'\r': command not found

Hello group, I am sure this is a total newbie to bash question, but I tried adding logging to a simple rclone backup noscript and I do not understand the error, because there is no "\\r" in the noscript. The rclone synch runs successfully.

The noscript:

#!/bin/bash

LOG_FILE="/var/log/backup.log"

log() {

echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - $1" >> "${LOG_FILE}"

}

log "Starting the noscript"

rclone sync -v --create-empty-src-dirs /$HOME/Documents Google:Documents

log "Script completed successfully"

Result including cat to verify the noscript run:

>barry@barryubuntu:\~/sh$ sudo bash backup.sh

>[sudo\] password for barry:

>backup.sh: line 3: $'\\r': command not found

>backup.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `$'{\\r''

>'ackup.sh: line 4: `log() {

>barry@barryubuntu:\~/sh$ cat backup.sh

>\#!/bin/bash

>LOG_FILE="/var/log/backup.log"

>log() {

>echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - $1" >> "${LOG_FILE}"

>}

>log "Starting the noscript"

>rclone sync -v --create-empty-src-dirs /$HOME/Documents Google:Documents

>log "Script completed successfully"

>

As I said the rclone synch is working, I am just trying to get backup to Google drive like I had in Windows before switching to Ubuntu a few months ago. But logging sure would be an easier way to make sure it is functioning. This logging piece I simply copied from a lesson in bash noscript logging. Thanks all.



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Trying to make a debug flag. It ain't easy...

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Made the question a README in a repo in my GitHub since it keeps getting the BS Reddit Filter here

https://github.com/Ian-Marcel/Trying-to-make-a-debug-flag-It-ain-t-easy/blob/stable/README.md

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Need help making a noscript for file decoding

So I’m not good at coding whatsoever. But I’m trying to streamline the process of decoding a non-compatible surround audio file to a .wav file with dolby reference player. Asked chat gpt but the ponctuation is so damn confusing. The commands for this process are:

drp “input file path” --ac4dec-dmx-mode hp --ac4dec-drc-enabled false --ac4dec-out-ref-level 0 --ac4dec-limiter-enabled false --ac4dec-pres-index 1 --audio-out-file ‘input file name’.wav

Could yall please help me figure out how do I make a noscript so that I’ll just have to input the .ac4 file and let it do its thing? Appreciate yall in advance. Sorry for the formating, posting on a phone.

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Question about Docker usage in a bash noscript

Hey, im a total beginner to bash noscripting, so sorry for potentially noob question. Recently I decided to write a simple noscript for automatically converting and sending ebooks to my e-reader using Calibre's utilities. It also utilizes secret-tool for safely storing mail credentials.

In such a scenario, would it be better to demand users to install Calibre locally, or containerize my noscript via Docker? The second option seems a bit excessive for a noscript consisting of two small files but I'm not sure what are the standard solutions in such scenarios. Also it's my first time using Docker so I'm a bit lost.

Thanks in advance!

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Question about Docker usage in a bash noscript

Hey, im a total beginner to bash noscripting, so sorry for potentially noob question. Recently I decided to write a simple noscript for automatically converting and sending ebooks to my e-reader using Calibre's utilities. It also utilizes secret-tool for safely storing mail credentials.

In such a scenario, would it be better to demand users to install Calibre locally, or containerize my noscript via Docker? The second option seems a bit excessive for a noscript consisting of two small files but I'm not sure what are the standard solutions in such scenarios. Also it's my first time using Docker so I'm a bit lost.

Heres the noscript for anyone interested (it might not currently work on your machine, hence this post): https://github.com/Dewaszmi/send-to-kindle-noscript

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Infant's request from experts as someone who is entering the world of Bash as a tool

For context I switched to Linux 3 weeks ago on a Debian based architecture and I have fallen in love with it but I am not using to its best potential. I want to switch to arch Linux and I am currently learning by testing in on a Virtual Environment (qemu-kvm) in particular .What is the best way to go about learning bash from scratch, noscripting and eventually becoming an expert given I am also done and expecting graduation soon in electrical and telecommunications and on my research I have learnt that backbone of telecoms and Networking as a whole is Linux. Any advise is highly appreciated as I want to commit fully into learning the language and the best way is always asking the experts.

