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zsh on MacOS catalina 10.15.17
I'm having a little trouble putting this all together...
I want to make a simple shell script to organize and sort around 60 GB worth of music and movie files that are spread out over 3 or for 4 ...
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Source multiple files in background/parallel (ZSH)
For various reasons I would like to be able to source a series of files in background and wait for them all to finish:
source ./my_file_1.sh &
source ./my_file_2.sh &
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# etc
wait
But, ...
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Change the default location of zsh completion cache files for macOS
I'm trying to change the default location of the zsh completion cache files in macOS. I have read the zsh documentation on completion which say's "alternatively, an explicit file name can be ...
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$RANDOM, not so random [duplicate]
I want to print out a random number and encrypt it, like so: echo $RANDOM | sha256sum.
I would expect this to take the standard output of echo $RANDOM and pipe it into the encryption function. However ...
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Issue with running a shell script without using 'sh' on macOS Monterey
I'm new to shell scripting and generally the usage of Terminal.
I recently made a script.sh that I want to use by just typing its name without the full path.
So, I wrote the path of the directory into ...
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execute function in different shell
I usually zsh. I want to execute a function in bash and return back to my original shell. I can do this manually, but I want to automate it. How can I do that?
For example, I am on zsh.
I want to ...
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Running nano from function in config file (function in zshrc) does not save changes
I am using zsh as my shell and I am trying to achieve this:
In my .zshrc file I want to have a function that modifies my .zshrc, saves it and reloads it.
So far I have to functions (in my .zshrc ...
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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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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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