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access shell alias with dmenu
I have a collection of bash commands (one liners) that I use on a regular basis to open new shells or start programs with a given set of arguments. As I use dmenu, I'd like to be able to use those ...
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How to mark things I download automatically executable?
I spend a lot of time downloading things that I am going to execute, without a doubt, after having downloaded them. Out of the 900-ish files in my download folder right now, roughly a third is stuff ...
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ssh to execute remote command under interactive shell
Very similar with Run a command in an interactive shell with ssh after sourcing .bashrc, yet the answer there doesn't work for me. I want to to execute remote command via ssh under the full ...
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Reasonable way to customize ( change ) an executable program's command ( name ) , in terminal
Background Using xfce4-terminal as an example, I want to run the program by just typing term. When I type which xfce4-terminal it returns /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal. So, I created a symbolic link: sudo ...
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Compile a shell script to an executable binary with make
I know shc can convert the shell script to binary, but there is obvious and famous tool to decrypt it. So, I want to find another way to do this. I've heard that make can also convert a shell script ...
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I want to terminate a python script if it doesn’t output anything to the terminal in 2 min
Here's my current bash which is just a loop while true ; do python3 /Users/Name/Desktop/pythoncode.py done I want to terminate pythoncode.py if it doesn’t output anything to the terminal in 2 ...
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File definitely exists. Get "No such file or directory" when trying to run it
This is on Arch Linux. Take a look at this: [saint-llama@hubs bin]$ lsattr --------------e----- ./install_fnp.sh --------------e----- ./toolkitinstall.sh --------------e----- ./FNPLicensingService [...
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Linux shell script: Run a program only if it exists, ignore it if it does not exist
I am programming a Linux shell script that will print status banners during its execution only if the proper tool, say figlet, is installed (this is: reachable on system path). Example: #!/usr/bin/...
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How to list all commands available from $PATH [duplicate]
I would like to list all commands available in $PATH. Any idea ?
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Can you put multiple executable scripts in one directory, and by sourcing that directory make all of those commands available?
I want to put a bunch of executable scripts in the .command dir (which is also executable), and then only have to source that directory in my .bash_profile. Is this possible? I can get this to work ...
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Fastest way to determine if shebang is present
If I have a file with #!/usr/bin/env foobar what is the fastest/best way to determine if this file has a hashbang? I hear you can just read the first 2 bytes? How?
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Change the default executable for file with potentially missing shebang
I have a library - users are to create executable files, potentially with a hashbang to tell exec which executable to use. If they omit the hashbang, then I think most systems default to /bin/sh, I ...
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Executing a program gives No such file or folder error [duplicate]
I can't execute a simple executable. The result of ll user@user-SATELLITE-C855-169:~/Bureau/Workspace/buildroot/buildroot/output/host/opt/ext-toolchain/bin$ ll total 16948 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user ...
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Is there a way to route all commands through a shell script instead of running directly?
I want to be able to have everything being executed, rather than running the program, runs a shell script with the executable as the argument. It'd be nice to be able to do this without having to ...
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The type command can't distinguish between an executable command and a shell script
So I was reading the book The Linux Command Line, and it says that commands are of four types: (1) executable programs (2) shell builtins (3) shell functions (shell scripts) (4) ...
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