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Posts by Ordoviz‭

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Q&A Is it a bad idea to pipe a script from curl to your shell?

Yes, it's a sloppy practice often joked upon but the security concerns are overblown: Piping unknown code into bash feels scary (and it should), but running make can be just as dangerous. Some inst...

posted 6mo ago by Ordoviz‭

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Q&A How to find all files not part of a package on Arch?

#!/bin/sh export LC_ALL=C # to make sorting not depend on locale # Ignore some well-known directories with many files find_args=' -path /usr/lib/modules -o -path /etc/ssl/certs -o -path ...

posted 6mo ago by Ordoviz‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A how to create a clickable link to an executable in the terminal

Since you are using GNOME, these links are probably handled by gio (as opposed to xdg-open or exo-open). GIO and xdg-open use ~/.config/mimeapps.list to figure out how to open a certain link. The f...

posted 2mo ago by Ordoviz‭

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Q&A Find path to an executable

If you need this in a portable POSIX-compliant script, you should not use which but this instead: command -v find

posted 5mo ago by Ordoviz‭

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