Karl Knechtel
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See all »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 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 16d 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 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel
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 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 8mo 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 8mo 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 28d ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 25d ago by matthewsnyder
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 7mo 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 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 7mo ago by Kamil Maciorowski
Suppose I have a directory structure like ├── src │ ├── folder_a │ │ ├── file_w │ │ └── file_x │ ├── folder_b │ │ ├── file_y │ │ └── file_z and I back it up using rsyn...
1 answer · posted 3mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 3mo ago by Karl Knechtel
If all else fails, you could create a wrapper shell function to check the output of unrar l (probably by piping to wc -l) and proceed accordingly.
posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel
A little while ago I was helping someone with running Python in a virtual environment, as root, for some specific purpose. I determined easily enough that this requires explicitly specifying the pa...
1 answer · posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 7mo ago by r~~
On my current setup (running Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon), I have an administrative user and several ordinary users. I intend for all of these users to be in the same group, which happens to have the ...
0 answers · posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel
My primary drive is partitioned basically like so (only roughly to scale): / /home junk v v v |xx###############...
1 answer · posted 12d ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 11d ago by Iizuki
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