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How to get shell to self detect using zsh or Bash-Stack Overflow?
Suppose a script that if the user is using zsh, then put PATH to his .zshrc and if using bash should put in .bashrc. And set rvmrc accordingly. A word of warning: the question you seem to have asked, the question you meant to ask, and the question you should have asked are three different things.
How to lock a file in Bash using flock?
I just want it to place a lock on file, write into it and then unlock it. In c it only takes flock (“text.txt”, ..). First, it opens test.txt for write (and truncates all contents) — before doing anything else, including calling flock! Second, it tells flock to get an exclusive lock on the file and run the command read.
Is it safe to use Bash instead of shell?
If you want to rely on $SHELL, it is safer to actually execute some code: This last suggestion can be run from a script regardless of which shell is used to run the script. EDIT: Sometimes it returns -zsh and sometimes zsh and the same with bash, idk why.
Is it OK to define environment variables in.zshrc?
If it contains fish, zsh, bash, ksh or tcsh, the user’s favorite shell is probably that shell. However, this is the wrong question for your problem. Files like .bashrc, .zshrc, .cshrc and so on are shell initialization files. They are not the right place to define environment variables.
Is there a way to run bash from a shell?
This last suggestion can be run from a script regardless of which shell is used to run the script. EDIT: Sometimes it returns -zsh and sometimes zsh and the same with bash, idk why. An alternative, might not work for all shells. zsh no longer exports an env var called $ZSH_VERSION.
What’s the newline symbol in zsh’s PS1?
What’s the newline symbol in zsh’s PS1? How should I set it up? PS1=$’Hi Joe, what now?%# ‘ Taken from FAQ, item 3.13 I know this is an old question, but I was looking for this as well. If you load prompinit ( autoload -Uz promptinit && promptinit) you get the option for free: $prompt_newline which is $’ % {%}’.
Where can I find the source code of Zsh?
On a Debian system you can find the source code in /usr/share/zsh/functions/Prompts/promptinit and/or https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/Functions/Prompts/promptinit Thanks for contributing an answer to Unix & Linux Stack Exchange! Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research! But avoid …