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@antichris
antichris / mvru.sh
Last active August 13, 2024 13:27
A POSIX-compliant recursive "mv --update", like "cp -ru" but moving instead of copying.
#!/bin/sh
## This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
## License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
## file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
usage=$(cat) <<***
Usage: $0 SOURCE DEST
Perform a recursive "mv -u", like "cp -ru" but moving instead of copying.
@probonopd
probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active September 20, 2024 16:44
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

The Wayland project seems to operate like they were starting a greenfield project, whereas at the same time they try to position Wayland as "the X11 successor", which would clearly require a lot of thought about not breaking, or at least providing a smooth upgrade path for, existing software.

In fact, it is merely an incompatible alternative, and not e

@deshion
deshion / get_options.sh
Last active September 9, 2024 14:13
Parse command line options for a shell script (POSIX)
#!/bin/sh
# POSIX
# Reset all variables that might be set
file=
verbose=0 # Variables to be evaluated as shell arithmetic should be initialized to a default or validated beforehand.
while :; do
case $1 in
-h|-\?|--help) # Call a "show_help" function to display a synopsis, then exit.
@rafaelbiriba
rafaelbiriba / install_ffmpeg_libfdkaac.sh
Last active July 25, 2024 03:04
Install FFmpeg with libfdk_aac support (For Ubuntu)
# Criando um script .sh para executar todos os comandos:
#root@servidor:~# vi script.sh
#root@servidor:~# chmod +x script.sh
#root@servidor:~# ./script.sh
apt-get update
apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential git-core libass-dev libgpac-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev libmp3lame-dev nasm gcc yasm && true
mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac.git