the python ...
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What scripting language or platform to use for web page downloads and screen interaction? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does anybody here have experience in automating some tasks in web applications using curl?
Here is what I need to do? Wondering what platform is most suited - easy to ...
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python == python2 OR python == python3 ? How to package, distribute python py2k scripts?
Depending on system, python==python2 or python==python3.
Executable Python scripts, starts with:
#!/usr/bin/env python
#!/usr/bin/env python2
#!/usr/bin/env python3...
For python py3k it is ...
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Which scripting language is most widespread in system administration tasks? [closed]
I am migrating to Linux and have some experience with the Mac OS X command line/bash. I'd like to automate system admin tasks via scripting, but I am unsure as which language is the most used in the ...
