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Environment: Ubuntu 24 I'm trying to create a bash script to turn on/off the backlight after a period of time keyboard if no key is pressed. It's working when I run it by hand, but when I try to run ...
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Is there a functional difference when piping a shell variable with printf or using a heredoc and expanding the variable inside the heredoc? Piping: txt=… printf '%s\n' "$txt" | xxd Heredoc: ...
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I have a simple makefile that should print the Git log, which looks as below. SHELL=/bin/bash get_log: echo $(git log)
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Running Ubuntu 24.04lts. NOTE: I am trying to read the notification sent by he Discord app to my personal desktop notifications. When I notification from a specific sender, with a specific message, I ...
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Aim My aim is to analyze a (big) (sub)directory and just find out what file extensions all files have there (recursively). Additionally, these conditions apply: I am on Windows, but I could use WSL ...
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I want do download certain search results from the internet archive. I would like that the names of the resulted files and directories to be the title of the work -- idealy YYYY_<author>_<...
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for in in Bash is setting variable. I need only the variable itself from this command. for VAR in FILE*; do something (hate it) done I plan to use this variable later, not in the block itself. Just ...
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I downloaded Fedora 43 Cosmic (Wayland) and found no way to disable my touchpad (mouse is always connected). xinput and synclient seem to be X11 only. Touchpad Disable is a simple checkbox with KDE ...
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I am looking for a one liner that could be run in a linux terminal that does the below. Takes as input a tab separated file (tsv) with many columns (~100) and creates a two column tsv output with ...
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I seem to be observing conflicting evidence regarding how the tty and the shell share responsibility for displaying user input. In the following interactive session, user input is no longer echoed to ...
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Consider the following Expect and Bash scripts: spawn-bash.exp #!/usr/bin/env expect spawn bash stty raw -echo log_user 0 remove_nulls 0 expect { -i $spawn_id "?" { send_user -- [...
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I wanted to execute the below command. I have a file with server names. for i in \`cat /tmp/srv_list\`; do ssh $i "uname -a; uptime; grep -E "warn|error|failed|issues" /var/log/...
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When executing a Bash script from PATH, the $0 is set to some string that is equal to the full path of the executable. Consider a script in /tmp/script.sh #!/bin/bash echo "0=$0" echo "...
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I have the following git alias function that moves files into a directory using git mv of those files and then does the git commit : [alias] mv-into-dir = "!mvIntoDIR() { \ cd ${GIT_PREFIX:-.}; \ ...
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(I am using the kitty terminal emulator, though I would appreciate answers for other terminal emulators as well.) I run a command, and get some error message, like this: ~ » somecommand ❌️ Some Error ...
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I have this alias to format $PATH into one line per path: alias path='sed ''s/:/\\n/g'' <<< "$PATH"' I tried to specify the env var to list, like path $MANPATH but still with a ...
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Problem When launching a Python debug session in VSCode using debugpy, I see three commands spawned in the integrated terminal: devbox shell - executes automatically ✓ source /path/to/project/.venv/...
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Right now, this is working: while read attribute_one attribute_two; do read -r -d '' json_payload << EOF { "attribute_one": "${attribute_one}", ...
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I'm building a .NET MAUI app and facing an issue on Android — the TabBar (Shell tabs) overlaps with the system navigation bar at the bottom of the screen. Here’s what happens: The tabs are partially ...
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This is my main script: #!/bin/bash read -p "Name: " NAME read -p "Age: " AGE read -p "Country: " COUNTRY echo "Your name is $NAME. You are $AGE years old. You ...
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In the below shell script, I'm trying to conditionally add elements to an array which is syntactically incorrect when checked in shellcheck. #!/bin/bash echo "Hello World"; HH=1 ARR=( &...
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I am running the following command though a Python script: tcsh -c 'cmd1 && cmd2 && cmd3 && cmd4' Only the first command is getting executed or the first two commands are ...
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I'm trying to keep a transparent always-on-top overlay (made in AHK v2) above the taskbar in Windows 10/11. The Problem: Everything works except when the Aero Peek / Show Desktop event fires (e.g. via ...
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POSIX.1-2017 specifies two line-oriented file editing utilities: ed(1) and ex(1). ex is more efficient for noninteractive batch-editing because POSIX requires it to accept one or more file operands, ...
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I am trying to create a macOS Quick Action that allows a user to select multiple chapters from a PDF's bookmarks and extract each one into a separate file. The script uses the cpdf command-line tool ...
