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Posts by terdon‭

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Meta 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 o...

posted 11mo ago by terdon‭

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Q&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) ...

posted 11mo ago by terdon‭

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Q&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 i...

posted 11mo ago by terdon‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 11mo ago by terdon‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 11h ago by terdon‭

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