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How can I create a message box from the command line?
How can I create a message box from the command line, either GUI message boxes or message boxes shown inside the terminal?
It would also be interesting to be able to get a simple input back from the ...
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Find actual file by only file name, not literally everything non-related
PuTTY/SSH and logged in as root I simply want to find any instances of the file PEAR.php.
I've looked through a dozen different tutorials but they seem to just copy-paste the same instructions. An ...
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Shell: Customizing the "Display all N possibilities? (y or n)" message
I already know that double-pressing the Tab key on Bash terminal will enlist all files and folders in the current working directory or, when appropriate, show Linux executables that I can run. I want ...
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Run vsim from dmenu — it only works when directly invoked in the terminal
Works: vsim, sh -c vsim
Doesn't work: echo "vsim" | sh, echo "vsim" | xargs -I {} sh -c "{}"
I want to run ModelSim (vsim) with dmenu, which is triggered using xbindkeys.
Details
vsim is a ...
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How do i install virtualbox-guest-additions on fedora silverblue
I recently installed Fedora Silverblue on Virtualbox. I tried to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions but it always fails. First, I tried:
sudo rpm-ostree install virtualbox-guest-additions
But I ...
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Bash terminal lagging one input behind
After a recent update, I've noticed that working on any terminal for more than a few minutes causes a delay between inputting a keypress and seeing it reflected on the screen.
Specifically, if I were ...
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"Forcing" a kernel panic from the terminal on Linux
I'm using Solus 4.0 (in a VM) and trying to make screenshots of "typical" kernel panic output ("BSOD"). The init system in Solus is systemd.
I tried the following commands in the terminal without ...
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how to change font size locally in xfce-terminal?
Does anyone know if there's a way to change the font-size in xfce-terminal locally (for just one window), preferably on the command line? It's possible to change it globally (for all terminal windows) ...
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How to specify that an optional argument requires 2 arguments in a zsh competition script?
I am writing a custom competition function for zsh. Currently, I have the following code
_arguments \
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'(-G --glitchpct)'{-G+,--glitchpct=}'[Controls how often the characters on screen glitch]'
I ...
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How to run the command "sudo sh /path/to/script.sh" by double clicking?
I have a question from this thread How to run a bash script by double clicking by entering the path in sudoers?. Since it was explained to me that it is unsafe to grant sudo privileges to the script....
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How to permanently disable Ctrl-s in terminal?
From here I understand that to disable Ctrl+S the stty -ixon command can be used and it works, but as soon as I close the terminal and open another I have to re-enter the command.
To permanently ...
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The key combination Alt + 6 for copy in nano does not work in GNOME terminal emulator Tilix
The key combination Alt + 6 for copy in nano does not work in tilix
Does anyone know how to fix this? I had a look through all the key commands, but did not find any entry for Alt + 6 being already in ...
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Permission denied error when starting terminal
I'm getting this error when I start my terminal:
/home/USERNAME/.config/envman/PATH.env:2: permission denied: /home/USERNAME/.local/bin
this is my .zshrc file:
# Enable Powerlevel10k instant prompt. ...
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inotifywait not listening to DELETE event
I'm using the following bash script to test inotifywait.
while true; do
inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete "$DIRECTORY_TO_WATCH"
done
inotifywait is listening to created files:
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Alternatives to file polling?
In the following code, I have to poll $tmp_input to continue executing the code because wezterm cli send-text is asynchronous. This makes sure that $tmp_input is ready.
tmp_input=$(mktemp ./tmp_input....
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