I spend most of my time working in Unix environments and using terminal emulators. I try to use color on the command line, because color makes the output more useful and intuitive. What …

The MSDN/Technet URL now redirects to a page saying "The Windows PowerShell 1.0 Owner’s Manual has been retired. For the most up-to-date Windows PowerShell content, go to Using …

I would like to display current path in sh prompt (not bash shell), which currently just shows "#", I tried with introducing this env PS1="$(whoami)@$(hostname):$(pwd)"

140 sh is the default Bourne-compatible shell (usually bash or dash) sys-snap.sh is a shell script, which contains commands that sh executes. As you do not post its content, I can only guess …

How do I call an external command within Python as if I had typed it in a shell or command prompt?

Is there a way to go back to previous directory we were in using bash,tcsh without using pushd/popd ? I'd like to type something like "back" and got returned to the previous directory I …

A shell assignment is a single word, with no space after the equal sign. So what you wrote assigns an empty value to thefile; furthermore, since the assignment is grouped with a …

However, if your script is merely declaring functions to later be used in a shell, then you will want to use Return in the definitions of said functions. Exit vs Return vs Break Exit: This will "exit" …

Getting a shell with the new group without logging out and in again If you're only adding one group, I used the following: exec sg <new_group_name> "newgrp `id -gn`" This is a variation …

However with an easy tweak you can process it with some shell function or read it line-by line, too. Beware: You cannot distinguish between Strings and Numbers, as both are expressed the …