The way it's written is a little off putting, being a new user to Arch (migrated from mint) and having the correct syntax for tools like sed remaining a little bit of a mystery, it's hard to notice the ' ' s that encapsulate the sed parameters. (it actually took me 6 or 7 goes at it before I realised that the ' was not a smudge or mark on my monitor.
Is it wise to have something so complicated for a 'noob' when this is the place they would come to get help ?
The assumption when you use Arch is that you have either already seen/used sed (and hence would expect the ' 's to be there) OR that you are willing/able to find out. Arch is not aimed at those who do not fall into either category.
I realise there is the whole search it and find it yourself ideal, but really, most information if not all but bugs / errors (even most of them) can be found with enough google-Fu, so it kind of in my opinion defeats the purpose of having a forum to help people when the ideal is that they help themselves...
The forum provides pointers to information you need to understand and solve problems, not 'copy-paste' lines for you to use. It does NOT exist to allow the lazy to fire off simple questions.
Just take a look at the existing threads, most of them are problems which need external input. If some are just hand-holding questions, the 'report' button exists on every post.
]]>Is it wise to have something so complicated for a 'noob' when this is the place they would come to get help ?
I realise there is the whole search it and find it yourself ideal, but really, most information if not all but bugs / errors (even most of them) can be found with enough google-Fu, so it kind of in my opinion defeats the purpose of having a forum to help people when the ideal is that they help themselves...
]]>I would gladly try registering a second account to verify the problem if that is desirable/acceptable.
Please don't. We have the policy that there be only one account per user.
]]>I would gladly try registering a second account to verify the problem if that is desirable/acceptable.
]]>$ date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9
gave the result
4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9 -
which was pared down to
4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9
by sed 's/\W//g'
but the forum registration required
4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9-
It seems that your version of sed does not treat "-" as a word spacer, whereas the one included in debian sid does.
(Or something like that)