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What do you want to find though? Is the + a quantifier, meaning you are looking for one or more b? Or are you looking for the literal string b+? If the latter, you don't need to escape at all and i...
As the error says, WSL doesn't boot using systemd in the same way a native Debian install does, so you can't use systemctl either. The answer is simply to use service instead, which doesn't rely on...
Here goes nothing. An Internet search shows an answer on AskUbuntu#1164, author aneesheep. The gist is to install ImageMagick (try package name imagemagick) and then use the convert utility: conv...
MySQL is not fully open source and maintained by a corporation which was at one time regarded as very evil (there are much worse ones now). Debian is trying to protect you from yourself by not lett...
That depends on your definition of convenient. Are you familiar with git? Is the source of the relevant package stored on salsa.debian.org? If yes, then you can just run: git clone https://salsa.d...
Don't answer too many questions Avoid major tag gaps Keep the front page lively. My armchair analysis is that the funnel for this site is like this: User gets linked from internet search ...
Question How can I view storage usage breakdown by media type? MWE Notes Commandline would be great, but open to anything.
Problem I want to set a global keyboard rate for both the X session and the console that persists for external keyboards, across plug-ins and removals. To my understanding, Xorg and console sett...
You can use rename for this. Many distributions package it; for example, it's apt-get install rename in Debian. In normal usage, it is used to apply an arbitrary regular expression substitution ex...
The pager less(1) less(1) is the usual pager nowadays; you would do well learning to use it. It's also used for paging the manual pages, in most systems. The most common operation is searching,...
How to apply a logical not to a shell command, e.g. in a Bash script? So if the command exited with 0 (success) I would like it to be changed to a non-zero value, and if it exited with a non-zero ...
You probably need to change the permissions on the file to make it executable. You can do that with chmod: chmod +x change-xkbmap.sh To verify, try running ./change-xkbmap.sh in a terminal with...
An easy one-liner in POSIX-compatible shells: for f in *-min.jpg-*; do mv -- "$f" "${f%-*}"; done The only (mildly) tricky concept here is ${f%-*}, which expands to $f minus the shortest suffix...
Is there a difference between these two tags? shell shell-scripting In a sense the first could be a bigger category. E.g. If someone wants to create a new shell, then they may have questions...
It depends on how much sensitive they are. I have three classes. 1) Very sensitive directories Partitions For my ~/.ssh/, ~/.password-store/, ~/.gnupg/, and ~/.abook/, I have a drive with 4 p...
You could try and convince Linux kernel maintainers, but they are reticent to that. I wonder what they'll do after POSIX.1-202x (Issue 8) possibly will forbid those. Maybe you could patch your ke...
When viewing a message, press h. To return to the normal view, press h again. With typical viewer key bindings, h is bound to the display-toggle-weed function, which controls whether all headers a...
I wrote a filter program to overwrite each line with the next one. $ cat /usr/local/bin/ovr #!/bin/sh sed '2,$s/^/\x1B[1A\x1B[K/'; Here's the behavior: $ echo | ovr $ echo 'foo' | ovr ...
They are broadly analogous; there's a lot of cross-pollination of ideas between the projects. Some terminology first, because you'll notice that both columns have duplicate entries and this often ...
I've been persistently advocating for an analogous effort in the Software community, and generally think that any Codidact community could likely benefit from doing something similar. As a practica...
ip a command will conveniently show the addresses assigned to your network interfaces, but oftentimes this is not what the internet sees your machine as. So how to find your public IP address from...
How can I remap buttons on my mouse, especially for more exotic ones like MMO mice?
Init is starting all other processes. It's first process started by kernel. After that init uses init scripts to start all other needed functionality to boot up system, like mounting volumes, daem...
How to get the number of lines in a file? I.e. for a file like this: Line one Line 2 Final line I would like to do something like this: $ count-lines /path/to/the/file/above 3
For reasons of my own, I have services on my LAN which use HTTPS and I create my own certificates for these. Over the years, the usage of TLS has evolved considerably. Many features that were once...
