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I switch between three computers and have never been able to keep my dotfiles in sync. I cannot put them into source control because they contain sensitive data. So, my question is: how do I share ...
As I noted in a comment thread, I don't get the same behavior as you do (nor do I recall ever seeing it on any system), which points toward something about your setup. Apparently in response to the...
Especially considering the limited apparent interest thus far, I'll throw my hat into the ring and see what happens. Canina I have previous moderator experience from elsewhere (am currently a mod...
How do you find out the number of files in a directory from the command line?
I run an environment that, until recently, did all local name resolution by putting names in /etc/hosts. I'm in the process of replacing that with local DNS. The DNS part works fine, and now I'm tr...
Question What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive? Notes I am partitioning the drive with fdisk and making the filesystem ...
I think the typical way to do this uses wc ("word count") with the -l ("lines") option. $ wc -l /path/to/file 47 /path/to/file $ wc -l </path/to/file 47 $ cat /path/to/file | wc -l ...
Port forwarding is something a router does. Port triggering is basically port forwarding that's enabled when a connection attempt is detected and then automatically disabled. That's also handled ...
I have a setup with two Raspberry PIs, a CM3 module with only a USB connection to the outside, and the Pi4 with a lot of connectors. I set up things such that CM3 functions as USB Gadget, and once...
Assuming I have a running Linux system that has the /proc/config.gz file: Does the (unpacked) file always contain all of the options the particular kernel supports, including commented out like: ...
I got this message: Bad owner or permissions on /Users/rbiaa065/.ssh/config What should the permissions be to make ssh happy?
Yes, it's a sloppy practice often joked upon but the security concerns are overblown: Piping unknown code into bash feels scary (and it should), but running make can be just as dangerous. Some inst...
I have a static website I serve with Caddy. The Caddy is inside a container. I notice that occasionally I get malicious requests, looking at the paths requested. Some examples are: /cgi-bin/luc...
How can I view font files, like .ttf, in Linux? I'd like to see a sample of the font (quick brown fox...) and metadata about it (like exact name).
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
Python's interactive interpreter uses GNU Readline, so Bash's line interpreter, not Zle, which is Zsh's. Therefore, when you enter python, the cursor either won't change or will change accordingly...
I use KDE with Slackware -current so: KDE Plasma Version 5.27.3 and this has a quite serviceable Font Manager that can be found from: System Settings --> Appearance --> Font Management Bu...
but it clearly does see that change. Nope. Your environment is being reloaded in the sudo process. sudo echo $PATH gives the same result as echo $PATH because $PATH is expanded by your shell ...
I've been met with the phrase RTFM often. I recognize its value. However, the manual pages are often hard to understand and written by people who know so much about the topic at hand that they don'...
The Debian Administrator's Handbook: The Inner Workings of the Debian Project: Documentation for each package is stored in /usr/share/doc/package/. (...) The copyright file includes information ...
I have a shell script with a syntax compatible to both bash and zsh, except for a section that has zsh specific syntax that throws syntax errors if sourced from bash. Is there an easy way to escap...
From Wikipedia: Break key: The Pause key is different from all other keys in that it sends no scancodes at all on release in PS/2 modes 1 or 2, so it is impossible to determine whether this key ...
For several days now, I've been getting a notification telling me that there's a pending update to the "snap-store", and to close the app to avoid disruption. I first got this notification while...
Since the Pause key is useless, I tried to map it to a modifier key. What is straightforward for other keys turned out not to work fine for Pause. By inspecting the output of xev -event keyboard |...
Using BASH, how can I redirect stdout and stderr each, to two separate files, simultaneously? That's a mouthful, let me clarify a little: I have a hypothetical script that may/will generate outpu...
