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Why does makeflac () { if [ -f $1 ] ; then ffmpeg -i $1 -sn -vn $1.flac fi } not work? It returns bash: [: too many arguments
Brody Baker
2nd for post here or in the other thread BUT SHUT UP ABOUT IT
Lincoln Edwards
maybe someone will find this useful
Matthew Stewart
it's missing some flags
Jackson Powell
Try "$1" or it'll choke on filenames with spaces.
Dylan Collins
Doesnt work same error
Dylan Jackson
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Jason Sanders
Nigger what the fuck
Easton Davis
see: nobody gives a damn about your gnu-free /flt/ thread
Brandon Butler
if [ -f "$1" ]; then
Grayson Turner
github alternatives?
Grayson Sanders
This works
Hudson Morales
Guys I think I set the wrong compositor setting in KDE 5 and now I can't use it any more.
I decided to try Open Suse. Clicked OpenGL 3.1 in the compositor settings. It froze, and I can now only log in with an IceWM session. KDE is stuck on the fancy loading screen.
Joshua Brown
I don't have a clue about these things, but this was in the headlines recently, the fsf tested 4 code repos: github, gitlab, sourceforge and gnu savannah: gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html so that's 4 to chose from at least
Isaiah Myers
Does fedora run well on an old core two duo or if not what distro would, I'm going to try running it on a live usb
Easton Martinez
nvm fixed it
Lincoln Perry
like a charm
Jacob Walker
Thanks senpai I've got an old toshiba Im going to try linux on
Christopher Bennett
All of the distributions will run the same on your hardware. The only thing which can make a difference is the desktop environment, but even that has become irrelevant recently.
Gavin Garcia
Linux is only free if you don't value your time.
Jaxon Nguyen
I had some issues where mpdas wouldn't start after logging in, with Openbox. Now I tweaked my autostart file to start mpdas after a successful mpd start. My question is: will this still start them both "in the background" as it did before with the & after each command?
Old autostart file: mpd ~/.config/mpd.conf & mpdas &
New autostart file: (mpd ~/.config/mpd.conf && mpdas) &
The lack of a "&" after each and instead replacing it with just one after both commands is worrying me. I mean, I tested it and it works, but I'm wondering whether or not this has changed something I should be aware of.
Jaxon Edwards
Your life must be free since you bothered posting that.
Andrew Roberts
I am pretty new to bash and I don't get why & is needed at the end of this fork bomb :() { : | :&}; : Why does :() { : | :}; : not do the same? According to man bash the pipeline already executes both commands in a subshell, so what does creating a new subhsell for the pipleine change?
Aiden Perez
See
Hudson Flores
Is there a way to change the file manager firefox uses?
Brayden Cruz
What's a good base distro if I want to try i3?
Eli Long
Any distro, debian is nice but it really doesn't matter. On old versions you can patch the gtk filepicker, so yes. Buf why would you use that when you can use a fully featured file manager and just drag and drop?
Camden Wood
Convenience I guess? But it'd be even more inconvenient to downgrade and miss out on some Firefox functionalities, so I guess I'll have to settle with drag and dropping.
Jace Martinez
Why not just put a sleep between starting mpd and launching mpdas?
Chase Wood
I'm currently using a Mint 17.3 install on an external HDD. What's the most painless way to copy it over to a partition on the internal drive? Can I just copy over / and then fix GRUB after that?
Juan Bailey
If you assign opening your file manager at certain folders to different key combinations and tile it to the left side of the screen this is actually way more convenient than a filepicker.
Josiah Clark
Just cp it there and fix grub, yes.
Chase Sanders
Nah this is fine, but keep in mind that if either MPD or MPDAS doesn't launch properly neither will.
Doesn't sound half bad, I will have to look into it.
Mason Martinez
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Brayden Sanchez
According to that diagram :(){ :|:}; : should still create new processes, just ones that can die, right? It doesn't do that if I test it out thought, which is confusing me.
