I'm working on a some build scripts that I'd like to depend on only standardized features. I need to sort some files by version. Say the files are bar-1.{0,2,3} bar-11.{0,2,3}. By default, ls gives me: bar-1_0 bar-11_0 bar-11_2 bar-11_3 bar-1_2 bar-1_3 Getting what I want is easy using 'ls -v': bar-1_0 bar-1_2 bar-1_3 bar-11_0 bar-...
In my quest to configure my shell to work exactly how I want it with respect to the alt/meta key I am having some trouble. Recently I added "bindkey -m" to my .zshrc and now whenever I start a zsh shell (ie open a terminal window) I get this error "warning: `bindkey -m' disables multibyte support". Now since I don't care much about mult...
Hi, I used MacPorts shell to download and install WordPress: port install wordpress It went just fine: ---> Computing dependencies for libxml2 ---> Fetching libxml2 ---> Attempting to fetch libxml2-2.7.5.tar.gz from http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/libxml2 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for libxml2 ---> Extracting libxml2 --->...
I am currently running a command and it is producing the compressed file. I need to store that zip file into c:\windows\abc.zip. Does anyone know how to do that? MY current command is something like this: cd %path% cdx.exe I have tried specifying the path after cdx.exe but it doesn't store in that path. It is running the exe but stori...
I don't quite understand the example given from the 'man find', can anyone give me some examples and explanations? Can I combine regular expression in it? the more detailed question is like this: write a shell script, changeall, which has an interface like "changeall [-r|-R] "string1" "string2". It will find all files with an suffix ...
When a user puts in a CD and autoruns, I want to "browse" the CD but I want to do some extra processing of the disk contents. If I wanted to replace the ListView in windows explorer with one of my own, how would I start? What terms should I search for to find out how to do this. I want to get the treeview part that explorer provides, ...
I noticed that when I plug in my Nokia phone, an icon will appear in My Computer in windows explorer and I can browse the content of my phone through windows explorer. Is this concept similar to developing Shell Namespace Extension for virtual folder? I notice that Shell Namespace Extension is categorised as System Folder while my phone...
Is there a way with Grep to use the -v switch to ignore a line and the next number of lines after it. Its basically to filter exceptions from a log file i.e. Valid log entry 1 Exception exceptionname at a.b.c at d.e.f ... Valid log entry 2 grep it to produce : Valid log entry 1 Valid log entry 2 I have tried grep -v Ex...
I have a python script that is always called from a shell, which can be either zsh or bash. How can I tell which one called the script? ...
I have a million of alias stored in my .cshrs file. I wonder if it is preferred way or people use other files to do it and then loaded into the environment. How do you do it? ...
I am implementing my own shell. But to supprt for command history, I need to use monitor up/down arrow key as in standard shells. Please tell me how to handle arrow keys as input or does these keys generate signals? Please elaborate. ...
My Shell should understand PATH environment variable. It can be set and modified. It runs in two ways -interactive & batch mode. Shell is capable of taking more than one job like ls;ps;wc file;cal. I know I will have to use execs, forks and pipes but just cant get started. Thank you in advance. Edited: PS:Not a homework question. Newb...
I asked a similar question over here:(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1495604/upload-clocking-script), but then changed it and realized it's a different question now. I want to make a script called uploadtimer.sh which uploads files to various hosts and then notes the time the upload takes in a log file. Thanks to those who have hel...
I am writing my own shell and need to implement a history feature where up and down arrow keys show history of commands executed. I need to find out when up and down keys are pressed. How do i do this? ...
hello i have a shell script that sends out email. here is how it works: it reads the html from an url and put it in a file loop through all the emails and in the loop it reads from that html file the problem is: the html file becomes empty after a few hundred email for no apparent reason. (i put du /thehtml.html in the email log.)...
In bash/ksh can we add timestamp to STDERR redirection? E.g. myscript.sh 2> error.log I want to get a timestamp written on the log too. ...
I'm using wget to automatically download the ShellEd extension for Eclipse, but am receiving an error: http://: Invalid host name. I have used it successfully several times before, so I think it's because SourceForge uses a mirror. I've looked at the man page for wget, focusing on referer and http_proxy, but am still unsuccessful. H...
Does the shell allocates a job ID to all processes(foreground and background)? jobs command shows the existing background jobs. How do we see job ID of foreground process? I want to use a function in C (like getpid()) to get the job ID and status of a given process given the pid of the process. What is the maximum value of a job ID? ...
When a script that I started in a screen is finished can I tell it to close the current Screen it's in? If so how? I know I can do "ctrl + a" then k, then y. To kill it but Im not there to issue those buttons. And I tried adding "exit" to the end of the script which doesn't seem to close it ether. I also have a script that will auto sta...
I'm using #!/bin/sh as my language. ...