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Edit	Post #291453	Initial revision	—	1 day ago
Answer	—	A: Does Fedora have cutting edge features, and what makes it so? I think the Fedora project documentation covers this in the "First" section (emphasis mine): > First > > We are committed to innovation. > > We are not content to let others do all the heavy lifting on our behalf; we provide the latest in stable and robust, useful, and powerful free software... (more)	—	1 day ago
Suggested Edit	Post #290386	Suggested edit: I'm really sorry. That was added by mistake! (more)	declined	2 months ago
Comment	Post #290386	Oh wow, sorry @#53937, I just saw this comment. The `[]()` was a typo or a mistaken copy paste or something, sorry. I just wanted to quote the file name, I didn't mean to add that nonsense, my bad! (more)	—	2 months ago
Edit	Post #290386	Post edited: Made safe for file names with spaces or other weird characters	—	4 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #290386	Suggested edit: Made safe for file names with spaces or other weird characters (more)	helpful	4 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #289999	Suggested edit: | acts as a line terminator, there is no need for \ and then | (more)	declined	6 months ago
Comment	Post #290119	Nice! One simple and important improvement you can make is to replace all uses of `echo` with `printf` for safety and portability. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/65803/22222. And avery minor one: you don't need to end a line with `\ ` if the next starts with a `|`. The `|` is a natural place to... (more)	—	6 months ago
Comment	Post #290009	Fair enough. I tend to avoid using a second tool for the overhead (re why not use grep) but I agree that it is a very minor concern in this context. Glad to hear about the upcoming POSIX thing, but we will still need to handle newlines for a few years to deal with backwards compatibility. And anyway,... (more)	—	6 months ago
Comment	Post #290119	What is `grepc`? is that an alias you have, or is it a standalone program that is designed to search through Linux C code or something? (more)	—	6 months ago
Comment	Post #290009	Why not `find . -type f -name '*-min.jpg-*' -print0` to avoid the `grep`? And there is no reason to assume the random string will only have alphanumerical values. Also note that this has nothing to do with portability. All *nix systems accept everything except `/` and `\0` in file names. (more)	—	7 months ago
Edit	Post #290012	Post edited: Might as well make it safe for filenames beginning with -	—	7 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #290012	Suggested edit: Might as well make it safe for filenames beginning with - (more)	helpful	7 months ago
Comment	Post #289510	Note that you can always do `sleep 600 && some_cmd &` and that will not block, it will keep running in the background _as long as you don't close the terminal it was launched from_ . (more)	—	9 months ago
Comment	Post #289207	I suspect this won't be possible, but can you explain why you want this? Maybe there is a workaround. For example, if it is just about being able to click-open this specific directory, you could make a non-hidden symlink and that would solve it, but we need to understand the use case in order to help... (more)	—	9 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #289036	Suggested edit: Added the commands the OP can use to fix the permissions (more)	declined	10 months ago
Edit	Post #288963	Post edited: Since multiple -e is the standard portable way, I removed the bit saying that is less portable.	—	10 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #288963	Suggested edit: Since multiple -e is the standard portable way, I removed the bit saying that is less portable. (more)	helpful	10 months ago
Comment	Post #288963	Ah, OK, I haven't used BSD sed (which is the one that ships with macOS, I think) much, but I can confirm that supporting multiple `-e` is indeed part of [the POSIX specs](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html) so that'll be the most portable option. Kudos for pointing ou... (more)	—	10 months ago
Comment	Post #288963	The OP mentioned whitespace, but this will only remove spaces. Also, you have the portability backwards, `-e` should be supported by most (all, I think, pretty sure that's POSIX) sed implementations, it's passing multiple commands in a single call (`sed 'foo; bar'`) that isn't portable. GNU sed can d... (more)	—	10 months ago
Edit	Post #288678	Initial revision	—	11 months ago
Answer	—	A: Are there any legitimate uses for newlines in filenames? Although this would be bad design for other reasons, I can imagine a situation where a field from one file or database can be used as a file name. Imagine something like ``` value="$(mysql -e 'select value from table')" touch -- "$value" ``` This could then be used as some sort of misguided... (more)	—	11 months ago
Comment	Post #287334	Note that this sort of thing normally goes into the `profile` family of files that are read by login shells (`~/.profile` for example) and not into `.bashrc`. It doesn't make much difference on modern machines, it's just slightly less efficient since `.bashrc` is read on every new non-login interacti... (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #288556	Post edited: It isn't inconceivable that a user's $HOME can contain a space	—	11 months ago
Comment	Post #288309	This does sound reasonable but how would we do that? Are you suggesting building a collection of canonical reference posts that can be referred to in answers? Over at Unix & Linux SE, I would try (but not always succeed) to break down any one liners into their constituent parts, explaining each of th... (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #288613	Initial revision	—	11 months ago
Answer	—	A: Split "installation" into "OS-installation" and "software-installation" This sounds like a good idea. Installing an OS is a very different task to installing a piece of software on that OS and you can have experts in either of them with the two groups not necessarily overlapping. I think it makes a lot of sense to have them separate. (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #288612	Initial revision	—	11 months ago
Answer	—	A: Can I enter raw strings in fish to avoid escaping regexes for sed? What do you want to find though? Is the `+` a quantifier, meaning you are looking for one or more `b`? Or are you looking for the literal string `b+`? If the latter, you don't need to escape at all and if the former, you can just use `sed -E 's/b+/X/'` directly. The reason you need to escape in s... (more)	—	11 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #288556	Suggested edit: It isn't inconceivable that a user's $HOME can contain a space (more)	helpful	11 months ago
Comment	Post #288544	No, not really, they are just the commands that load (`modprobe`) and unload (`rmmod` or, actually, these days `modprobe -r` instead) modules ("drivers" in the Windows world) from the kernel. What you describe is often caused by a new module that needs to be reloaded although I haven't seen this in a... (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #288405	Post edited: minor fix	—	11 months ago
Comment	Post #288544	Can you pinpoint exactly what you updated? You might (might) be able to `rmmod` and then `modprobe` the relevant kernel module, but the details will depend on exactly what needs to be done. (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #288554	Initial revision	—	11 months ago
Answer	—	A: Download packages for full system upgrade without installing You can use `-Suw` for that. I haven't actually tested it, but it should work according to the documentation. From `man pacman` (redactied/edited for clarity): > UPGRADE OPTIONS (APPLY TO -S AND -U) > > -w, --downloadonly > > Retrieve all packages from the server, but do not install/upgrade a... (more)	—	11 months ago
Suggested Edit	Post #288405	Suggested edit: minor fix (more)	helpful	11 months ago