Questions tagged [gnu]
GNU is a Unix-like operating system that is free software and developed by the GNU project. GNU is normally used with the Linux kernel. This tag can be used for questions relating to GNU software, particularly programs that differ from the POSIX standard or their BSD equivalents.
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Cracked GPL 2.0 Licensesed sofware is illegal? [closed]
I found a software under GPL 2.0 licenses and some functions need to pay but looks their support services is poor and slow, then I found many sites selling this software at different price low as one ...
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Why does the output of some Linux programs go to neither STDOUT nor STDERR?
Why does the output of some Linux programs go to neither STDOUT nor STDERR?
Actually, I want to know how to reliably capture all program output, no matter what 'stream' it uses. The problem I have is ...
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Broken pipe, write error: An epidemic of unnecessary output
In the last few months, a problem has been spreading across my systems. That of broken pipe errors:
# Solution:
# silenced by replacing /bin/bzip2 -> bzip2-reference
# to /bin/...
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Selecting multiple lines in emacs open from Screen Gnu mode
Normally when open files with "emacs -nw" to edit, I can select line by shift+arrow or ctrl+shift+arrow. The selected line or paragraph gets highlighted. But when I open file using "...
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How do application menus detect subcategories from .desktop files?
GNOME Flashback's Application Menu, KDE Plasma Application Menu, etc. categorize apps into folders and subfolders like the traditional Windows Start menu. An app like MenuLibre can be used to edit ...
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Can less wrap lines like fmt does?
Like most people I use less as my terminal pager. Occasionally I view files consisting of very long lines of plain or marked-up text. By default less folds these lines at the terminal window edge. ...
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GNU `find` error: "find: failed to read file names from file system at or below ‘/’ : No such file or directory"
OS: macOS Big Sur 11.6
I'm trying to find all files on my system that match a pattern so I can delete extraneous files after removing an application. For this purpose the application is RStudio.
I'm ...
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How to download all dependencies of RPM to offline installation on SUSE 12 SP15
I have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 and RPM which should be installed offline. How to download all dependencies of RPM to transfer them to offline machine with same OS?
I've tried downloading a ...
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Sudoers NOPASSWD for single executable but allowing others
Operating System: Arch Linux
Linux version: 4.16.11
Sudo version: 1.8.23
What I need:
be able to execute any executable with a sudo with a password prompt
be able to execute one executable, /home/...
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gnu grep -r -R -recursive not working on Windows 11
I submitted the following commands through the cmd window on a Windows 11 machine:
grep -r --include=*.c "return"
grep -r --include="*.c" return
grep --recursive --include=*.c ...
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How can I add configuration file to Nano obtained from WinGet on WIndows?
I have installed this version of Nano using:
winget install GNU.nano
Now, I'm trying to figure out where to put the config files for nano to read them. Below is the list of places where I've tried ...
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Ubuntu WSL becomes completely unresponsive
I am trying to use Ubuntu WSL to build the GNU GCC 9.3.0 toolchain, and thought I managed to do do this, but then I couldn't actually use it as a kit in VSCode. I then assumed I did something wrong, ...
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LANG and LANGUAGE environment variable in Debian based systems
It seems both the LANG and LANGUAGE environment variable are used by some programs to determine their user interface language.
What are the exact semantics of these variables and where can I read ...
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Starting Clonezilla through GNU Grub
I have a disc image that I want to install on a new linux computer via Clonezilla. However, when I go to the boot menu and select the USB stick as a booting option, it takes me to the GNU Grub menu ...
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Kill all Screen Sessions with Same Name
I have multiple screen sessions with the same name due to a bug. How can I remove these all in 1 command without affecting other screen sessions?
I used the command from this post:
https://...
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Getting information from an armored gpg public key file
When given a file with an armored public GnuPG key, i.e. a file (pubkey.gpg) that was created with:
gpg -r 0xDEADBEEF --export --armored > pubkey.gpg
What is the best way to get information such ...
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Where is there a manual page for Command Line Editing shortcuts?
There are times when I would like to respond to an already existing post, here specifically, because I want to figure out the source that these people are using for the answers. The answers in that ...
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Windows 11 GNU make - 'cat' not recognized
I made the foolish decision to move my work environment to Windows 11.
I have downloaded GNU Make version 4.3 using chocolatey. Make replies when I prompt it for its version, but returns the error '...
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save bash history, regularly
I have bash set up to save history, to a file. It does this whenever bash exits [properly]. As sometimes bash does not exit properly the history is lost.
So the question is can I set up bash to save ...
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Why does GNU Info have so many key sequences for the same command?
Why does GNU Info (info-stdn) have so many key sequences for the same command ? eg.:
C-f (forward-char) Move forward a character
ESC O C (forward-...
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Capture process output with sed, capture block of text and then filter inside it
There is some stdout that I would like to filter with sed but I don't know how. The stdout example would be:
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Model a. # This should be captured
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Metrics results: # This ...
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Applying theme on GNU GRUB 2.06 for windows
Hello everyone is there anyway to make gnu grub themes working in windows? I setup the Gnu grub 2.06 for windows (not grub2win) but I'm confused how to setup a theme which was easy in linux by adding
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Unix mail command: Sort by newest first
When I use the "mail" command, it prints a list of messages in my inbox in a format like this: 1 Super User Mon Jun 9 17:13 86/4716 Complete Registration With Stack Exchange However I've ...
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Permanently set `find` regextype
GNU find allows the use of different regex formats via the -regextype option, but as far as I can tell I have to type out -regextype <whatever> every single time which is onerous.
If one wants ...
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How can I start with a fresh environment every time i reboot?
Whenever I log back into my kali machine it seems that it saves a few things from my previous session. For example, I full-screened my terminal once and now every time I open my terminal it starts in ...
