Tux Machines

today's howtos

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 16, 2023

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: history

history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.

Holger Levsen: How-To use fwupd

As one cannot use fwupd on Qubes OS to update firmwares this is a quick How-To for using fwupd on Grml for future me.

Steinar H. Gunderson: Joining files with FFmpeg

Joining video files (back-to-back) losslessly with FFmpeg is a surprisingly cumbersome operation. You can't just, like, write all the inputs on the command line or something; you need to use a special demuxer and then write all the names in a text file and override the security for that file, which is pretty crazy.