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Since macOS 10.15 (Catalina) the default shell has changed from bash to zsh. One of the things I'm running into is I cannot get my own global functions working. I used to export these from ....

I am trying to run bash script: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/fsl/5.0:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export SUBJECTS_DIR=/output timefmt="%C --- CPU:\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys\t%P\tMem:\t%KkiBavg.,\t%MkiB max.\...

As far as I understand, to make kernel execve a non-ELF file, the file must be a script started with a she-bang #!, but I have a script run successfully without it, why does this happen? xtricman⚓...

I have a script that uses wget and saves the output to a file with a name of an incrementing variable. Counter.sh: number=1 for i in $(cat file) do wget $i -S -O $number.html 2>&1 ((number++))...

I have some points I want to understand: I have a script written in bash syntax and does not contain the shebang line (#!/bin/bash) and my default shell is tcsh. when giving execute permission to the ...

I have this "script" on my Arch Linux system: $ cat ~/scripts/foo.sh ps -hp $$ It will simply run ps on its own PID. But the script has no shebang line. I was expecting that in the absence ...

The following script results in error when called directly, but not when called with . ./test.sh: % cat test.sh echo "foo" | tee >(rev) % . ./process_subst_test.sh foo oof % ./...

I have a project comprised of about 20 small .sh files. I name these "small" because generally, no file has more than 20 lines of code. I took a modular approach because thus I'm loyal to the Unix ...

From the Shell Command Language page of the POSIX specification: If the first line of a file of shell commands starts with the characters "#!", the results are unspecified. Why is the behavior of #! ...

I have read the following in this question: bash supports a --posix switch, which makes it more POSIX-compliant. It also tries to mimic POSIX if invoked as sh. The above quote assumes that /bin/sh ...

When I run this script, intended to run until killed... # foo.sh while true; do sleep 1; done ...I'm not able to find it using ps ax: >./foo.sh // In a separate shell: >ps ax | grep foo.sh ...

I have found the following kind of shebang in the RosettaCode page: --() { :; }; exec db2 -txf "$0" It works for Db2, and a similar thing for Postgres. However, I do not understand the whole line. I ...

On an Ubuntu ($ uname -a : Linux kumanaku 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux), I just installed fish ($ fish --version : fish, version 2.7.1) ...

I have a shell script in which I want to add a shebang. Given a variable defined as follows: SHEBANG="#!/bin/sh" My question is if I can use that variable in another script like this: $SHEBANG # ...

Scripts typically start with a shebang such as #!/usr/bin/env bash, which specifies the shell to be used for execution. The execution behavior when the shebang is not present seems to be up to the ...