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Open GUI linux terminal in non-interactive mode
It would be helpful if I can open a terminal and run commands exactly as if they would be run by a non-interactive bash script, to test whether certain commands work in non-interactive mode without ...
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Is there any way to permanently have shell aliases on an imutable system
I'm on blendOS https://blendos.co/ which is an immutable operating system which means I cant just add a file to /bin/ like you would do normally to add a custom command right now I'm keeping it simple ...
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How can I add a line to file using bitbucket pipeline build
I have made a bitbucket pipeline, but I want to make changes to configuration file each time during after its build I want to add "Staging" each time after the build of the project to a ...
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Unexpected `^[[I` shows up when running vim script from command line
In a shell script, if I source even a trivial vim script this way $ cat ascript :q $ cat test vim -S ascript -N -u NONE read This is what I get when I run it: $ bash test ^[[I The ^[[I output is ...
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How to remove query parameters from file extensions? [duplicate]
How to remove query parameters from file extensions i have downloaded 260 000 image files, which look like this: filename.jpg? filename2.jpg? filename3.jpg? how can i easily rename/remove the ...
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Welcome message in the terminal
I'm trying to create a script that shows a welcome message when the root user enters the terminal. My current problem is that the welcome message also gets shown if a normal user starts the terminal......
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Bash script for plotting multiple files with Gnuplot
I want to plot several files just executing a bash script which calls Gnuplot. My idea of a possible bash script is: #!/bin/bash gnuplot plot 'my_first_file.dat' u 1:2 replot 'my_second_file.dat' u 1:...
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Arguments to change awk variables
Newbie at Bash Scripting. List of Data: Filename has date included "0310_Filename" Hour AM/PM Game 1 Game2 Game 3 12:00:00 AM First Last First Last First Last I am ...
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Swap positions of two consecutive lines exhibiting a common string
I have a text file with approx. 12 millions of lines, each composed of 4 fields (column 1, 2, 3 and 4) Most lines have a unique STRING in column 2. I don't want to modify any of these lines. Spread in ...
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Terminal window title vs Git branch name in the command prompt?
I wanted to add information about Git branch to my command line prompt, and I found this post: parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/' } export ...
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How to add a text file into a bash script then work with that text file
I need to read into my script 3 parameters, the first 2 are numbers and the third one is a .txt file. For example: example.sh 3 2 exam.txt And with the third parameter exam.txt that already has some ...
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(perl) Rename bulk files - moving section starting with #{NUMBER} to front
I am trying to rename many files with the example formatting using rename with perl scripting 'Balisong Tutorial - (0g Chaplin) - Advanced #21-d8ajkHL34s0.mkv' 'Balisong Tutorial - (ALT Reverse Behind ...
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Changing the Creation/Modification Dates of Nested Folders
I have 1,000,000 .mp4 files in a single folder (Mac) and was looking for some code that would move the files into dated folders based on their creation/modified dates (they are the same). @pLumo came ...
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Get terminal status for termcap capabilities
How can one retrieve status of terminal settings like smam and rmam ? Reason is that I set rmam by: tput rmam in script, then proceed to set smam on exit: tput smam But if terminal has rmam set when ...
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why are /etc/rc.d/rcx.d files empty
As I was trying to find which services get started at each run level, I run ls -l /etc/rc.d/rcx.d and even manually browsed and open the files. But there seems to be nothing in there. Is this ordinary ...
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