@dafyre said in Searching for text in file:

@Pete-S said in Searching for text in file:

If you have a text file that looks like this:

start_folder='/folder1/abc.txt'
iterations='123'
passphrase='xyz'
last_command='invoke'
return_value='0'

How can you pick out just xyz when looking for "passphrase"?

I know grep will get me the line but what should I use if I want just a part of the line?
Can it be done in one command or do I have to pipe several together?

If you the text has a character that would be a good delimiter, you can pipe grep to cut... ie:

cat myfile.txt|grep "iterations"|cut -d '=' -f 2
Output:
'123'

the -f # is which column you want.

There may be other ways to do it, but that's the first way I can think of.

You can specify a file with grep, no need to pipe in from cat.

@EddieJennings said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@EddieJennings said in Non-IT News Thread:

Sad

Old people die. That's part of life. It was natural causes. so nothing to really be sad about.

True. I suppose I should say I'm pleased he made it to the next transition: death.

If it's sad to you, great. No problem with that. You don't need to change the way you feel because Jared said so. Nobody gives a shit how he feels when someone dies, it's a subjective thing.

@scottalanmiller said in Automated NextCloud Backup to Wasabi or Amazon S3:

We have a NextCloud 19.0.1 instance currently and we'd like to automate the backup of it to Wasabi. I know that I can script it out, but it would be awesome if someone had something that they are already using to make this quick and simple.

Went with rclone as well, documented here:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/21648/onedrive-to-google-drive-wasabi-sync

@scottalanmiller said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

What special case needs UAC completely off?

Company purchases an application that requires it.

As in doesn't support UAC?

What special case needs UAC completely off?

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response.
Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed. It is made from a genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been heavily modified, first so it cannot cause infections in people and also to make it "look" more like coronavirus.

Maybe if I would end up dead from COVID-19, then I'd give it a try.

Exactly - that's the problem with any vaccine they will come out with in the next two years, maybe even four. They are rushing it so much - no way in hell I'm taking it until something like 1 million people have, and has less than a .01% bad effect.

How did we get past the 1918 flu? @Grey ?

How much has science advanced and technology changed in a hundred years? How much money is being funneled to allow scientists to focus on the problem? How many of those people are working on it now vs. working on the 1918 flu? Yes, the older flu took 90 years to get a vaccine, and how many were working on that for the entire span? How many anti-vaxxers will it take to fill up a graveyard when they deny science and valid research?

Don't get me wrong - there is definitely valid research out there - but finding it is practically impossible today.
Just look at the hospitals, etc reporting huge number of Covid cases over things that are almost certainly not covid related.
It's a bloody money game, with your life in the balance.

The vaccines of yester-year seem infinitely safer than the drugs they continue to pump out today. The FDA is nothing more than a shill of the pharmaceutical companies showing a faint vein of care for the public good.

If a lifeguard tells you, "Don't go swimming, there's a shark," would you ignore them just because you don't see a fin? Because you're doing exactly that. Ignoring the valid experts in their field because you saw a Karen post on facebook and now you won't wear a mask, or you wear it under your chin in the false belief that you can't breathe.

I bet you love hearing your IT users ignore your advice.

Again, another terrible analogy, and not even the discussed point.

@scottalanmiller said in Resume Update:

@Obsolesce said in Resume Update:

@Pete-S said in Resume Update:

@Obsolesce said in Resume Update:

@scottalanmiller said in Resume Update:

Make sure technology names are correct.

PowerShell is PowerShell, not Windows PowerShell. "Windows PowerShell" isn't a thing.

No, PowerShell is PowerShell, AKA PowerShell (6+) based on .NET Core.

Windows PowerShell is exactly that, Windows PowerShell up to 5.1.

So what's the difference actually? I thought it was the same thing.

They are totally different softwares.

PowerShell starts at version 6 (currently 7.x) and is based on .NET CORE.

Windows PowerShell is up to 5.1 and is based on the standard .NET (non-core version), has all the standard Windows management frameworks (5.1) and all that. I don't know all the technical jargon.

But PowerShell and Windows PowerShell are two separate and different products and very much a thing.

Oh, my bad, it really was its name. What a horrible name, lol.

Haha, that made me lol.

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response.
Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed. It is made from a genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been heavily modified, first so it cannot cause infections in people and also to make it "look" more like coronavirus.

Maybe if I would end up dead from COVID-19, then I'd give it a try.

If zombies were attacking, you'd be the guy rushing out to get bitten and claiming that zombies weren't real even as they were avoiding you as part of their new plan to eat only healthy brains.

LOL yeah that's the same thing, genius.

@Pete-S said in Resume Update:

@Obsolesce said in Resume Update:

@scottalanmiller said in Resume Update:

Make sure technology names are correct.

PowerShell is PowerShell, not Windows PowerShell. "Windows PowerShell" isn't a thing.

No, PowerShell is PowerShell, AKA PowerShell (6+) based on .NET Core.

Windows PowerShell is exactly that, Windows PowerShell up to 5.1.

So what's the difference actually? I thought it was the same thing.

They are totally different softwares.

PowerShell starts at version 6 (currently 7.x) and is based on .NET CORE.

Windows PowerShell is up to 5.1 and is based on the standard .NET (non-core version), has all the standard Windows management frameworks (5.1) and all that. I don't know all the technical jargon.

But PowerShell and Windows PowerShell are two separate and different products and very much a thing.

@scottalanmiller said in Resume Update:

Make sure technology names are correct.

PowerShell is PowerShell, not Windows PowerShell. "Windows PowerShell" isn't a thing.

No, PowerShell is PowerShell, AKA PowerShell (6+) based on .NET Core.

Windows PowerShell is exactly that, Windows PowerShell up to 5.1.