I'm new to terminal scripts and I'm trying to convert
osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"
do script "ssh -t jgreen#dev-jgreen-bs pwd"
end tell'
This works with multiline as so but I want a one-line script, but I can't quite get it right. I keep getting a 2741 error, I know it is syntax I am failing with.
I have tried /, ,, \n,-e,&,to as separators.
You'll need to add a few sections to this one line command:
osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"' -e 'do script "ssh -t jgreen#dev-jgreen-bs pwd"' -e 'end tell'
Each line in an applescript needs to be broken into sections on a single line osascript command in terminal. You add the "-e" for each section and the single apostrophe.
Hope this helps.
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I've got a script on my computer named test.py. What I've been doing so far to run the program is type python test.py into the terminal.
Is there a command on Unix operating systems that doesn't require the user to specify the program he/she uses to run the script but that will instead run the script using whichever program the shebang line is pointing to?
For example, I'm looking for a command that would let me type some_command test.txtinto the terminal, and if the first line of test.txt is #!/usr/bin/python, the script would be interpreted as a python script, but if the first line is #!/path/to/javascript/interpreter, the the script would be interpreted as javascript.
This is the default behavior of the terminal (or just executing a file in general) all you have to do is make the script executable with
chmod u+x test.txt
Then (assuming text.txt is in your current directory) every time you type
./text.txt
It will look at the sh-bang line and use the program there to run text.txt.
If you really want to duplicate built-in functionality, try this.
#!/bin/sh
x=$1
shift
p=$(sed -n 's/^#!//p;q' "$x" | grep .) && exec $p "$#"
exec "$x" "$#"
echo "$0: $x: No can do" >&2
Maybe call it start to remind you of the similarly useful Windows command.
When I run urxvt -cd "/absolute/path" to start a terminal in a directory, it doesn't load my user zsh settings, it only loads the global ones in /etc.
Here's some context: Running latest stable versions of rxvt-unicode and zsh (on Arch Linux). I've got ZDOTDIR=~/.zsh in case that makes a difference (but I doubt it, since I tried symlinking ~/.zshrc to ~/.zsh/.zshrc.) If I just run urxvt then it works fine, but it's with the -cd flag that it messes up.
The reason I'm trying to do this is to start a terminal in the current location from Thunar AND have it read my user zsh configuration file. So if you know another way of doing this then that will work too.
Try adding -ls to its options to run it as login shell, like:
urxvt -ls -cd "/absolute/path"
Otherwise it will spawn a subshell. If that doesn't work for you, it still possible to use:
urxvt -e /where/is/your/zsh -i -l -c "cd /where/you/want/it"
Or (regarding the Thunar custom action):
urxvt -cd %f -e /where/is/your/zsh -i -l
Following html mail using mailx command is working from shell terminal, but the same command is not working from shell script.
mailx -s "$(echo -e "${sub} TRP OF ${system} \nContent-Type: text/html")" example#gmail.com < TRP.html
I guess it is some small escape character error, but not sure what it is.
Can any one help here?
Perhaps your vars sub / system are only known in your current environment.
When your sript is called mymail, try
. mymail
(Start with a dot),
or first export your vars.
When these suggestions fail, debug:
use set -x or temporary put an "echo -e" in front of your line.
I just started using R on Terminal because its tab function. But I have no idea how to send the selected text in TextMate to the Terminal. Could expertise show me how to write the Command in TextMate?
Thanks!
Here is the exact TextMate command that I currently use. Hope it helps!
rawText="$(cat | sed 's/ / /g;')"
osascript -e 'on run(theCode)' \
-e ' tell application "Terminal"' \
-e ' do script theCode in window 1' \
-e ' end tell' \
-e 'end run' -- "$rawText"
open "txmt://open?line=$(($TM_LINE_NUMBER+1))&column=1000000" &
TextMate is MacOS, right? Is so, then this is from the R ?connections page:
"Mac OS X users can use pipe("pbpaste") and pipe("pbcopy", "w") to read from and write to that system's clipboard."
You can "paste" from R-Clipboards into Terminal sessions. You can also send file content from TextMate:
http://manual.macromates.com/en/shell_commands#executing_commands_filtering_text
I have a script that looks like this
#!/bin/bash
function something() {
echo "hello world!!"
}
something | tee logfile
I have set the execute permission on this file and when I try running the file like this
$./script.sh
it runs perfectly fine, but when I run it on the command line like this
$sh script.sh
It throws up an error. Why does this happen and what are the ways in which I can fix this.
Running it as ./script.sh will make the kernel read the first line (the shebang), and then invoke bash to interpret the script. Running it as sh script.sh uses whatever shell your system defaults sh to (on Ubuntu this is Dash, which is sh-compatible, but doesn't support some of the extra features of Bash).
You can fix it by invoking it as bash script.sh, or if it's your machine you can change /bin/sh to be bash and not whatever it is currently (usually just by symlinking it - rm /bin/sh && ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh). Or you can just use ./script.sh instead if that's already working ;)
If your shell is indeed dash and you want to modify the script to be compatible, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh has a helpful guide to the differences. In your sample it looks like you'd just have to remove the function keyword.
if your script is at your present working directory and you issue ./script.sh, the kernel will read the shebang (first line) and execute the shell interpreter that is defined. you can also call your script.sh by specifying the path of the interpreter eg
/bin/bash myscript.sh
/bin/sh myscript.sh
/bin/ksh myscript.sh etc
By the way, you can also put your shebang like this (if you don't want to specify full path)
#!/usr/bin/env sh
sh script.sh forces the script to be executed within the sh - shell.
while simply starting it from command line uses the shell-environemnt you're in.
Please post the error message for further answers.
Random though on what the error may be:
path specified in first line /bin/bash is wrong -- maybe bash is not installed?