Let’s say I want to write a shell script that executes just one command. But this command is poorly designed. It doesn’t offer any command line options; instead it asks some questions and waits for user input.
In a POSIX sh, or in the Bourne shell (as in Solaris 10’s /bin/sh), is it possible to have something like:
I use Ubuntu 14.04 and in a terminal I became root with sudo su and I wanted to delete root’s trash manually. It deleted everything except for a few files that start with a dot. Like .htaccess etc. So I went to that directory (which is “files”) and I ran this command:
Consider the simple script hello:
I’ve script as below :-
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My question is how to get the user name on the shell, who is currently using the Linux desktop (on a “normal” desktop system, where you usually only have one active user, i.e. no server system here, but just your usual Laptop etc.). If you really want to imagine a server system, I would be … Read more
I’m on OSX 10.11.1 and occasionally my bash terminal gets mangled. It often happens when I accidentally cat a binary file. The result can be seen on the image below. The output becomes weird, and I can’t type ascii characters anymore.
I’m currently using Debian 7 Wheezy, and I’ve noticed that the colors palette on terminal (which might be useful to identify among a large set of files and folders) are not enabled once I log as root.
I want to find out what device my file is on so that I can use it in a script. I can get this far:
Consider the following (with sh being /bin/dash):