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Execute script on external keyboard connection
EDIT: This is NOT a duplicate because the linked question is about external USB drives, not keyboards. The suggested command udevadm info -a -n sdb does nothing in helping to find the corresponding ...
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Key combo to Abort accidental massive paste-into-terminal mistake
Due to the vagaries of virtualbox's clipboard I ended up pasting a huge logfile into the terminal instead of a small snippet of text.
At this point, as the log file contains many newlines etc. it ...
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Eliminating trailing space on wrapped lines in a terminal
In some terminal sessions, a space is inserted where long lines wrap. When copying multiple lines with a mouse, the inserted trailing space on each line is included. When pasted, one must manually ...
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bash + how to avoiding duplicate entries in authorized_keys (ssh) in bash
Popular methods of adding an ssh public key to a remote host’s authorized_keys file include using the ssh-copy-id command, and using bash operators such as >> to append to the file.
An issue ...
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Test for terminal emoji support
Based on this answer, I hoped that the following would work:
# Is emoji supported by the terminal?
function is_emoji_supported {
[ "$(echo -ne '\xE0\xA5\xA5' | wc -m)" -eq 1 ]
}
I'm guessing that ...
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Is job-control really meant to be supported in subshells and scripts?
Small premise
I use subshells quite often to perform operations that involve changing the Shell Execution Environment, so as not to affect the main shell. I do it often from an interactive shell, and ...
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Pasting into terminal including comments issue
This is somehow a follow-up to my last question: Pasting multiple commands into terminal stops at user input
Pasting the following to the terminal works as expected:
(
echo test1
# some comment
echo ...
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How to change secondary font used by gnome terminal?
Some environment infos:
Arch Linux
KDE Plasma 5.10.4
GNOME Terminal 3.24.2 Using VTE version 0.48.3 +GNUTLS
I set to use Ubuntu Mono Regular font in gnome terminal profile.
And Latin characters do ...
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How to create a real copy of file descriptor stdout and stderr without using unbuffer / script / tee just with bash built-ins?
My goal is to duplicate, redirect all output (stdout and stderr) of an
application (apt-get) to a file while retaining the usual behavior of
the application (apt-get), stdout and stderr.
How to ...
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Launch background process from sh and close the terminal
How can this be achieved in sh (not bash!)?
nohup sh -c 'helper-bcpy.sh "$0" "$1" "$2" "$3"' "$num" "$full_path" "$log" "$log_finished" >/dev/null &
I would have expected it to send the ...
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How to make fontconfig fallback work?
I'm trying to use powerline fonts, but most of the powerline fonts don't look too good in my terminal. Instead I'd like to use a regular non-Powerline font, and specify a fallback Powerline font for ...
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TOR hidden service not always accessible through cURL. Takes multiple tries
When I try to access a hidden service on TOR using cURL, for some reason I'm not getting access to the site 100% of the time. Many times it returns "curl: (7) Can't complete SOCKS5 connection to 0.0.0....
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Bash Script -- ffmpeg not being invoked as expected
I'm working on a bash script to convert my music library to ogg* but executing the right command is somehow eluding me. This is the line that should accomplish it:
ffmpeg -i "${file}" -f flac pipe:1 |...
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How to overwrite file residing on ESP at Linux boot
I have a 64-bit dual-boot system running Windows 7 and Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon. I use rEFInd to graphically choose which system to boot.
A little bit about rEFInd:
It is an EFI bootloader.
It uses ...
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Use Scroll Lock key for terminal flow control
So, my Scroll Lock key doesn't have much use, while I keep hitting Ctrl+S with no intention of stopping control flow.
I know how to disable Ctrl+S from locking scroll (stty -ixon), but can I use ...
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