I have a theme file ../styles/mytheme.less and I want to load it while compiling a less file in the command line, how do I include this?
Normal syntax is lessc --js --modify-var="primaryColor"="#ffeeff" main.less compiled.css
So in place of passing primary color, I would like to pass an entire less file of variables. Thanks.
use a batch file maybe? (not sure if this is what you are looking for)
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I want to write a bash script that takes a user input (which will be a filename) and replaces a path to a file inside a css file with that filename. For simplicity, the two files will be in the same folder and in the css code only the filename at the end of the path should be changed.
I thought of using regex to match any line of code that has a specific pattern and then change the end of it. I know about sed, but since the filename always changes I'm not sure how to solve this problem other than regex. I also thought of adding a variable in the css file that holds the filename as a value and then adding that variable at the end of the path, but I'm not sure then how to access that variable from a bash script.
Any recommendations on how to tackle this problem?
Thanks!
Edit Adding more Information:
Here is the line in the css file I want to edit. The part to be changed is the fileName.png at the end. Since it will change I thought of using a regex to "find" the correct spot in the css file.
background: #2c001e url(file:////usr/share/backgrounds/fileName.png/);
A regex matching only this line in this specific file is the following. It could probably be simplified, but I don't see a reason why since it should work too:)
(background)\:\s\#.{6}\s(url)\((file)\:\/{4}(usr)\/(share)\/backgrounds\/.+\.(png)\/\)\;
So, there are some ways to do that. You can check topic in links below. sed command is also good idea. But before executing it, you can build a new variable (or multiple variables) to use them in regex sed -e syntax.
Getting the last argument passed to a shell script
Maybe, if you will add some input and output examples, I could be more specific in this case.
To replace the input in the file at run-time you could use this line in a script
sed "s/stringToReplace/$1/g" templateFile >fileToUse
the $1 is referencing the 2nd bash script argument (the first being $0, the name of the invoking script). stringToReplace would be written in verbatim in the templateFile.
You could also use a script with two runtime arguments ($1, $2), and you would change the original contents of the fileToUse using the -i option. But this requires storage of the last file path to be used as argument $1.
I need to override a lot of less variables.
I run less with script like
lessc --js --modify-var=#layout-body-background=#ffffff pathFrom > pathTo
But it is pretty painful write there all the variables to modify.
Is there a way to write some kind of config and run in something like
lessc --config=./pathToMyConfig
You can create a separate file called variables-overrides.less and in there you override all the variables you need
For example compiling this folder structure,
x.styl
|--abc/
|--|--a.styl
|--efg/
|--|--b.styl
To
build/
|--x.css
|--abc/
|--|--a.css
|--efg/
|--|--b.css
Using stylus compiler (compiling styl files from a folder and its subfolders)
You can use the --out parameter on building and target a whole folder, it will keep your structure, first you can target a file or folder, and after out the folder or filename you want to have your compiled css
stylus -c ./project/stylus --out ./myfolder/css
For:
|stylus
|--abc/
|--|--a.styl
|--efg/
|--|--b.styl
It would result in something like:
|css
|--abc/
|--|--a.css
|--efg/
|--|--b.css
A bit late on this, and I hope that might help others like it help me, but I found a solution using the package stylus-chokidar.
stylus-chokidar
Just slightly modified stylus CLI, that builds files list recursively and watches > them with chokidar (if --watch provided).
Recursion are always enabled, glob patterns not supported.
With this you can have the stylus files compiled in-place recursively (each component will store their own CSS/stylus files).
I am late on the game, but I believe I have a solution that is not optimal, but workable for your situation.
per your example, keep the same file/folder structure
x.styl
|--abc/
|--|--a.styl
|--efg/
|--|--b.styl
but also include a "combination.styl" file in its own separate folder. So now you have:
x.styl
|--abc/
|--|--a.styl
|--efg/
|--|--b.styl
|--all-stylus/
|--|--combination.styl
inside of combination.styl you should import all of the separate .styl files, so for our example
// combination.styl
#import '../x.styl'
#import '../abc/a.styl'
//etc...
then you can output one large css file wherever you would like!
the command to run this would simply be:
stylus ./stylus -out ./css
I know it doesn't give you the output file/folder structure you were looking for, but I imagine it is helpful to be able to compile all of your stylus into css at one time!
I am looking for a way to quickly access the latest file/directory on the command line, preferably in ZSH.
ls -d *(om[1])
Gives me just that, and if I want to use to with a command, e.g. less *(om[1])
This works as well.
However, it is tedious to type all the brackets, and I use this a lot - hence I am looking for a way to create a shortcut for this string.
I've created a function in the .zshrc-file
lf(){
ls -d *(om[1])
}
, which I can use like this:
less <$(lf)
less <`lf`
, but I find this still less than ideal.
less |lf
does not work.
Is there a way to quickly access the latest file without the use of "hard to type characters"? Ideally, it would just be something along the lines of
less LATEST
Any ideas?
You could use the _most_recent_file (^Xm).
_most_recent_file (^Xm)
Complete the name of the most recently modified file matching the pattern on the command line (which may be blank). If given a numeric argument N, complete the Nth most recently modified file. Note the completion, if any, is always unique.
-- zshcompsys(1) BINDABLE COMMANDS
So, we can get the most recent file with typing CTRL-x-m. For example:
% less ;# typing `CTRL-X m` here, we could get:
% less newest-file-or-directory
And we could specify some patterns here, so for example:
% less *.log ;# when I want the newest *.log:
% less newest.log
It is necessary to have some autoload -Uz compinit; compinit in the ~/.zshrc though.
You want a zsh global alias
alias -g latest='*(om[1])'
less latest
I have one process that creates a tar based on some existing files, then I want another process to take that tar file and add MORE files to it.
How is this accomplished programmatically?
There are no folders as such in a tarfile. Each file can have a path, so a tarfile might contain
/some/path/foo
/some/path/bar
/another/path/baz
If you have a file /elsewhere/quartz which you wish to add to the tarfile as /some/path/quartz, this will do it:
tar -rvf tarfilename --transform 's,.*/,/some/path/,' /elsewhere/quartz
(This will work in GNU tar, I can't make promises about other versions.)
The stuff inside the single quotes is a regular expression substitution command, roughly "take everything up to a slash (as much as possible) and replace it with /some/path/".