The question appears in the registration form of the ArchLinux forum. What is the output of "date -u +%V$ (uname) |sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

Can you tell me the answer?

Why can't you open a terminal and try it yourself? Don't worry, this is harmless.

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Hi and welcome here, at LQ.

why don't you try it? Actually that is much faster than register here and create a new post.

For me a "syntax error" message was returned,

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Remove the space between $ and (uname) in $(uname)

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main.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
main.sh: line 1: `` date -u +% V $ (uname) | sha256sum | sed 's / \ W // g' '

I have tried and displayed this error, I have just joined, sorry

@OP. See my answer @pan64 above. Copy the correct command from here:

I had the results, thank you very much.

TBH, instead of sed I'd rather use cut here. The result is the same, but the command looks a bit less intimidating to newbies:
OTOH, maybe the folks at Arch Linux forum want it to look intimidating to newbies .

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OP is a spammer:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ty-4175676003/

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Let's stick with on topic discussion here.

Apologies, but was trying to keep others from wasting their time. Please see the other thread with the other TWO user-id's, along with the relevant information identifying them as a spammer/scammer.

To the end of addressing the question, it was answered by shruggy in post #4...again, odd that a 'software developer' for Intel (among other things), could not resolve the issue.

On topic answers were already given.
This question pops up every now and then, and even though it's perfectly clear that Archlinux forums put that barrier into place for a reason, some people get frustrated, and others try to help by giving a direct answer - I'm glad they refrained from it this time.

Anyhow, TB0ne did some research here (and jefro a few posts up) and while I'm not 100% convinced (maybe "KittySoman" is as common as "John Smith" in some parts) it certainly seems appropriate to raise suspicion.

What happened to that other KittySoman account?

As of now, kittysoman has not posted any spam on the LinuxQuestions site.

Declaring a new user a spammer is not how things should occur.

There is no indication that two similar names accounts are the same person.

Antagonistic replies can be avoided by not writing them.

@ondoho,

If the question "pops up every now and then", then there should be some great references of former threads which you can provide to help enhance the technical answers already provided. If so inclined. Otherwise continuing to cite ones' suspicions seems rather rude to a new LQ member.

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Again, apologies and if I'm wrong, I will very gladly apologize to them. I based my assumption on the facts available to me.

It is odd, though, that 'kittysoman' came back here after I posted what I did in the other thread, but chose not to reply/clarify.

I think it's equally important to respect old members.

I also think it's important to root out spammers who seem to find ever new ways to post spam.
TB0ne might have been wrong this time (they are a little trigger happy so to speak), but they've been doing important detective work in that respect.