IRC:notowner [2020-01-22]

To share (other) output with others use http://dpaste.com for example (see note-1). Copy&paste your output there, press the "Paste it"-button and share the created url with the people at the IRC-channel to give them access to it.

If you want to share output directly at IRC: avoid to paste more than 3 lines, as this is seen as "flooding" / "disrupting" the channel. If you are exceeding predefined limits, mintbotd will mute (block) you for about 1 minute to stop you from flooding the channel; you wont be able to write at the channel for this period.

The behavior of a terminal regarding the usage of common hotkeys for copy&paste is a bit unexpected for new linux-users. As CTRL+c is already used in terminals to abort running commands, one has to use: SHIFT+CTRL+c instead to copy marked text from the terminal to the clipboard. And to keep the hotkeys consistent you have to use SHIFT+CTRL+v to paste text from the clipboard to the terminal.

If using commands with sudo, you will get ask for your users password. (with older mint-versions, your will get no feedback shown while entering it; newer mint-versions will show some asterisks * while entering it)

If you just want to run the helper-script without keeping a copy of it, Copy&Paste the following line to your terminal:

source <(wget https://www.orcus.de/Entities/linux/notowner.sh -O - 2>/dev/null)

In case you want to keep a copy of the script for later use or need to run the command using sudo:

"cd" into some folder where you keep your common scripts.

To download the script, make it executable and run it as your regular user, Copy&Paste the following lines to your terminal:

wget https://www.orcus.de/Entities/linux/notowner.sh
chmod +x notowner.sh
./notowner.sh

To run the script as root-user (might be needed if owner-ship and/or persmissions of files/folders are broken a bit more), you can run the command using sudo with it:

sudo ./notowner.sh

find ~ ! \( -user $USER -o -group $USER \) -exec ls  -aFld {} \;

In case your ownership is broken a bit more, you will likely not be able to access some of the nested sub-folders; which you can bypass to a certain degree by using the find-command with prepending sudo... (which will ask for your password)

sudo find ~ ! \( -user $USER -o -group $USER \) -exec ls  -aFld {} \;

You can redirect the output of "find" to an paste-service and share the shown url with supporters at IRC by (add sudo in front as needed).

find ~ ! \( -user $USER -o -group $USER \) -exec ls  -aFld {} \;|nc termbin.com 9999

The output will be an url, which you could open in your browser (right-click onto the shown url to open it via context-menu) - copy the url to the IRC channel if you need assistance with the shown files/folders.