I can no longer edit my last post, but the following section:

finalduty wrote:If you want to remove the comments from the script and strip it down, use this sed command

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sed '/^## /d' fastestmirror.sh && sed '/^$/d' fastestmirror.sh

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Very nice script. Would like to see it again if you get the part about choosing the mirror automated :) Today's your lucky day ;) It took me a little while of fiddling with this to get it just the way I wanted, but here is the result. I've commented it all for you, including the part at the bottom ...

I came across this myself and came up with the following little script: http://chiron.net.nz/useful-links/code-snippets/#archlinux-fastestrepo.sh mirrors=$(cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | grep "Server =" | sed 's/^.*\=//') for i in ${mirrors[@]}; do echo -n ">" && echo -n $i >> .massping.tmp ping -fc...

I have struggled for the last couple of hours trying to get this to run under a separate user as I do not use the 'pi' user myself. I have this set to autologin and start and have finally managed to get this to running how I wanted it to: I assume you are logged in as your alternate user and in your...