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Bash Here Bash's associative arrays come handy. The idea is to put every argument as a key in a separate array, and then only process arguments that are not keys to that array. #!/bin/bash decla...

posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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 |...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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 ...

posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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 ...

posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

If snap-store itself is preventing the update, it's straightforward: snap-store --quit sudo snap refresh snap-store But sometimes it might be something else, in which case the above solution w...

posted 6mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Quasímodo‭

Less does not display data files normally, but if it were some sort of Xxd. $ bash --norc $ export LESS= $ file -i /var/log/lastlog /var/log/lastlog: application/octet-stream; charset=binary $...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

The reason why you don't find this in man ls is that the GNU project (that developed Coreutils) usually provides the complete documentation of its components not in classic manual pages, but in so ...

posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

If a Debian bug number is referenced in the changelog of an uploaded package, it is automatically closed with a generic message: We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest versi...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by bgstack15‭

It is incorrect for two reasons. 1. File names containing glob characters This is an edge case scenario. Consider this structure: . ├── abc ├── abc.part ├── cde └── c*e.part The outermos...

posted 3mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Quasímodo‭

POSIX defines Text file as A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINE_MAX} bytes in length, inclu...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by LawrenceC‭

In Debian-based distributions, one can update the system with apt upgrade and cleanup unused dependencies with apt autoremove. Period. On Gentoo that is apparently not as straightforward. From G...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

To increase the activity of the site (one of the main concerns related to making Codidact grow), I suggested merging Linux Systems with Power Users on Meta. Do you agree or disagree with merging?

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by r~~‭

An article in the GTK blog explains the situation very well, but here is my go at it. In my keyboard layout, accents are handled as dead keys, so to insert "ë", first I type ¨ and then e. Nothing ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Quasímodo‭

This is originally Ibus' (an input method) behavior. It provides some facilities to extend the basic "input by typing". Examples: Ctrl+Shift+U for hex Unicode input. Ctrl+. for emoji selector. ...

posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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...

posted 2mo ago by Quasímodo‭