Posts Tagged ‘Shell scripting’

Loop over svn stat output deleting files

14, Jan 2010

I had the issue where my MacBook creates files prefixed with ._ while working on a Samba share. I’ve fixed this once before but it was so long ago, I’ve forgotten how!! Anyway, I had a stack of these files in a checked-out svn project and needed to delete them. Rather than do each one [...]

Return exit code of previous shell command

3, Oct 2009

You can return the exit/return code of the command you just ran in OSX/Linux using this simple command:
1echo $?
This is handy when debugging scripts that rely on shell command return values.

Bash – Match exact string in directory listing

27, Apr 2009

Been doing some bash scripting of late, been meaning to for ages. Really enjoying it too!
Anyway, today I needed to match an exact string in a directory listing (ls). To check if a volume on my Mac Book was mounted, so I could backup to it. Or any other drive for that matter. I ended [...]


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