@derobert the video is mostly a demo of running the two listed commands, along with starting Firefox to show that it’s the ESR version. So it doesn’t add much to the post... But the post doesn’t say anything really, and as you say it’s incorrect (it doesn’t address the Thunderbird problem).
@Kusalananda I wanna invert matching within the string. I found an alternative via awk's field separator. I just set the field separator to Found:? which gives me what I want.
@StephenKitt Hi Stephen! Sorry for the late reply; took the day off for kid stuff. I "passed" that "link-only" Answer because it did have more than a link -- it had the two commands. I keep referring back to meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/307535 and "if the text of the post contains an honest attempt at answering the question, then it is an answer"
@Kusalananda Output from virus software. Along the lines of "a whole bunch of crap I don't need Found: virus names" Note the colon doesn't always show up. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It is well-defined when the colon is there and when it isn't, but at runtime the script doesn't know anything about that.
@JeffSchaller OK, that makes sense; in this particular case as derobert says it will probably fall under the “Does that mean these answers should forever hang around the site? No, not necessarily - if it turns out they're just not that useful, they should probably still be removed” part of that meta answer...
> Does that mean these answers should forever hang around the site? No, not necessarily - if it turns out they're just not that useful, they should probably still be removed - or at very least, down-voted so that they rank below other answers.
@JeffSchaller it's just somewhat surprising to see it kicked out of a review queue with an "it's OK" when it really should be deleted, just for a slightly different reason.
@derobert I'm with you! I remember terdon, actually, turning my head sideways on that one -- from "is it a good answer" to "did it attempt to answer the question" -- from the review side of things, anyway
comments and/or downvotes being appropriate for the "an attempt was made" poor answers
that's my perspective, anyway!
I need to put up a "Learning the art of the low quality review queue" ... my TODO list is never done
Does it really count as making an attempt when someone shows up to a question that already has a good, thorough answer, is already resolved, and posts — a year later — an answer consisting of nothing more than two commands that don't even work?
@JeffSchaller A downvote, sure. The comment would probably take more effort than the answer (especially if you try to test it!), and just would add even more noise. (And we have both "not an answer" and "very low quality", so I don't think they're supposed to mean the same thing.)
The flag box says "This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed." ... which seems to apply
(Obviously, you can salvage any answer by editing and replacing the entire thing. So that's got to mean something like copyediting, or at least editing that respect's the authors intent.)
Probably, though, if @terdon thinks unix.stackexchange.com/a/524847 shouldn't be deleted then it's really a discussion for meta
There are various command-line tools to make dbus calls; systemd comes with one called busctl. So you can call StartTransientUnit from the command line.
The command
The syntax is positively annoying, but it looks like this (for one process id, 14460):
busctl call --user org.freedesktop.systemd...
would appreciate it if anyone has a chance to review that and see if it makes sense to anyone but me