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3,221 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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zsh can't input to terminal when piping stdin and stdout with variable command that has tty output
System info:
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0)
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
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Execute script on external keyboard connection
EDIT: This is NOT a duplicate because the linked question is about external USB drives, not keyboards. The suggested command udevadm info -a -n sdb does nothing in helping to find the corresponding ...
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custom zsh autocomplete
I'd like to write a zsh completion for pytest.
Where do I Start? I'm using oh-my-zsh.
in .zshrc:
fpath=($HOME/.mycompletions $fpath)
autoload -U compinit && compinit -u
in $HOME/....
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Making zsh filename completion case-insensitive everywhere
I have the following line in my zshrc to make filename completions case-insensitive:
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
This works most of the time but I’ve noticed that if I ...
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Subsequent "git clone" commands influencing each other?
I'm currently part of a migration from GitLab to Azure DevOps. As part of that I wrote a little bash script that iterates over the migrated git repos and for each performs a clone from both gitlab and ...
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Is there a command to run an executable?
bashenables to run bash scripts with bash somescript, python python scripts with python3 somescript. Alternatively, with the right shebang, I can run directly the previous scripts with ./somescript.
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bash + how to avoiding duplicate entries in authorized_keys (ssh) in bash
Popular methods of adding an ssh public key to a remote host’s authorized_keys file include using the ssh-copy-id command, and using bash operators such as >> to append to the file.
An issue ...
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On MacOS, what character does `Esc+` or `+Esc` correspond to in Bash, when using iTerm2 terminal?
I've read that mapping Left Option key to Esc+ should fix many of the issues users of Bash, on MacOS, have with GNU Readline key-bindings.
However, I've never encountered Esc+ or +Esc before, so does ...
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Is job-control really meant to be supported in subshells and scripts?
Small premise
I use subshells quite often to perform operations that involve changing the Shell Execution Environment, so as not to affect the main shell. I do it often from an interactive shell, and ...
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Tracing environment variable modification in the fish shell
There's one item I used to use in $PATH, which is ~/.workspace/bin. I can't figure out where it's coming from.
I changed the user shell to /bin/sh, logged in from TTY, checked $PATH, and it was clear ...
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Manually restore saved session files on KDE using qdbus command
At times, i have multiple konsole terminal open with multiple tabs. I would like to save and restore it manually, just in case i accidentally close the window. In KDE there is a command to save the ...
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All TLS requests giving Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user
When I try an https request to google.com, I just recently started seeing
[root@ip-172-31-47-76 ~]# curl -I -v https://google.com
* Rebuilt URL to: https://google.com/
* Trying 216.58.193.78...
* ...
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Understanding fmt (gnu coreutils)
I'm using fmt (GNU coreutils) 8.25 and I fail to understand how to use it.
In particular, I don't understand the following results.
$ echo -n "a b c d e" | fmt -w3 -g3
I expected to obtain
a b
c d
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Running scripts/commands from a host system in a chroot environment.
First of all, I have inside an android Operating System a chroot environment created using Linux Deploy. I am able to access it from Android using a terminal emulator and root permission. I would like ...
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How to create a real copy of file descriptor stdout and stderr without using unbuffer / script / tee just with bash built-ins?
My goal is to duplicate, redirect all output (stdout and stderr) of an
application (apt-get) to a file while retaining the usual behavior of
the application (apt-get), stdout and stderr.
How to ...
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