User Marc Le Bihan

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Typing a bash command, I'm at its third line. But how do I return to its beginning to edit something I've missed?

asked Mar 21, 2022 at 19:08

21 votes

6 answers

3k views

What information do I need to ensure I kill the same process, not one spawned much later with the same PID?

asked Apr 16 at 6:24

18 votes

1 answer

18k views

What does "delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed" truly mean? And what is the goal of apt-utils then?

asked Jan 14, 2021 at 8:11

6 votes

2 answers

1k views

What are these > at the right of unterminated lines, when I do a systemctl status or a journalctl for example?

asked Aug 31, 2022 at 16:46

5 votes

3 answers

10k views

Files names with an ' (apostrophe) inside of them

asked Jul 25, 2020 at 8:00

4 votes

2 answers

761 views

how to ask cat (and maybe grep ?) not to take into account a new line when it's inside double quotes?

asked Sep 23, 2020 at 12:16

4 votes

2 answers

811 views

Two attempts of an if with an "and" are failing: if [ ... ] -a [ ... ] , if [[ ... && ... ]] Why?

asked Jun 2 at 4:56

3 votes

1 answer

293 views

On an editor (gedit, bash command line, vim...) what is the easiest way for a well displayed negative exponent, i.e. : 5.10⁻⁷?

asked Nov 13 at 9:30

3 votes

2 answers

1k views

All files or folders copied from an NTFS drive are with drwxrwxrwx rights. Can I correct this easily?

asked Apr 30, 2019 at 17:35

3 votes

2 answers

823 views

Easily install a font per language who haven't any yet, on Debian 10

asked Sep 30, 2019 at 17:13

2 votes

3 answers

375 views

Is there a way to check that a Linux O.S. has been installed a specific manner?

asked May 15, 2019 at 13:37

2 votes

2 answers

3k views

Notepad++, installed through snap install, has a menu bar with very small letters

asked Nov 19, 2019 at 3:36

2 votes

2 answers

741 views

Scanner available only with sudo

asked Jun 18, 2021 at 4:56

2 votes

1 answer

917 views

How to get the PID of a java command started by a script? I only receive the PID of the script

asked Apr 16 at 5:36

2 votes

1 answer

2k views

Doing a "sudo sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list" to go from Debian 11 to 12, shall I deal with "source.list.d" in the same move?

asked Jun 28 at 20:09

2 votes

1 answer

212 views

I wish to kill a service with a "sytemctl kill logstash.service" but SIGTERM is received by the service, instead of a SIGKILL. How do I send SIGKILL?

asked Aug 20 at 6:59

2 votes

2 answers

1k views

Merge contiguous partitions /swap, /var, /tmp, /home in a single one on Debian 10

asked Sep 19, 2019 at 20:19

2 votes

2 answers

354 views

grep the console (terminal) content, after it has been displayed. (not the same as greping stdout)

asked Oct 5, 2022 at 6:30

1 vote

0 answers

32 views

I was warned of an incoming shutdown while watching a video on Debian 11, at what settings should I look at to disable this automated feature?

asked Jun 26, 2022 at 18:15

1 vote

0 answers

96 views

Can you explain a scanning session alterning between succesful scannings and Out of Memory errors?

asked Aug 24, 2022 at 8:18

1 vote

3 answers

3k views

What are the risks of doing apt-get upgrade(s), but never apt-get dist-upgrade(s)?

asked Jun 5 at 8:23

1 vote

1 answer

438 views

How may I test a .service (systemd) file, from its dev path, before putting it in /etc/systemd/system?

asked Apr 17 at 4:18

1 vote

0 answers

55 views

Debian 11 - GNOME: Printing a document from Firefox either takes a very long time to start, or don't print until a reboot. From another place, it's ok

asked Apr 25 at 7:18

1 vote

1 answer

302 views

apt-get -y -qq install isn't silent (output incoming like: "Processing triggers for man-db"). Why? I don't want to terminate statements by > /dev/null

asked May 28 at 6:22

1 vote

0 answers

57 views

diff two multilines bash variables to list what lines aren't in the other

asked Oct 15 at 5:40

1 vote

0 answers

103 views

Extract from a curl its dire failure message (if case of return code != 0), status code, output, and error message into four different variables

asked Aug 30 at 4:41

1 vote

1 answer

37 views

Can (or could theoretically) a recent Linux OS handle the case of an old defective SSD drive only accessible in read-only? If that one holds the OS?

asked Sep 9 at 15:54

1 vote

1 answer

254 views

a disk moved from an old computer requires a root user to be mounted, why?

asked Jan 4, 2022 at 7:34

1 vote

1 answer

234 views

Repeat a sequence of edits in vim

asked Mar 26, 2022 at 7:20

1 vote

0 answers

108 views

A Debian 10 UEFI disk and another Debian 10 MBR disk are on the same computer with NO dual-boot. Can I then select any disk in the BIOS to boot on it?

asked Apr 17, 2021 at 19:49

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Typing a bash command, I'm at its third line. But how do I return to its beginning to edit something I've missed?

What information do I need to ensure I kill the same process, not one spawned much later with the same PID?

What does "delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed" truly mean? And what is the goal of apt-utils then?

What are these > at the right of unterminated lines, when I do a systemctl status or a journalctl for example?

Files names with an ' (apostrophe) inside of them

how to ask cat (and maybe grep ?) not to take into account a new line when it's inside double quotes?

Two attempts of an if with an "and" are failing: if [ ... ] -a [ ... ] , if [[ ... && ... ]] Why?

On an editor (gedit, bash command line, vim...) what is the easiest way for a well displayed negative exponent, i.e. : 5.10⁻⁷?

All files or folders copied from an NTFS drive are with drwxrwxrwx rights. Can I correct this easily?

Easily install a font per language who haven't any yet, on Debian 10

Is there a way to check that a Linux O.S. has been installed a specific manner?

Notepad++, installed through snap install, has a menu bar with very small letters

Scanner available only with sudo

How to get the PID of a java command started by a script? I only receive the PID of the script

Doing a "sudo sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list" to go from Debian 11 to 12, shall I deal with "source.list.d" in the same move?

I wish to kill a service with a "sytemctl kill logstash.service" but SIGTERM is received by the service, instead of a SIGKILL. How do I send SIGKILL?

Merge contiguous partitions /swap, /var, /tmp, /home in a single one on Debian 10

grep the console (terminal) content, after it has been displayed. (not the same as greping stdout)

I was warned of an incoming shutdown while watching a video on Debian 11, at what settings should I look at to disable this automated feature?

Can you explain a scanning session alterning between succesful scannings and Out of Memory errors?

What are the risks of doing apt-get upgrade(s), but never apt-get dist-upgrade(s)?

How may I test a .service (systemd) file, from its dev path, before putting it in /etc/systemd/system?

Debian 11 - GNOME: Printing a document from Firefox either takes a very long time to start, or don't print until a reboot. From another place, it's ok

apt-get -y -qq install isn't silent (output incoming like: "Processing triggers for man-db"). Why? I don't want to terminate statements by > /dev/null

diff two multilines bash variables to list what lines aren't in the other

Extract from a curl its dire failure message (if case of return code != 0), status code, output, and error message into four different variables

Can (or could theoretically) a recent Linux OS handle the case of an old defective SSD drive only accessible in read-only? If that one holds the OS?

a disk moved from an old computer requires a root user to be mounted, why?

Repeat a sequence of edits in vim

A Debian 10 UEFI disk and another Debian 10 MBR disk are on the same computer with NO dual-boot. Can I then select any disk in the BIOS to boot on it?