matthewsnyder‭

Unix is very permissive with filenames, and this can sometimes lead to a bunch of annoying corner cases when printing files. A well known example is when you put a newline in a filename, and it bre...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by terdon‭

How can I view font files, like .ttf, in Linux? I'd like to see a sample of the font (quick brown fox...) and metadata about it (like exact name).

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by andrew.46‭

What you're looking for is called process substitution. In Bash and many bash-like shells, you can use <(foo_command --with --arguments) instead of the file path: diff <(ls /home/alice) &lt...

posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by BryKKan‭

I use Wine to play Windows games. As is well known: Wine is not a sandbox Windows games are proprietary blobs and can contain malware Windows malware can potentially harm Linux through Wine ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by r~~‭

When running sed through fish, I often encounter a problem with regexes. Many commonly used regex control characters like []{}().+ need to be escaped, even if I type the regex in a single quoted st...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by terdon‭

MySQL is not fully open source and maintained by a corporation which was at one time regarded as very evil (there are much worse ones now). Debian is trying to protect you from yourself by not lett...

posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

When I enter the login password incorrectly 3 times, my computer locks me out from attempting a login for 10 minutes. How can I increase the number of attempts?

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by r~~‭

Suppose I have a list of files on standard input. These may be the output of find, cat filelist.txt or something else. How can I run a command on each file in turn?

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by AdminBee‭

I run Windows games with Wine, and use bwrap to sandbox them. I've noticed that passing --unshare-net to disable the network breaks many, many games (they fail to start with no obvious error messag...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Mithical‭

I tried to think of some for a while, but couldn't find any good ones. That said, there's plenty of programs I don't know. For reference: $ echo -en "hello\nworld" | tee 1.txt | bat -A ───────┬──...

posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

I want to have a local DNS server on my home LAN, say at 192.168.1.123. All of my machines will use 192.168.1.123 as their only DNS server when connected to my home network. By default, my DNS ser...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Canina‭

I was looking into unlocking my login after too many incorrect password attempts. I found this post about it. Doing faillock -user $(whoami) --reset did indeed unlock the login. However, what exac...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by AdminBee‭

I have an image (a photo) and I want to highlight certain parts of this. I want to do this from the CLI. I am planning to store the pixel coordinates of polygon vertices in a file, and when I run ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by samcarter‭

I have some bookmarked folders in GtkFileChooserDialog. I want to add these to my dotfiles. Where are the bookmarks stored?

1 answer  ·  posted 24d ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 24d ago by Quasímodo‭

There are many GUI apps on my computer that show up as eg. items in the start menu. When I launch these, what if I want to control how exactly they are launched, such as setting environment variabl...

1 answer  ·  posted 13d ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 13d ago by matthewsnyder‭