Questions tagged [bash]
BASH is the GNU Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix Bourne sh (shell). It's the default shell for various Linux/GNU systems.
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Invalid syntax for a bash file called catalog
I have a file written in bash (with the she-bang) and called "catalog", and the syntax highlighting is incorrect. If I rename the file, the colors become correct.
I have not configured anything in ...
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Run processes in shell while editing in Vim
I am a new Vim user. I can do : :! <some command> in Vim to run a bash command in Linux. After that bash command is executed, I can press Enter to go back to Vim. What happens if the bash ...
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Shell running inside vim windows
Is there a way that a open up a window or buffer, where i can run my bash commands? I thought on something like you know it from VS Code(1). The code windows on the top and a small command prompt on ...
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Change Vim command :terminal so instead of CMD there will open Bash terminal [duplicate]
I am used working on Vim on Linux, where I use tmux + vim to switch between terminal and vim edit quickly. Now I am trying to setup the same on windows 10.
I try to use gVim on Windows 10, but I like ...
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Execute Vim commands from shell
How to execute Vim commands from shell? For ex I want to see man pages of grep command in vim typing command from shell(bash,zsh) command something like:
vim ':Man grep'
Is it possible?
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Why do I get “incompatible error” while opening .sh files using vi in cygwin?
I am very much annoyed by this error:
$ vi abc.sh
Error detected while processing /home/DELL/.virc:
line 1:
E518: Unknown option: incompatible
Press ENTER or type command to continue
/bin/bash: ...
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Why are Vim 8 :term colours with gvim different from those in plain vim :term or bash?
Vim 8 :term colours in gvim happen to be different from those seen in plain vim :term or bash.
How come? How does one obtain the same bash colours in gvim?
EDIT: I have been reading a bit more about ...
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Error when opening shell scripts
I began to get the error
Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.sh":
E117: Unknown function: dist#ft#SetFileTypeSH
when I opened shell scripts (*.sh)
I think it happened after ...
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Extended ASCII characters changed upon opening Vim in different shell
Specifically, I have encountered this issue with the lowercase a with an umlaut ä and the lowercase scharfes s ß. Their (extended) ASCII values are 0xDF and 0xE4, respectively:
This can be seen, in ...
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How to run the history search in Vi mode in bash
I want to find the alternative to ctrl+R to search history in bash. I can enable vi mode in bash but I cannot make it search. When I do /search or ?search nothing happens. Is there something more I ...
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Use current filename register in bash command ran from VIM
I'm making a command that runs tests and opens coverage report for the currently opened file.
nnoremap cov :!vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit --coverage-html \
/tmp/coverage/ test/ && google-...
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Bash process substitution on vim command line?
I want to be able to show someone a particular file's undo history in vim, remotely. It's a little complicated, so let me explain one step at a time.
For starters, I can set a custom undofile and ...
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MacVim - doesnt find programs in PATH when running commands using “!”
When I'm using vim in a terminal, it uses the PATH I have set, and I can run programs and scripts located in my ~/bin folder using !
For example
:! some_bash_script.sh
When I try this in MacVim, it ...
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Why all lines dispear after executing the lines on edited file?
vim command.txt
key="123456"
openssl enc -des3 -a -salt -in /tmp/test -k ${key} -out /tmp/test.asc
In vim's command mode :1,2!bash,the file /tmp/test was encrypted into /tmp/test.asc ,but all the ...
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How to customize the color of an HTML output file generated from Git Bash?
I have used the following command in Git Bash to perform a 'vimdiff' for 2 XML files.
vimdiff xml1.xml xml2.xml -c TOhtml -c 'w! result.html' -c 'qa!'
The HTML file which is getting generated is ...
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Vim: error opening files <SNR>62_InitializePythonBuiltin the Python's site module could not be loaded [duplicate]
I have set up vim on a new machine according to Vimlander-2-The-Quickening, but I keep running into the following errors when I open a file in command mode: :e /path/to/file, :vs /path/to/file, or :sp ...
