Questions tagged [bash]
The Unix shell which was the default shell in macOS until 10.15
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Side effects of changing the default shell in macOS to a Homebrew location
Some people prefer the latest Bash version for macOS (because /bin/bash is still a version in the 3.x range). This can be changed with this: brew install bash chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash However, ...
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Terminal / Bash: Permission denied when appending to a file with RW rights granted by ACL
I have a file "test.log" inside a directory. The directory has an accesslist, defined as: 0: user:Me allow list,add_file,delete_child,file_inherit The file "test.log" (created by ...
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Change word separators for text navigation in Terminal
This question may already be answered on here somewhere, but I'm unsure what keywords to use for my search. In the Terminal, I frequently navigate around lines using the meta+left or meta+right arrow ...
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Shell script run daily by launchd stopped working after macOS Sequoia upgrade
I have a setup to copy backups from an Ubuntu 22 server running in the cloud to a local Mac. On the Mac I have a shell script to run the rsync command and a launchd daemon to run this script daily. ...
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How to alias the "Apple version" of 'ls -lO'?
macOS Ventura with a 'MacPorts' installation that includes GNU replacements for numerous "Apple-sourced" utilities including ls. The original ls is located at /bin/ls, the GNU/MacPorts ...
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Installing FORM on a Mac
I would like to install FORM from GitHub on my Mac: https://github.com/vermaseren/form So far, I have downloaded the file and tried to run ./configure via the terminal in the corresponding folder. ...
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macOS notified me that "bash" had been added to "Login Items & Extensions". Why? [closed]
After updating from macOS Sequoia 15.2 to 15.3, on reboot my Mac informed that bash from /Macintosh HD/bin/bash had been added to the Allow in the Background group of the Login Items & Extensions ...
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What does this curl command give access to?
I've run a command that in hindsight, I should have better understood and now want advice on how to understand the impact of my actions. curl -k -o /var/tmp/ffmpeg.sh https://api.drive-release.cloud/...
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/usr/bin/env and command with pound symbol in it
I want to use nix shell in my shebang. The issue is that nix shell uses # symbol as part of flake name and env command on macOS acts a bit weird with this symbol. For example if you will create ...
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Piping grep With sed
How do I search and replace strings within all files of folder and subfolder using grep and sed? I'm trying to use this combination, but it keeps giving me an error. grep -rl 'old' *.php | xargs sed -...
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How to force a specific iCloud folder to sync using BASH / Shell Script? (MacOS Sequoia)
This is my current idea: cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/"INSERT PATH TO FOLDER" && find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 brctl download I plan to run this once per ...
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Adding a reminder with keith/reminders-cli, upon passing its attributes with json?
I discovered https://github.com/keith/reminders-cli and found it supports also json. How can I use it with jq to add a new entry with desired attribute? I tried the following json_string=$(jq -n --arg ...
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Where is the new bash_profile located in Big Sur OS?
Since nano ~/.bash_profile is no longer working with zsh, where is the new location for making changes to bash? Here is where it IS NOT: ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.zshprofile, ~/.zshrc ...
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Cannot get zsh to resemble bash_profile with xterm Linux colors for MacOS
I installed a new logic board and thought I had to reinstall MacOS, so I upgraded to the final release of Big Sur. I've realized the bash shell is no longer being used, and now MacOS is using zsh, and ...
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How to prevent “iTerm.app” would like to access data from other apps [duplicate]
5.10) on a MacBookPro M1 Max with MacOS 15.1.1. After the Mac has started an Bash-Script automatically starts and should do the following: function ragx() { cd ~/projects/chroma docker-compose ...
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