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Portable way to get script's absolute path?
What is a portable way for a (zsh) script to determine its absolute path?
On Linux I use something like
mypath=$(readlink -f $0)
...but this is not portable. (E.g., readlink on darwin does not ...
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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh
How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances?
More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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Checking existence of file with underscore in file name in zsh
I am writing a very simple script which will link shared configuration files. For some reason it does not behave as i expected for file with underscore in name. Does _ (underscore) means something ...
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Renaming files in lexicographical order with a numerical pattern that increases sequentially with fixed padding
I have files such as
a
bb
ccc
abc
emrls
I would like to rename them so that, after sorting them (for example, lexicographically), each file gets the following name:
00001
00002
00003
etc
where ...
