Comment by Kamil Maciorowski on Could a change of ISP affect the strength of...
The title (about wifi) and the body (about fibre) seem to be two different questions. Quite confusing. Please [edit] and clarify.
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@jsotola It's probably "on directories only, on Ubuntu".
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Cloning 60GB IDE drive via USB adapter is...
What is the exact command you used? What is the OS? Are you using dd with the default bs=? Are you using some very old hardware? (e.g. with USB 1.1). Please [edit] the question and add information.
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Discord thinks I am living in the future - why?
The question is "why?" and your answer does not answer it at all.
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Maciorowski for Is there a safe way to automatically remove a...
Use tmpfs, e.g. create the file inside /dev/shm.It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but stored in volatile memory instead of a persistent storage device.[emphasis mine]In my Debian /run...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Can't resize NTFS partition using GParted...
"recreated the NTFS file system with ext4" – NTFS and ext4 are two different types. The sentence makes as much sense as "I painted my shed blue with red paint".
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Why doesn't sort have the option...
The original question is "why is there no option I need?". You added "is it possible to get the result I need with the tool I'm fixated on?" and "if yes, then what is the option I need?". The first...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to remove blank lines before line...
@MichaelFirth In both cases we target a multi-line pattern space where there are empty line(s) at the beginning and there is # End of dynamic section at the end, so we anchor accordingly. Anchoring #...
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Maciorowski for How can I get the extension(s) of a file...
Why does file --extension not work for me?Not only for you. See this question. One of the comments there seems right:Maybe just a very, very incomplete feature?I haven't found any standard Unix tool to...
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Maciorowski for Does LBA size map to the physical or logical...
Logical.Note LBA stands for Logical Block Addressing. This corresponds nicely in this case, but until you know the technical details you cannot be sure if usage of the same word is not misleading.If...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to rollback BTRFS snapshots using snapper...
I don't know snapper but I do know Btrfs a little and I think whatever snapper does, you need to mount / anew to see it has been reverted. Probably not (easily) possible from the running OS, but if...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Why do Linux systems have so much committed...
You: "Linux, on the other hand, must temporarily commit enough memory for the child process to be as big as its parent, only to then reduce to the size of the actual child. That temporary state would...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to redirect the output of sed into a file?
Does mosquitto_sub finish? Or do you want to see the output in realtime while it keeps working? Does this answer help?
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on CRON job does run, but script never executes
The shebang question rephrased: is there really #!/bin/bashwith spaces at the beginning of the script? (wrong thing); or is there #!/bin/bash without spaces? (probably right thing). The example you...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to clear 'Recent Files' history, without...
In my (newer) Dolphin there is the "Forget File" entry in the context menu. Isn't there such entry in your Dolphin?
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Maciorowski for How to move one file from a list and rename it?
There is already a working answer, sub-optimal though. Breaking out of a for loop seems unnecessarily complicated. You can create an array without a loop. In the following example we set anew the array...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to actually measure and calculate CPU...
"I don't want such variation and I am looking to get a clean and actual CPU frequency number" – What do you need it for? Please make sure this is not an XY problem. I'm asking in the gist of the rule...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How do I stop questions modified by bot from...
Side note: answering a 15-year-old question is not necessarily a bad thing. The best reason for me to answer any question is "because this is what I want".
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to deal with a disk failure apparently...
Please don't post images of text.
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How can I get "find" output so that I can...
In bash this could be useful. I strongly suspect zsh provides means to implement something similar.
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