Posts 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 $...
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...
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 routinely use MPV for that. mpv --profile=low-latency --untimed av://v4l2:/dev/video0 You may need to try other devices, as listed by ls /dev/video*. Thanks to Canina for suggesting the two ...
IUSE flags are simply the list of available and default USE flags for a package as defined by the Ebuild maintainer. Definition IUSE is defined from a developer's perspective in man 5 ebuild (...
Every Gentoo user knows USE flags. Occasionally I stumble upon IUSE flags, for example, man emerge mention them in the description of an option: --newuse, -N ... USE flags may be toggled by yo...
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...
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...
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