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Zip folder without including path to folder and require only one argument
I'm trying to make a zip function that'll do all the steps I typically do when zipping a file or folder. Say my current directory is ~, and I want to zip a folder named Folder1, whose file path is ...
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2answers
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bash equivalent of zsh's $@[2,$#]
(NB: the motivation for this question is only to improve my bash programming know-how.)
I want to know the bash equivalent of zsh expressions such as $@[2,$#], which directly address a range of a ...
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votes
3answers
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${#array} vs ${#array[@]}
As far as I can tell both ${#array[@]} and ${#array} evaluate to the number of elements in $array. Is there any reason for preferring the longer form (${#array[@]})?
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Is there a less convoluted way to set the $path array locally within function?
Is there a less laborious way for setting a local version of the $path array than what's shown in the following snippet?
foo () {
local holdpath
holdpath=($path)
local path
...
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2answers
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/usr/bin/env: zsh -: No such file or directory
I get the error
/usr/bin/env: zsh -: No such file or directory
...when I run an executable zsh script that starts with the following shebang line:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh -
Also, FWIW, replacing - ...
6
votes
4answers
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Hybrid code in shell scripts. Sharing variables
This answer discusses how to run a multi-line Python snippet from the command line in a terminal. I noticed that the answer works great within shell scripts, even with nested indentation, which is ...
1
vote
1answer
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Frequent command “template”: remove parameter expansion escape characters
zsh newbie here... I find myself using a handful of long commands over and over again with slightly different arguments. For example:
rsync -havu --progress --rsh='ssh -l mylogin' ...
3
votes
3answers
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Converting a history to a script?
Often times I've typed in a bunch of commands when I realize that I am going to keep typing them in and that I would really like a script.
Now I understand that no matter how I save my history, I am ...
6
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2answers
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List elements with spaces in zsh
I've been studying zsh scripting for all of 2 hours at this point and I've hit a wall. I want to go through a list of files that may have spaces in them. I'm open to completely different approaches ...
1
vote
1answer
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How to access user's fpath as opposed to system's fpath with a script?
test.zsh:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
for f in ${fpath}; do
echo ${f}
done
outputs:
...
