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Getting the number at end of the line with grep

How can I filter this text document with the grep command,to get the lines terminating with the number 59. mohamed 400 298334432 Marrakech ingénieur omar 13 0466342233 Agadir pâtissier ...
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Is it considered good practice to use a nxml tag in xml conf files?

I have been browsing some examples of avahi services files (XML format), and some of them had <!--*-nxml-*--> comment following the document type definition. For example: <?xml version="1.0"...
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How do I install wireless adapter in Kali linux? I use kali as main OS [on hold]

I don't know how to install wireless adapter in kali linux. And I use kali linux as in persistence USB.
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Writing interrupt handler for external interrupt (IRQ 0 - 5) of ARM processor

I am trying to write an interrupt handler for LS1021A external interrupt IRQ5 using NXP QorIQ SDK 2.0. I have created a kernel module to handle the interrupt but the reset_irq function is always ...
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Error when create a pdf file using Linux command pdftk

I am trying to create a dump 200MB PDF file for my experiment (To use it for testing my FTP implementation). The following command does not work in Ubuntu 16.04: pdftk $(for i in $(seq 1 200); do ...
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How to delete rows in which only the first column is full?

I have a data file looks like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 I want to delete all the rows in which only the first column is full. so output should be : 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 12 ...
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Use process status as a boolean in a bash script

I'm still new to linux scripting, but not so new to programming as a paradigm, so please forgive me if my question has a super obvious answer. Background: I want to write a startup script that merely ...
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Is there a way to know percentage of images and code in a given directory?

Let's say you download some .zip/tar.gz or source-code of a project from somewhere. The result you will get are a random bunch of files, some having code and some having images. Is there a way to get ...
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Eclipse Plugin for Linux Tools - Man Page Plug-in not showing man page results

I am running Linux Mint 17.3. From any terminal man works fine. I am using Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers version Neon.1a Release (4.6.1) with CDT 9.1.0 and the Linux Tools plugin. For the Man page ...
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Modify the “cat” command to automatically number paragraphs. These are separated by a single blank line [duplicate]

What is the command to: Modify the "cat" command to automatically number paragraphs. These are separated by a single blank line.
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Iptraf (somtimes) does not log info when run in background

I'm using Iptraf to get some statistics on my bandwidth consumption, I run the following : iptraf -B -u -s ens33 -L /home/aymendaoudi/Desktop/test as you can see I want the operation to stay in ...
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right click enable from mousepad [on hold]

I am using Linux mint 18.1 v. In my mouse pad right click button is not enabled. I need to enable the right click options also in mouse pad. pls help me.
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Finding unix and linux malware [on hold]

So I've been looking through lots of posts, On this subject (Finding unix and linux malware) but all I see is grepping php functions, Who writes unix and linux malware in php?! Anyways thats not my ...
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Suse Linux, slowing down system time to in sync with time server

Normally is the time of a Linux server (due to ntpd) in sync with the time server. However the ntpd is running but server is now running 20 seconds ahead. How do I slowdown the server little by little....
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need to understand the use of “/” in sed command

I want to understand the sed command For example I have the command: rtNum=`pwd | sed -e 's/^.*bbsp.\/rt//' -e 's/\/.*$//'` and rtRun=`pwd | sed -e 's/^.*bbsp.\/rt.*\///'` where pwd is: /tfsrun/...

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