Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-05 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On 04/04/2023, davidson wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible? From: davidson Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:06:47 + (UTC) Message-id: <[πŸ”Ž] alpine.deb.2.21.2304041106390.

Re: vtty & X terminal color scourge

2023-04-05 Thread davidson
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:33:26PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: What bothers me more than anything is that dead symlinks haven't been red, or anything else to distinguish them, in a long time. So... you're t

Re: vtty & X terminal color scourge

2023-04-05 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 davidson wrote: Having done that, I have never needed the --color=never alias (in my accounts). s/alias/option/ -- Hackers are free people. They are like artists. If they are in a good mood, they get up in the morning and begin painting their pictures. -- Vladimir Putin

Re: Bullseye and hplip install

2023-04-05 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 05:08:29PM -0600 schrieb tony mollica: Hi Tony, > Here's the deal! I've upgraded from buster to bullseye with no real issues, > overall, with the exception of only one app so far. hplip didn't run after > the upgrade and I've uninstalled and re-installed hplip from the b

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Michael
On Monday, 3 April 2023 22:03:59 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: With this option, you can supply a stream of NUL-delimited filenames to xargs -0, and process them safely. No explosions will occur, no matter what filenames are passed. out of curiosity, why not omit xargs altogether and do someting

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 5 April 2023 11:48:35 CEST, Michael wrote: or do i miss something? yes i did!!! sorry, please ignore my previous post! greetings...

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Michael (12023-04-05): > out of curiosity, why not omit xargs altogether and do someting like: > > #!/bin/bash > [...] >printf '%s\0' "$d"/* > done | >while read -r -d '' line; do > [...] > > or do i miss something? 1. Your script will execute the command once per argument, xargs will ex

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 12:01:50PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > 2. If you are relying on nonstandard shell constructs, then go directly > for zsh and use recursive globbing and glob patterns. bash has that, too -- you just have to enable it (shopt -s globstar), as it's not enabled by default. S

CVE-2023-1393 and TigerVNC

2023-04-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
RedHat have released updates to tigervnc to address CVE-2023-1393, e.g. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1592 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-1393 does not mention tigervnc. Can you confirm whether or not the Debian tigervnc packages need to be updated to address

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12023-04-05): > bash has that, too -- you just have to enable it (shopt -s globstar), > as it's not enabled by default. Ah, bash has recursive globbing, that is good to know. It does not have glob qualifiers nor temp file process substitution, AFAICS, though. Glob qualifiers is whe

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 01:37:31PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12023-04-05): > > bash has that, too -- you just have to enable it (shopt -s globstar), > > as it's not enabled by default. > > Ah, bash has recursive globbing, that is good to know. It does not have > glob qualifiers

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12023-04-05): > It does have <(...), too. <(…) and >(…) are quite common, =(…) is significantly rarer. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 01:39:27PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 01:37:31PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg Wooledge (12023-04-05): > > > bash has that, too -- you just have to enable it (shopt -s globstar), > > > as it's not enabled by default. > > > > Ah, bash ha

Re: package libxnvctrl0 installed by xfce, but nouveau is installed

2023-04-05 Thread zithro
> On 2023-04-04 18:27:59 +0200, zithro wrote: > > Unfortunately, "libxnvctrl0" is a dependency for "xfce4-sensors-plugin" : > > > > apt show xfce4-sensors-plugin > > Depends: libxnvctrl0 > > > > So marking the packages provides the exact same output as above. > > > > Should I report a bug in the

Re: Bullseye and hplip install

2023-04-05 Thread Tjm
Christoph, thanks for the reply. Autoremove was run successfully. The bullseye version was installed with no errors but wouldn't run. I tried several other versions from the repository, both debian and generic versions each built with different configs. No luck. The very latest hplip versi

Debian Bookworm RC 1 installer- a Bug?

2023-04-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
Debian Bookworm RC 1 installer Damned nice, the improvements are appreciated. using the new debian-bookworm-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso Legacy install, GPT partition graphic install, manual partitioning Mate Desktop (others were deselected) WiFi firmware: with a cheap USB WiFi adapter plugged in an

Re: How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package?

