How to use an experimental command in nix? - nix

Like in this tutorial I want to see the derivation.
ls /nix/store/*.drv | head -n 1 | nix show-derivation
experimental Nix feature 'nix-command' is disabled; use '--extra-experimental-features nix-command' to override
I retry with the proposed change
ls /nix/store/*.drv | head -n 1 | nix show-derivation --extra-experimental-features nix-command
error: unable to find a flake before encountering filesystem boundary at '/mnt'

nix show-derivation expects its input as command line arguments.
Lacking any inputs, it seems to default to looking up a flake.
This would work, if it wasn't for *.drv producing too many results on my store:
$ nix show-derivation --extra-experimental-features nix-command $(ls /nix/store/*.drv | head -n 1)
bash: /run/current-system/sw/bin/ls: Argument list too long
If you have any .drv files, this works:
$ nix show-derivation --extra-experimental-features nix-command $(find /nix/store -maxdepth 1 -name '*.drv' | head -n 1)
Without any .drv files, $(...) produces no arguments, and that would be another way to get your error message.

For permanent effect add following line to your configuration file "~/.config/nix/nix.conf"
experimental-features = nix-command
Create the conf file if it doesn't exist. You can append other experimental features like flakes etc.

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Does Mercurial have a template to capture output of "hg grep"?

I was searching for a change that included "foreach" so I used this Mercurial command:
$ hg grep -r "user(mjh) & public() & date(-30)" --diff -i foreach
and it does return the hits where "foreach" was added and removed.
However, I'd like to know the actual commit hashes too. If I add a template:
$ hg grep ... -T '{date|shortdate}\n{node|short}\n{desc|firstline}\n\n'
then I get the commit hash and description as expected, but then I don't see the changed files listed.
Is there a template to capture the output of hg grep? The {files} template lists the files associated with a commit, but that's not the actual grep output. Is there an iterable template keyword available for the grep results?
Please, re-read carefully hg help grep -v (-v is important option), note the following part (new and unexpected for me also)
The following keywords are supported in addition to the common
template
keywords and functions. See also 'hg help templates'.
change String. Character denoting insertion "+" or removal "-".
Available if "--diff" is specified.
lineno Integer. Line number of the match.
path String. Repository-absolute path of the file.
texts List of text chunks.
After it you'll be able to repeat (so-so, because some details will differ slightly) default output of grep in you template
>hg grep --diff -i -r 1166 to_try
>hg grep --diff -i -r 1166 -T "{path}:{rev}:{change}:{texts}\n" to_try
hggit/compat.py:1166:-: for args in parameters_to_try:
hggit/compat.py:1166:+: for (args, kwargs) in parameters_to_try:
and after replacing {rev} by {node|short}
>hg grep --diff -i -r 1166 -T "{path}:{node|short}:{change}:{texts}\n" to_try
hggit/compat.py:f6cef55e6aeb:-: for args in parameters_to_try:
hggit/compat.py:f6cef55e6aeb:+: for (args, kwargs) in parameters_to_try:

Getting `No such file or directory` error on egrep in function on zsh

I've created a small function to allow me to grep through my command history on zsh. The command history 1 will display the entire command history. And running history 1 | egrep ls shows just those command containing ls.
So my function looks like this:
h() {
if [ -z "$*" ]
then
history 1
else
history 1 | egrep "$#"
fi
}
Unfortunately this only results in the following error message:
$ h ls
egrep: ls: No such file or directory
I'm at a loss as to what is wrong in my script. I've trie both grep and egrep to no avail.
What is the full path of grep or egrep?
It's possible that it's running in an alternate shell which has a different PATH set. Try using an explicit /usr/bin/grep or /usr/bin/egrep and see if that fixes anything.
Create a file history.zsh (slightly changed from the original):
#!/bin/zsh
h() {
if [ -z "$*" ]
then
history
else
history | fgrep "$*"
fi
}
Now source this file (so "h" will be refreshed):
. history.zsh
And call the new function:
$ h ls
30 h ls
31 ls
I've abandoned the function. Further reading on the subject of zsh history lead me to this very elegant solution that meets my needs. https://coderwall.com/p/jpj_6q
In a nutshell you add this to your .zshrc:
autoload -U up-line-or-beginning-search
autoload -U down-line-or-beginning-searc
zle -N up-line-or-beginning-search
zle -N down-line-or-beginning-search
bindkey "^[[A" up-line-or-beginning-search # Up
bindkey "^[[B" down-line-or-beginning-search # Down
Now your history can be searched by entering a partial term and using the up or down arrow keys to walk through the matches from your history file.

