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I need to make script that behaves differently per system. Today it is possible to run bash even on microsoft windows, mac, linux, hp-ux, solaris etc... How can I determine which of these operating ...
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I know there is, for example, hostnamectl command on linux and system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType command on macOS to know the operating system version, but I'm looking for a command that works for ...
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Is there a standard Bash command that acts like echo but outputs to stderr rather than stdout? I know I can do echo foo 1>&2 but it's kinda ugly and, I suspect, error-prone (e.g. more likely to ...
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I have a shell script that is used both on Windows/Cygwin and Mac and Linux. It needs slightly different variables for each versions. How can a shell/bash script detect whether it is running in ...
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Is it possible to write a single script file which executes in both Windows (treated as .bat) and Linux (via Bash)? I know the basic syntax of both, but didn't figure out. It could probably exploit ...
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I am trying to use base64 but the script doesn't run successfully in Ubuntu machine MYCOMMAND=$(base64 commands.sh) So in Ubuntu , I have to use MYCOMMAND=$(base64 -w0 commands.sh) unfortunately ...
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I am writing a bash shell script in Linux, this program will accept a date (mm-dd-yyyy) as a parameter. I am wondering if there is a simply way to check if the date is valid? is there an operator and ...
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On Windows, if I start c:\msys64\mingw64.exe, it opens a shell, where I can build my project, let's say by calling a release bash script (to simplify). Everything works fine. Now, I would like to ...
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What would be the way to determine the current OS a Jenkins pipeline is running? Context: I'm building a shared Jenkins pipeline script that should run on all platforms (windows, OSX, linux) and ...
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Hi I'm new to bash scripting. Just wrote this simple program but it is throwing error. #!/bin/bash os=`uname -o` echo $os if ["$os"=="GNU/Linux"] ; then echo "Linux" else echo "Windows" fi ...
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I added bash on windows to windows terminal by editing the settings.json file, when I try to compile a simple hello world written in c++ it throws an error that gcc or g++ is not detected How to ...
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I'm trying to find out where I can find documentation on POSIX functions, but coming up short. Any recommendations?
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How to find the operating system using bash script? I found this answer: Detect the OS from a Bash script. It is not clear it would work on Mac OS X. I would like to find it on Mac OS X vs different ...
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Issue Question is as stated in the title. In gist, I am trying to get my bash scripts and Vim to behave differently when running in VS Code's integrated terminal. Things I've found I have managed ...
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I use several different OS's at home and work and I want to be able to load platorm-specific ZSH settings conditionally, depending on which OS I'm using at the given moment. I tried this but it doesn'...
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