I have a program that I'd like to run, deluding it to believe that my terminal has less columns than it does, because that enables its native truncation, which I need. I tried resize from xterm as suggested [on askubuntu](https://askubuntu.com/questions/852105/is-there-a-terminal-command-that-changes-the-terminal-window-dimensions) , however, that only works properly within xterm and can hardly be scripted. I need something that I can use within a script to get the output of a [taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/) command. Exporting a different value for COLUMNS doesn't seem to change anything unfortunately.

My custom report in Taskwarrior is set to the following: report.custom.filter=status:pending I would like to change this so that tasks scheduled for the future are hidden until their start date. For example, instead of: username@hostname:~% task custom ID PROJECT TAGS DUE DESCRIPTION 9 Reading next Read Gödel, Escher, Bach 10 Social waiting 4mo Wish Alice a happy birthday in which task 10 has the property scheduled:2018-01-01, I would like instead to see: username@hostname:~% task custom ID PROJECT TAGS DUE DESCRIPTION 9 Reading next Read Gödel, Escher, Bach And then for task 10 to appear on 2018-01-01.

I would like to create a task in taskwarrior that repeats every day and is due every day or the day after. Is that possible? Didn't find anything on the net or the documentation.

I am having troubles understanding how to manage recurring tasks in taskwarrior I start with an empty database: $ task [task next] No matches. I add a recurring daily task: $ task add recur:daily due:later test It shows up in the report: $ task [task next] ID Age Recur Due Description Urg 2 - P1D 19.2y test 2.4 1 task Creating recurring task instance 'test' If I mark it done like this: $ task 2 done Completed task 2 'test'. Completed 1 task. $ task [task next] No matches. it disappears from the report. I believe it makes sense, since "I completed the daily task today". The problem is it never appears again the next day and further. What am I doing wrong?

I have the following output whenever I issue task: TASKRC override: /path/taskrc TASKDATA override: /path/.task It's because I put the config and data files in non-default external location specified by $TASKRC and $TASKDATA environment variables of [Taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/) . How could I make task to be quiete and not warn me everytime. I'd like to find the command line switch to make it quiet for the issueing time (once) and the also config file option to make it permanent, if any.

Whenever I run the following: task due.before:tom or schedule.before:tom > somefile The content of somefile is always truncated. But running this without the redirect, it works fine. How can I fix this?

to show all completed tasks the command is in Taskwarrior : task status:completed all but what is the command for showing only the completed projects (not including the completed tasks !)

How can I add multiple tasks in one command line on [Taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/) ? I'd like to achieve something like: task add task1 tag:tag1, task2 tag:tag2 I think there should be a delimiter to separate tasks.

With the command task next, taskwarrior produces a report of urgent next tasks. The report is apparently scaled to the terminal height. I use zshell with a special prompt which is 2-lines high. Because of this, taskwarrior appears to be miscalculating the max height, and I end up with the next tasks table header hidden from view. Is there a way to adjust how the next tasks report calculates terminal height?

I've been using a command line program (installed via package manager) that was working fine until I used vim to inadvertently insert a null byte (^@) in one of the program's data files when doing search and replace using the vim :s(substitute) command. Since then the program won't run instead I get this error:

/usr/include/c++/9/bits/basic_string.h:1048: std::__cxx11::basic_string::const_reference std::__cxx11::basic_string::operator[](std::__cxx11::basic_string::size_type) const [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits; _Alloc = std::allocator; std::__cxx11::basic_string::const_reference = const char&; std::__cxx11::basic_string::size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion '__pos <= size()' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

gnome-abrt shows that the reason for the error is:

task killed by SIGABRT

Specifically SIGABRT 6 - In Linux, what does inserting a null byte in a text file that is read by an executable do? The way the null byte was inserted into the program's data file is analogous to if I insert a null byte in a git commit message and that somehow breaks git. - Could the null byte be causing the program to crash when it reads that text file or is there a different reason?

