Reading up on the differences between Zsh and Bash

Typically, when writing self-documenting scripts, especially those used during a demonstration, I'd add a command such as: -

read -p "Press [Enter] to continue"

However, using Zsh on macOS 13.2.1 Ventura, I saw: -

read: -p: no coprocess

If I skipped the -p I saw: -

zsh: not an identifier: Press [Enter] to continue

when I actually pressed the Enter key

As ever, the internet answered my cry for help

ZSH: Read command fails within bash function "read:1: -p: no coprocess"

So now I have this: -

ibmcloud cs cluster ls

read "?Press [Enter] to continue"

which rightly prompts: -

Press [Enter] to continue

Fun and games with Docker login on macOS

I've been around the houses with Docker Desktop, Podman and Docker via Homebrew on my Mac over the past few months

I saw something curious this morning, whilst trying to log into IBM Container Registry 

ic cr login

Logging 'docker' in to 'uk.icr.io'...

FAILED

Failed to 'docker login' to 'uk.icr.io' with error: Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: docker-credential-desktop resolves to executable in current directory (./docker-credential-desktop), out: ``

I then tried the same auth process using docker login 

docker login --username iamapikey uk.icr.io

but with the same effect: -

Password:

Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: docker-credential-desktop resolves to executable in current directory (./docker-credential-desktop), out: ``

In case I was missing something, I even tried the Docker Creds Helper: -

brew install docker-credential-helper

but to no avail.

Finally, in desperation, I nuked my Docker credentials file - which is a TERRIBLE thing imho 

rm ~/.docker/config.json

and tried again: -

docker login --username iamapikey uk.icr.io

Password:

Login Succeeded

Even better, now that I'd installed the creds helper - which caches the creds in the macOS Keychain, the config.json is somewhat cleaner: -

cat ~/.docker/config.json

{

"auths": {

"uk.icr.io": {}

},

"credsStore": "osxkeychain"

}

Better still, the IBM Cloud CLI is also happy: -

ic cr login

Logging 'docker' in to 'uk.icr.io'...

Logged in to 'uk.icr.io'.

OK

Removing filenames with special characters - a reminder

I've written this down somewhere before but ...

I have a file that I created, by mistake, by abusing the target during a scp command

ls -altrc

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2541 Feb  2 02:15 '~'

and I wanted to delete it - but it has weird characters in the file name

This to the rescue: -

rm -v -- '~'

removed '~'

Reminder to self - check out Finch

From this: -

Today we are happy to announce a new open source project, Finch. Finch is a new command line client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers. It provides for simple installation of a native macOS client, along with a curated set of de facto standard open source components including Lima, nerdctl, containerd, and BuildKit. With Finch, you can create and run containers locally, and build and publish Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images.

Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development

a friend had recommended that I check out Finch, so it's definitely on my personal to-do list.

It's on GitHub and Slack