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How to clear cache and cookies across all browsers for localhost:3002?

You have a specific website localhost:3002
You have firefox, safari and chrome installed
You want to clear cache and cookies for this website across all browsers
Anyone know if this is doable with a bash noscript?

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How do fill the next prompt

Is there a command or way to make a a noscript that works like the following
$ inject "echo test"
$ echo test
without executing echo test

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An app that lets you view a live snapshot of your shell output

Hi,

I’m thinking about making a small app that shows a live view of your shell output — like tail -f or noscript output — in a clean, glassy overlay on your phone screen (maybe even on a widget). It’s useful for monitoring the status of running code, for instance.

Would you use and maybe pay a 1 time fee for something like that? Thanks!

View Poll

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I built rewindtty: a C tool to record and replay terminal sessions as JSON logs (like a black box for your CLI)
https://github.com/debba/rewindtty

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Why is rsync not escaping spaces? At my wit's end.

Pretty sure I tried all the forms of escaping spaces by now, I just can't figure it out, so please forgive what may be a beginner question:

Because Windows 11 is a @#$ and Microsoft a @#$, I am trying to use a 64 GB NTFS partition on nvme 0n1 as a cross platform place to synchronize things but OpenSUSE LEAP 15.6 doesn't always have an easy time mounting it automatically at /mnt/CROSSPLATFORM.

So I decided, set a $DIR variable based on which, mounting in XFCE, or mounting through fstab, happens. That way if fstab fails to mount to /mnt/CROSSPLATFORM, it will pick up on that and go to the manually mounted /run/media/fool/etc.....

But rsync keeps complaining that it cannot change directories to the directory. And then it will sometimes create the directory with the escape characters. I've tried no escapes, escapes, no quotes, single quotes, double quotes, and I can't get it to simply see that the two destinations have spaces in the name. Error:

sending incremental file list

rsync: [sender] change_dir "/run/media/fool/CROSSPLATFORM/Documents/Games/Baldurs\ Gate\ 3" failed: No such file or directory (2)

created directory /home/fool/Documents/Games/Baldurs\ Gate\ 3

sent 19 bytes received 80 bytes 198.00 bytes/sec

total size is 0 speedup is 0.00

rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1336) [sender=3.2.7]

Here's the bash noscript that I'm trying to fix:

#!/bin/bash

if mountpoint -q /run/media/fool/CROSSPLATFORM

then

DIR="/run/media/fool/CROSSPLATFORM/Documents/Games/Baldurs\ Gate\ 3/"

else

DIR="/mnt/CROSSPLATFORM/Documents/Games/Baldurs\ Gate\ 3/"

fi

rsync -av --progress --delete "$DIR" "/home/fool/Documents/Games/Baldurs\ Gate\ 3/"



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I made a small flashcard program a few weeks back, thought that I should share
https://github.com/ANSI-D/molniya-flashcards

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Expect noscript will not run in cron

I have a noscript that I run every night via cron as root. I set the path in the top of the crontab. The noscript kicks off a expect command to spawn a lftp session. Everything works great when I run the noscript via interactive, but when I run it via cron, the file never gets sent. The log doesn't show any errors. The comment from the parent noscript is:


expect -f expect_noscript.txt


and the content of the expect_noscript.txt is below:




set timeout 60

set prompt "lftp *"

set FTP_HOST "waws-prod-ch9-051.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net"

set LOCAL_FILE "/public/ra_reports/*.html"

spawn lftp ftp://$FTP_HOST



# send User and Password

expect {

$prompt { send "user USERID\\PASSWORD\r" }

timeout { puts "Timed out"; exit 1}

}



# change DIR to ra_reports

expect {

$prompt { send "cd /site/wwwroot/ra_reports\r" }

timeout { puts "Timed out"; exit 1}

}



# put HTML files

expect {

$prompt { send "mput $LOCAL_FILE\r" }

timeout { puts "Timed out"; exit 1}

}





send "bye\r"

expect eof



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Help, Can't get the code to be running in bash

$ cd "e:\Sculptures\Dustbin\Random\" && g++ sumthin.cpp -o sumthin && ./sumthin

this is the only output

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Any good AI tool that can help generate noscripts?

