Sometimes you run a program from the terminal, say, lxpanel†. The terminal won’t drop you back to the prompt, it’ll hang. You can press Ctrl+C to get back to the prompt, but that will kill lxpanel. However, pressing Alt+F2 (which pops up a window to take a command) and running lxpanel works gracefully.
I cannot seem to make it work. GNU sed documentation says to escape the pipe, but that doesn’t work, nor does using a straight pipe without the escape. Adding parens makes no difference.
I’ve been studying zsh scripting for all of 2 hours at this point and I’ve hit a wall. I want to go through a list of files that may have spaces in them. I’m open to completely different approaches than the following example so long as they’re zsh since zsh is what I’m studying, not the task I’m trying to script.
According to the accepted answer for this SO question: , Python can make a great bash replacement.
I have a script in my .bash_profile that prompts for X sessions to boot. When I launch tmux, I get this prompt that I had only intended for the TTY login.
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Why is it that ssh -t doesn’t wait for background jobs to finish?
Im trying to make a .desktop file run a .sh which is stored in the same directory as the .desktop. The whole directory needs to be portable and moved from machine to machine.
Previously I used source command like this:
I would like to make a shell script that executes commands on a device that I telnet to or in programs such as FTP or OpenSSL. I have already found a method in FTP, which would look something like this: