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I'd like some help concerning the "tip" in this wiki page.
There's this part that states: >To perform a check of the operation, zero the partition before creating the wipe container. After the wipe command blockdev --getsize64 /dev/mapper/container can be used to get the exact container size as root. After the container has been closed od can be used to spotcheck whether the wipe overwrote the zeroed sectors. For example, # od -j $((containersize - blocksize)) /dev/nvme0n1 to view the wipe completed to the end.
What is the expected output from od? I got a bunch of random numbers after using it in the closed container (the device itself). Does that mean it worked? Would it be all zeroes if it hadn't worked?
Good job you cherry picked something that's out of date.
Henry Miller
How's the Debian sid stability? Should I use it over Debian testing?
Grayson Peterson
What should I do after installing Fedora? The RPM Fusion repo is a must right?
Jack King
This and the flathub repo. Fedora just works mostly, so that's enough.
Grayson Myers
Installing rpm-fusion is a must yep. Both the free and non-free parts. Also tweak /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to use the fastest available mirror and to download things in parallel. fastestmirror=True max_parallel_downloads=number_you_want
Also setting up Flatpak like user says here is a good idea
Julian Gutierrez
Is there a compositor for Linux that will let me add a color to overlay the screen with and opacity of the color as a screen filter?
Jose Garcia
How can I use the keys Pause and Scroll Lock in a terminal? xev detects them but showkeys -a doesn't Alacritty, xfce-terminal, XTerm, none of them recognize them
Nathaniel Russell
Picom can probably do what you want. It's pretty much the de-facto X11 compositor.
Isaac Richardson
Thanks will try picom.
Gabriel Fisher
Maintain it yourself if you're so concerned with it. What feature are you looking for that it doesn't have?
Colton Mitchell
I'm new to linux and trying to understand bash scripting and pipes and stuff and I'm going insane. I've got a script where I just do
ls *.txt > list.txt And it does what I want to do, which is list all files ending in .txt and outputs that text into a file. But when I do
listArg=$1
ls $listArg > list.txt And then do ./script.sh *.txt, it just puts one line of text into the file. I just don't understand what the difference is, I've programmed before so I understand variables, why isn't this doing the exact same thing?
Jackson Reed
is it impossible to use firefox or transmission with proxychains?
tutorials out there tell you they are the shit but all they do is quickly open the file in vim, keep the defaults and enable tor
i'm just trying to geo-bypass a video on youtube, so I input multiple https server the following way — i do not need tor https ip . address . goes . here port—number #no credentials as they are anonymous
but when I run `proxychains firefox www.youtube.com` it just won't work
what am I missing?
Austin Carter
>Does that mean it worked? If the partition was zeroed out beforehand, yes.
the * is expanded right away. So your script gets called with all .txt files as arguments, and listArg will just be the first one.
Ayden Butler
>./script.sh *.txt the shell performs shell expansion on *.txt and expands it into a list of files like a.txt b.txt c.txt etc so when you do listArg=$1, it contains only the first filename in the list
Lucas Collins
You should add a code block If I understand you correctly #!/bin/bash listArg=$1 ls $listArg > list.txt
And then you're doing $ .script.sh *.txt
You are making two mistakes if I understood correctly 1 You're using > which will overwrite the file and leave you with one line. You need >> to append to the file 2 You're already globbing when calling your script script.sh *.txt will equal to script.sh file1 file2 file3 ...
You could rewrite your script to #!/bin/bash listArg=$1 ls *.${listArg} >> list.txt
$ .script.sh txt
Adrian Gutierrez
Oh wow, that makes more sense. Thanks for the help lads
Brayden Hall
Very well. Thanks!
Mason Rivera
having issues pairing Sennheiser headphones. my Sony headset works just fine
journalctl shows error updating services: Connection reset by peer (104) bluetoothctl giver org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-aborted-by-remote error
Parker Reyes
Scratch 2 Actually you need >, not >> my bad
Alexander Wright
Just purchased a t450 for $130..
Was thinking about trying Pop OS since I've only ever been a windowsdesultory.