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find: -exec vs xargs (aka Why does "find | xargs basename" break?)
I was trying to find all files of a certain type spread out in subdirectories, and for my purposes I only needed the filename. I tried stripping out the path component via basename, but it did't work ...
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Process names 0, 1, 2
I see 0, 1, 2 and 3s in htop. I can't kill these (sig 9). They are sometimes consuming a bit of my cpu for a second. I wonder what they are... Killall just says process not found if I try to kill them ...
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Platform/version-independent sorting for gnu sort
I am trying to do an offline comparison of two lists generated on two different systems. They both have GNU coreutils so to aid the diff'ing, I sort both lists using sort before transferring them.
I'...
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How to update 'pgrep' in macOS to get around a known 'pgrep -d' issue
In the version of pgrep ( February 11, 2010 ) that is installed in macOS Catalina there is a bug when setting a delimiter. The delimiter should only be printed between each process ID but it's also ...
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Pipe Output of dhclient with sed
Goal
Limit output of dhclient.
Code
dhclient eth0|sed 's/answers//'
expected behaviour
RTNETLINK : Operation not permitted
got
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
Piping ifconfig works
ifconfig ...
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gnu stow to ignore dirs
I am relatively new in stow (using for last 6 months). While this is working fine for backing up my config files, it is actually storing unwanted files, and not obeying my .stow-local-ignore.
I am ...
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installing GNU MCU Eclipse failed in linux LMDE 3 (cindy)
I need to work with arm mcu (especially STM32 and Raspberry pi mcu), so I read this instruction :
How to install the GNU MCU Eclipse plug-ins?
So when I want to do the instruction:
go to the Eclipse ...
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How to reply to Python's GNU mailman 3 mailing list
Sometimes I find myself trying to reply to Python's mailing list, but continuously failing. Python's GNU Mailman 2 did not have these issues while Mailman 3 does. There are some conventions Python ...
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Does GNU/Linux counts processes and threads together when I limit their number?
I want to limit the number of processes per user on my machine, with /etc/security/limits.conf and the nproc value.
I have read here that Linux dosen't distinguish between processes and threads?
My ...
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Black screen freezing in Macbook EFI Boot
I had Ubuntu on my external hard drive, I had to delete it because i ruined it, after that I reinstalled it and now when I try to boot into my SEAGATE ubuntu hard drive it stuck on a black screen.
I ...
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Installed live USB PureOS on system running it already now unable to boot from encrypted partition
A Librem Mini was running PureOS after years of using a Debian distribution of GNU/Linux... I used an USB live with the intent of installing on same "side by side" but something went wrong......
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How to set sysctl fs.notify.max_user_watches in GUIX? (guix system: error: service 'sysctl' provided more than once)
IDE's like PyCharm work better when fs.inotify.max_user_watches is set to a high level. How to do that in GUIX?
I recall that the approach by Draketo used to work up to a few months ago: https://www....
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GNU stow. Only symlink files, not directories
I'd like to manage my dotfiles with a Git repository and stow. Here is my current repository that includes the files/directories I'd like to stow and a Makefile with the command I'm using make stow.
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Can gnu screen prompt for a title when a new window is created?
There are a number of questions about automatically naming screen windows based on what's running in them.
But sometimes why you created the window is more important than what you're doing in it.
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bash alias assignment in .bashrc for specific date command
I am trying to set an alias to show value of specific date command. When I set the alias, I get correct value, but also get "command not found..." Is there a way to set this without the ...
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What alternatives to SSH do GNU users use?
I have heard that SSH was originally for BSD.
Is this correct? And what alternatives to SSH do GNU users use?
Or do people just not use GNU for SSH or an SSH type application?
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How can I download weblinks using wget which do not end with .html?
I want to download this webpage using Wget on Windows 7:
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/smartphones.deviceListView.xhr.flowtype-NEW.deviceGroupType-Cellphone.paymentType-postpaid.packageType-...
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Standard (Linux/GNU) toolset for Mac
I'm quite new to Mac OS but I've already noticed that many tools are not what I used to be. For e.g.,
sed missed the -w option, and
xargs missed the -i option, etc
I'm wondering if it has always ...
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nmcli: WIFI-HW vs WIFI, (and WWAN-HW vs WWAN)?
In nmcli radio status, given by:
$ sudo nmcli radio all # Show status of all radio network interfaces
WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
enabled enabled enabled enabled
Is -HW for ...
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How to launch GNU PSPP's GUI?
The homepage of GNU PSPP shows the following screenshot:
I tried installing it with the following command on Debian:
$ sudo apt install pspp
However, when I now run the command pspp, I see the ...
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Install GNU "script" command on Mac
I have a Mac. I would like to use the GNU script that comes with CentOS as it is more full-featured than the BSD Mac version. Specifically, man script on a CentOS box gives:
-c, --command command
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GNU screen: change focus in split windows with mouse
Is there a way to enable proper mouse support in GNU screen so that I can switch the focus between split windows using my mouse?
In other words, I'm looking for a mouse-driven alternative to typing '...
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How to install mkclean?
Download the tar file from this link .
> wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/matroska/files/mkvalidator/mkvalidator-0.5.2.tar.bz2/download
Unzip the archive with tar.
> tar -xjf ./download
I ...
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gnu screen not to change my window titles
I set meaningful names to new windows I create in gnu screen, but then when I 'cd' or open vim that name gets changed to 'pwd' for instance. Is there a way to prevent screen from changing the title? I ...
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Getting warning about non-portability when trying to install GNU GO on Ubuntu
I'm trying to install GNU GO on Ubuntu OS, but it is not working.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/download.html
I've downloaded the tar.gz source code, then:
unzipped using the gzip followed by ...
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