Fix foot terminal & ssh
Started using foot terminal on a new EndeavourOS install. But it upsets ssh, here’s a fix
Archive of posts filed under the shell category.
Diff the output of 2 commands in bash
diff <(ls dir1/) <(ls dir2/)
Alpine Linux default gateway on different subnet
As Alpine Linux uses busybox for a lot of its system tools it won’t set up the necessary routing if you have a default gateway on a non-local subnet to the IP. You want /etc/network/interfaces to look something like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address IP.ADDR.ADDR.ADDR netmask …
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5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line tools
5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line toolsI already use ag as an alternative to grep and di as an alternative to df, but fd was new to me.
Compiling newsboat 2.18 on (Armbian) Ubuntu 18.04
It has some weird build dependencies like xsltproc, asciidoc & gettext to build docs & cargo (seems to be built in a mix of c++ & rust). Others include: libcurl4-openssl-dev, pkg-config, libkrb5-dev (needed for curl-config), libstfl-dev, libjson-c, libsqlite3-dev. Then the xmllint check run by a2x fails as it won’t download the DTD, so replace all …
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Finding out the full path of a running process on linux
Wondering *which* version of java is running as a daemon? ls -l /proc/PID/exe
aerc: a pretty good email client
I’m a long-term mutt/thunderbird user, but aerc is really fast: https://aerc-mail.org/
New discovery on htop
If you press ‘l’ you’ll see all the files the highlighted process has open (presuming you have permissions).
Control your spotify speaker through keyboard shortcuts
With spotcon.sh. You’ll have to configure Spotify in Home Assistant first – and I had to set my redirect URI to http://my.home.ip:port/api/spotify Once this is done you can configure keyboard shortcuts in your window manager to execute spotcon.sh.
Check a private key & certificate match using openssl on the commandline
With my script check-crt-key.sh