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How to redirect output from a program that waits for input
Following this post I created my own version of the script, with the difference that user and password are forwarded from the environment variables:
#!/bin/zsh
pamtester login $user authenticate <&...
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How to analyse a number of different datasets with a script and save the output for each dataset in a different new directory?
I am interested in analysing 50 different datasets with a script and saving the output of each of the 50 analyses in 50 different corresponding directories. To avoid doing this manually, how could ...
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SSH Agent Scope Issue with i3 and Detached Process
I have an issue with scope of ssh-initialization.
I have following script for ssh-init.sh:
#!/bin/zsh
check-ssh-agent() {
[ -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && { ssh-add -l >& /dev/...
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"history" command ordered by most common
Can I get the output of history sorted in order of most-used?
I know how to do it in a programming language, but not from the shell. In my case I'm on macOS with zsh.
I know I could use uniq and sort ...
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To check whether first or last character of a string is x
I am trying to check whether the first or the last character of a string is x using zsh, and I get an error message instead:
./test.sh:2: bad substitution
What is the problem here?
string="2x3&...
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How to make '.zshrc' to search for sourced files in the specific folder and not in the folder from which the terminal has been opened
macOS 14.5, Zsh 5.9.
ls -A -- ~/:
.zshrc
system-wide-clipboard.zsh
cat -- ~/.zshrc:
autoload -Uz zmv
alias zcp='zmv -C'
alias zln='zmv -L'
. ./system-wide-clipboard.zsh
If I open the Terminal ...
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In bash/zsh, how to compare the metadata in two directories including . and excluding .. and the contents inside subdirectories?
Let's say that in a script, you have a directory $1 and its copy $2 and you'd like to compare the metadata (names, permissions, sizes, full modification dates, …) of the files and directories inside ...
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incrementing file names in zsh
I am trying to write a script in zsh (Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia") to move (or copy) a file from $source to $target with confusing results. I'm using yad file dialogs to select the files and ...
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Salesforce dataloader #!/bin/bash script errors mentions .zshrc
I'm trying to run a certain application (Salesforce dataloader v61) on MacOS.
The entry point is a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
DL_INSTALL_ROOT="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")&...
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crontab /bin/zsh: can't open input file: test.sh
I am trying to create a crontab to run a script:
* * * * * cd /Users/test3/Desktop/Scripts/backup/ && /bin/zsh test.sh > /tmp/cron-output.log 2>&1
where test.sh is in /Users/test3/...
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find with execdir, pipe redirection evaluated too early (quote issue?)
I use multiple GitHub accounts at work, so I need to modify the remote url to add my work account. I have figured out the recursive find -execdir, and how to get/sed/set the remote url, but I cannot ...
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Combine two files as part of a command line parameter
I am trying to use csvgrep (part of csvkit) to extract rows matching one of two files. Unfortunately, there is no command line option that allows two matching files (like grep does). Only,
csvgrep -f ...
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In zsh, Home, End, and Del behave differently inside a script than they do outside
I learned after much frustration that having $EDITOR initially set to vim doesn't affect the main shell but does affect scripts and nothing seems to undo this initial state.
Unsetting the env var, ...
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How do I execute a command but only add a *modified* version of it to the history?
I'm trying to create an analog of the command history, but for the output of the commands, so that I can do e.g. locate filename (which might display several files) and then vim %2 (or whatever) to ...
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Zsh: Is it possible to use the value of a variable as a substitution pattern?
Is it possible to do something like the following?
g=$f:s/$in/$out/;
or
g=$g:s/$in[$i]/$out[$i]/;
I've tried random character combinations like ${~in} and g=$g:ps/ but, as you can see, I'm not a zsh ...
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