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Posts by Canina‭

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Q&A How to extract string from file, run filter, and replace in file with new value?

iterate through all chapter-*.xhtml files in a directory Assuming bash, and assuming that at least one such file exists in the current directory (otherwise adjust the path and/or shopt -s ...

posted 12mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A With a V4L2-compatible webcam, how to see its video feed for the purpose of adjusting aiming?

I have ordered (but am still waiting for it to arrive) a USB-connected webcam that is supposed to be V4L2 compatible. Once it arrives, I'm obviously going to want to mount it such that it provides...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How can you create a separate home partition using LVM?

I don't use Fedora myself, but from the documentation, it looks like it doesn't use LVM unless you explicitly set that up during installation, but rather Btrfs by default. How your system is actual...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS)

In Debian derivatives (of which Ubuntu is one), and more generally those distributions that use the Debian apt package manager tool suite, for packages to be "kept back" during an upgrade means tha...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Find out which process is using a port

Use netstat -lp. Typically in such a scenario you will likely be mostly interested in IP sockets, in which case you can also add -A inet,inet6. To get numerical port numbers, add -n as well. (See ...

posted 9mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Adding mount points to an existing partition that already has one

Yes, bind mounts or possibly rbind mounts is most likely what you want here. You need a rbind mount if you want the contents of file systems mounted below the specified mount point to be accessibl...

posted 5mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How to open documentation in qch format in Debian based systems?

A web search turned up the Qt online documentation, which suggests using Qt Assistant to organize and read help files packaged as *.qch files. That looks to be packaged by Debian as assistant-qt6....

posted 5mo ago by Canina‭

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Meta Should we merge with Power Users?

I'm posting the same answer on both sites, because the questions are basically the same. Personally, I am in favor of merging Linux Systems Codidact and Power Users Codidact, ideally by transferri...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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