Activity for r~~
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #291137 |
`<file1 | grep cookies | wc` might work in your shell of choice but it doesn't work in Bash.
I look forward to your mocking rant about people who point out that other shells exist. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290827 |
The answer says, ‘`sudo ls ~` [prints] the contents of your actual home directory [...] This is because [...] `sudo` [...] does not change your `$HOME`’. This is doubly false, as I explained—`sudo` can change `$HOME`, and the behavior of `sudo ls ~` doesn't depend on whether or not it does. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290827 |
`sudo ls ~` will not tell you whether `sudo` sets `HOME`, because the `~` is expanded by the non-root user's shell. In many distributions, `sudo` *is* configured to set `HOME` by default. There are several configuration options that determine whether `sudo` modifies `HOME` or other environment variab... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290716 |
Have you read what sudo does? If so, it's not clear what you want to know. If not, this is insufficient research for a question here. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290201 |
On Debian Trixie, if you have the `console-setup-linux` package installed, [the files in that package](https://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/console-setup-linux/filelist) include terminal fonts of sizes up to 16x32.
And yes, the character grid is changed, not just the glyph sizes. A 16x32 font wo... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289874 |
That is a really good catch, thanks. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289874 |
Piping is a shell feature. If you want to use shell features, you have to be running in a shell. The `find` manual isn't responsible for pointing that out.
[It is specified](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_13_03) that wildcards in shell scripts must... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289874 |
The `\! -empty` is there because if the shell expands a wildcard that doesn't match anything, the wildcard remains, and you don't want `.../empty_dir/*` in your output.
The `ls` is an unnecessary subprocess invocation. `sh` is already expanding the `*` before `ls` is invoked. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289875 |
Fair, post edited. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289489 |
> Ripgrep for example has a great way of handling cases. If query is all lower case, it does case insensitive. If it has upper case chars, it is case sensitive. You can also force case sensitive with a switch.
Have you tried this in less? I see the exact same behavior. They even use the same flag ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289489 |
What about the experience of searching within less do you find user-unfriendly? Less has a lot of power user features that might be easier to learn than switching to a novel man page consumption model. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289380 |
As I said, to answer your question as written would require knowledge of your hardware—not because every USB stick is manufactured by a maverick genius, but because there are no standards for secure erase in common use across SSDs and USB sticks. The bargain basement devices are unlikely to let you d... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289380 |
It's all defense in depth. Do nothing, and the adversary just has to get their hands on your drive. Erase the data, and the adversary has to get their hands on your drive and find the data on a discarded but not erased block. Encrypt and erase the data, and the adversary has to get their hands on you... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287570 |
I seem to recall that the default CSS that GNOME Shell uses is compiled into some binary format, not read from disk as CSS. You can extend it with, again, [an extension](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/), which at least has enough support from the GNOME team that the GNOME Tweak... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285187 |
For me, it's not about the difficulty of sorting through the list. It's an emotional thing more than a practical thing. The difference between getting a ping in my RSS reader twice a week and half the time it's an interesting item, and getting a ping in my RSS reader every day and only one in seven i... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285187 |
Well, at some level I wonder why tags don't suffice for all of our community separation needs. Why have separate Codidact subdomains, or separate categories within subdomains—just tag some questions with Linux, some questions with Cooking, some questions with Software.Code-Reviews, etc. appropriately... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |