/* Code Comments */25 posts tagged with "bash"
zsh: suspended jobs
2022-11-28
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I tried exiting a zsh terminal recently when I was greeted by a new error: What are the jobs? Well, zsh has a built-in command which will…
bash: quote distinctions & alias nuances
2022-11-28
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Many moons ago, I had an idea for a utility to handle pushing a new branch to my origin. That is, I wanted to avoid this situation: would…
forwarding arguments with shell scripts
2022-11-28
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|289 words
When developing scripts to use to manage a project, I often find myself in a situation where I have multiple scripts that are mostly the…
bash: ending statements
2022-11-28
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I was reviewing a bash script that I use recently and noticed the keyword. I hadn’t noticed it before, so I started looking into it a bit…
globbing wildcards or why **/* means different things
2022-11-28
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In my previous post on globbing, I looked at how to glob multiple file types simultaneously (while narrowing only to a specific set). I also…
testing with bash
2022-11-28
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Recently I decided to rewrite my alias for to handle partial branch names as well as remotes. In the process, I learned a bit about testing…
git checkout partial targets
2022-11-28
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Recently, I had to do something I’d done dozens, if not hundreds of times before: pull down a colleague’s code so that I could test it…
copy file contents from the command line
2022-11-28
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I have a dotfiles repository where I store all of my settings for things like and VS Code. Whenever I make a change to one of those files…
killing processes
2022-11-28
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UNIX systems come with a utility, which, as might be expected, terminates processes. I wrote about it previously in the context of killing…
packaging projects with bash
2022-11-28
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|560 words
As part of the build pipeline for a project I’ve been working on lately, we’ve been packaging up projects into zip files that are then…
simple command expansion in bash
2022-11-28
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In the Terraform tutorials, the authors make use of a pattern I’d not seen before: The end result is a new directory is created, and as…
the path variable and modifying it
2022-11-28
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|565 words
I decided to start exploring Rust and one of the first things you do when you install Rust, if you don’t want to have to source it every…
apple: making things simple and icloud
2022-11-28
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One thing Apple does very well is making products that “just work.” One thing Apple makes extraordinarily difficult is tweaking those…
multi-line bash scripting
2022-11-28
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In researching how to filter Git Commits by Author I found Adam Dymitruk’s bash solution. The reason I’m writing about this is not the…
node version management... automatically
2022-11-28
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NVM, the Node Version Manager, is an invaluable tool when working on multiple node projects. Instead of manually managing the globally…
bring the background job back to the foreground
2022-11-28
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|199 words
If you start running processes in the background, at some point, you may find you want to bring it back into focus. The utility seems…
running shell scripts in the background
2022-11-28
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Continuing my recent trend of finding useful tips and tricks in the command line. Today, it was how to run multiple processes in parallel…
logical operators in bash
2022-11-28
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When I’m working in bash, it’s common that I’ll want to sequence operations together so that one naturally follows another. For example…
return to previous directory (quickly) in bash (or zsh)
2022-11-28
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If I can quickly change directories () to anywhere in my computer’s file system, how can I go back if I mistakenly navigate away from…
quickly retreive environment information
2022-11-28
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I find myself frequently looking up which version of Node and npm I’m running. Today, a colleague showed me how to get it and lots of…
determine which shell is currently running
2022-11-28
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If you switch between shells, it might be handy to determine which one is currently running. One way to do that is to check your process…
changing the default shell to zsh
2022-11-28
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By default, the shell on a Mac is . Changing this should be a simple three step process: Make sure that is installed and is an accepted…
shell scripts: how to run them
2022-11-28
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I am constantly striving to improve my understanding and comfort interacting with my terminal. I remember how excited I was when I first…
setting persistent environment variables
2022-11-28
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To make an environment variable available in Bash or Zsh, save the environment to or respectively. To set the variable, open the…
bash functions & git - how to wipe out changes made to a specific file
2022-11-28
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I find myself writing the following command multiple times daily. I had been reading a little about bash functions and wanted to see if I…