Completely buffer command output before piping to another command?
How can I make iconv replace the input file with the converted output?
What is a good complex analysis textbook, barring Ahlfors's? I'm out of college, and trying to self-learn complex analysis. I'm finding  text difficult. Any recommendations? I'm probably at an intermediate sophistication level for an undergrad. (Bonus points if the text has a section on the Riemann Zeta function and the Prime Number Theorem.) Will my checked luggage freeze in the airplane? I'm taking some freeze-sensitive items in a checked luggage for a short flight. It's cheese, chocolate, toothpaste and wine. I would like to know whether the luggage can get "frozen" in the aircraft. Sometimes it happened to me that my stuff actually was quite cold after the flight, so I'd like to be quite sure. Especially the cheese was really expensive and freezing it would very likely demage it.  Usually I pack everything well in clothes, but this time the things are just too many so it's tough to do more than just protect the wine from breaking.  Some details: It's an A320 flight taking 1.5 hours, with Czech Airlines, from Paris CDG to Prague PRG. Over the years I've written some libraries. These libraries sometimes depend on each other.  As a result, the "tex" directory is structured as follows:  tex ├── library |   ├── library1.sty |   ├── library2.sty |   └── library3.sty ├── project1 |   ├── master.tex |   ├── chapter1.tex |   └── chapter2.tex ├── project2 |   └── article.tex └── project3     └── paper.tex   The libraries depend on each other. As a result, in every library that depends on another library, this is part of the header:  %library2.sty \ProvidesPackage{library2} \RequirePackage{../library/library1}   In other words, the library is imported from the "root of every project". This is not a good design choice. What if someone copies the libraries in the folder of the root of a project, or what if the folder "library" is renamed...  It is however reasonable the "active directory" still remains in the project root.  What can be done to resolve such library dependencies? With left nav, responsive design, and various new-user notices, this is what an anonymous user currently sees (browser window here is 1090px wide):    I realize that a lot of this content -- code of conduct, new-user intro, cookies notice -- is important.  And I get that the left nav is an important design element, and responsive design dictates the width of the right column.  But when you add it all up, Q&amp;A -- what the site is about -- gets a distressingly small portion of the screen.  Can we do better?   Maybe we can make that intro/mini-tour shorter? Maybe we can hide the right column for anonymous users? Maybe some things can wait until the user's viewed a few pages? Maybe other things I haven't thought of?   My concern is that anonymous users -- people coming from Google, people who were referred to a site by users hoping to recruit them, or others who find their way to us but aren't invested in us -- will turn away before seeing how rich and helpful our sites are.  Which would be a real shame, because our sites are awesome.  First impressions matter.  When I'm asking a rabbi to check out Mi Yodeya or a professional chef to check out Seasoned Advice or my vet to check out Pets (all of these have happened), I want to make a good impression.  I want the person to see more than 2.5 questions; I want to increase the chances the person will see something interesting or say "oh I can answer that!" and dig deeper.  Yes, the other stuff is important, but maybe not now?  Is there a better way to "stage" all this information for people we haven't yet hooked? 70s UK science fiction TV show with time travel and telepathic cat I'm trying to identify a science fiction series on UK TV during the 70s, but I can only recall the following:   A party of adults and children. There was a woman with a telepathic bond to her cat: she could look into its eyes to see what it had seen. Time travel was involved. I think it may have been inadvertent or uncontrolled time travel. On one occasion the party encountered an Elizabethan seaman who demanded to know if Elizabeth was still queen. They party replied "err... yes" because they didn't want to have to explain time travel. Getting a collection of index values using a LINQ query Is there a better way to do this?  string[] s = {"zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five"};  var x =  s .Select((a,i) =&gt; new {Value = a, Index = i}) .Where(b =&gt; b.Value.StartsWith("t")) .Select(c =&gt; c.Index);   i.e. I'm looking for a more efficient or more elegant way to get the positions of the items matching the criteria. What is the expected value of the number of die rolls necessary to get a specific number? Given a discrete random number generator, such as a six-sided die, what is the expected value of the number of rolls necessary to roll a specific number (e.g. a six)?   I think the result should be given by E$\langle$rolls$\rangle$ = $\frac{1}{6}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{(\frac{5}{6})^n(n+1)}$, but I don't know how to calculate the convergence of that sum.  Also, how do I calculate the variance? Recommendations for Stock Trading and Investment Applications? How do I modify my PATH so that the changes are available in every Terminal session I want to add a directory to search my search path. I know I have to modify the PATH environment variable. However, I want the change to be permanent, so that it is always in effect, for every Terminal (bash) window I open.  There is an overload of confusing and possibly conflicting information in   I am using Ubuntu 10.04. Suppose I want to add /usr/local/foo to my PATH. Which file (.bashrc, .profile, .bash_login, etc...) should I modify and what should the new line(s) look like? Encrypt home drive after installation I declined to encrypt to my home drive whilst installing ubuntu.  Is it possible to encrypt it after installation?  if so, how? Should Community Moderators be "elected for life", or have terms? While I applaud the excellent work of , the question has come up:     How long will be the elected moderator’s “mandate”? Is it for life, or are we going to have “moderator elections” regularly?   Of course, any community moderator who wishes to recuse him or herself can certainly do that at any time.   Should we have term limits that require community moderators be cycled out periodically, so others get a chance to moderate? Should we hold regular (say, yearly) moderator elections? Is it better to have a larger pool of community moderators, and let the normal ebb and flow of turnover get us "natural" variability in moderation?   What are your thoughts on this? How do I grep for multiple patterns on multiple lines? Why can't two series-connected diodes act as a BJT? Another form of the question is: will joining two diodes with wires (pn-np) make a transistor-equivalent?  I read that they are not equivalent, but why? I find even Ctrl+b to be very emacs like but I understand the point. I'm wondering if I could bind it to a single keypress of a key I don't other wise use? namely Super_L (also known as the left windows key. for why I say Super_L start xev in a terminal and press that key) How to set a different input method for each app window How can I have a different input method for each app window on windows 8. When I change input language to ENG all app window also uses this method and I don't want that. Like windows 7 that has a different input method for this purpose. thanks File list command line (hidden and subfolders) I need to get a text list of all the files (hidden and visible) off a hard drive, subfolders included. Ideally the list would have the filename, path, size, and creation (or last modified) date if possible. Can someone please tell me what command I need? Also, is it possible to have this created as a .csv file or something similar for use in Excel?  I am not super proficient with Ubuntu so an explanation of each command item would also be greatly appreciated. How to connect two Dell P2415Q 4k displays to MacBook Pro 2016 What's the best way of connecting two Dell P2415Q 4k displays to the MacBook Pro 2016 with TouchBar and TouchID?  I have the monitors connected to an older MacBook Pro currently with two mini-DisplayPort cables. Can I somehow reuse those cables or do I need new ones?  Apple's support page  lets me know that:  "Note that although it uses a Mini DisplayPort connector, the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter doesn't support connections to Mini DisplayPort displays."  So I guess reusing the cables is not the way to go? Sum with parameter convergence QGIS locked into fullscreen mode on Ubuntu 12.04 Interpretation of R's lm() output