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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
#!/bin/bash
printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><openbox_pipe_menu>"
# Instead of just "gimp" in the next line, it could even be a series of
# related programs, if you juggle between different applications with
# these files. Such as "gimp\|inkscape\|krita\|mypaint"
grep -B 10 gimp ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel | \
Posted 11-27-2015 at 12:27 PM bythe dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 11-27-2015 at 12:33 PM bythe dsc
"wget -i" is perhaps the tool of choice to download files from a list, but it doesn't allow you to set custom file names for the individual files on the list file. So, if you want to download a bunch of podcast episodes, but would want each file to have a descriptive file name rather than "12345.mp3", it won't help you.
A simple alternative is to have a download list with the file URLS followed by the "-O" flag and desired file name, and read this file...
Posted 11-12-2015 at 03:52 PM bythe dsc (linux-related notes)
Probably the largest upgrade I've done so far, at least in the last five years or so. Most individual upgradeable packages, if selected individually, would require uninstalling half of the system. But "mark all upgrades" on synaptic in contrast required uninstalling just a few obscure packages, seemingly not affecting anything I use often. There were a few bugged packages, but the bugs didn't seem to apply to me, so I upgraded them anyway, as there was no choice.
Posted 10-06-2015 at 09:04 PM bythe dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 01-13-2016 at 05:02 AM bythe dsc(alternative solution)
EDIT: As it turns out, it's not really needed.
With control+x+e your current command line will be opened with the $EDITOR application. From there you edit freely, then you save it, and as you exit, it will run.
I think the text editor Nedit is an excellent $EDITOR to have for that. It uses the tcl/tk toolkit (or actually motiff, if it's not the same thing),...
Posted 10-04-2015 at 12:43 AM bythe dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-04-2015 at 01:42 AM bythe dsc
There's another method which consists in uploading the image from your computer in some free host and then giving this URL to google via command line, but it's kind of a scumbag-ish thing to do, I think.
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