Anyone know why there's no ; character after do in shell loops when written on a single line? Here's what I mean. When written on a multiple lines a for loop looks like: $ for i in $(jot 2) > do > echo $i > done And on a single line: $ for i in $(jot 2); do echo $i; done All the collap...

I have a file that on it has the names of two different files that come each in the same line like this file1.fastq.gz file2.fastq.gz ... file9fastq.ga file10fastq.gz How can I get to be able to parse this two names as arguments for an script?

In FreeBSD 12, using the zsh shell, I noticed this difference when looking at $path (lowercase) versus $PATH (uppercase). echo $path /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/home/freebsd/bin echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/...

I want to copy a file from A to B, which may be on different filesystems. There are some additional requirements: The copy is all or nothing, no partial or corrupt file B left in place on crash; Do not overwrite an existing file B; Do not compete with a concurrent execution of the same command...