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In bash, I want to get the Nth word of a string.
For instance:
What bash command/script could do this?
Thank you!
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When I run a program from the console, e.g.
me@box:~$ firefox
I expect the console to log error messages (I think this is std out or std err?) and other items from the program, firefox in this case.
But today I notice that bash just opens the program and goes to a new prompt, e.g.
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I was updating my .bash_profile, and unfortunetly I made a few updates and now I am getting:
env: bash: No such file or directory
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I was updating my .bash_profile, and unfortunetly I made a few updates and now I am getting:
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
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ps -e | grep bash
sample output from a linux machine:
1128 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
7491 pts/7 00:00:00 bash
12651 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
16145 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
sample output from a mac machine:
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First login process name seems to be set to "-bash", but if I subshell then it becomes "bash". for example:
root@nowere:~# echo $0
-bash
root@nowere:~# bash
root@nowere:~# echo $0
bash
-bash is causing some scripts to fail, such as . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
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