Questions tagged [msys]
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tmux scrolling enabling fails in msys2
I recently started using tmux (in addition to screen), both in a Linux environment and in msys2 (which is also new to me and for which I cannot install screen).
Very similar to screen, starting tmux ...
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Automatically detecting whether a process is running normally by listening to stdout for continuous stream of messages
I have a chatty application that I'd like to automatically test post CI/CD build by leveraging the output stream as follows:
If the application is running normally it will continuously dump a few ...
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Tmux: Scroll buffer not working on MSYS2/MINGW64 (Git for Windows SDK)
I installed the Git for Windows SDK on Windows 11 to have the pacman package installer available to install tmux.
A lot of stuff works like it used to be on other platforms, but scrolling back using ...
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MSYS2: Command works fine in terminal, but syntax error `(' in script
On Windows, with MSYS2, I want to add the file extension for an executable back to the output of which, if it has one. Here's a one-liner:
locAlt="$(which "mingw32-make")" ; echo &...
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Is it possible to use the magnet uri scheme in PKGBUILDs?
Is it possible to use resources exchanged with the BitTorrent protocol in pacman's PKGBUILDs?
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Exclude from rsync log file or output non-updated files
For rsyncs that involve a large number of potentially transferred files, I mean to have a "clean" log, with only what was transferred.
I worked with stdout, since:
I did not know how to ...
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git-bash window title issue
I started a git-bash window, and type following commands :
git-bash ~$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.4.23(1)-release
git-bash ~$ type cd
cd is a shell builtin
git-bash ~$ cd tmp
git-bash ~/tmp$
# Change of ...
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scp from remote to remote does not work if not using -3 [duplicate]
I mean to copy files from one remote server to another.
If using scp -3, command succeeds (I have remote1 and remote2 in my ~/.ssh/config)
$ scp -p -3 remote1:dir1/file1 remote2:dir2/
but when not ...
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Is there a convenient way to test if a given flag is supported on a command?
Okay, so I'm kinda stumped here.
I'm in the midst of a deep-dive into BASH, for the purposes of writing some automation scripts for my employer. Also, full disclosure here: I'm a web guy; hitherto I'...
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To count the number of occurrences of first field in text file [closed]
i require to count the number of occurrences of first field in txt file and to print output file as two column file having first field of input file & no. of occurrences of fist field in input ...
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Handling Bash script with CRLF (carriage return) in Linux as in MSYS2?
Let's say I have the following trivial script, tmp.sh:
echo "testing"
stat .
echo "testing again"
Trivial as it is, it has \r\n (that is, CRLF, that is carriage return+line feed) as line endings. ...
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Inspect/browse gzipped dd disk image from command line without decompressing and mounting?
I did a disk image, as per How to dd a remote disk using SSH on local machine and save to a local disk :
ssh user@remote "dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz`
Now, I would just like to ...
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Purpose of "!::=::\" `name=value pair` in `env` stdout [duplicate]
Inspecting the stdout the invocation of env utility without supplying an operand it returned a name=value pair whose meaning I don't understand nor was able to find any documentation
$ env
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!::=::...
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paste: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
I'm new to Unix command. I was trying to execute the following commands in Git Bash and it directs to error message: paste: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
# Set Up Image Lists
paste <(awk "{...
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Why does `ldd <dynamic_lib>` output "??? => ???" (question marks in both library and location)?
Running ldd <dynamic_lib>, I noticed that there are some entries that read ??? => ???. Searching for a variety of combinations of "Linux", "ldd" and "??? => ???", both via search engine ...
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