The shell is unix's command-line interface. You can type commands in a shell interactively, or write scripts to automate tasks.
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zsh: Echoing every statement?
I have an odd problem with zsh when I switch between shells in a particular way:
Option 1 (works well):
I start a zsh shell. I switch to tcsh with /bin/tcsh, and I switch back to zsh with /bin/zsh
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KSH styling text based menu using STDERR
Is it possible to format the STDERR in order to have a better looking menu using the select command?
I have a simple select
select oChoice in $(<tempMenu.menu) ; do
case "$oChoice" in
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gnome-terminal cmd leaving processes open after closing parent window
The following simple command should demonstrate my issue:
gnome-terminal --tab -t "Tab 1" -e "/bin/bash" --tab -t "Tab 2" -e "/bin/bash"
This should open a new window with two tabs and an active ...
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service command: Failed to issue method call
I downloaded the source of tinyproxy and then use ./configure make make install to install it
Then I want to start it, but get errors, like the following:
[root@kitty tinyproxy-1.8.3]# service ...
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add audio from playing file to microphone stream
I need to add a sound to what the microphone is capturing, is it possible?
I started with
man aplay
and found that I can do
aplay -D PCMdevice filepath.wav
so then I listed the PCM devices with
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Getting “zsh: command not found: time” when running `time` in subshell
I installed ZSH (and Oh-My-ZSH) on a Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit machine a few days ago. I just tried to do:
time (time ls)
and got this error:
zsh: command not found: time
( time ls; ) 0.00s user 0.00s ...
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Make zkbd ignore $DISPLAY
Is it possible to make zkbd ignore $DISPLAY variable? I have set up when I log in to different X sessions and it is annoying if suddenly I need to reenter/copy configuration (and I have no idea why ...
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(KDE or X ) Script opens konsole in wrong virtual desktop
I have this script. I put it in ~/Desktop. I view the script on my desktop in a "Folder View" widget. When I click on the script, I get list of users, then I get an authorization dialog box ( for a ...
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Manually setting environment variables for Metasploit
How do I set manually environment variables for metasploit, when I execute db_driver I get this message:
[*] No Active Driver
[*] Available:
[*] DB Support: Enable the postgresql driver ...
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What happens when you background a function which calls another function?
Question says it all on the tin. Can someone explain to me what goes on here ? I'm trying to find out how to background a process in a script that calls another function and reliably terminate it when ...
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Easy way to push data into MongoDB from Bash shell script?
I know you can create a Javascript file that the MongoDB shell will execute upon startup. But I'm hoping for something more "lightweight" than that. I am using a Linux program that has a scripting ...
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How do I make www-data run vim command (and find plugins)
I use the vimwiki plugin for note taking, and for those rare cases when I can't reach my home server over ssh, I use a simple html-form to update the textfiles. In vimwiki there is a command to export ...
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unexpected bash behaviour after console login (openSUSE)
I'm trying to install a Linux OS on the computer I use as a home server, because I liked "Raspbian" so much on my Raspberry Pi. I created a custom linux using openSUSE Studio, that's just text based ...
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Samba guest access
I have a home server with samba. with windows i can access and make folder(always with permission 777) like guest( no password ) without problem. But with linux, when i mkdir i can not modify this ...
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python error using an executable with Z shell
I'm getting this error from the Unix Z shell (I'm on Mac):
python: posix_spawn: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: No such file or ...
