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Running a script based on raw events from a specific HID?
Does this seem feasible Yes, you can read raw input from the "evdev" interface at /dev/input/event*, either using libevdev or directly from the device nodes, or using the higher-level ...
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How can I pick random items from a list, but some more often than others, in a Bash config file?
You can try to weight each cipher with an associated weight using two simple bash arrays, and then generate a tempfile which you can scan later with shuf: #!/bin/bash cipher=("AES256" "...
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Creating in Linux files in GB or MB range by various size by read a file
It sounds like you might want to do something like this: $ cat ./tst.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash while read -r idx sfx size; do echo fallocate "file${idx}.${sfx}" "$size" done < ...
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Running a script based on raw events from a specific HID?
Have a look at libinput (you must install libinput-tools With libinput you can detect an events and play action when this events is detected For example here is the output when I'm touching my ...
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How can I pick random items from a list, but some more often than others, in a Bash config file?
If you're just trying to create a shuffled list of "ciphers" with different number of repetitions per cipher then: #!/usr/bin/env bash generate() { while read -r reps cipher; do ...
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Running a script based on raw events from a specific HID?
The completed solution for my specific problems ends up being a couple scripts connected to each other. The main one deals with the libinput event log (which is piped into it) and runs the final ...
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