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VIM: how to send entire line to a buffer of type “Terminal”?
In vim8, you can open a terminal inside vim with term command. This opens a new buffer of type terminal inside vim. Is there any way of sending lines from other buffers to this type of buffer?
For ...
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Using vim as manpager: works on Linux, fails on macOS
:h manpager describes how to use vim as a manpager:
Works on:
- Linux
- Mac OS
- FreeBSD
- Cygwin
- Win 10 under Bash
Untested:
- Amiga OS
- BeOS
- OS/2
For bash,zsh,ksh or dash ...
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Fully disable mouse in console vim
I saw completely disable mouse in console vim on Stack Overflow. It sounded like exactly what I wanted, but there the problem was related to Cygwin, so the title was a misnomer.
I want to know how ...
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How to prevent accidentally piping text to Vim?
I use Vim to edit the output of shell commands all the time. Appending the dash in this line is second nature:
$ ./some-command | vim -
But every once in a while I get distracted and forget:
$ ./...
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Process substitution with read
I want to print stuff to the screen separated by key presses (any key). A reduced version of what I'm trying to do is:
$ echo banana && read -rsn1 && echo orange && read -rsn1 ...
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How to set the vim path to your bash PATH?
I'd like my $PATH to be available to vim when running commands with !. How do I set vim's set path= to my environment variable $PATH?
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Why does VIM change the columns variable after Ctrl+z? (Setting the width of text in the VIM editor)
I start up vim using the following command:
vim -u NONE -U NONE -c ':set columns=40 nu'
Then, I push vim to the foreground...
...and return.
For some reason, VIM has changed the columns variable to ...
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vi editing of bash command line: Avoid execution upon exit?
I'm running bash, and my ~/.inputrc contains set editing-mode vi. This allows me to edit my command line using vi-like behaviour. And I can press v in normal mode to enter the full-fledged vi-editor,...
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real time vim keylogger
is there anyway to log vim keypresses (or keypresses in general activated by vim) and record it somewhere (STDOUT, file, etc) in real time? I want somthing similar to vim -w file.log file and this ...
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Invoke vi help from bash without starting Vim [duplicate]
How do I invoke the vi help while I am in bash without starting a vi session?
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Is there any way to switch between Vim and a :! command passed to the shell, before it is finished executing?
This would make my workflow immensely easier -- I have some simple maps for executing python .py files, and sometimes it would be nice to open an interactive session after running them (for example, ...
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How can you use vim as a stream editor? [duplicate]
Like most programmers, I perform a lot of repetitive tasks. In optimising my workflow, I'm taking some of those repetitive tasks, and refactoring them into shell scripts.
One thing that I'm trying to ...
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Why do exclamation ! shell commands in GVIM show error: “syntax error near unexpected token (” for “ls() (”?
E.g., it I do:
!echo a
or any other !, it first prints:
syntax error near unexpected token (
ls() ( /* my alias */ )
and then the actual command.
The problem only happens in GVIM, not in Vim.
...
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How should I move the cursor when running shell by using :sh?
If I use arrow keys, I will get the text in the above picture.
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How should I fold a shell script in vim? Is there an existing script or function for this?
I'm working on some shell scripts with a lot of:
# Parameter: images.0.created_at
if [ -z "$images.0.created_at" ]
then
echo "images.0.created_at is empty"
else
woostring="$woostring""...
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Why doesn't vim recognize bash self-made functions
Say, I defined a command in my ~/.bash_profile, (MacOS Sierra, Macbook Air, if it's relevant)
function sayHello(){
echo Hello world!
}
and while using vim, intend to call
:! sayHello
It does ...
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Execute bash script from vim
I use vim for bash scripting. the thing is sometimes I don't want to create a new file, make it executable, execute it and then remove it. I mean the scripts which are going to be used only once.
For ...
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multiple shell command execution failed
I want to execute two shell command at the same time in vim. So i use | like below
:!ls|!pwd
Its Returns the following error
E34: No previous command
But what happen ls output is forward to ...
