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Q&A Treat underscores as word boundaries in terminal using vim mode

Question How do you specify underscores as Vim word boundaries when using vim mode in either bash or zsh? MWE w on this_word should place the cursor on the underscore. A second w should place th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by young_souvlaki‭

Question bash zsh vim
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Q&A How to give password in shell script?

That's my Bash script: #!bin/sh cd qpixel sudo systemctl enable mysql mysql -u root -p rails s When it executes the line mysql -u root -p it will ask for password. To do so, I have tried...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 8mo ago by fedorqui‭

Question shell bash password
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Q&A How to get number of files in directory

How do you find out the number of files in a directory from the command line?

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Canina‭

Question bash zsh ls
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Q&A How to make vi-mode bindings in terminal copy to clipboard

If I want to yank my last command I can UP yy, but this does not copy to the system clipboard. How do I configure my terminal to copy to the system clipboard so I can paste into other programs? ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by InfiniteDissent‭

Question bash zsh vi-mode
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Q&A Capture separate _and_ combined stdout/stderr

Using BASH, how can I redirect stdout and stderr each, to two separate files, simultaneously? That's a mouthful, let me clarify a little: I have a hypothetical script that may/will generate outpu...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by jaybeers‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Quasímodo‭

Question shell bash
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Q&A A shell script that can run under different shells

I have a shell script with a syntax compatible to both bash and zsh, except for a section that has zsh specific syntax that throws syntax errors if sourced from bash. Is there an easy way to escap...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mjy‭

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Q&A In a bash shell script, how to filter the command line argument list to unique entries only, for processing each?

I have a handful of shell scripts that accept any number of command line arguments, then do some relatively expensive processing based on each command line argument in turn. The general format for ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Running several commands without && or ; or ()

I copy-paste several commands at once from a markdown editor (Typora) to Bash in a Putty window terminal; the file I work with reads as follows (empty lines included): $ non sed command 1 $ non s...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by Grove‭

Question bash syntax

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