Shell Snippets

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Shell Snippets

Most of these should work in bash and/or zsh

macOS

Get network location

CURRENT_LOCATION=$(scselect | tail -n +2 | egrep '^\ +\*' | cut -d \( -f 2- | sed 's/)$//')

Conditionals

case $CURRENT_LOCATION in
  'Home' )
    echo 'At home'
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Current network location: $CURRENT_LOCATION"
    ;;
esac

Files

echo $(basename "${filepath%.*}") # get filename from path

Date/Time

Get date in ISO8601 format

echo $(date '+%Y-%m-%d')