I want to run a command in linux and get the text returned of what it outputs, but I do not want this text printed to screen. Is there a more elegant way than making a temporary file? ...

... Whoa, all that update-index and hash-object business seems overly complicated. How about this instead: git add -N new_file git add -i From git help add: -N, --intent-to-add Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry f...

...ioned in discussions of application development. It seems both widespread and important, but I've yet to come across even a poor explanation of what bootstrapping actually is; rather, it seems as though everyone is just supposed to know what it means. I don't, though. Near as I can figure, it has...

... Lambda expressions are a simpler syntax for anonymous delegates and can be used everywhere an anonymous delegate can be used. However, the opposite is not true; lambda expressions can be converted to expression trees which allows for a lot of the magic like LINQ to SQL. The following ...

I'm learning glsl shading and I've come across different file formats. I've seen people giving their vertex and fragment shaders .vert and .frag extensions. But I've also seen .vsh and .fsh extensions, and even both shaders together in a single .glsl file. So I'm wondering if there is a st...

... Using Java (with a signed applet) Using signed Javascript, which in FF (and Mozilla in general) gets higher privileges than normal JS (but it is fairly complicated to set up) share | improve thi...

I have a set of controls with attached commands and logic that are constantly reused in the same way. I decided to create a user control that holds all the common controls and logic. ...

...tion. Just ensure you are either try-catching or regexing your input prior and checking for [^a-zA-Z0-9] then not proceeding. In this case, its just test input so makes sense. – Jason Sebring Jan 13 '14 at 0:43 ...

...rk in C is Check; a list of unit testing frameworks in C can be found here and is reproduced below. Depending on how many standard library functions your runtime has, you may or not be able to use one of those. AceUnit AceUnit (Advanced C and Embedded Unit) bills itself as a comfortable C code uni...

... -sV=1.36 nginx:latest It will pull the target docker image automaticlaly and export Dockerfile. Parameter -sV=1.36 is not always required. Reference: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/alpine/dfimage below is the old answer, it doesn't work any more. $ docker pull centurylink/dockerfile-from...