5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line tools
5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line toolsI already use ag as an alternative to grep and di as an alternative to df, but fd was new to me.
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Compiling newsboat 2.18 on (Armbian) Ubuntu 18.04
It has some weird build dependencies like xsltproc, asciidoc & gettext to build docs & cargo (seems to be built in a mix of c++ & rust). Others include: libcurl4-openssl-dev, pkg-config, libkrb5-dev (needed for curl-config), libstfl-dev, libjson-c, libsqlite3-dev. Then the xmllint check run by a2x fails as it won’t download the DTD, so replace all …
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Finding out the full path of a running process on linux
Wondering *which* version of java is running as a daemon? ls -l /proc/PID/exe
aerc: a pretty good email client
I’m a long-term mutt/thunderbird user, but aerc is really fast: https://aerc-mail.org/
New discovery on htop
If you press ‘l’ you’ll see all the files the highlighted process has open (presuming you have permissions).
Fitting the Geekworm Orange Pi 4 case
Previously I just had one heatsink. After fitting the case:
No stats on dashboard since upgrading to pihole v5?
pihole 5 uses sqlite, you may need to install php support For ubuntu: apt install php7.2-sqlite3
Google temporarily backs out SameSite cookie changes
https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site
Control your spotify speaker through keyboard shortcuts
With spotcon.sh. You’ll have to configure Spotify in Home Assistant first – and I had to set my redirect URI to http://my.home.ip:port/api/spotify Once this is done you can configure keyboard shortcuts in your window manager to execute spotcon.sh.
Enable or Disable pi-hole from Alexa
The easiest way to enable or disable ad-blocking from your pi-hole using Alexa is to install fauxmo – with which you can create fake Belkin devices that are Alexa-enabled. You then configure fauxmo with URLs like this: Get YOUR_AUTH_CODE from the WEBPASSWORD= line in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf See example conf at GitHub