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Please note our brand new meeting location: Winnipeg Senior Citizens Radio Club, 598 St. Mary's Road, 2nd Floor
WSC is located at 598 St. Mary's Road, 2nd Floor, a block South from the St. Mary's / St. Anne's fork, on the West side beside the Miller's Meats. It's in the old fire hall, so you really can't miss it! Look for the red doors.
There is no elevator, so attendees will have to be able to climb a flight of stairs. Apologies to anyone requiring accessibility.
There are a limited number of parking spaces for WSC around the building. If you arrive early you'll probably snag one. If not, there is parking available on the nearby streets, such as Mager Dr, or the streets off of St. Mary's such as Blenheim or Clonard Ave. Be careful not to park in nearby private parking lots unless otherwise indicated.
MUUG meetings also take place online (typically using BigBlueButton) for those who can't be there in person. Meeting link will be provided on the home page, prior to meeting start time.
ncurses library,
offering a more user-friendly and visual way to explore
disk space consumption compared to the traditional
du command.
Brad's presentation covered the man page, various command-line options,
including the very useful -e option
(to load file meta-data such as file modification time),
and various key commands within the TUI
(such as "d" to delete selected files or directories).
mkisofs
(and its fork, genisoimage),
used to generate ISO-format file system images, which can be burned to CD's.
A secondary lean-in to the /bin pulled out
ngettext,
which got us tangled into the weeds of locales and message databases
for multi-language support.
An online attendee also recommended the
sponge command,
which soaks up its input then squeezes it out to a file,
similar to
tee,
but without standard output, and (most importantly), with a delayed write
(allowing overwrites of a file read earlier in the pipeline).
For those new to the idea, /bin diving is a segment where we select a command at random on the spot and everyone gets to work out what it does and what it's good for. Collaboration and improv at its finest. It always ends up being interesting and you're guaranteed to learn something new!
And for those puzzled by the topic title, it's a paraphrased reference to a 1979 song by The Pretenders, which included the line "Bein' driving, Detroit-leanin'." (And "deutero" is a greek prefix meaning secondary, as in a secondary or repeat lean into the bin.)
Please note our brand new meeting location: Winnipeg Senior Citizens Radio Club, 598 St. Mary's Road, 2nd Floor
WSC is located at 598 St. Mary's Road, 2nd Floor, a block South from the St. Mary's / St. Anne's fork, on the West side beside the Miller's Meats. It's in the old fire hall, so you really can't miss it! Look for the red doors.
There is no elevator, so attendees will have to be able to climb a flight of stairs. Apologies to anyone requiring accessibility.
There are a limited number of parking spaces for WSC around the building. If you arrive early you'll probably snag one. If not, there is parking available on the nearby streets, such as Mager Dr, or the streets off of St. Mary's such as Blenheim or Clonard Ave. Be careful not to park in nearby private parking lots unless otherwise indicated.
MUUG meetings also take place online (typically using BigBlueButton) for those who can't be there in person. Meeting link will be provided on the home page, prior to meeting start time.