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<SOLVED>Need help joining Arch Linux forums

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I'm trying Arch Linux and almost immediately have run into a problem. My internet is wifi-only--ethernet is too far away--and apparently I can't get onto the internet without first downloading and installing wpa_supplicant. Of course, to be able to download it from the repos means I have to first have internet access...
Sort of a case of "Keyboard not detected. Press any key to continue."

Anyway, I need to join the Arch Linux forums so I can ask what to do. The only problem is a strange command on the bottom of the page
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What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?(Required)
Well, whenever I run the code in terminal (both in Arch and in Mint), I always get a > as the only "output" (if you could call it that), which is not correct. Does anyone know exactly what it's asking me to do?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php

Thanks!
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Re: Need help joining Arch Linux forums

Post by Habitual »

Yep.
Open a terminal and run

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date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
use the output for the signup.
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Re: Need help joining Arch Linux forums

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I'm trying Arch Linux and almost immediately have run into a problem.

That sounds about right.

Edit: I got:
810ae2f3e2f796b4b0dbedaeb58387e2ad8e8db2b79714ed3128b41482205bd6
same answer without the " sed 's/\W//g' "/
Please edit your original post title to include [SOLVED] if/when it is solved!
Your data and OS are backed up....right?
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Re: Need help joining Arch Linux forums

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Flemur wrote:That sounds about right.
Hilarious.

I get 810ae2f3e2f796b4b0dbedaeb58387e2ad8e8db2b79714ed3128b41482205bd6 also
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Re: Need help joining Arch Linux forums

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And I got the same thing too.
Thanks! I was missing the ' at the end--thought it was double quotes instead of triple and therefore was ignoring them entirely.
So I was running

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date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g
and the correct command, of course, was

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date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
Fixed now. Thanks!
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Re: <SOLVED>Need help joining Arch Linux forums

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Glad it worked out!
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