Activity for Karl Knechtelâ€
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| Comment | Post #291467 |
These differences are mostly intentional: we want to de-emphasize comments in a way that Stack Overflow failed to do (resulting in clutter that puts more space between answers); and we want people to consider the question text (not just the title) before voting - because votes aren't just about "shou... (more) |
— | about 23 hours ago |
| Comment | Post #291408 |
Do you mean that the output will include spaces after the filename (which don't appear to have been reproduced here), or simply that they appear *between* the hash and the filename? Are you specifically trying to highlight that there are *two* spaces in between, or just what? (more) |
— | about 23 hours ago |
| Comment | Post #291302 |
(Of course, it occurs to me that even if setting up a full `chroot` environment weren't necessary, I would *at least* have to mount the new root partition in the live system so as to have access to *its* `/etc/fstab` (rather than that of the live boot)...) (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291302 |
I'm pretty sure the system is using UEFI and GPT, and the bootloader should be GRUB2. I had hoped that I would *only* need to edit `/etc/fstab` or similar files, but it's good to see that there is at least a viable approach to this.
To be clear: I infer that the point of mounting a temporary setup... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291214 |
Thanks for the comprehensive overview. It makes perfect sense to me.
I went in to this thinking that I wouldn't want to upgrade the entire OS more than every 4 or 5 years anyway, but it feels like I pay a heavy price in terms of software versions being much further out of date than I expected, and... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291205 |
It's not really clear to me what harm could actually be caused by doing this, if it's possible. Could you describe a more detailed scenario of concern in the question? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290163 |
Are return codes for intermediate steps in the pipeline relevant and/or accessible in the first place? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290636 |
My actual use case involves mostly large binary files. I have a vague recollection of using Unison on Windows many years ago; I think I must have assumed that it only existed to replace `rsync`. But now I've seen that Unison is used on Linux for good reason, and also that `rsync` builds exist for Win... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289798 |
This makes it feel like my original question is "a typo" by the reasoning I would normally apply - but I sense that there's the working of a more general principle here that could be written up in a better designed Q&A.
I also notice, for example, that `sudo whoami && whoami` gives my own username... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289794 |
I realize now that I had originally been thinking in terms of `xargs` because of a previous wrapper I made, to identify files to tally with `wc` (which needs a single invocation with all the arguments, in order to get the sum, of course). I went back and fixed that to use `-print0` / `-0` at least. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289794 |
This is brilliant; I had a feeling (after realizing the issue in my first attempt at the question) that `xargs` was complicating things given that `find` has a `-exec` argument. This really allowed me to get my head around the needed quoting schemes, too, and explains general best practices (I am not... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289772 |
(It looks like you've already considered this, but.)
While I'm interested in this task and agree that there's at least an *intuitive* distinction to be drawn between libraries and applications, I'm not sure that there's a rigorous way to defined that distinction that's good enough for a programmat... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289541 |
Based on the answer that "worked for" you, it seems that I did have the right "bookmarks" in mind. You can create these in other ways, for example by using ctrl-D in Nemo while a window is focused. (There is an [outstanding bug report](https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/2921) for Nemo, whereby ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289541 |
... Because they persist between uses of the dialog? And because, at least in Nemo, I can see bookmarks in the left-hand panel of the file browser windows? If you had a different kind of bookmark in mind, then I don't understand what it is and the question would probably be better of with an explicit... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289541 |
It's not clear to me how GtkFileChooserDialog relates to the question, since "bookmarked folders" would seem to be an OS-level (or at least window-manager-level) feature, not something specific to an API call for a GUI library. Do you mean that you used a program that generates a file-save or file-lo... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288309 |
On Stack Overflow I have often ended up closing questions as a duplicate of multiple, mutually unrelated existing canonicals, because the task is a trivial matter of putting those steps together. This isn't exactly ideal, but it's way faster than getting the "needs more focus" close votes. Of course,... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289207 |
It's mainly an aesthetic preference. The desktop is the main place I *put things* for ready access, and I want to be able to *see* whatever ends up there and deal with it according to my preference, without having to hop over to a terminal.
More to the point, I was *surprised* when I initially dis... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |