Karl Knechtel
My mostly-dev-related, thus-far-barely-used blog: https://zahlman.github.io/
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Me on Stack Exchange: https://stackexchange.com/users/248321
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See all 29 »which only tells you about a path that would be found in PATH. Often, people who think they have this question have a more general question - i.e., what will be used when the named command is reque...
posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel
I'm using the Gnome System Monitor in Linux Mint. Whenever I attempt to "End" or "Kill" a process, I am given this warning via a modal dialog (emphasis mine): Killing a process may destroy data,...
2 answers · posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 10mo ago by Kamil Maciorowski
Overview A "useless use" or "abuse" of cat occurs when a Unix pipeline (sequence of commands that feed into each other, using the shell | or "pipe" operator) includes a call to cat that is unneces...
posted 10mo ago by Karl Knechtel
My understanding is that one of the key advantages of Linux is modularity: the actual Linux kernel is quite small, and then what we call Linux is that plus the "rest of the system" - hence "operati...
1 answer · posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 7mo ago by matthewsnyder
I am using Linux Mint 20.3, with Cinnamon as a window manager. I have a folder named .pytest_cache on my Desktop: $ ls -1A | grep '^\.' .pytest_cache I know that if I open a Nemo window, navi...
0 answers · posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 1y ago by Mithical
I've been persistently advocating for an analogous effort in the Software community, and generally think that any Codidact community could likely benefit from doing something similar. As a practica...
posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel
Motivating example: my Mint 20.3 distribution offers long-term support until April 2025, which matches the "standard support" offered for the upstream Ubuntu (20.04 "Jammy Jellyfish"). However, the...
2 answers · posted 10mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder
I understand that "mounting" in Linux refers to associating some "device" (usually some storage drive or a partition thereof, but it could be a region of RAM, some memory-mapped hardware, etc.) wit...
0 answers · posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel
I've noticed that the default kernel selection for Ubuntu 22.04, for example, is Linux 5.15.0. Ubuntu 22.04 is a LTS release, which is supposed to have standard support until April 2027, and Linux ...
0 answers · posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel
By memory If you installed Linux yourself, then you were almost certainly informed about this at some point in the process. Generally, you're either expected to choose a separate installer accordi...
posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel
I know I can write a function at a Bash command line like so: $ test() { echo 'test' ; } I also found that I can write the } on a separate line, and omit ;: $ test () { echo 'test' > } ...
1 answer · posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 1d ago by alx
flatpak uninstall --unused currently tells me that there is Nothing unused to uninstall. This seems wrong to me, based on the list of packages I see vs. the "root" packages I explicitly installed p...
0 answers · posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel
Say I have some Bash function my-func, that expects a filename and does some processing on the corresponding file. For demonstration purposes, my-func() { cat "$1"; } If I want to apply that fu...
1 answer · posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 1y ago by Kamil Maciorowski
First, consider your needs. There's a decent chance that everything you want will fit on the SSD anyway, at least if you aren't an enthusiastic multimedia collector. Nowadays a 1TB SSD can be had c...
posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel
Suppose I write a Bash function at the command line: $ hello-world() { echo "Hello, world!"; } and I revise (perhaps hitting up-arrow to retrieve it from command history and edit it) and test a...
2 answers · posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 29d ago by bgstack15
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