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The official docs doesn't have a section for CachyOS or Arch Linux. I tried following some guides online to build it myself, to install AUR, snap, pacman, and I don't know what other methods, but none ...
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I'd like to develop some short scripts for Windows users, but my computer is running Debian 12. I'm aware that I can tell the Windows users to install Powershell 7 or another scripting language which ...
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I read through some other threads of similar issues but none of the solutions worked (haven't tried overwriting the public key as I don't know if that will lock me out or cause other issues, if this ...
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I want to log into a Ubuntu server from my Windows machine. When I use PowerShell, permission is denied. PS C:\Users\sebastian> ssh [email protected] [email protected]'s password: Permission ...
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I host numerous RHEL 8 servers in the Azure environment. I am using a Red Hat Satellite VM to patch servers and then I rely on the owners to reboot once patching is complete. I want to implement a ...
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I have a problem as of late where I am developing some PowerShell script to manage and update some digital displays. Please see below for my work in progress (By no means done). I am struggling to be ...
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I can do this to directly enter a PowerShell ssh foobar 'powershell' , but in this shell, arrow keys won't work. It works if I just: ssh foobar ..and then enter PowerShell, by typing powershell. ...
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I created a GCP instance, and I created a private and public key on kali linux, I saved this key in the metadata of GCP, so I can access the instance through my kali machine. Then, I need to copy a ...
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I've been using yt-dlp to download audio files before running mpv for playing them back. I've been specifically using the following commands: yt-dlp -f ba "ytsearch:major artist cool music" ...
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It is extremely likely this question comes from a major misunderstanding, but I will explain what I am trying to do/have done. I am also not fully sure this is a Linux/Unix issue. My goal is to view a ...
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I'm currently running Gentoo Linux and have installed PowerShell (app-shells/pwsh-bin) as I am a contrarian. That being said, I am unable to obtain colour by default when running certain commands. ...
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On Stack Overflow a comment to Can PowerShell Core handle ps1 files with CRLF line endings in Linux environments? asserted that executable files that use a shebang must use only the LF line ending, ...
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So I'm working on a powershell script that runs a pester test. The script connects to a Kubernetes pod with a Mongo database. The goal is to check whether or not a collection in the database is empty. ...
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For example I have 190 files and I want to add L001 in the middle. How can I do that using cmd command, or PowerShell if it is better? Also some numbers are 2 digits some are 1. PP-SD01_S1_R1.fastq.gz ...
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In powershell I'm used to doing something like this: > $python_files = get-childitem *.py > echo $python_files[0] The second command allows me to extract the first file, since get-childitem ...
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Using the DPI class script referenced here I can get DPI scaling for my main monitor how would I also get the output from any additional monitors which may have a separate scaling factor?
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When I run a specific program with choices Do this Do that Do something else And eventual sub-choices Enter website: Enter credentials: I want to do the following echo {choice} | echo {choice2} | ...
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This is a follow up question from this question that got contributed by another person. I have following output from a webserver: { "status":"OK", "result":{ ...
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It seems to me that the license surrounding Powershell would prevent a Live CD coming with Powershell; but I'm not a laywer. But it also seems to me that it would be somewhat useful for purposes of ...
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I have a small script that checks if my rsync backup has completed and if so sleeps my machine. This is on WSL (Debian). #!/bin/bash # if rsync is running, then wait 5 while ps aux | grep -q -e "...
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The call instaloader --post-filter="likes > 16720 and not is_video and date_utc >= datetime(2021, 5, 29)" --no-profile-pic --no-videos --count=12 cristiano works fine. But put the ...
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On Asterisk boot/reboot I want a PowerShell file to be executed. I have created a .ps1 file on /var/spool/ which is supposed to copy new files from an asterisk directory and transfer them to an Azure ...
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My scenario is I have a file that has the contents looking like this but longer. https://pastebin.com/q33wFdAX I need to remove each occurrence of <category>Games</category> </...
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I have a requirements where I need to print a webpage in PDF format. Created one dashboard and shared it using permalink(a permanent static hyperlink to a particular web page). I need to print this ...
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I am stuck with the following problem: we have an app that runs an continuous loop opening remote connection via powershell (performing some actions and then closing). This works fine in a Windows ...
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Shell scripts are better when having a shebang like so: #!/bin/bash echo "The shebang above this line works like a typical a comment but with a purpose" PowerShell scripts are also shell ...
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I'm on Fedora 33 + Gnome. Open gnome-terminal in a folder (let's say, the Downloads), open another terminal tab/window and type pwsh: if you check the value of $profile it refers to a temporary ...
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I have gone very old school but it's is great fun. vim is great at editing without GUI so connecting to a remote data collecting PI it gives a very simple stack to maintain code and settings. It works ...
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I have a script I run from Windows Powershell and it can update a files modified, and last accessed timestamps. I run the script from a Windows 7 laptop but it can update file timestamps that reside ...
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I'm trying to insert records into a column in Oracle where the values are passed from a shell variable. The variable itself stores pattern generated from a list of files. This pattern is generated on ...
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I want to install WSL 1 in my Win 10 OS, and have followed the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 from PowerShell as Admin: dism.exe ... - no problem ...
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I'm trying to run a gRPC service on Linux while running a client on Windows. I seem to be unable to test the Linux port that I use from my Windows machine. Both machines are in the same network. ...
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I want create one template template from one modele with power cli. I have esxi 6.5 and vcsa 6.7 Plese can you help me
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In looking at powershell, the general assumption is that it's being used either for or on Windows machines in a homogeneous network. Strictly within Linux, and only using "core" powershell, looking ...
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I have a piece of code which generates a output as chunk. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks version 6.4.2, hotfix 7, build V103, 2018-07-18 Connecting to the BW Agent using TIBCO ActiveSpaces (Java). ...
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Is it not possible to install Get-Disk on Linux? PS /home/thufir/powershell> PS /home/thufir/powershell> Get-Module -ListAvailable Directory: /home/thufir/.local/share/powershell/Modules ...
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Is there a way to install PowerShell on TinyCore? The below link is the MS documentation for supported Linux distros. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-...
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I am having some issues installing PowerShell on my 32-bit Kali Linux PC.  I followed this guide and started with: apt update && apt -y install curl gnupg apt-transport-https Next, I ...
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So far on Windows 10 I used mainly the PuTTy bundle (PuTTygen, Pageant and PuTTy, etc) to SSH into remote Linux machines. I use Pageant as a private key holder to hold to private key (and possible ...
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I'm trying to save on linux powershell core 6.1 information about the volumes in a variable. Best in the same or similar format as it is possible on windows. But i am unable to achiev this kind of ...
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I was curious as to whether or not there is an equivalent to PowerShell's "Switch" command that lets you maneuver with input instead of using a multitude of "if-statements"
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Why is Resolve-DnsName not recognized for PowerShell Core? So far as I recall it works fine with PowerShell itself. Is this a .NET versus dotnet problem? That dotnet simply doesn't have this ...
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So I am currently using the wget command on windows 10 powershell to download various files. However, when testing this command, files do not actually download. For example, say I want to download an ...
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I have just installed the open-source version of PowerShell for Linux on Arch Linux using the powershell-git package from AUR. When I try PowerShell's -Version functionality, I get the following: PS /...
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I've always found it awkward when complex shell commands involve parsing text output with AWK. Basically we're converting structured data into text, then parsing the text again to get back at the ...
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