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When I set a DEBUG trap in Bash like this: set -o functrace trap 'echo "# $BASH_COMMAND" >&2' DEBUG Suddenly, this function stopped working: getBase() { local base="$1" ...
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I'm trying to place the output of awk 'NR==4 {split($0, a, "$"); print a[3]}' filename in sed -i 's/1/2/' hyprpaper.conf such that 1 is replaced by the output of the command awk 'NR==4 {...
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I am using the following Bash script. What I don't understand is why the parent PID and the current PID are not matching. For example: #!/bin/bash my_background_function() { echo "Starting ...
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Given the following script: curl --interface wlan0 --connect-timeout 60 --max-time 1800 -X PUT -T /tmp/compress_log/20250922_utc.tar.gz "https://ota.eu.globe-groups.com/devicelogs/881e3272-4ab4-...
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I've tried to build a shell script that iterates through all possible XOR obfuscations of a string within a DOS binary executable, parsed using radare2 in hexadecimal, and find it. Am I doing this ...
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Recently I found something really unnerving on my Linux environment (Ubuntu 24.04): peng@pop-os:~$ nvm Node Version Manager (v0.40.3) Note: <version> refers to any version-like string nvm ...
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Mid-switch to Linux I realized I've a large personal and work archive that has over 1100 Windows Shortcuts(.lnk) of both files and folders and it is unusable without them and have been trying to ...
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I would like to make a simple python script, that will create a virtual environment, then activate that environment, install pip modules from a req.txt file in the same shell that I just activated ...
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My task was to port debian12 to debian13. In debian13 I noticed that the website was behaving differently with Perl v5.40.1. I found out that the following line returns different values on different ...
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I like using :!pbpaste | jq to see my JSON objects when reading logs in vim. But it often throws the following error with the slightest inconvenience in the JSON body. jq: parse error: Invalid numeric ...
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I have a Docker build process that requires access to my AWS Code Artifact repository for Python packages that I store there. This is my Dockerfile. Notice that it accepts PYTHON_REPO_URL and uses it ...
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I'm trying to implement simple wrapper for find to find files, links or both. Here is path of my code: typeArr=() if [[ "$type" == "f" || "$type" == "l" ]]; ...
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I've developed a couple of Windows Explorer shell extensions in C++ implementing IShellIconOverlayIdentifier, and they've worked fine. But this time, I need to do it in a 32-bit build, for a 32-bit ...
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I want to get latest mdadm(4.4) built as binary and to be included in my bundling. These are the steps followed. sudo dnf groupinstall -y "Development Tools" sudo dnf install -y gcc make ...
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csh and tcsh use the syntax $?var to test whether a variable is set or unset. $?var or ${?var} expands to 1 if $var is set (even if it's set to the empty string), or to 0 if it isn't. This 0 or 1 ...
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Raising this ICM after seeing this message in RTO - Target not found in inventory service. Either Target: 'a2f578be-f7f9-992b-45dc-20bff334b092' is invalid or doesn't belong to 'Public' cloud.Below ...
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I have a large file with several columns and millions of rows. The first column is a unique id for each record which is a long integer. From this large file I need to create a subset with few thousand ...
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I am currently working on a project and need to connect in bluestacks using adb and code in c#: I have a problem when every time I use the command adb: C:\Windows\system32>"C:\Program Files\...
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I'm updating an old Windows app to use the Windows 11 IExplorerCommand context menu interface, using a sparse package to give the app an identity. It was (mostly) working, but at some point in the ...
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I am using shell script to get instance id and instance state on the basis of instance name. And for that I am using below query in shell script: INSTANCE_NAME = "ABCDED00WEB" ...
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I am building a shell as part of a school assignment, a limited version of bash. The whole program seems to function alright without any kind on leaks, but when I send invalid/nonexistent commands ...
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So, I have got two directories personal_files and personal_files_oldcopy Through some file processing, I am not sure if both directories contain the same structure, or additional / missing files are ...
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How can I use the output of a shell script as variable in another shell script. Suppose the following Makefile build: DOCKER_IMAGE_ID=$(shell docker build -q -t myimage .); \ OUT=$(shell ...
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I want to customize my zsh prompt so that when I open the terminal, it shows a normal prompt without a timestamp, like: ABIR~ ❯ When I type a command (for example, ls), the prompt still shows no ...
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I want to sort lines with time format strings using shell command. Shell shall be a common linux shell. Example input: results/fn_a:# Generated on: Mon Jul 21 17:20:48 2025 results/fn_b:# ...
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