Use rsync: rsync -av –exclude=”path1/to/exclude” –exclude=”path2/to/exclude” source destination Note that using source and source/ are different. A trailing slash means to copy the contents of the folder source into destination. Without the trailing slash, it means copy the folder source into destination. Alternatively, if you have lots of directories (or files) to exclude, you can … Read more
You have two options here. Make a proper cron job that calls your script. Cron is a common name for a GNU/Linux daemon that periodically launches scripts according to a schedule you set. You add your script into a crontab or place a symlink to it into a special directory and the daemon handles the … Read more
Make if [ “$file” == “*.txt” ] like this: if [[ $file == *.txt ]] That is, double brackets and no quotes. The right side of == is a shell pattern. If you need a regular expression, use =~ then.
After lots of research, I’ve come up with this answer, and I’m hereby putting it here as an answer for my own question, for reference: Make sure that “Enable access for assistive devices” is checked in System Preferences>>Universal Access. It is required for the AppleScript to work. You may have to reboot after this change … Read more
#!/usr/bin/python3 is a shebang line. A shebang line defines where the interpreter is located. In this case, the python3 interpreter is located in /usr/bin/python3. A shebang line could also be a bash, ruby, perl or any other scripting languages’ interpreter, for example: #!/bin/bash. Without the shebang line, the operating system does not know it’s a … Read more
Like this: [[ $(type -t foo) == function ]] && echo “Foo exists” The built-in type command will tell you whether something is a function, built-in function, external command, or just not defined. Additional examples: $ LC_ALL=C type foo bash: type: foo: not found $ LC_ALL=C type ls ls is aliased to `ls –color=auto’ $ … Read more
Invoke-Expression, also aliased as iex. The following will work on your examples #2 and #3: iex $command Some strings won’t run as-is, such as your example #1 because the exe is in quotes. This will work as-is, because the contents of the string are exactly how you would run it straight from a Powershell command … Read more
Edit: This is a more complete version that shows more differences between [ (aka test) and [[. The following table shows that whether a variable is quoted or not, whether you use single or double brackets and whether the variable contains only a space are the things that affect whether using a test with or … Read more
readlink -f “$path” Editor’s note: The above works with GNU readlink and FreeBSD/PC-BSD/OpenBSD readlink, but not on OS X as of 10.11. GNU readlink offers additional, related options, such as -m for resolving a symlink whether or not the ultimate target exists. Note since GNU coreutils 8.15 (2012-01-06), there is a realpath program available that … Read more
Maybe Start-Transcript would work for you. First stop it if it’s already running, then start it, and stop it when done. $ErrorActionPreference=”SilentlyContinue” Stop-Transcript | out-null $ErrorActionPreference = “Continue” Start-Transcript -path C:\output.txt -append # Do some stuff Stop-Transcript You can also have this running while working on stuff and have it saving your command line sessions … Read more