I actually just bought a used version for $8, you have to click on the listing to find the lower prices...
No lol, you can't change that file at all even as the root user. There is some way to change the file, but there's something complex with the permissions...like, only a specific "owner" (which in reality is the AI inside of firefox install/environment) can make the changes.
Disregard my last post about permissions, i've requested for it to be deleted because that was my error in what i was doing
None of my posts on that particular topic mentioned using a script.
cp /path/to/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/online-timer.desktopExec=/path/to/firefox field in the copied and renamed .desktop file, to add the URL to the website.Exec=/path/to/firefox https://www.dateandtime.com/timerln -s -T ~/.local/share/applications/online-timer.desktop ~/Desktop/online-timer/usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop.~/.local/share/applications and renamed it to linuxorg.desktop.Name= and Comment= fields to read:Name="linux.org"Comment=Open linux.org in FF-ESRlinux.org .desktop launcher in the menu. Clicking on it opens Firefox to Linux.org.ln -s -T ~/.local/share/applications/linuxorg.desktop ~/Desktop/Linux.org$8 is a good value for sure. Keep in mind that it is not a cover-to-cover spellbinder. It is more like having a dictionary next to you while you write. The more you code in C, the more you will appreciate having that book next to you.
I appreciate the attempt but we have different operating systems, and i tried that (the first part, without the soft link) with both files labeled firefox.desktop i listed on my operating system and either clicking on them or left-clicking and saying "run as program" do not work...there are a pretty enormous numbers of files associated with firefox and it's hard for me to determine which of them is the executable that gets launched when i click on the icon in my favorites bar.
HOWEVER, I just remembered my script for telling me the path of executables and i got this, so maybe my luck will change:
firefox is in $PATH and is executable
Location: /snap/bin#!/bin/bash
#tells user if a script/binary exists, where it is located, and
#if executable privledges are turned on
SCRIPT=$0
PROGRAM_NAME=$1
#instructions
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo "Usage:${SCRIPT##*/} [program-name]"
exit 1
fi
#
if [ $PWD != $HOME ] && ! [ $UID = 0 ]; then
echo "Change to $HOME, or login as root,"
echo "Then try again."
exit 0
fi
#creates file listing path directories
echo $PATH | awk 'BEGIN {RS=":"} {print}' | sed '/^$/d' > path-dirs
#loops through directories and tells user if file exists but is not executable
while read -r line; do
if [ -f "$line/$1" ] && ! [ -x "$line/$1" ]; then
echo -e "${PROGRAM_NAME##*/} is in \$PATH but is NOT executable\n"
echo "Location: $line"
echo "Path to file: $line/$1"
#clean-up
rm path-dirs
exit 0
fi
done < path-dirs
#tells user program is ready to use
while read -r line; do
if [ -x "$line/$1" ]; then
echo -e "${PROGRAM_NAME##*/} is in \$PATH and is executable\n"
echo "Location: $line"
echo "Path to file: $line/$1"
#clean-up
rm path-dirs
exit 0
fi
done < path-dirs
#program does is not exist in path
echo "${PROGRAM_NAME##*/} does not exist in \$PATH"
#clean-up
rm path-dirs
You need to make a dictionary file and replace the things in the script though, first the dictionary path/filename, then the total number of words in the dictionary in the until loops:#!/bin/bash
#random word generator
#creates an array out of a dictionary file
readarray -t word < ~/bash/RNGs/final-dict
#chooses one word by default without arguments
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
randomNumber=$(date +%6N | sed 's/^0*//')
#forces number equal to dictionary number
until [ $randomNumber -le 611668 ]; do
randomNumber=$(date +%6N | sed 's/^0*//')
done
echo "${word[$randomNumber]}"
exit 0
else
#warning for too many arguments
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
echo "Script only accepts one numeric argument"
exit 1
fi
#warning for non-numeric argument
if ! [[ $1 =~ ^[0-9] ]]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [number-of-random-words]"
exit 1
fi
#prints random words for corresponding number of arguments
for (( i=0; i < $1; i++ )); do
randomNumber=$(date +%6N | sed 's/^0*//')
until [ $randomNumber -le 611668 ]; do
randomNumber=$(date +%6N | sed 's/^0*//')
done
echo "${word[$randomNumber]}"
#adds delay in execution to add unpredictability
sleep .25
done
fi
I personally took the ones on ubuntu and combined them with other ones i found online to make it more interesting. That script above produces so many words i didn't know about!In case you didn't know, you may already have a dictionary file. Check out
words (Unix) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
This was interesting and helpful to know. What surprised me was that bash can read a file of 479828 words into the array in @CrazedNerd's script in about a second. I tested on Oracle Linux in a small 1 Gbyte VPS with a single core (Oracle Cloud Free Tier, AMD).In case you didn't know, you may already have a dictionary file. Check out
words (Unix) - Wikipedia
#!/bin/sh
EXTENSION="docx"
WORK_DIR=$(pwd)
MARKDOWN=0
OUTPUT_DIR=""
function print_help {
COMMAND="$(echo $0 | awk -F '/' '{print $NF}')"
echo -e "$COMMAND: convert all documents in a directory to PDF."
