In Golang, how to convert a string to unicode rune array and do the reverse way?
Convert string s to a rune array:
runes := []rune(s)
Convert a rune array runes to string:
str := string(runes)
The default display manager on my Fedora 22 is gdm. If I would like to change it to other display manager like KDM, LightDM or other, which is the portable and reliable method? You can use the “system-switch-displaymanager” tools to manage the display manager. This is possibly the most portable way. To install it: #…
How to quickly find out which rpm package provides a command on Fedora Linux? As an example, we want to find out which package provides the ping command. You can quickly find it out by rpm: $ rpm -qf `which ping` It will give iputils-20121221-2.fc19.x86_64 Alternatively, you can use yum: $ yum provides `which ping`…
utop is an improved toplevel for OCaml supporting line edition, history, real-time and context sensitive completion, colors and etc. utop is convenient to use. However, the key bindings are a little bit different from the ones with GNU readline. What are all the key bindings? The #utop_bindings command will print all the key bindings. Here…
We may not want to update some packages such the kernel on a stable server while updating the system. If we run “dnf update” or “yum update”, we may get suggested by dnf/yum to install all the packages with updates. In this post, how to make dnf/yum not update certain packages such the kernel when…
How to count the number of reads in each chromosome in a bam file? The bam file is already sorted by the chromosome names. If the bam file is indexed, you may quickly get these info from the index: samtools idxstats in.bam | awk ‘{print $1″ “$3}’ If the bam file is not indexed, you…
I am trying to find out the top conferences that have the largest average number of citations in the last 5 years on the Internet but fail to find one. However, there are many rankings about the overall citations and numbers of publications. Hence, it is not hard to calculate the average number of citations…