Questions tagged [bash]
The default Unix shell used by Terminal in macOS
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Why is .bash_history periodically wiped?
This is the second time it's happened.
I just tried grep-ing some historical commands and came up empty. a look at my bash history shows that it's practically empty. Like it's been wiped clean.
I use ...
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Extract numbers from string using shell
Using shell script, how do I extract two sets of numbers from a string like "R14C11"? I'd like to get the result as an AppleScript list.
R14C11 -> {14, 11}
R5C9 -> {5, 9}
"R" and "C" will be ...
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How to get rid of bash 4.1$? [on hold]
I am trying to load abaqus through exceed on demand. The terminal is now showing bash 4.1$ which was not the case previously.
I used to give the same commands as I have given here previously and could ...
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Automator to remove all text before hyphen ( - )
I am trying to create an apple automator application that will rename a group of files by removing all text before and including a hyphen ( - ) that will post an error if trying to rename a file with ...
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How can I change the ownership of the unwritable directories for Homebrew?
I had admin account before and I deleted the admin and made the user as admin because it was bit of pain in neck. This is now the admin user called zuhairhallak. Before, installing Homebrew, it was ...
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Where in the file system is my shared folder? (AKA: Where is /Volume, and Why Can't I Open It in Finder?)
I want to run a bash script periodically to track the size of a shared drive on my network. The command that produces the data I want is du -sh. I have created a Login item to mount the shared drive ...
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How to remove special character from a folder name?
I am creating a folder like
mkdir -p ../service/target/static
but windows creates it with some special character static. I need to explicitely remove that special character using shell script.
I ...
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Encrypt password with security command
I want to deploy smb password with ARD, or create a small script.
With the command security I have the possibility to add a password in keychain without share the password.
security add-internet-...
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How to get error status back to bash from osascript
Inside a bash script, I'm closing the front window of whatever application is foreground. I'd like to know if the command failed (when the foreground application doesn't have a front window. I tried ...
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Difference between two quite-similar Terminal commands
I have a script that I run as part of my development (it's the activation script for a Python venv environment). The way the documentation suggests that we run it is by going to the folder containing ...
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Bash autocomplete in Terminal stops working after a while
Bash allows auto-completion using the tab key:
If you type cd ~/D on Terminal, followed by the Tab key, you ear a beep, but if you follow by a second Tab key, the Terminal display the suggestions ...
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Attach one .dmg file on different computers at the same time (hdiutil attach)
I have a question about "hdiutil attach"
I've "created" (ctrl+c/ctrl+v) one bash script to execute some .app automatically.
First im mounting shared folder:
mount_smbfs -o nobrowse //SERVER/share "...
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How to show current time in mac terminal prompt?
I have this:
PS1+="\D{%H:%M:%S}";
But this displays the time the prompt started. I want the prompt to show the current 12 hour (not 24 hours) time live (so it keeps changing, and then when a command ...
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Create variable size columns from tab deleminated file
I would like to columnize data from excel. I need to paste the data in a simple text file. Tabs need to be replaced with blanks. What I need is to be able to select the column width.How
cat ...
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Is it possible to duplicate and rename an application?
I tried to do this:
➜/Applications$ cp -R Atom.app OtherAtom.app
but opening OtherAtom just basically opens Atom. It does not produce another application in the command tab menu.
Maybe I need to ...
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After uninstalling Oh-My-Zsh, my terminal is messed up
This is not a duplicate question.
I've already looked at the answers for Uninstalled zsh, terminal gone weird, and although I changed the settings, it still defaults back to zsh title, with a ...
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How to update shell programs
How do I update shell programs like crontab for example?
On my Mac I've got version from 29th of December 1993, but on a server linux machine that I am using version of crontab is much better in terms ...
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Weird LSCOLORS after copying files
Recently I've done clean reinstall of MacOS and naturally I copied all of my important files to external drive and copied them back once I had a clean installed system. The problem is when I type ls ...
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Proxy Authentication Error in pip install Mac
I have tried to set the proxy in the bash_profile:
export http_proxy=http://UserID:PWD@202.141.80.24:3128
export https_proxy=http://UserID:PWD@202.141.80.24:3128
export ftp_proxy=http://UserID:PWD@...
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How can I fix my terminal when editing the PATH in .bash_profile has the startup hang and I get no prompt?
I am new to the command line and clearly messed up my setup.
macOS High Sierra(10.13.6)
Trying to set up Python and VScode.
My path variable is what I believe is wrong, but Idon't know exactly how ...
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Terminal - lose useful keyboard shortcuts during SSH connection
I'm encountering an annoying issue. When I'm connecting to a Linux VM through my terminal by ssh, I don't have tab completion, or I can't navigate through my past commands with the directional arrows. ...
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Why does this shell-script dim my bash colors?
My ~/.bash_profile contains this:
function rgb {
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#8-bit
let "sum = 16 + 36*$1 + 6*$2 + $3"
# echo "\[\e[${sum}m\]"
tput setaf ${sum}
}
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How can I create a Finder alias in a bash script that reads arguments from the command-line?
I'd like to write a bash script that takes 2 inputs:
path to actual file
path of a Finder alias file (not a unix link) to be created that refers to 1.
The bash script should pass these inputs to an ...
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How to open a app in fullscreen via terminal in bash code
I would like to know how you would be able to open a app of your choice in fullscreen by using bash code in terminal.
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Terminal host and user now showing
terminal output \W $
I was trying to change the hostname and due to some error in the command, my terminal got messed up.
