Questions tagged [bash]
The Unix shell formerly used by Terminal in macOS until 10.15
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Why is LANG environment variable wrong in shell?
When I start a Terminal (in Monterey 12.2.1) my LANG is sv_SE.UTF-8, which is fine.
When I start a shell, or any other sub-process that reads environment, from GUI Emacs it is set to LANG="en_SE....
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Terminal ls command does not list complete contents of /Applications
In Terminal.app, I issue the following commands:
cd /Applications
ls
It lists many, but not all, of the apps that the Finder sees. The ones it appears to omit are all Apple, but it doesn't omit all ...
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How to batch update finder tags, date created, and date modified on copied files based on original/reference files
I'm trying to update finder tags, date created, and date modified on files that were incorrectly copied to a new server, stripping all of these attributes. I still have access to the original server ...
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How do I debug zsh when startup performance is slow?
I'm using Z shell inside iTerm2 every time I open up a new window or a new tab it takes around 8 - 9 seconds to load.
I found some information on how to debug zsh. I came across this Speeding Up My ...
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In iTerm how can I close a shell session when the running command finishes?
I open some iTerm2 sessions via ttab. I start these session for textual UI commands like top or commands which might run for a long time like cp -r <large-dir> <backup-location>.
After the ...
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Change creation date to folder name - batch
Hi I have a load of jpg and avi files in sub folders which are named with the date the files were created. Unfortunately the files themselves have incorrect creation dates which I would like to batch ...
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how to change extended attributes on mac recovery
xattr worked on mac desktop system
but I want to let it work in mac recovery terminal
but xattr is not included in bash of terminal
I copy xattr to usb drive and run it on recovery terminal ,but it ...
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Updating just Safari through terminal on Big Sur
There is a new version of Safari and I'm trying to update just Safari on my machine using a terminal command. I have Big Sur 11.6.3. I've done Softwareupdate -l and I see the Safari update there. I ...
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Defined bash commands not found when passed in "do shell script" in osascript
I am new to shell script and recently wrote a script to open a new terminal window and run defined functions via osascript with "do shell script", but the result showed the command not found....
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Prepend folder names to file name
I'm trying to add the folder name to the names of the files contained in the folders and sub-folders. @nohillside has already provided a command which solves partly this problem; see Prepend folder ...
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update/upgrade bash without homebrew
I have MacOS El Capitan - about bash it is:
bash --version
... version: 3.2.57(1)-release
...
I did realise the mapfile command is not available in that bash release. I already did do research and ...
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I'd like to change the shell script instruction to the one available in the terminal
do shell script "bless -mount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly" password "0000" with administrator privileges
tell application "System Events"
restart
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'grep --color' only shows limited number of matches and duplicates input lines
I have a lengthy string on one line and want to highlight all occurrences of a character/substring using grep --color on the command-line.
However, this only highlights matches in 'chunks' of 32. If ...
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Alternative for getent to launch containerized ShinyProxy with a docker engine
I'm following this tutorial to launch a containerized ShinyProxy with a docker enine. It works as expected, until there is this getent command that seems to be unavailable for MacOS :(
sudo docker run ...
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Bring PID's window into focus from Bash script
I'm writing a little script to run when a Windows/Wine-turned-macOS(using-Automator) app is opened.
To keep it light, the app does not bundle Wine, instead the script checks if it's (Wine) installed ...
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macOS doesn't run executable file anymore, after upgrade to Catalina/Monterey
Since I upgraded to Monterey (from Mojave), I cannot run anymore a local server that was installed under /Applications.
The app has no extension, the file type is "Unix Executable File". It ...
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How do I get env variables to load on terminal startup? [duplicate]
It should be noted that I am on MacOS 12.0.1 and I'm looking to add some persistent environment variables.
I have seen posts about creating and adding to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile but I'm not sure ...
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MacOS: How to delete network services from command line?
I have several dozens of non-existent network services that appear in the network panel in System Preferences.
I have generated a list of network services with:
networksetup -listallnetworkservices
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Tail terminal command is extremely slow when processing files with long lines
The tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file).
EXAMPLE:
$ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt
takes 10+ minutes, whereas
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zsh does not find script in PATH while bash does (echo $PATH is the same)
I am trying to execute a script using just its name. So naturally I added it to the PATH variable. But it seems zsh does not care. If I switch to bash everything works fine. The following terminal ...
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under macos 10.15.7, why cannot cron find files on my external hard drive? [duplicate]
I purchased an external hard drive
for scheduled backups of my macbook pro,
presumably under cron.
My rsync commands work fine when I invoke on the bash (interactive) command line.
But as soon as I ...
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Set Screensaver Programatically
I have searched for this, but can only find (old) fragments of information.. and nothing especially concrete for Big Sur or Monterey about how to set the screen saver through a script (bash most ...
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Convert PS1 prompt from bash to zsh for colour customisation
The macOS Monterey system uses zsh shell instead of bash, and I want to convert this bash command which you'd normally store in a .bash_profile file
export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[...
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Is there an alternative to whiptail for macOS?
I would like to try out a shell script that makes use of whiptail, but I am on a MAC and whiptail doesn't seem to exist there. Does anyone know if there exists a drop-in alternative (like, for example ...
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Mac terminal found open with “man James” text. Have I been hacked?
I found a terminal window open with the below.
I ran /bin/bash -x and it looks like VMware was accessed and GPG tools.
It also added something suspicious to my login items... have I been hacked?! Also ...
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How to delete line 7 in a file in Bash with sed?
How to delete line 7 in a file in Bash?
