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Stop some software from updating in Manjaro

I have a lot of software in Manjaro 20.0 that I don’t use in my day to day use such as GIMP and Thunderbird (and maybe more) but don’t really want to uninstall. Is there some way to temporarily freeze them by excluding them from updates as a lot of them can get really heavy. I’m looking at s…

sending input from file descriptor

I have a binary that I’m debugging remotely, one way for me to send input to that file is throw when I do the above the input is been received by the binary but I can’t simulate a keypress, and that causes me to switch to that binary and press enter every time. here is an example when you run

How to detect folder path i ran script for?

the below script is to unzip zip file and rename extaracted subtitles names according to tv show episodes names. and then convert them to utf-8. here is the problem: I want to run this script in a linux os and inside any tv show folder i want.but I want the path in fixing function to be detected from the fold…