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Cannot configure xdebug; “Operation not permitted” error when trying to cp
I'm trying to configure xdebug, but when I run the command
cp Downloads/xdebug-2.6.1/xdebug-2.6.1/modules/xdebug.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303
I get a "Operation not ...
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Modifying `whatis` to return error code for missing commands
Followup to "whatis" returns 0 for missing commands, I am trying to modify /usr/bin/whatis to return a non-zero exit code after an inappropriate command has been entered. My approach to ...
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Different execution of bash script in 'execute shell script' action in Keyboard Maestro
I try to execute shell script using Keyboard Maestro.
In macOS Terminal and Raspberry everything works good. KM shows a strange error.
Looks like the script works but poorly recognizes characters or ...
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GUI trash different from terminal trash
On Mac OS X El Capitan (MacBook Pro Mid 2014) it seems that visiting the trash bin from the GUI produces a bunch of files however visiting .Trash user$ and running ls -a only produces a single file. ...
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Giving instructions to an executable in UNIX?
I'm pretty new at this, so excuse me if this is too easy.
The thing is, I have a bunch of instructions stored in a text file named: 'FTIG_dldStruct.txt' and I want to write them all into an executable ...
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Automator: Move files into new subfolder based on file's name
Disclaimer, this may not be something Automator can do.
I have a large directory of movie files. In order to use a piece of software, each movie needs to be in it's own folder. I'd like to create ...
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macOS - Bash commands not working as needs to be
First of all, the problems:
I'm not able to use both exported bash commands and default system bash commands at the same time
Some of the exported paths working on terminal but some of them not
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“whatis” returns 0 for missing commands
On macOS 10.14, using whatis on a command that is not installed prints 'command': nothing appropriate as is expected. But returns 0 instead of an error code, which I believe is expected behavior. It ...
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Error when parsing my .bashrc — sytax error: operand expected (error token is “ ”)
I have the following snippet in my .bashrc:
# Returns system load as percentage, i.e., '40' rather than '0.40)'.
function load()
{
local SYSLOAD=$(cut -d " " -f1 /proc/loadavg | tr -d '.')
# ...
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Calculating sha256 returns also “-bash: <string> command not”
I'm trying to find a SHA256 hash of a string:
$ fdsafdsa | shasum -a 256
While it returns a hash, it also throws an error:
-bash: fdsafdsa: command not found
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What does “Cache location entry for Photos.app in cache file” error signify in Automator app?
I have written a very basic script to count the number of files in a folder, then if it reaches 16 files, to run an automator workflow, as below:
#!/bin/bash
cd /Users/barbooths/Projects/...
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Copy files from Folder A to Folder B based on Text File C with bash
How do I copy files from Folder A to Folder B based on Text File C with bash?
folderA: source folder with image files only, e.g. image01.png, image02.png etc. There are no space in the image names, ...
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Determine com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles status using command line?
Is there a way that I can grab the status of com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles in command line?
I switch between AppleShowAllFiles yes & no frequently, I want to write a .command file to check ...
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Hide the cursor from the terminal
I want to be able to hide the cursor programmatically. I am okay with giving any required permissions to the script.
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Script to check to see if certain applications were installed [closed]
I am very new to Macs however I did hear that there was a Bash script that can be utilized to check to see if certain applications were installed on a machine
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Can't run one particular program from Terminal without using its full path
I want to run a program ds9 from the Terminal. The program is clearly in the PATH, which I determined by running:
which ds9
/Users/evgenii/miniconda3/envs/iraf/bin/ds9
But when I run the command by ...
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Removing Files after Successful Extraction unrar rm shopt globstar
shopt -s globstar
for f in **/*.rar; do
dir=`dirname "$f"`;
unrar e "$f" "$dir" && rm -frv "${f::-2}*";
done
From echoing out testing the rm command, the file is the correct path. I ...
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Change keyboard layout automatically when external keyboard connected
I recently purchased an external keyboard (non-apple) that is used at home and also dragged along with me from time to time, and I've noticed a need.
My Mac is in English, as well as its physical ...
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Viewing a terminal script as it runs in Automator
I have written an Automator Service that calls ffmpeg, encodes the selected files in Finder, then sends a notification via Growl to Prowl on iOS.
It all works, but I'd like to be able to view the ...
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Command line to create a PDF document from a batch of images [duplicate]
How to create a PDF document from a batch of images ?
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Belowis what I tried before posting this question:
The ImageMagick way, but the PDF document generated is too big:
convert *.ppm book.pdf
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Why aren't my profile and bashrc files hidden?
I've been following tutorials to edit .profile, .bashrc and .bash_profile and I discovered that my computer has profile, bashrc and .bash_profile files instead.
i.e. Only the .bash_profile file is ...
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In a MacOS Mojave bash script “-w /etc/passwd” is false even for root
An old bash script I have tested to see if a user was root by seeing if /etc/passwd was writeable. In MacOS High Sierra it returned true for root, and false for anyone else. But in macOS Mojave the ...
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Is there any way to convert a bunch of .ogg files in a folder to .mp3 using ffmpeg?
Is there any way to convert a whole heap of .ogg files in about 30 folders in a folder containing those folders to .mp3 files and put them in another folder using the command ffmpeg? The previous ...
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Use 'mv' command to move files except those in a specific directory
In Linux, I know the command mv !(folder1|folder2) folder1 if I want to move all files in current folder, excepted folder1 and folder2, and move they in folder1. But these commend, doesn't work in mac ...
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ls -axi (what does it do)?
So I was messing around in terminal, and when i opened it, I typed cd applications .
Nothing bad here.
Then, I typed ls -a\ in applications (or maybe /, I don't know, but it opened the > thing ...