Nathaniel Robinson
I can't unsee the smiley faces
Jeremiah Bailey
I'm trying to make a dual boot. Windows is fine, so I made an extended partitions with linux partitions as logical.
fdisk -l list them fine but I can't toogle the boot flag, it gives me this error
>Command(m for help): a >No partition is defined yet!
What I'm doing wrong?
Nathaniel Howard
Why are you trying to partition from windows? You just need empty space for pretty much any installer to pick up on it
Adam Young
I did all partitions from gparted.
Evan Reed
Why not just use your installer?
Liam Gray
I hope this is not critical
Colton Phillips
Recompile the kernel
Logan Myers
Context?
James James
I have a i7 920 and I believe it supports VT-x, an ATI 6870, and intending to run a triple monitor set up consisting of 2 1200*1600 wings with a 2560*1600 main. I would also like to run a Windows 7 VM on the main screen for muh vidya while I surf 4chin on my left and have porn playing on my right.
How do I set this up?
Levi Robinson
This probably belongs more in sqt but is the broken vertical line the same a s a solid vertical line |? Want to know because using old laptop with only the broken LINE
Noah Cooper
is it possible to install windows on a external hd and use it to play videogames?
Gavin Ortiz
Friendly reminder For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
>"No, your lectures were good. It was the people who had dinner with you. Both evenings they were very uncomfortable with you. They said they didn't want to have you around any more."
>"Uncomfortable? But they didn't say so. Did they say why?"
>"One of them said he was upset when you talked about nasal sex with plants." I had actually demonstrated this perverse act with the bouquet on the table, at dinner the night before I was sent home. The plants were dead, although well preserved, so I was performing rhinophytonecrophilia on them.
>That was the end of the conversation, but I never forgot that the worst bunch of cowards I ever met were Texans.
Ethan Brooks
Don't do that, you'll end up copying /mnt, /dev, /sys, /proc and /tmp which you don't want.
Hudson Robinson
Friendly reminder “ I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.
Thanks, I booted off of a live USB just in case. So it's someting like rsync blah blah /media/lubuntu/uuid-of-os-partition-i-want-to-copy/. /media/lubuntu/destination-uuid
William Hall
Can some kind user educate me on the difference between MPV, MPC, and MPD? Is there any relation between them? mpc and mpv are daemons, so I'm guessing they use more resources, is that right? Is it a significant amount?
Why do I need a daemon to play music anyway?
Angel Miller
mpv is a media player,mpc is shit version of mpv,mpd is a music daemon
Jose Sanchez
>Why do I need a daemon to play music anyway?
You don't. Using it to play things on a single local computer is silly. I however use it on my desktop connected to speakers and I control the playback from my laptop.
>mpc and mpv are daemons No, they're not.
MPV has nothing to do with MPD. MPV is a video player. They just share a similar name. MPD is the daemon (service running in the background) which plays the music and manges the library, playlists etc. You use a client to control it. MPC is a such a client and a really simple one.
He probably meant mpc as in the mpd client. Not mpc-hc, as in the video player for Windows.
Christian Wood
>mpv is a video player. False.It plays more then just vidieo
Ryan Cruz
Yep, it worked just fine. Can't believe how smooth it went. Thanks a bunch, user!
Elijah King
Is there any way to get music visualization in mpv?
Austin Rodriguez
I just installed Wine-Multimedia from this github.
How do i make this a program like the ones i install through regular sudo apt-get install programs? Because now i need to use the wine from the folder with ./wine instead of just right clicking .exe files and 'open with wine'
Luis Thompson
You use it as you normally do with stock wine. It uses wine,if you try to use execute wine-multimedia,it just isnt there.
>./wine This is the stock location for wine et all
Landon Gomez
just using the "wine" command in terminal gets me pic related.
However i am able to call wine from the folder i installed it in.
Julian Harris
Then you dont have any wine installed
do this and post results ls /usr/bin/ | grep wine
Nolan Long
does wine work with programs installed on Windows partition?
