alx‭

Use xclip(1). For example: $ printf '%s' foo | xclip; And now Shift+Insert to paste. There's a primary selection, a secondary selection, and a clipboard selection, and you can chose between t...

posted 6mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by alx‭

(Assuming your file names are portable, according to POSIX (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_282). If not, please read this for writing a more robust...

posted 12mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by alx‭

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 ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Kamil Maciorowski‭

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...

posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  edited 1y ago by alx‭

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...

posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by alx‭

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,...

posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  edited 1y ago by alx‭

In gpg(1), one normally adds recipients of an encrypted message with --recipient. Those recipients will be able to decrypt the message, and their key ID will appear unencrypted, so anyone will kno...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by alx‭

When an upstream project stops supporting a version (e.g., Python stops supporting 3.8), the maintainers of the distribution do the job of supporting those components, applying security patches as ...

posted 8mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by alx‭

On Debian, the package manager can tell the versions of the installed software. Let's say we want to know the version of mbsync(1). Quoting a comment by @matthewsnyder, this is a 3 step process: ...

posted 6mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by alx‭

Neomutt (and probably Mutt too, but I didn't try) seems to be hiding header fields from email, such as the Message-ID field, and fields that are added by SMTP servers when they receive the message....

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

In some cases, when you want to apply a pipeline or a complex command to each file, I find it useful to use while read: find . -type d \ | while read d; do find $d -type f -maxdepth 1 \ | hea...

posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  edited 1y ago by alx‭

I'm trying to run a pipeline to update a PDF after every push to the 'main' branch. I want it to be atomic, so it doesn't touch the existing PDF until it has finished, so I need to use sponge(1) (...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by alx‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by alx‭

A system daemon needs to create several files under /run/program-name/ (and possibly other subdirs of that). They are the PID file, and at least one Unix socket file (but maybe more). The FHS spe...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by alx‭  ·  edited 2y ago by alx‭

How can a file list be manually filtered with a gitignore file. I want to do the equivalent of git ls-files, but it should work even if I remove .git, so I can't use git(1). Currently, I'm doing ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by alx‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by r~~‭

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 ...

posted 4mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by alx‭