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How to configure XShell so that PgDn work properly in bash?
The key PageDown types a ~ in my bash session instead of showing next command. Why does this happen and which settings do I need to change?
In vi key works as expected.
I did as described in How to ...
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How to apply Postfix milter *before* smtp_generic_maps for DKIM purposes?
My Postfix instance instance correctly signs outbound mail with DKIM when I set the myhostname parameter to be the domain I wish to send from, say domain1.com.
The issue I have is I have multiple ...
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Desktop shortcut with a command line argument which contains filename with random numbers
I'm trying to create a desktop shortcut which launches a terminal app with commandline arguments which contains a path to a file with a randomly generated number in the filename.
I've tried everything ...
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SSH from A through B to C, using private key on B
Schematic:
ssh ssh
A ------> B ------> C
^ ^
using A's using B's
ssh key ssh key
Preconditions:
A is running ssh-agent
A can access B
B can access C
A can't ...
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How could I have VScode on Windows 10 with the default terminal changed to WSL2 Ubuntu-24.04 like a native linux distro?
I'm trying to have inside VScode for Windows 10 (Microsoft Windows [versão 10.0.19045.4474]) options to change the terminal from default to another one such WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04.
I have installed ...
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how to install memcached via pecl?
I'm trying to install memcached and am having some difficulty. Here's what I tried:
apt-get update
apt-get install memcached libmemcached-dev libzip-dev
pecl install memcached
pecl install memcached ...
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changing the directory a tarball decompresses to
When I do wget https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz and then tar xvzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz the files get extracted (right now) to install-tl-20240521. On the CLI it's ...
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How can I execute a command whenever I change the PowerDevil power profile?
I have a laptop with a variable refresh rate (up to 120Hz) monitor. I want to change the refresh rate to 60 whenever I switch the power profile to "Power Save" in Powerdevil, and change it ...
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Linux Bash Wait Command Not Working
I am trying to use and bash file .sh to start other bash files in seperate terminals.
I want them to run one after the other as I use them to copy large numbers of files to the same Hard Drive. ...
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ls in Docker on Windows not showing one directory
I'm running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter version 1607 (build 14393.6614) with Docker Desktop Community Version 2.0.0.3 (31259).
I'm running an Ubuntu docker container in an interactive mode with my ...
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anacron doesnt work as expected
Trying to schedule a job to run every day with cron or anacron. Search the forum for resolution but still without any success.
Changing shell=/bin/bash or bin/sh didnt do anything.
My system lubuntu
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Activate a conda/mamba environment when cd to a specific directory
Can I automatically activate a specific environment when cd into a directory? Like if I cd into the directory my_nn_library then automatically run mamba activate nn_env. I am using Ubuntu.
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docker login fails when done in .bashrc
At the end of my .bashrc file I have the following:
docker login -u AWS -p $(aws --region us-east-2 ecr get-login-password) 636602586062.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
However, whenever I open up a ...
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google-chrome, when ran in the background through bash, still outputs errors, despite 2>&1 > /dev/null
When I run google-chrome 2>&1 > /dev/null & and then go back to the prompt and then visit a website with, say, an invalid cert, I still get errors output to my console's screen. eg.
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How to output disk size in GB only with no rounding error?
Output disk size in GB only. Giga Bytes only.
Not MB. Not Mega Bytes.
Not TB. Not Tera Bytes.
Tested thus far:
sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sda
1000204886016
sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sda |...
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