| rtndog | hi. you guys have any experience with xclip/xdotool? I'm trying to avoid using the mouse as much as possible, but I want to copypaste things into command lines. | 00:52 |
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| rtndog | thx in advance. | 00:52 |
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| rodia | hi | 01:56 |
| rtndog | im trying to get my ~/.profile file to work correctly with aliases... | 02:47 |
| rtndog | ...when i type the following in the shell, it works perfectly: youtube-dl $(xclip -o)... | 02:47 |
| rtndog | ...and when i alias it like this, it works perfectly: alias y="youtube-dl '$(xclip -o)'"... | 02:47 |
| rtndog | ...but when i put alias y="youtube-dl '$(xclip -o)'" into the ~/.profile file, I am forced to then type . ~/.profile, otherwise the xclip portion of it "expands" to whatever its contents were at the moment I last saved the file. which is obviously not what im trying to do... | 02:47 |
| rtndog | ...i want whatever is *currently* saved at this very moment within the copybuffer to be sent to youtube-dl as an argument.... | 02:47 |
| rtndog | and im trying to save an alias to do so wihtin my profile, so i dont need to type $alias y="youtube-dl '$(xclip -o)'"... | 02:48 |
| rtndog | ...because: i have MANY shells open simultaneously, whenever im using linux. especially when im simultaneously downloading many videos... | 02:48 |
| rtndog | ...any help pls? thx in advance! :) | 02:48 |
| rtndog | also... | 04:24 |
| rtndog | also, where is the procfs located? | 04:24 |
| guiverc | rtndog, the linux proc file system (procfs) is a virtual file system created at boot and exists in memory | 04:25 |
| rtndog | oh. | 04:26 |
| rtndog | so there is no analog to it within the filesystem that appears in midnight commander, or in the shell? there is no way to view it by cd-ing to it and typing ls -la? | 04:26 |
| rtndog | y/n? | 04:27 |
| guiverc | you can `cd /proc` normally (unix/linux treats heaps of things as if files, 'everything is a file' in unix theory), but being a virtual file system, it doesn't exist on disk | 04:28 |
| rtndog | oh ok | 04:29 |
| rtndog | so when im viewing my "root" file system using ls -la or withing mc or some other file browser, and I see that dir called /proc, im actually looking at a dir that does not truly exist on disk, correct? | 04:30 |
| rtndog | basically, the procfs is "mounted" to /proc as a mount point, correct? | 04:30 |
| rtndog | well, the dir *itslef* probably exists as a blank dir called /proc, but i think you understand what im asking. | 04:31 |
| guiverc | I would expect the /proc to exist actually (like you need to create a directory to `mount` something onto it), but it's contents are in the virtual-fs & thus contents won't exist on disk | 04:31 |
| rtndog | ok | 04:31 |
| rtndog | i get it now. thx. | 04:31 |
| rtndog | so now i understand that the procfs filesystem is "mounted" onto the folder called /proc, and that... | 04:40 |
| rtndog | ...the /mnt files are located on other partitions, CD, DVD, floppy, usb, etc. drives | 04:40 |
| rtndog | ...but only /mnt and /proc are special in that regard, right? or are there others? | 04:40 |
| rtndog | but all the other dirs that are just one step away from / are real dirs, correct? | 04:40 |
| rtndog | like /boot, etc. | 04:41 |
| rtndog | those are all real? or are some of them "unique" like /mnt and /proc? | 04:41 |
| guiverc | If you `stat /proc` you'll note the directory itself appears as a normal directory; it's use case makes it special. Likewise too with /mnt. /mnt is often not used so you can `sudo cp` files to it and it acts like a normal directory... /proc however will be used on a normal boot of your system which makes it behave different | 04:45 |
| guiverc | if you were to copy files to /mnt/blah/ when it wasn't in use, the files will exist on disk.. If you later mount a device called "blah" the subsequent mount will 'shadow' the contents of /mnt/blah/ and what appears from then on is the mounted drive... when you `umount` the device that was using /mnt/blah, you'll see once again the files you copied earlier in my example (if you follow me) | 04:46 |
| guiverc | (the shadowning of directories & their contents via `mount` can be useful and times, but also scary if you do something which causes data you put there to be shadowed & thus appears to disappear..) | 04:48 |
| guiverc | s/useful and times/useful at times | 04:48 |
| byte1 | hi | 07:47 |
| byte1 | what:'s up guys | 07:48 |
| rtndog | sup | 07:56 |
| rtndog | guiverc: oh thx | 07:58 |
| rtndog | guiverc: ive scared myself like that before. | 07:58 |
| rtndog | guiverc: especially when i first started out on linux (i started on gentoo, which does not automount anything, so therefore *I*, as a complete noob, had to do it by hand!) | 07:59 |
| rtndog | guiverc: needless to say, i thought that i had accidentally deleted important files. | 08:00 |
| rtndog | guiverc: i was praising God after I umounted | 08:00 |
| rtndog | guiverc: and noticed my files were still there. | 08:00 |
| guiverc | gentoo! a real newbies distro lol | 08:00 |
| rtndog | lol | 08:01 |
| rtndog | well at the time i didn't know a distro from a hole in the ground. | 08:01 |
| rtndog | i thought "linux is linux". | 08:01 |
| rtndog | :p | 08:01 |
| rtndog | actually, there *is* a file you can change to make it automount upon boot | 08:02 |
| rtndog | but those settings must be put into the file by hand, and at the time I was very confused about the nature of the Linux Directory Structure (I still am, actually) | 08:03 |
| rtndog | in any event, aparently the file doesn't always get read at boot. perhpas it only gets read if other files don't exist or something. i dunno. | 08:04 |
| rtndog | it some kinda configuration file | 08:04 |
| rtndog | so i changed the contents, and successfuly saved the file. | 08:05 |
| rtndog | but it had no effect. | 08:05 |
| rtndog | so i ended up needing to always run mount and ntfs-3g by hand. | 08:05 |
| rtndog | every day, every time i booted up. | 08:06 |
| rtndog | very annoying. | 08:06 |
| rtndog | at the time, i had no idea you could script stuff. | 08:06 |
| rtndog | and when i first learned of the existence of "scripts" i kept referring to them as "batch files", which i still do very often. | 08:06 |
| rtndog | cuz batch files are a Winshit thing. | 08:07 |
| rtndog | I'm also a completely self-taught Winshit Power-User. | 08:07 |
| guiverc | I had the advantage of using unix before windows was any good (windows v1), but this isn't support released and should be in #lubuntu-offtopic | 08:08 |
| rtndog | I used to run a Hardened WinshitXP, but I never allow it to touch the web, despite all the Hardening steps which I always follow upon a new WinXP installation. | 08:08 |
| rtndog | ok. | 08:08 |
| rtndog | bye | 08:09 |
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| xwindows | hi there .. | 11:49 |
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| n-iCe | hi guys | 19:11 |
| santimir[m] | <Pica "He probado ubuntu y xubuntu, per"> es fantastico | 21:22 |
| ozzo | hi friends.. whast up? | 22:28 |
| ozzo | i installed compiz but it doesnt work perfect.. what should i do? | 22:29 |
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