I am working on writing a tmux script to create a fun tmux environment in cygwin. When I type 'task calendar' the output appears to look fine, but when I run the same command through my tmux script, the word wrapping creates a poorly formatted output. This is my super basic tmux script. #!/bin/bash -x tmux split-window -v ; tmux split-window -h top ; tmux select-pane -t 0; tmux split-window -h mc; tmux select-pane -t 0; tmux split-window -h "view -p ~/Documents/*"; tmux select-pane -t 0; tmux select-pane -t 3 tmux send-keys 'task calendar' Enter I can't make sense of how-to control the output so the calendar doesn't look like this: You will see $task calendar, but this was due to the tmux send-keys 'task calendar' Enter command above. If I run 'task calendar by itself, the output appears properly, and the lines are lined up as I would expect. Apologies, as this is my first post, and I'm not super familiar with all of the programming terminology. (mostly self-taught) I think an easy solution would be to limit the calendar month to a single month output, but I can't find this in the man pages. If you have the solution, can you also explain where I'm going wrong so I can learn from this? :) My brain is toast right now...

**Context:** While trying to execute command su a -c task as user dummy when being logged (with sudo su in as root on Ubuntu 16.04, I receive the following error message: > root@DESKTOP-344ab:/home/dummy# su dummy -c task >`[task next] Taskwarrior does not have the correct permissions for > '/home/dummy/.task/pending.data'. root@DESKTOP-344ab:/home/dummy#` Whereas when I first switch from root back to user with su dummy* and then execute task it runs fine. *When the dummy account is logged in, the following .bashrc file from /home/dummy/.bashrc is executed automatically before the user can do anything: sudo -i service cron start #get root if [ ! -f /home/a/maintenance/getRootBool ]; then echo "Getting sudo rights now." touch /home/a/maintenance/getRootBool sudo -s fi # remove got root boolean for next time you boot up Unix sudo rm /home/a/maintenance/getRootBool #Start cron service #sudo -i service cron start #Startup taskwarrior export TASKDDATA=/var/taskd cd $TASKDDATA sudo taskd config --data $TASKDDATA taskdctl start task sync Which leads to the following "user description" in the bottom left of terminal: root@DESKTOP-344ab:~#. That slightly confuses me because it still says root even though when I cd ~ it goes to /home/dummy, which seems like it has root permission but is still in the dummy account. So I think the sudo -s from the .bashrc script raises the permissions of user dummy to root. **Question:** How do I raise the permissions of the dummy account when executing a command as: su dummy -c task as user dummy from root? **Attempts:** 1. su dummy -c sudo task, that indicates the usage of sudo is not correct, meaning I did not use valid syntax. 2. info sudo To inspect what the sudo -s exactly does in the .bashrc script as that appears to be the permission raising command whilst still staying within the dummy user. That says: > -s, --shell > Run the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is set or the shell specified by the invoking user's > password database entry. If a command is specified, it > is passed to the shell for execution via the shell's -c option. If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed. It mainly appears to affect shell commands, currently I am unsure whether task is a shell command, and if yes, how the sudo -s raises permission. It makes me doubt my assumption that it probably is the sudo -s indeed the permission raising command. I am looking further into that. **Additionally:** As a response to the comments below, the output of the .bashrc file is: * Starting periodic command scheduler cron [ OK ] Getting sudo rights now. touch: cannot touch '/home/dummy/maintenance/getRootBool': Permission denied * Starting periodic command scheduler cron [ OK ] Getting sudo rights now. * Starting periodic command scheduler cron [ OK ] Configuration read from /var/taskd/config Variable Value ------------- -------------------------- ca.cert /var/taskd/ca.cert.pem client.cert /var/taskd/client.cert.pem client.key /var/taskd/client.key.pem confirmation 1 debug.tls 3 extensions /usr/libexec/taskd ip.log on log /var/taskd/taskd.log pid.file /var/taskd/taskd.pid queue.size 10 request.limit 1048576 root /var/taskd server 0.0.0.0:53583 server.cert /var/taskd/server.cert.pem server.crl /var/taskd/server.crl.pem server.key /var/taskd/server.key.pem trust strict verbose 1 /usr/bin/taskdctl start: daemon started Syncing with myserver.com:53583 Sync successful. No changes. root@DESKTOP-344ab:/var/taskd# test

I'm using taskwarrior. I want to be reminded of something every week, but have that reminder go away automatically if I haven't completed it by the time the next week comes up. (Or, actually, I want the task to be due on Tuesday, and vanish if I don't get it done by Friday afternoon, because I'm not going to bother on the weekends and at that point it's just gonna wait for the next one.) I know how to [set up recurring tasks](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153638) , but there, the until applies to how long the weekly reminders will be generated. I want the generated weekly reminders _themselves_ to expire. Is this possible?