mcp‭

How do you find out the number of files in a directory from the command line?

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Ed Morton‭

Question What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive? Notes I am partitioning the drive with fdisk and making the filesystem ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Ullallulloo‭

Question How do I copy to clipboard from terminal with yy, assuming it's configured to use Vim bindings? I am using zsh with bindkey -v. MWE Enter something on the commandline (without pressi...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

How can I convert PDF to docx using the terminal or a Linux app? The output docx must be formatted with editable text. Some alternative solutions I've seen online using soffice and abiword output...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

Where can I find documentation on double asterisk in glob expansion? It is discussed in the .gitignore section of Pro Git. It works in ls **/* to list all terminal files. It is supported by py...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Kamil Maciorowski‭

Question How do you specify underscores as Vim word boundaries when using vim mode in either bash or zsh? MWE w on this_word should place the cursor on the underscore. A second w should place th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by r~~‭

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

Question How can I view storage usage breakdown by media type? MWE Notes Commandline would be great, but open to anything.

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Super+comma and Super+period were mapped as emoji annotations. Run ibus-setup, go to the emoji tab, delete the bindings. Thanks to this SO post.

posted 10mo ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭

If I want to yank my last command I can UP yy, but this does not copy to the system clipboard. How do I configure my terminal to copy to the system clipboard so I can paste into other programs? ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

MWE startx && xrandr-invert-colors Problem It seems that anything after startx does not get issued in the resulting X session. I'd like to make a bash function that sets up my monito...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by celtschk‭

Problem I'd like to be able to decrease images, particularly jpg and png's, either to a percentage of the original file, or a specified size in bytes. MWE decrease --size=900KB -o image_small....

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

Problem I have Super+. mapped to Switch to workspace on the right in gnome settings keyboard shortcuts. It works everywhere except when focus is on the terminal. There, it enters an e in the termi...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭

MWE touch d less d # jump to editing d without leaving less Question Is there a way to edit a file from viewing it in less? Jumping straight into Vim would be preferred, but an answer for e...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by celtschk‭

MWE To reproduce: Add bindkey -v to your ~/.zshrc. Invoke python interpreter: python. Type something into the prompt without hitting ENTER: this = "this" + "that". Press ESC and try any vim ...

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