Bash: chatGPT Contributions

This blog is so obsolte. Here is the solution to the problem in the last two posts from chatGPT:

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter a sentence: " sentence

for (( i=0; i<${#sentence}; i++ )); do
    echo -n "${sentence:$i:1} "
done

echo ""

Let’s call this script basharrays2.sh. Here is the result of running it:

$ bash basharrays2.sh 
Enter a sentence: know thyself
k n o w   t h y s e l f 

Recognize the Platform in Bash

#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
    echo "You're on a Linux platform."
elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
    echo "You're on a Mac platform."
elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "cygwin" ]]; then
    echo "You're on a Windows/Cygwin platform."
elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "msys" ]]; then
    echo "You're on a Windows/MSYS platform."
elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "win32" ]]; then
    echo "You're on a Windows platform."
else
    echo "Platform not recognized."
fi

Null Characters

while read line; do echo hi  how are you; done <  <(find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*png' -print0 | xargs --null ls -1)