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I have no idea how to delete a duplicate post/reply. Oh well.

But xmllimit is native on macOS and xmlstarlet is not:
Fink - Package Database - Package xmlstarlet (Command-line XML manipulation tool)...

Thank you Nezabudka. This is great AND includes the line breaks. I wasn't seeing those with some of the other XML parsing tool options I'd experimented with in shell including:

xmllint --xpath...

I'm searching for the names of a TV show in the XML file I've attached at the end of this post. What I'm trying to do now is pull out/list the data from each of the <SeriesName> tags throughout the...

The debate over what my previous code may or may not do is worthwhile but not the point of my post. The point was to ask: how can i automate -- inside of the script -- for stdout and stderr to be...

Hey gang,

I'm confused about the 'exec' command. I get the basics. I can redirect stdout and stderr to one log file with:

exec >> $logFile 2>&1

However, that code requires admin rights. In...

had no idea about IFS but will certainly dig into that now, thank you! the code is working on my mac and i'm loving it. appreciate it.

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Appreciate the follow up. The issue now is a bit more devious: setting an array with these values doesn't know how to break up the resulting text! Perhaps another problem for another thread, perhaps...

@RudiC - I'm not familiar with either NF or NR. I'm using something like networksetup -listallnetworkservices | awk '{print $11-$20}' and it's returning a lot of zeros. Your example only returns...

from the CLI on a Mac, if you type networksetup -listallnetworkservices then you get results in a multi-line paragraph that look something like this:

networksetup -listallnetworkservices
An...

i appreciate the quick response!

if the range command (which i'd never heard of) is more effective at passing a list of values than the array command, why bother using the array command? it...

while i've used arrays to work with variables, i've never used them to loop through a set of strings and wanted to ask the community for some feedback or assistance.

let me be specific. here's my...

didn't know about pkill so thank you. otherwise, i'm all about elegance. if i can do something in two lines of code, i don't care what those two lines are. yours is great but as i'm already using...

verdepollo: single quotes didn't work. tried that before i posted.
Corona688: many thanks, for the fix. didn't think to quote the variable.

cheers, folks,
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i have a list of apps that i need to forcequit and, from time to time, that list changes. perfect excuse to manage a single array! however, my strings with spaces aren't passing as i'd like them to....

three answers in one:

a) didn't know wildcards couldn't be called in quotes.
b) the reminder about my backslash.
c) including the cp into the if statement.

way more elegant now. thank you!!

smaller sample from a larger script: i'm simply trying to copy files from one desktop directory on a mac to another using variables. when i first test the logic of the script without variables,...

also my thanks to cfajohnson! didn't mention that before, gents, sorry.

ikon,

that worked. can you or the others explain the syntax for me?

i'd used:
uVolume=`echo "$Volume" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'` and got no results

you suggested:
uVolume=`echo "$Volume" | sed 's/...

i'm on a Mac running BSD unix.

i have a script in which i ask the user to input the name of a mounted volume. i then call SED to substitute backslashes and spaces in place of the spaces. that...