Hi,

Anyone using a good AI tool to automate noscript generation, testing and implementation? Looking for some suggestions on some good tools.

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An open-source AI that turns plain English into terminal commands

Vity is an open-source terminal assistant that lets you turn natural language instructions into shell commands.

Built for those of you who are not command-line wizards, but still occasionally need to battle the terminal.

In addition to generating commands, Vity also lets you ask questions based on your terminal history.

Vity adds the generated command to terminal history, but NEVER executes it automatically. Instead, it prints the command, and lets you retrieve the command with a simple press on UP ARROW key.

Vity is fully open source, and it supports all OpenAI compatible LLM providers, including Ollama, VLLM and other self-hosted options.

Supports all major providers: Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Ollama, VLLM etc

Vity is open-source on GitHub – try it out!

Try vity: https://github.com/kaleab-ayenew/vity

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Prompt persistente desde Bash — sin memoria externa, ni RAG, solo texto 🧠

Hay una forma de mantener “memoria” y personalidad en modelos locales (llama.cpp) solo usando Bash. Sin herramientas raras ni cosas externas.
El personaje se llama **R12D12** y responde como si fuera un robot técnico, sin florituras.

Básicamente:

* El comportamiento está dentro del propio prompt .txt
* Se lanza desde Bash con llama.cpp
* Y aunque el modelo no tiene memoria real, se mantiene estable solo por cómo está escrito el texto.

[Sin RAG, sin embeddings, sin API. Todo vive en texto plano.](https://preview.redd.it/6k0jssfwkrgf1.png?width=3456&format=png&auto=webp&s=7b316c9b8384b0394f3e425fd75ce2d95fd187a8)

📎 [https://github.com/BiblioGalactic/Robotsdelamanecer](https://github.com/BiblioGalactic/Robotsdelamanecer)

¿Alguien más jugando con esto en terminal? ¿O soy el raro? 🤖

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edit-and-execute-command ignores $VISUAL when set -o posix -o vi

When bash is run in posix and vi mode, it seems edit-and-execute-command ignores both $VISUAL, $EDITOR and $FCEDIT, and instead uses vi. Are anyone able to reproduce this?

$ set -x -o posix -o vi
$ export EDITOR=vim
$
# press v when in command mode
++ fc -e vi
+++ vi /tmp/bash-fc.kBdfnM
$

But when run in emacs mode with set -o emacs, it correctly uses the program specified by the env vars. Is this a bug or expected behavior?

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☄️ Structured Personality AI Experiment (llama.cpp)

previous tests with “Alex” and R12D12, here’s a collection of entities with predefined behavior. These are not general-purpose chatbots, but functional narrative profiles — each with its own internal framework.

Robots:

HAL\_10
Da1ta1
Vender
CC-33PPOO

Each one:

🤖 responds from within its role, not from the user’s intent
🫡 maintains tone, structure, and narrative constraints
🎭 doesn’t improvise, it interprets
🔄 doesn’t hallucinate, it follows internal logic

Designed to run fully offline — no RAG, no embeddings, no external dependencies.
Just prompt engineering, modular structure (prompt.txt, config, README, and per-profile examples).
Repository:
(http://github.com/BiblioGalactic/Robotsdelamanecer)
Can serve as a base for operational simulation, narrative training, or controlled interaction with role-based AIs under local execution.
Signed: Eto Demerzel
Motto: If something can be narrated, it can be replicated.

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Bash 100%

>🧠 Estoy trabajando en un sistema de personalidades IA usando llama.cpp completamente en local. Toda la orquestación está hecha en Bash con modularidad por perfiles (prompt.txt, config, launcher.sh, etc.).

>

>¿Alguien más ha trabajado con Bash para estructurar prompts o manejar memoria contextual? Estoy usando distancia Levenshtein + control de tokens, y me encantaría feedback técnico sobre la arquitectura de los noscripts.

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Cloned Revolut App

🛑 I’m facing some problems with: ExpoModulesCore, some classes and cocoa pods I’ve been stuck for 6h. I would grateful if someone could help me out 🥲

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