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Source a vimrc from a webpage?
I work with lots of different servers and would like to unify my vimrc across them all. I see that vim has the source command, which I'm assuming works similar to bash. In bash, to source a file from ...
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How to comment a line directly from bash using vim?
What I usually do from bash/vim ... is
open file with vim
go to line to comment
comment a line
save and quit
My file is /usr/local/etc/php/7.0/conf.d/ext-xdebug.ini and the initial content is
[...
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How to escape filename containing single and double quotes mix?
Let's say i create a filename with this:
xb@dnxb:/tmp/test$ touch '"i'"'"'m noob.mp4"'
xb@dnxb:/tmp/test$ ls -1
"i'm noob.mp4"
xb@dnxb:/tmp/test$
Then vim . to go inside Netrw directory listing.
" ...
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How do I turn off the “feature” where the pound sign “#” is forced to 0 position?
When writing C/C++ code, vim defaults to forcing any pound sign ("#") to the zero position column. This is fine for for C/C++, but it is very annoying for shell scripting and perl scripting, since the ...
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How do I search google from vim?
I would like to be able to search google from within any vim file. A nice command might be :goo while in normal mode.
Then I type what I want to search and bam it opens my default browser with the ...
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How to export information from vim to bash
When you execute the shell in vim via the :sh command, the shell that is set in the shell option is executed. However, is it possible to pass some information from the vim instance that you are ...
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How to output result of vim commands to shell
Let's say I'm in the shell (bash) and want to see output that :scriptnames would give, but don't want to start vim or maybe I want to echo that into another file.
So I execute
vim +scriptnames
...
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Vim indentation of a bash script seems broken after a pipe
Vim builtin indentation seems to get confused with the following script. I cannot get Vim to indent properly the while-loop after the pipe.
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
# while loop is indented ...
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Why is bash not interactive after setting &shell='/bin/bash -i'?
My vimrc sets the shell option:
let &shell='/bin/bash -i'
which I confirm using
echo &shell
The -i makes the shell interactive. I want to do this so that it runs ~/.bashrc, which contains ...
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How do I turn Vi colors off in Ubuntu Linux 14.04
How do I turn vi colors off? I was using vim-tiny on on Ubuntu 14.04. Installed vim-nox. Version is version 7.4.52. Once I installed that, I got all these syntax colors by default. I have my Terminal ...
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Strange shell (bash) behavior when started from vim
Edit: Solved. See GitHub: amix/vimrc#204.
I often drop a shell out of my vim window by :!bash but I have two problems with it.
I can't use UTF8 for pipes
with QWERTZ layout, I can't use Umlaut keys ...
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Use shell variable substitution with current filepath
I want to be able to easily change the filename. This works:
:! var=%; mv % ${var/.txt/.asc}
But this doesn't:
:! mv % ${%/.txt/.asc}
My questions:
Why doesn't this work? Doesn't VIM simply ...
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readline: inputrc vi keys, ipython and the del key [closed]
I have the following .inputrc:
set editing-mode vi
set keymap vi-command
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set completion-ignore-case on
In bash when I type following (in insert mode!) as an example,
# ...
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How to run bash command over current file and replace buffer with result? [duplicate]
I currently deal with lots of json files and am quite fond of the bash comand jq, e.g. if I want to format the file I do
jq . ugly.json > formated.json
Now, I don't want to leave vim, but run it ...
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Trouble to call a bash command from vimrc with autocommands | “Error: no previous command” (neovim)
basically i want to test within my vimrc, if /home/$USER/.dotfiles/nvim/bundle/vim-snippets/snippets was symlinked to /home/$USER/.dotfiles/nvim/snippets
If not, it should create the symlink.
the ...
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How do I configure the Vim airline plugin to look like its own project screenshot?
I am trying to get the vim-airline up and running.
I have required it via vundle in my ~./vimrc:
Plugin 'bling/vim-airline'
I have installed it and expected my Vim to look like the screenshot on ...
