Certainly, how it’s done depends on your shell. In Bash, you can use single quotes around the message and can just leave the quote open, which will make Bash prompt for another line, until you close the quote. Like this: git commit -m ‘Message goes here’ Alternatively, you can use a “here document” (also known … Read more
You are probably looking for the timeout command in coreutils. Since it’s a part of coreutils, it is technically a C solution, but it’s still coreutils. info timeout for more details. Here’s an example: timeout 5 /path/to/slow/command with options
A couple of syntactic issues. The variable definitions in Bash do not take spaces. It should have been MAXSIZE=500000, without spaces. The way comparison operation is done is incorrect. Instead of if [ (( $FILESIZE > MAXSIZE)) ];, you could very well use Bash’s own arithmetic operator alone and skip the [ operator to just … Read more
Git bash is bash, which is IIRC also the default shell on MacOS. It is not the default shell on Windows, although several implementations exist (CygWin, MinGW, …). Git is bundled with a number of POSIX (UNIX/Linux/etc.) utilities in addition to bash; in order to avoid “collisions” with similarly named Windows commands, the most common … Read more
You can either write a sed script file and use: sed -f sed.script file1 … Or you can use (multiple) -e ‘command’ options: sed -e ‘/SysAdmin/i\ Linux Scripting’ -e ‘1,$s/A/a/’ file1 … If you want to append something after a line, then: sed -e ‘234a\ Text to insert after line 234’ file1 …
there is a third party tool that can do this. https://github.com/kilobyte/compsize usage: ayush@devbox:/code/compsize$ sudo compsize /opt Processed 54036 files, 42027 regular extents (42028 refs), 27150 inline. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Referenced Data 82% 5.3G 6.4G 6.4G none 100% 4.3G 4.3G 4.3G zlib 37% 427M 1.1G 1.1G lzo 56% 588M 1.0G 1.0G
I realized my mistake was with iTerm and not with Fish. Press CMD+i with an iTerm window open, then click the Colors tab and set it something nicer. Not sure why this problem didn’t show up before, but it seems like it was triggered by the new Fish installation.
Just like when typing at the shell, you need either a newline or a semicolon before fi: RUN if grep -q “grunt” package.json; then echo succeed; fi add this ^
install is your friend: install -Dv /dev/null some/new/path/base-filename
As pastebin.com closed their public api, I was looking for alternatives. Sprunge is great. Usage: <command> | curl -F ‘sprunge=<-‘ http://sprunge.us or, as I use it: alias paste=”curl -F ‘sprunge=<-‘ http://sprunge.us” <command> | paste