echo -e "\nUSAGE: $COMMAND [-e extension] [-d input dir.] [-o output dir.] [-m]"
echo -e "\t -e extension: of the files to process, no dots (.) or wildcards,\n\t\te.g.: docx. Optional, default: docx"
echo -e "\t -d input dir.: directory to process.\n\t\tOptional, default: current directory"
echo -e "\t -o output dir.: directory to store the PDF files.\n\t\tOptional, default: the input directory"
echo -e "\t -m: applies markdown parser to input files"
echo -e "\nExamples:"
echo -e "\t $COMMAND -e txt"
echo -e "\t # converts all txt files in current directory"
echo -e "\t # to PDF"
echo -e "\t $COMMAND -e txt -m"
echo -e "\t # Same, but intepreting the content as markdown"
echo -e "\t $COMMAND"
echo -e "\t # converts all docx files in current directory"
echo -e "\t # to PDF"
echo -e "\t $COMMAND -d ~/Downloads"
echo -e "\t # converts all docx files in current user's"
echo -e "\t # Download directory to PDF"
echo -e "\t $COMMAND -d ~/Downloads -o ~/Documents/out"
echo -e "\t # converts all docx files in current user's"
echo -e "\t # Download directory to PDF, placing the PDF"
echo -e "\t # files in Documents/out (relative to current"
echo -e "\t # user's home)"
}
while getopts ":d:e:o:m" OPT; do
case "$OPT" in
d) WORK_DIR=$(realpath "$OPTARG")
;;
e) EXTENSION="$OPTARG"
;;
m) MARKDOWN=1
;;
o) OUTPUT_DIR=$(realpath "$OPTARG")
;;
\?) print_help
exit 1;
;;
esac
case "$OPTARG" in
-*) if [[ "$OPT" != "m" ]]; then
echo "ERROR: Option $OPT needs a valid argument"
exit 2
fi
;;
esac
done
if [[ ! -n "$OUTPUT_DIR" ]]; then
OUTPUT_DIR="$WORK_DIR"
fi
if [[ ! -n "$WORK_DIR" || ! -d "$WORK_DIR" ]]; then
echo "Error --the directory specified, $WORK_DIR, doesn't exist."
exit 3
fi
if [[ ! -d "$OUTPUT_DIR" ]]; then
echo "Error --the output directory specified, $OUTPUT_DIR, doesn't exist"
exit 3
fi
echo "Work directory: $WORK_DIR"
echo "Output directory: $OUTPUT_DIR"
FILENAMES=$(ls -1 "$WORK_DIR"/*."$EXTENSION")
# This loop is explained in this answer from StackOverflow
# https://superuser.com/a/284226
while IFS= read -r FILE || [[ -n $FILE ]]; do
FILE="$(echo $FILE | awk -F '/' '{print $NF}')"
FILE_OUT="$(echo "$FILE" | awk -F '.' '{print $1}').pdf"
if [[ $MARKDOWN -eq 0 ]]; then
pandoc -o "$OUTPUT_DIR/$FILE_OUT" "$WORK_DIR/$FILE"
else
pandoc -f markdown -o "$OUTPUT_DIR/$FILE_OUT" "$WORK_DIR/$FILE"
fi
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "Error processing file $WORK_DIR/$FILE";
exit 4
fi
done < <(printf '%s' "$FILENAMES")
exit 0
