LinuxBBQ

If you launch this script from the command line, you'll get a bunch of xml which isn't all that useful except for making an openbox pipe menu. otoh if you launch it with the --record option it will start up ffmpeg and record the url for you. Even in this case, though, the awk line that extracts stre...

@xaos thank you very much for checking it over. I was about to implement your first suggestion ($2, avoid - or --) right away, but on rethink: $2 is coming from the script itself (from beebotron), so should be a valid url already, in theory. (The script is not meant to be called with --record by the...

too much info, too much info. Ah true. But with your programming background (way superior to mine) it should all make sense pretty soon. Quoting and the use of spaces might be stumbling blocks? It all seems to be based on the idea of someone sitting at a terminal: one-word commands and arguments se...

Joe, you've presumably seen this before?
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
It was (still is) my bible getting to grips with bash.

Lots of fun once you get the hang of it though.

good grief that was on my machine the whole time...
as biscuit says. nixy weirdness.

So yours doesn't look like it does here; http://s12.postimg.org/6666vjyux/2013_08_31_205441_1376x375_scrot.jpg Okay, that means it's an issue on my end. Sorry. Not just at your end: http://s24.postimg.org/ykoxvc5dt/2013_09_01_font_zeros_scrot.jpg No dots or slashes on zeros, unless I enforce my own...

In any event, there are several people here who are much more proficient with bash than I am, so I will bow out. Hah! You make it hard to join in without seeming to be pretending to that title. :| Anyway, I just logged in intending to post those exact same points: 1) as long as you don't want to do...

This is the lastest version of a script I published on CrunchBang to access the excellent Beebotron site , get a list of all the bbc "listen again" music programmes available, filter out the stuff you don't want and make an openbox pipe menu to play your choice in radiotray (or other) or r...

There's another alternative to /dev/* or UUID, labels. Both /dev names and UUID's can change, but if you give a partition, or usb stick, a label it will stay till you format it. Then you can mount, say, a squeeze partition with the label 'squeeze' with sudo mount -L squeeze /path/to/mount Thunar wil...

Thanks everyone for the offensive effusive welcome

(always thought bikers were weird...)

Seems like more and more of the people I enjoyed the posts of are moving over here. Hello all! I haven't forgotten any of you, but the main reason I continue to hang out at Crunchbang is I like Debian Stable. In fact this box is still running Oldstable, and not giving me any trouble at all, which is...

I used symlinks once ... can't remember what for ... I tend to forget things (/media/5/tips-n-tricks - text files help me remember things) ... but it broke somehow ... never used them since ... maybe when changing distros. I'd rather have direct links ... 'I feel better that way'. I will however ch...

About the .d stuff - I don't know/think it will be obsolete. It is really just a way to manage stuff easier, like ... eating with chopsticks :D I'm guessing the separate files in a .d folder make it easier to do things automatically with scripts. otoh, a single file with commented-out lines is prob...

Just for the record: I had another look, and can confirm: * The "change keyboard layout" item in the bbqmenu does not work. * 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' runs a series of ncurses(?) screens but eventually changes nothing. * 'dpkg-reconfigure console-data' does bring about the...

FWIW, general impressions after trying the CLI "Virgin" for a couple of hours... Great idea, booted up in a few seconds, lots of interesting stuff in the menus, and all kinds of useful utilities. Everything looks nice and well put together. First task was to get the network up and the tool...

Good news first - this worked: dpkg-reconfigure console-data Thanks for your suggestions, guys, but just for the record: * The bbqfix network config utility puts you through what looks like 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration', but whatever you select, nothing changes. edit: Sorry, of course it...

The CLI Virgin looks nice, but I haven't been able to get it to recognize my Japanese keyboard layout. This makes setting the password for wireless impossible, so no network... Up till now Debian has always successfully set my keyboard layout by simply choosing "Japanese", but on Virgin I ...