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YQ: load a text file as array and use it for an operation
I have a yaml file with an arbitrary amount of documents, and I'm trying to replace all missing namespaces for namespaceable resources with an arbitrary input one.
Getting the non-namespaceable ...
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Colon in bash regex [duplicate]
I am using regex in GNU bash, version 4.4.23(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys) (git bash).
I am having an issue indicating a colon to the regex.
I am looking for the following string:
Date : 25 Dolahn(6)
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How do I operate on continuous piped output from a bash command?
I'm trying to write a small bash script that will take values from my mouse's horizontal scroll wheel to change my system's volume.
Using this guide, I've come up with the following command to ...
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Array elements in sed operation
I am trying to replace elements on an array using a sed command to compare values between two arrays and replace them accordingly, with the following terminal input:
#!/bin/bash
icons=("" &...
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Weird prompt rendering with custom $PS1
The question closely follows this one, except that I did what the git-prompt.sh does myself.
However, I started noticing weird rendering issues, where long lines do not wrap on the next console line, ...
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Bash script returning whole array instead of single element
I wanted to make a CLI tool that will display a random quote (from a list of .sh scripts which show ANSI art along with said quote) and also let you filter by author.
It works fine when I pick an ...
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UI tests blocked by “bash requesting screen access” popup in Mac OS
On macOS, I get a system popup when running UI tests in GitHub saying:
“bash” is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio.
How can I disable ...
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How to get the actual $0 as typed by the user in Bash?
When executing a Bash script from PATH, the $0 is set to some string that is equal to the full path of the executable.
Consider a script in /tmp/script.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "0=$0"
echo "...
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How can I display the colors of text inserted with color codes by another program in Bash?
When the text directly contained color code for example:
a="\033[0;31mRED\033[0m"
echo -e $a
The terminal had no problem colorizing the text in red. But when I modified the color code ...
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git config alias function : Bad substitution
I have the following git alias function that moves files into a directory using git mv of those files and then does the git commit :
[alias]
mv-into-dir = "!mvIntoDIR() { \
cd ${GIT_PREFIX:-.}; \
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Running bash script with Lua and Tup causes file permission issues
I am running a legacy C++ build env with Tup, Lua5.4 on Debian13. When I run tup, under any user (also root) there are strange file permission issues. When I debug and do and "ls -l" the ...
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bash script use function call in string substitution
in a bash script I call an external script that gives me the status of a program, like
~/bin/status
which returns something like
program is running
or
program is halted
Now I want to use only the ...
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.desktop file won’t launch Proton app on double-click (works in terminal) [migrated]
I’m creating a custom Proton-based “Windows layer” (without Steam) to run .exe files directly on Linux.
Running them from terminal works fine — but double-clicking via a .desktop launcher does nothing....
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Meson cross compile using git bash on windows
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host: windows
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git bash Installed meson via python, python -m pip ninja-1.13.0-py3-none-win_amd64.whl/meson-1.9.1-py3-none-any.whl
Want to do cross platfom compilation on a windows host ...
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bash script concat() in prepared statement for mysql
This gives a syntax error:
read -p "entry: " entry
sql="select concat('entry ', id) from mytbl where id = ?";
$mysql_conn "prepare stmnt from '${sql}'; set @id='${entry}';
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