Posts
2012
Fixing FRM-41336: Populate_List: invalid column type for column 2 error in Oracle Forms
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Programming
Oracle
I spent the past hour and a half trying to fix this stupid error.
Here’s the situation:
I have a Poplist(aka dropdown list/ list item). The poplist is populated by a query defined in a Record Group. The query is on the lines of
select id, name from employees
The column types are correctly defined. And yet I kept running into
FRM-41336: Populate_List: invalid column type for column
error message. Looking at the description for the message:
2010
find command examples
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Tips & How-To's
Applications
Linux
Ubuntu
I’ve used find extensively and always wanted to writeup a nice post on this, but the linked post trumps my effort! Copy pasted from his blog, as the person’s allowed to do so. Also, as a general note - before using exec with the actual command, do preview it!
remove empty directories # # find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; change various file attributes
# find .
Removing file named -rf in Unix
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Tips & How-To's
Commands
Linux
Tutorials
I did something crazy at some point that created a file called “-rf” on my filesystem. Now I can’t figure out how to delete it.
I’ve tried rm "-rf" rm \-rf
But these just exit immediately. Arrgh!
Anyone know how to remove this file? Preferably without accidentally cleaning out my whole folder.
heh. What’re the odds, eh?
via Removing “-rf” file in Unix - Super User.
[How to] Search through Bash history
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Tips & How-To's
Linux
Bash
Applications
Quick tip - if you use the Terminal as much as I do, ever been in a situation where you’ve written a particularly long command, and then want to issue that command again but can’t recall it ? Use the history command, and pipe it to grep to search it!
history | grep -i <search-term>
This will give you all commands with the search term and the corresponding line number.