James Youngman

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I'm a software engineer at a large Internet services company.

I've been a GNU maintainer since 1997 (working mainly on findutils, CSSC, coreutils and gnulib), and primarily work in C++ (though I've also done a lot of C and Python). I was previously a contributor to the POSIX standard.

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Why does the POSIX "printable characters" class not match a simple string?
How can I add a new line to a large file every n characters in terminal (one liner sed)?
What corner cases must we consider when parsing $PATH on Linux?
execute python script multiple times
How do I check if a TCP port is already being listened on?
How to determine if a path is inside a directory? (POSIX)
Pipe vs redirect into process
Leak caused by fread
What is the simplest way to create an empty iterable using yield in Python?
GCC: how is march different from mtune?