Questions tagged [shell]
The term 'shell' refers to a general class of text-based command interpreters most often associated with the Unix & Linux operating systems.
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Final look at my Lightshot print screen Linux handler POSIX shell script
I would like to ask for a final review of my Lightshot print screen Linux handler POSIX shell script.
When I started writing it, it was a one-liner (shell snippet), but then I decided to grow it, and ...
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Disabling local accounts on Azure Linux virtual machines
We’re enforcing Azure Entra authentication across all Linux VMs, so we’ll disable all local accounts via a custom script. The script will also create a single “break-glass” user with a randomly ...
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Simple Node.js version manager
On Arch Linux, there are 2 packages that provide the Rust toolchain: rust itself and rustup. When users try to install a package ...
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Simplified simulation of Unix "ls" command made using C++ std::filesystem library
I have just implemented this while getting acquainted with the std::filesystem library.
On input from console, the program accepts two arguments: ...
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lndir shell function - hardlink two directories
The code works, but I could use help testing it more comprehensively and double-checking that everything I'm doing makes sense, and that all the options can coexist with each other. I'm running into ...
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Start screen lock for user from systemd
This is a script to start a screen lock in Ubuntu, with user customizable background image(s).
The script will eventually be run on sleep by systemd, so by root. This made it complicated to let the ...
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Using git autobackup with shell script
I have php website for prevent hacker modify any file and inject backdoor.
I want to use git as a file tracking solution. This is my shell script:
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Rust code to print shell prompt
I'm new to Rust, and this is my first successful significant Rust code. It prints a prompt(which is technically a string) to the console.
I'm struggling with concepts like ...
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Replace real path with symlink
zoxide is a replacement for cd that allows fuzzy matching against commonly accessed directories (e.g., ...
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Bash script to automate post install process on Fedora
The script runs fine, and it seems to be working correctly. I'm looking for some criticism of the structure of the code, errors, bad practices, beginner's pitfalls, and bad code in general.
I'm ...
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Conflict-less Bash library function and variable naming
Marvelous Bash does not support built-in sufficient namespace features for functions or variables to specific file/module you would find in PHP or JavaScript.
Conflicts in global scopes, which are ...
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Check if program has been installed successfully at a given path
The path is provided as an argument by a Makefile within an install target. The script verifies if the specified path is already included in the system's ...
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Update a docker compose service properly
I'm currently running an executable in Docker that has been mounted as a Docker volume in the foreground. The executable (or the service) continuously generates console output and can be interrupted ...
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A shell function to copy files and directories, preserving directory structure
For a script, I came up with a shell function that might be generally useful. Before I add it to the code base, I’d like to hear someone’s opinion on this.
I don’t write shell scripts often and had to ...
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