For example, to run program I already have installed (many GB), instead of making two copies for each OS.
sorry for 2nd engllish
Sebastian Morris
No,You cant share the registry across platforms You can share data though
Julian Harris
But how come i can still use it then?
./wine winecfg gets me the wine config window for example.
Tyler Harris
You're not,you only have winetricks,which is not wine at all,its just a wrapper to install stuff in to your wine prefix.
Then i guess your distro dosent follow standard naming schemes then.
Hunter Turner
Is there a difference between forwarding x11 in your local network vs outside of local network?
SSH is working but when I want to see a window all I get is >Qt WARNING: VirtualBox: cannot connect to X server I'm using the same laptop to SSH as I do at home and it works on local network. Ports are properly forwarded, I just get the X error for some reason.
Robert Clark
i am able to run it though.
If i try to run Winetricks it complains that it needs wine to run.
Wine is recognize as being installed, but i am able to run it from the folder i compiled it from .
Daniel Gutierrez
I am looking for a linux alternative to IDM (Internet Download Manager). Specifically it has to schedule downloads to happen at a certain time and stop at a certain time.
Also, wanted (but not needed), the ability to place specific downloaded files (video files) on a separate drive after finished downloading while keeping everything else on the main drive.
Camden Harris
So you did a self compile and didnt package it? Thats your problem.Find a rpm/deb/we you need for your distro,or compile it within your distros pakage manager
Jeremiah Phillips
jdownloader
Camden Kelly
What's wrong? I'm trying to install packages from AUR and it's returning this error. Never occured to me before.
Jayden Rogers
If I'm running fedora on a live USB can click install to hard drive and still keep my windows?
Austin Hill
>No,You cant share the registry across platforms
not asking about the windows registry
asking can WINE run a program, that is installed on my windows partition, without having to copy it to my linux partition first, because it will take up double the HDD space that way
i do not need data to go back and forth. just the program.
Alexander Clark
That url does not exists
Landon Diaz
And what exactly do you think wine does when you install shit? It creates its own registry so windows can function.
If they program uses no external libs and is a standalone program,that does not do anything but run when you call it, sure. But programs you install, nope
Carter Rogers
GNU's Not Usable
Jeremiah Bell
I was trying to make a persistent linux usb and ended up adding grub too my windows machine.
How do I delete grub and revert back to the windows bootloader?
Owen Evans
Nope.Reinstall time
Ryan Gray
If I use diskpart, I can delete the partitioning on the USB, burn a windows 10 bootable iso on it, and use the repair feature, right?
Andrew Taylor
I'm thinking about coding my own Linux panel (or taskbar) and I'd like to take a look at the code of some existing panels for help. Can anyone tell me what's a really simple panel that has menus on it?
There's plenty of simple panels without menus or icons, but it seems like the ones with them will have a lot of dependencies like gnome and crap. Is there not any really light weight simple panels with menu buttons?
Ryan Martin
tiny2 plank docker
Elijah Parker
>If they program uses no external libs and is a standalone program,that does not do anything but run when you call it, sure.
yes this is what I'm looking for it has windows lib files with .dll extension, but they are all stored in subdirectory of the program, on the windows partition it does not write data to the disk or read data from the disk, while running actually it does, but I do not need that functionality
Liam Campbell
Did you meant "tint2"? I didn't know that had menus
Oliver Ward
Is it worth using schedtool,if so what would be some applications that would be benifical to run with it
David Rodriguez
I'm getting this error while trying to install packages using makepkg -sri:
I tried: >export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt on my .bashrc >cacert=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt on my .curlrc
Nothing works. I'm not well versed with Linux but after a quick search and collecting information, I noticed that:
I don't have a ca-certificates.conf file on /etc/ sudo cp /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt gives an error telling me that ca-certificates.crt is not a directory. When I click on ca-certificates.crt it says "broken link".
Nathaniel Butler
How do I install Krita without the whole fucking KDE bloatware that comes with it?