Ignoring directories from a file

I am in the process of creating a script that lists all files opened via lsof output. I would like to checksum specific files and ignore directories from that output but am at a loss to do so EFFECTIVELY. For example: (I'm using FreeBSD btw)
lsof | awk '/\//{print $9}' | sort -u | head -n 5
prints:
/
/bin/sleep
/dev/bpf
What I'd like to do is: FROM that output, ignore any directories and perform an md5 on FILES (not directories).
Any pointers?
Give a try to following perl command:
lsof | perl -MDigest::MD5=md5_hex -ane '
$f = $F[ $#F ];
-f $f and printf qq|%s %s\n|, $f, md5_hex( $f )
'
It filters lsof output to plain files (-f). Take a look into perlfunc to change it to add different kind of files.
It outputs each file and its md5 separated by a space character. An example in my system is like:
/usr/lib/libm-2.17.so a2d3b2de9a1f59fb99427714fefb49ca
/usr/lib/libdl-2.17.so d74d8ac16c2d13128964353d4be7061a
/usr/lib/libnsl-2.17.so 34b6909ec60c337c21b044642b9baa3d
/usr/lib/ld-2.17.so 3d0e7b5b5c4e59c5c4b6a858cc79fcf1
/usr/sbin/lsof b9b8fbc8f296e47969713f6369d97c0d
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 3ea56273193198a718b9a5de33d553db
/usr/lib/libc-2.17.so ba51eeb4025b7f5d7f400f1968f4b5f9
/usr/lib/ld-2.17.so 3d0e7b5b5c4e59c5c4b6a858cc79fcf1
...

grep: repetition-operator operand invalid

I have this regular express (?<=heads\/)(.*?)(?=\n) and you can see it working here
http://regexr.com?347dm
I need this regex to work in the grep command but I'm getting this error.
$ grep -Eio '(?<=heads\/)(.*?)(?=\n)' text.txt
grep: repetition-operator operand invalid
It works great in ack but I dont have ack on the machine I need to run this on.
ack text.txt -o --match '(?<=heads\/)(.*?)(?=\n)'
text.txt
74f3649af36984e1b784e46502fe318e91d29570 HEAD
06d4463ab47a6246e6bd94dc3b9267d59fc16c2e refs/heads/ARC
0597e13c22b6397a1b260951f9d064f668b26f08 refs/heads/LocationAge
e7e1ed942d15efb387c878b9d0335b37560c8807 refs/heads/feature/311-312-breaking-banner-updates
d0b2632b465702d840a358d0b192198ae505011c refs/heads/gulf-news
509173eafc6792739787787de0d23b0c804d4593 refs/heads/jbb-new-applicationdidfinishlaunching
1e7b03ce75b1a7ba47ff4fb5128bc0bf43a7393b refs/heads/locationdebug
74f3649af36984e1b784e46502fe318e91d29570 refs/heads/master
5d2ede384325877c24db7ba1ba0338dc7b7f84fb refs/heads/mixed-media
3f3b6a81dd3baea8744aec6b95c2fe4aaeb20ea3 refs/heads/post-onezero
4198a43aab2dfe72d7ae9e9e53fbb401fc9dac1f refs/heads/whitelabel
76741013b3b2200de29f53800d51dfd6dc7bac5e refs/tags/r10
fc53b1a05dad3072614fb397a228819a67615b82 refs/tags/r10^{}
afdcfd970c9387f6fda0390ef781c2776aa666c3 refs/tags/r11
grep does not support the (?<=...) or *? or (?=...) operators. See this table.
$ grep -Pio '(?<=heads\/)(.*?)(?=\n)' text.txt # P option instead of E
If you use GNU grep, you can use -P or --perl-regexp options.
In case you are using OS X, you need to install GNU grep.
$ brew install grep
Due to recent changes, to use GNU grep on macOS you either have to prepend the command with a 'g'
$ ggrep -Pio '(?<=heads\/)(.*?)(?=\n)' text.txt # P option instead of E
Or change the path name
Try this
grep -Eoh 'heads/.*' text.txt | grep -Eoh '/.*' | grep -Eoh '[a-zA-Z].*'

Automatically ignore files in grep

Is there any way I could use grep to ignore some files when searching something, something equivalent to svnignore or gitignore? I usually use something like this when searching source code.
grep -r something * | grep -v ignore_file1 | grep -v ignore_file2
Even if I could set up an alias to grep to ignore these files would be good.
--exclude option on grep will also work:
grep perl * --exclude=try* --exclude=tk*
This searches for perl in files in the current directory excluding files beginning with try or tk.
You might also want to take a look at ack which, among many other features, by default does not search VCS directories like .svn and .git.
find . -path ./ignore -prune -o -exec grep -r something {} \;
What that does is find all files in your current directory excluding the directory (or file) named "ignore", then executes the command grep -r something on each file found in the non-ignored files.
Use shell expansion
shopt -s extglob
for file in !(file1_ignore|file2_ignore)
do
grep ..... "$file"
done
I thinks grep does not have filename filtering.
To accomplish what you are trying to do, you can combine find, xargs, and grep commands.
My memory is not good, so the example might not work:
find -name "foo" | xargs grep "pattern"
Find is flexible, you can use wildcards, ignore case, or use regular expressions.
You may want to read manual pages for full description.
after reading next post, apparently grep does have filename filtering.
Here's a minimalistic version of .gitignore. Requires standard utils: awk, sed (because my awk is so lame), egrep:
cat > ~/bin/grepignore #or anywhere you like in your $PATH
egrep -v "`awk '1' ORS=\| .grepignore | sed -e 's/|$//g' ; echo`"
^D
chmod 755 ~/bin/grepignore
cat >> ./.grepignore #above set to look in cwd
ignorefile_1
...
^D
grep -r something * | grepignore
grepignore builds a simple alternation clause:
egrep -v ignorefile_one|ignorefile_two
not incredibly efficient, but good for manual use

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