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How to determine if a screen is running jobs without attaching to it?
I wrote a zsh script that launches many screen sessions and runs a different command in each of them. When the script is executed there are 72 screens in total, so checking if a job is finished or not ...
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How to merge ls commands colors with the output of find or du?
I have a simple alias to list the size of files&folders in cwd.
( including dotfiles in this case , ignoring zero sizes )
du -sh .[!.]* * | sort -hr | grep -v '^0'
which can be achieved aswell ...
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tar backup zsh script
Trying to set up a cronjob ran tar script to backup site (without .git and setup folder) every night and upload time stamped archive to Dropbox.
It gives me a hard time as archive is created along ...
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Script-specific autocomplete in shell
I create a lot of little scripts to help me in my every day life.
I would like to provide auto-complete for them, specially that I intend to share them with people.
Now, I know I can create auto-...
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Writing shell scripts that will run on any shell (using multiple shebang lines?)
I've just started getting deeper into shell scripting, and I've always just thrown my script in a file, marked it chmod +x and then done /path/to/script.sh and let whatever interpreter is the default ...
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Efficient way to use all cores in bash or zsh script
If I want to process large number of files with command "do_something" which only can use one core, what's the best way to use all available cores assuming each file can be processed independently?
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zsh expansion modifiers in scripts
I've just found out that ZSH's modifiers only work in interactive scripts, so the following will work correctly on the command line but not from a script (the script ignores the modifier and echoes ...
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Deleting a file if it exists or not
Here is a part of my zshrc file.
## Most Frequently used settings
# ls
alias ls='rm .DS_Store; echo --------------${PWD##*/}--------------; ls -1FGu'
alias l='ls -A'
I want to delete .DS_Store, ...
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Creating a link for all files in a directory to home
I am trying to write a small zsh (bash compatible) script to take each file in ~/.oh-my-zsh/links directory and creates a hard link for it in ~. I am not sure how to do this. Would this be correct?
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High performance perforce sync
I am trying to do p4 sync folder/...
It's not very fast and it's using only 2% of the CPU. I am not happy with the performance.
I am trying to write a function in bash, given a parameter n, it forms ...
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Diff between files in different directories
I have the follow directory structure
./goodboys/a.txt
./goodboys/b.txt
./badboys/a.txt.boy
./badboys/b.txt.boy
I am using zsh. I want to diff all *.txt in goodboys with *.txt.boy in badboys.
I am ...
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How to search *upwards* for file? (reverse find)
I'd like to search "upwards" for a file in shell script, e.g. check $PWD, then $PWD/.., then $PWD/../.., etc. until hitting the root. Before I go and roll my own, is there some builtin bash/zsh/find ...
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Under zsh, looking to use `tr` to search and replace a single character with multiple characters
I want to replace "Blah: whatever" or "Blah/Whatever" with "Blah--Whatever"
I have this:
NEW=`echo ${OLD} | tr '[:/]' '--'`
echo ${NEW}
I suppose it's taking the 2 dash characters to mean 1 letter ...
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Loop: Start program and kill after time out
for debugging reasons I want to spot one of those bugs showing up just occasionally. Therefore I want to code a while loop in the shell
starting the program (if it will segfault => that's what I want)...
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On OS X, how do I start Cocoa emacs *and* bring it to front?
I wrote a little zsh function to allow me to run emacs from the command-line:
function emacs() {
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $@ &
}
This works perfectly, but it seems to ...
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