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Not directly, no. The argument -b only accepts a single id and using it multiple times only results in the last one being used. You can however loop easily over the file and get the output of all ...
With some pipes and apt-cache(8) search you can do it: $ apt-cache search libbsd | grep '^[^ ]*libbsd' | tr "\t" " " | sed 's/ -/\t-/' | column -t -s$'\t' | sort libbsd-arc4random-perl - CPAN's ...
I use pipewire. When I list devices with pactl, I see some ugly device.name values. Some of these I changed in the past, but forgot how. I want to change some more. How?
nmap can do this: $ nmap -p 443 --script ssl-cert codidact.com Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-12 10:06 EEST Nmap scan report for codidact.com (104.26.0.18) Host is up (0.00...
Grove's answer is likewise good, but OpenSSH introduced ProxyJump (-J) in 2016 with v7.3, making it even easier to chain SSH hosts together: ssh -J [email protected] [email protected]...
I have multiple screens and I often connect and disconnect monitors while the system is running. i3 assigns a workspace to each monitor, but does so unpredictably. Both workspaces are highlighted a...
Both replies, at different points, provided the basis for this working script. Assuming that the 12th line of file has something like: <p>HERE IS MY TITLE</p> where HERE... begi...
~/.config/systemd/user intended purely for units created and managed by the user manually, or are there any automated processes that expect to control it? For example, do packages or programs ever...
The systemd manual gives a list of path where systemd looks for unit files. However, I want to isolate my units in a path of my own choosing. Is it possible to configure systemd to add some path t...
Let's say I have workspaces 1, 2, 3 on screen A and 4, 5 on screen B. Currently workspaces 1 and 4 are active. With my current config, moving a window to another workspace never activates it. How...
It turns out, that Lynis test code lives in /usr/share/lynis/include/test_banners which gave me a way to find what banner is considered good. :-) In my case, it's to have 5 or more specific keyword...
I have multiple screens and I often connect and disconnect monitors while the system is running. i3 assigns a workspace to each monitor, but does so unpredictably. Sometimes my main monitor is work...
When hardening my system with Lynis I had information about /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net being found weak. Lynis redirects me to Enterprise, which is a paid product and a bit overkill for my home...
Historically, cron was the main way to schedule tasks on Linux. Briefly, there will be some file like /etc/crontab which will contain one line for each task. The line starts with a schedule string ...
A first quick solution I hacked up was to sync via NAS. Synology NAS served as a synchro point. I synced via git repo. etckeeper was used to sync machine config, pass was used to sync passwords. S...
The standard way to schedule tasks in most Linux systems nowadays is to use systemd timers. This requires writing a systemd timer config file, which has syntax similar to INI. This is summarized i...
In i3, is there a way to move an entire workspace to another monitor, including all windows it contains?
Using For the console: /etc/vconsole.conf ---- KEYMAP=dvorak For X Session: .xinitrc ---- setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak & Problem For the console, it applies the dvorak lay...
A little while ago I was helping someone with running Python in a virtual environment, as root, for some specific purpose. I determined easily enough that this requires explicitly specifying the pa...
I want to generate a list of trending Arch/AUR packages that focuses on user-facing applications rather than background libraries and dependencies. I wrote a script that uses the data from pkgstat...
When you first connect to a host, ssh asks you about saving its fingerprint. If you do, on subsequent connections it will check the fingerprint and refuse to connect if it changed. I get that this...
I compressed some JPEGs with curtail it messed up the filenames. It was supposed to only add -min at the end but ended up adding a random string after the extension 😠: prs@PC:/DOWNLOADS/Pictures$ ...
find . -type f -print0 \ | grep -z -- '-min.jpg-[[:alnum:]]*$' \ | while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do find "$f" -print0 \ | sed -z 's/-min.jpg-[[:alnum:]]*$/-min.jpg/' \ | xargs -0 mv ...
Suppose I have a PDF which is 2x3 in. I want to create a PDF with a single page, which has multiple copies of this. For example, if the small pieces are in landscape, and the large page is in portr...
How to open a port when using firewalld as the system firewall?
