Is there a portable way to get the current username in Python?
What is a portable way (e.g. for Linux and Windows) to get the current user’s username? Something similar to os.getuid() would be nice:
portability
Which shells support ANSI-C quoting? e.g. $’string’
I have a shell script that uses the following to print a green checkmark in its output:
Testing if a variable is empty in a shell script
I have seen the following technique used many times on many different shells, to test if a variable is empty:
What is the most portable method of launching a terminal emulator?
Say I need to write a script that will launch a terminal and execute a command and I need that to work on various systems. How can I do that in a safe and portable manner?
Which is the most portable of sed, awk, perl and sh?
Can someone put these tools in order of portability? Which of these is certain to be found on even the most minimal *nix systems? Is any of them 100% sure to be present? My guess is that the order is the following:
How can I safely get the version of ksh?
How can I safely get the version of ksh from within a ksh script?
Is “/etc/issue” common for all Linux distributions?
I’m trying to Create OS detect portable function in bash script,
Unix-portable way to get script’s absolute path in zsh?
What is a portable1 way for a (zsh) script to determine its absolute path?
tail -f, but with line numbers
I’m trying to see how many times foo bar appears in /var/log/foo.log within an arbitrary amount of time on a remote server, but nothing that I’ve tried so far has worked.