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Posted on 5th Feb 2025
I regularly use apt to update/upgrade system packages, but i usually forget to update snap packages/apps or github repositories or appimages... For the last one, i haven't found a global solution, but for the others, i did. Below is a simple script, that will update and upgrade your system, based...
Posted on 21st Jan 2025
As i showed in a previous post, with fzf, we can also use dmenu as a method to input text. It's not that difficult, but tricky yes. So, with this method, i built a BASH script, to search the Internet with the search engines i prefer, from everywhere i am at the desktop. No need to pull the termi...
Posted on 27th Dec 2024
This is a theme for the whiptail linux tool, that creates menus in the terminal. It's similar to dialog. I made it for a project of mine, but because there aren't many themes out there, i share it for anyone who might find it useful. whiptail doesn't have a config file for its colors. You hav...
Posted on 26th Dec 2024
As you may know, i have a Hackberry Pi, which has a trackpad. The trackpad it self, is excellent to use in GUI but it has no use at plain TTY terminal, which is what i use most, while operating the Hackberry. So, i had to found a way, to emulate the trackpad movements into keyboard keys, to use in...
Posted on 18th Dec 2024
One of the most useful commands when i used DOS, was deltree. Quickly and easy, deleting large areas of the hard disk, with no point of return... In Linux, there isn't such a command, or perhaps, it's a bit disguised, but never the less, it hasn't the features of the original deltree command or...
I have seen a similar implementation of a CD command for bash/linux that used a method to store a kind of DIR bookmarks and i...
Let see how we can use fzf for getting an input from the user... and i don't just mean to choose from a list of...
...or how to play games from a linux machine, from the terminal ;) Hackberry Pi, has a square screen, which makes it perfect for Gameboy...