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Replacement of PS1 variable in .bashrc using Sed or Perl

I am trying to replace a line in file and am running in to issues. Original File: Command I am running: Error message: I also tried sed: Result with Sed: Expected Result File: End Result This doesn’t have much to do with the question except to show folks what the PS1 will look like when working properly…

Package fracdiff of R fails to install in Linux Mint

I am installing the package forecast. However, I get a persistent error because the package fracdiff fails with this error: Normally, when I see had non-zero exit status, it is for me a clue telling me that I should go to Synaptic and search for the library r-cran-fracdiff. However, this library is not presen…

bash script unable to ask confirmation

I am initiating myself to shell scripting and I need to ask the user about confirmation. I have this script, which I don’t know why the following command is not working: read -p “Are you sure about this action?” yn I use it twice, at the beggining of the script and in the middle. The first r…

Export Curl information to file using sed

I am trying to get a dns address using curl and I would like to use that dsn address to replace a word in a .js file. So the .js file contains a word “hostname” and I would like to replace that with the dns address fetched from curl so what I am trying to do is this. sed ‘s/hostname/curl

Dynamic expansion of the Linux stack

I’ve noticed the Linux stack starts small and expands with page faults caused by recursion/pushes/vlas up to size getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK,…), give or take (defaults to 8MiB on my system). Curiously though, if I cause page faults by addressing bytes directly, within the limit, Linux will just regula…

Bash get docker image ID automatically

I’m trying to run a few docker commands in my linux machine: But I would like to make a runme.sh and execute all in one run. The problem is that ImageID bf46cff9b182 is dynamiccally changing everytime. So I need to somehow pipe it from the output of the load command, which is in fact possible. The outpu…