Karl Knechtel‭

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 3mo 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 7mo 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 8mo 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 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 5mo 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 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8mo 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 5mo 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 5mo 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 3mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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

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 10mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 10mo 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 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