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How to make '.zshrc' to search for sourced files in the specific folder and not in the folder from which the terminal has been opened
Give an absolute path to the file:
. ~/system-wide-clipboard.zsh
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To check whether first or last character of a string is x
In any POSIXy shell, the case statement provides pattern matches (without running any external tools):
isx() {
case $1 in
x ) printf '%s\n' "'$1' is just a single x";;
x*...
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incrementing file names in zsh
This may be easier with zshs powerful globbing syntax instead of find and wc. Try this:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
setopt extendedglob
nextFilename() {
local fqp=${1:?}
local -a fileCopies=( ${fqp:r}(...
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To check whether first or last character of a string is x
Your expansion with ${ .. } does not run any code: it just produces a text string which is itself not even a valid command (it would need an echo, and also round brackets).
There is a Bash expansion ...
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To execute a shell script: Using "zsh script.sh" and using "./script.sh"
That’s as expected! By default, your file script.sh is not going to be executable. You can correct this with:
chmod +x ./script.sh
Then running ./script.sh should work. (You can change it back with ...
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To check whether first or last character of a string is x
Since you're asking for zsh, you can of course use standard:
case $string in
(x* | *x) echo "starts or ends in x (or both)";;
(*) echo "Neither starts nor ends in x";;
esac
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To check whether first or last character of a string is x
To address your "What is the problem here?" question:
string="2x3"
if [[ "${-n $string | head -c 1}" == "x" ]]; then
echo "first character is x"
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Be notified of new mail in any Maildir inbox under ~/Mail, in the Zsh shell
Since Maildir mailboxes are used, new mail may be found by looking for any regular file in any directory called new under ~/Mail. We ignore the fact that for a directory to be a legal Maildir mailbox, ...
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zsh alias does not complete fully if not sourced once a day
If you have some sort of personal configuration file that isn't standard, such as this ~/.zsh you mention, of course you need to source it manually each time you log in. To make this happen ...
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Zsh script to filter array excluding a substring
prd~uat matches any string that is prd and is not uat. So that's the same as prd alone.
*prd~uat*east* matches any string that ends in prd and that does not start with uat followed by something that ...
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Zsh script to filter array excluding a substring
Putting the match and exclude filters into a parenthesized group appears to work:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# arg1, environment: dev qa uat-prd prd
# arg2, region: east west *
filterServerArray() {
# ...
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In bash/zsh, how to compare the metadata in two directories including . and excluding .. and the contents inside subdirectories?
-a lists all directory entries, that includes . and .. on systems where readdir() / getdents*() include them. Here, you could run ls twice, once for . with -d (ls -ld . will work even on systems where ...
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In bash/zsh, how to compare the metadata in two directories including . and excluding .. and the contents inside subdirectories?
Presumably you're using GNU ls, in which you can omit only .. by using the --ignore/-I option:
% ls -la --full-time
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 muru muru 4096 2024-06-25 11:14:18.165432064 +0900 .
drwxr-xr-...
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