I tried
$ sed -i '7d' ~/demo
error:sed: 1: "~/demo": command a expects \ followed by text
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permission denied to add current directory to path
I am trying to install NGC CLI on company's Mac following the instructions given here.
https://ngc.nvidia.com/setup/installers/cli
When I try to run the third command there, which is
echo "export ...
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Programs don't show up in jobs if I start them in the background with a shell script
I want to launch a three programs (2x streamlit, 1x python) in the background with a shell script:
#!/bin/sh
cd /Users/mc/src/crypto/ || exit
streamlit run dashboard.py &
streamlit run ...
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Using osascript to get the file currently edited in Xcode
I'd like to write osascript that fetch the full path of the file currently being edited in Xcode. I've tried the following code, which works most of the times.
However, if I just modified the file ...
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osascript : automate several clicks in Xcode application doesn't work
I'd like to run ocascript from bash that goto my Xcode application and perform the following steps :
click the Select All button under Edit menu.
click the Paste button under Edit menu
(this will ...
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Why `read -N` doesn't work in this script on mac terminal?
could anyone please advise me how to fix this for a terminal in macos?
Thank you for your help.
read -s -N1 -p "Press a key: "
K1="$REPLY"
read -s -N2 -t 0.001
K2="$REPLY&...
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Bash terminal error setlocale:LC_COLLATE
i installed mac ports bash and when i set my default terminal to mac ports bash and when i restart i get an error. I also get this error when i installed bash with brew.
how can i fix this issue?
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Why are spaces being converted to question marks in this script?
I'm attempting to modify a bash script someone else wrote, and while it's off to an okay start, I'm running into issues.
For any files that contain a space, the spaces are being converted to question ...
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How to check if permissions for /usr/local, /usr/local/bin, /usr/share/man/man1 have been altered, and how to restore them?
Following this answer
https://superuser.com/a/1025007/642458
I tried to install tree from source. Running make install the first time, I got this output:
...$ make install
install -d /usr/local/bin
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What is xcrun and why would updating to macOS Mojave cause it to go missing?
I just upgraded my (Intel based) MacBookPro to macOS Mojave and now when typing git pull in a (Bash) shell, I now get the message:
xcrun: error invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/...
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What is the Bash DEFAULTS "domain" for changing [accessibility > display > colour Filters > tint]?
I want to write some bash-scripts that change for me system settings like:
accessibility > display > colour Filters > tint
What's in general the best way to find that "domain" (...
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sqlcmd cannot find odbc 17 on MacOS Big Sur
I installed MSSQL per directions here.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew tap microsoft/mssql-release https://github.com/...
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Where is the starting path set for apps created with Automator?
So, twenty years later I tried to adopt Launchpad one more time, failed, but it got me to start creating Automator apps from Wine apps or Java applets.
On the resulting app, I open it to move the ...
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Catalina and pyenv install python versions fine, but anything needing ssl fails
I seek to use pyenv instead of manually installing an official python release. My goal is to run the included script titled “Install Certificates.command”.
My assessment of the situation is pyenv is ...
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How to open multiple terminal tabs in same window via apple script or bash [duplicate]
I am trying to open 4 terminal tabs in one new window, script I am using :
if application "Terminal" is running then
tell application "Terminal"
# do script without ...
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zsh command substitution fails when assigned to LINES
Why does this fail for zsh?
bash-3.2$ FILENAME="/Users/john/Desktop/hash.txt"
bash-3.2$ LINES=$(cat $FILENAME)
bash-3.2$ echo $LINES
ccf09b34dd38f383ce0eb37efbda0bfc546bb562 ...
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Can I trigger a Shortcut from bash in macOS Monterey?
Specifically, I want to be able to control Focus programmatically, I thought I could trigger it via a Shortcut but can't find anything.
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Bash language is incorrect [duplicate]
I'm using Bash 5.1.8 from MacPorts as my shell. For some reason Bash is part French and I can't figure out why. Launching Terminal.app with "Set locale environment variables on startup" ...
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Equivalent of xdotool script to open lots of terminal tabs and do actions, on macbook
I'm just migrated to macbook from ubuntu, for development.
I had a bash script in ubuntu which opened lots of terminal tabs, and entered various commands in each one, like going to a particular folder,...
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launchctl: Unrecognized target specifier
I think that at one point in the past I disabled my media keys using the instructions provided in this answer. I am trying to re-enable them, but upon using the command:
launchctl bootstrap "gui/$...
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upgrade bash on M1 but cannot change to the new bash
I installed new bash via brew
brew install bash
which bash # /opt/homebrew/bin/bash
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash
I have added /opt/homebrew/bin/bash to /etc/shells
$ bash --version
GNU bash, ...
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Apple Silicon: /usr/bin/mandoc: Bad CPU type in executable
I recently upgraded from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac. When running man ssh then hitting Q in Terminal it throws the following error:
sh: /usr/bin/mandoc: Bad CPU type in executable
My guess ...
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npm command not found in zsh but found in bash
I installed npm with nvm and the first time it went all great, now I tried to check npm version on Mac terminal an it shows:
% npm --version
zsh: command not found: npm
But using VSCode terminal with ...
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zsh: permission denied when Terminal has Full Disk Access
I regularly use shell files to execute tasks on my Mac quicker.
I just upgraded to MacOS Monterey today, and since then, any shell files I have created, will not execute. Every time I double click on ...
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"which" command returns paths with two consecutive slashes
On my macOS machine, I noticed that sometimes the which command returns paths with two consecutive slashes. For example:
bash-3.2$ which gcc
/usr/local/bin//gcc
bash-3.2$ which qr
/Users/flyingblu/bin/...
