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Your best terminal aliases in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I do this but with xx because I'm too scared

Your best terminal aliases in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My variant (u mean "up" in my head)

alias u  ='cd ..'
alias uu ='cd ../..'
alias uuu='cd ../../..'
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[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

What are alternatives to GNU dialog for shell script menus? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After some research, fzy does a good portion of what I want. https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy

I'm already an avid user of rlwrap, which can handle other kinds of completion.

UPDATE: After looking around, I've concluded the tool I want doesn't exist, yet.

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What are alternatives to GNU dialog for shell script menus? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'd like to include some interactive menus and prompts in my shell scripts.

dialog is fine, but it takes over the entire screen (maybe there's a way to not do that?) with its ncurses UI. Ideally, I'd like output similar to this Go library.

Anyone know of any standalone tools I could install to avoid writing my own?

Why is bash still used for the Unix shell? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The other answers are great. But consider the following, as well.

All the mainstream package managers rely on POSIX-ish shell interpreters. Arch Linux PKGBUILD files require bash syntax, specifically.

RPM and .deb package formats literally embed shell scripts to perform pre- and post-installation tasks. They treat these scripts like hooks.

For instance, a common task would be to create requires users and directories for a program. Quite literally something like mkdir -p /var/lib/myprogram.

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New user, question about flatpak (lemmy.ml)
 

Hi! I'm new to LibreWolf. Giving it a try as my default browser on Pop OS 21.04 (soon to be 21.10).

It's all great so far. I understand that there are times when I'll want to use "regular" Firefox for my work or for Netflix or whatever. But a lot of sites work great, even with the defaults.

Now, my question:

I installed from flatpak, and xdg-open (or just clicking urls from my email client) doesn't work. Here's the error message I get after maybe 5 seconds.

Is this because I'm using flatpak? Or is this an ubuntu thing? Or is it a LibreWolf settings thing?

I'd be willing to build from source if that would fix this behavior. But I thought I'd ask first.