2023-04-05 Thread Susmita/Rajib
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package? From: davidson Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 03:10:28 + (UTC) Message-id: <[πŸ”Ž] alpine.deb.2.21.2304030310190.28...@azone.org> In-reply-to:

Re: Bullseye and hplip install

2023-04-05 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:07:28AM -0600 schrieb Tjm: Hi Tony, I have deleted things below because my answer is related to the block below. > Christoph, thanks for the reply. Autoremove was run successfully. The > bullseye version was installed with no errors but wouldn't run. I tried > sev

Re: Bullseye and hplip install

2023-04-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 17:24:09 +0200 Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: Hello Christoph, >I have run hp-check just for curiosity. It reports a lot of missing >stuff. You need to read the output carefully; Much of that missing stuff may well be related to build environment only. If you installed hplip fr

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-05 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 Susmita/Rajib wrote: On 04/04/2023, davidson wrote: [trimmed email headers] [trimmed preliminary negotiation of what would constitute a solution] That is, you'd like to be shown as many characters on one screen as possible, without a lot of wastefully empty margins. (I exp

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-05 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 davidson wrote: Attached (unless the listserv software has nuked it) is a sed script "flow" (with verbose comments) which might serve your needs. (Since you have not exhibited here any of the text you are working with, I can only play the role of speculative optimist.) Tested

Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi list, As the subject says, I am looking for a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures. Requirements: - libre - offline - being usable without command line - translated in French - with a very simple user interface - possibility to either overwrite source image or to create

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-05 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 davidson wrote: Attached (unless the listserv software has nuked it) is a sed script "flow" (with verbose comments) which might serve your needs. (Since you have not exhibited here any of the text you are working with, I can only play the role of speculative optimist.) For tri

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread Emanuel Berg
Yvan Masson wrote: > As the subject says, I am looking for a KDE or desktop > agnostic software to batch resize pictures. First stop these issues are always ImageMagick, including this case as it happens - here are a bunch of commands to get you started https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/g

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:19:56PM +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Requirements: > - being usable without command line On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:40:29PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > First stop these issues are always ImageMagick, including this > case as it happens - here are a bunch of commands to g

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 avril 2023 Yvan Masson a Γ©crit : > Requirements: > - libre > - offline > - being usable without command line Without command line you need a gui and it is hard to batch resize. Gimp is easy for resizing but not for exif. Digikam is good on exif and other metadata.

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Yvan Masson (12023-04-05): > As the subject says, I am looking for a KDE or desktop agnostic software to > batch resize pictures. As other have said, ImageMagick. > > Requirements: > - libre > - offline > - being usable without command line Easy: use your favorite IDE, edit your script, run it.

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread Emanuel Berg
Michel Verdier wrote: >> Requirements: >> - libre >> - offline >> - being usable without command line > > Without command line you need a gui and it is hard to > batch resize. Requirements: - firefight - without guns -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread zithro
On 05 Apr 2023 18:19, Yvan Masson wrote: Hi list, As the subject says, I am looking for a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures. Requirements: - libre - offline - being usable without command line - translated in French - with a very simple user interface - possibility

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I do not use image editing/modifying tools, so I cannot say if these solutions are good in your usecase, but there are at least three tools packaged in Debian: - Converseen (GUI batch tool: conversion, resizing, etc...) https://www.makeuseof.com/batch-convert-resize-images-linux-using-c

Re: vtty & X terminal color scourge

2023-04-05 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 davidson wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:33:26PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: What bothers me more than anything is that dead symlinks haven't been red, or anything else to distinguish them, in a long time. ^

Re: vtty & X terminal color scourge

2023-04-05 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, April 04, 2023 10:33:26 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Now it seems nearly everything has adopted varied foreground colors that > are inadequately contrasty. +1 -- rhk Abbreviated sig. | No entity has permission to use this email to train an AI.

Re: vtty & X terminal color scourge

2023-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Once upon a time, I could count on minimal coloring on vttys and X terminals. > This > was unaffected by my inclusion of > > setterm -foreground white -bold -background blue -blank 59 -store > > in .bashrc, which after some years needed to be changed to > > tty=$(tty);

Re: How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package?

2023-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Apr 2023 at 11:58:49 (+0530), Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My present Debian system installed from "Official Debian GNU/Linux > Live 11.6.0 lxde 2022-12-17T11:46" > > While installing a package I receive this following message: > > W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file > '/root

Re: How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package?

2023-04-05 Thread Susmita/Rajib
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package? From: David Wright Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 18:30:24 -0500 Message-id: Reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-reply-to: <[πŸ”Ž] caeg4

Re: How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package?

2023-04-05 Thread Susmita/Rajib
Bottomline: --- The very question : [Quote] How to get rid of the synaptic message (mentioned below) at the end of installing a package? [EndQuote] becomes immaterial as, like Mr. Davidson so discreetly mentions, THIS IS A BUG. SO, MAY THIS THREAD BE TREATED AS CLOSED. Best wishes, Ra

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-05 Thread Susmita/Rajib
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible? From: davidson Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 16:25:06 + (UTC) Message-id: <[πŸ”Ž] alpine.deb.2.21.2304051620250.20...@azone.org> In-reply-to