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xonsh is a command line shell based on Python.

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How can I improve this Python / Xonsh script (converted from bash)?

I'm starting to learn xonsh and Python. I want to use Python mainly for shell scripting and I want to replace many existing small to medium bash scripts. I started with the bash script given below (...
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How to replace Bash with Xonsh [duplicate]

I am using Linux Mint 19.1 I want to use Xonsh as my default shell. According to their documentation, The latest version of Xonsh can only be installed using conda, pip, or from source. conda: $ ...
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ls ~ permission denied with xonsh in Cygwin

I tried to use xonsh in my Cygwin terminal, but ran into some problems with permissions: loom@tatooine ~ $ ls xonsh: subprocess mode: permission denied: ls However, I can use the command ls as ...
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How do I place a multi-term command in the background on xonsh?

For instance, I want to do the following, but it fails: $ echo "mytext bla" > test.txt& $ rm test.txt /bin/rm: cannot remove 'test.txt': No such file or directory The actual command I am ...
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\1 in sed command not working under xonsh

I don't understand what I'm missing here: $ echo 'testing' | sed -E 's/([a-z]*)ing/\1ing/g' ing I would expect the output to be testing again, since \1 should be test? That input seems to have been ...
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How do you sudo with xonsh?

I get the error xonsh: subprocess mode: permission denied: sudo.
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