Debian Programming :: Passing Variable Between Invocations
Jan 9, 2014
I want to build on the code from /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05etckeeper to work with Snapper, the new-in btrfs (et al) snapshot package.
Code: Select allDPkg::Pre-Invoke    { "if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi"; };
DPkg::Post-Invoke   { "if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi"; };
The etckeeper code will work well as a template, but I need to pass a parameter between the pre- and post- instances. The parameter is obtained from the pre- invocation and passed to the post- invocation.I know that something similar to my quest is done with the 'pid' but how to do it in the 'standard' way. Happily there can't be multiple dpkg instances running concurrently (prevented by dpkg?) so I don't have to worry about that issue.
Q1. What is the 'standard' way of passing parameters about?
Code: Select allsnapper -c etc create -t pre -p   (which 'prints' the parameter (int) to pass to the following invocation)
snapper -c etc create -t post --pre-number <parameter> in place of the two etckeeper calls.
Q2. How do I pick up the 'printed' output of the 'pre' call? I think it's just a 'get' from the stream but perhaps I've missed something.?
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May 8, 2010
I have a file with around 1000 IP addresses in it and I need to be able to ssh into each one of them, run a single command, and then exit. I already know the ssh command I want to run and it looks like this:
Code:
shpass -p [password] ssh -p 10022 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@[ip variable] 'reboot'
(I know shpass is not good to use and keys are the correct way but I don't have any other options in this scenario.) if these ip addresses were in a .csv file, by themselves with no other information, how would I create a script to do the above command to each ip until the end of the file?
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Jan 14, 2009
I cannot for the life of me get this little (simple) script I wrote to work. Here is the entire script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
ASPECT=`mediainfo $1 |grep "Display aspect ratio" |cut -d : -f 2`
HEIGHT=`echo "320 / $ASPECT" |bc`
SIZE=`echo 320x$HEIGHT`
[code]......
An input filename ($1) is fed into mediainfo, which by the use of grep and cut spits out a single number which is the aspect ratio. This is then divided by bc into 320, which gives the desired height dimension for the file that I want ffmpeg to create for me. Finally, ffmpeg runs using the calculated dimensions... Basically, it's the passing of the $ASPECT variable to bc that seems to fail. It looks like bc won't read the output from the mediainfo line... It always crashes out with:
Code:
(standard_in) 1: illegal character: ^M I've tried doing something even simpler like this to debug by just trying it to display the calculation on the screen:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
ASPECT=`mediainfo $1 |grep "Display aspect ratio" |cut -d : -f 2`
HEIGHT=`echo "320 / $ASPECT" |bc`
echo $HEIGHT
and it does the same, so it's definitely bc that won't accept the output from mediainfo.
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Apr 12, 2010
I want to know is there some more efficient way of passing a pointer to a local variable as a parameter to a function in x86 asm? Right now I have to move the base pointer to a temp register, subtract from the register and pass that, like this (assuming a local var at esp-4):
Code:
mov eax, ebp
sub eax, 4
push eax
Is there a better way?
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Jul 11, 2011
I'm having some trouble this morning to send a SQL query to our Oracle DB server in PHP. When I try to pass my value "OF/110246801A01" as variable it tell's me "Warning: oci_bind_by_name(): ORA-01036: illegal variable name/number"
PHP Code:
$ociO ='OF/110246801A01';
$selectAllFieldsFromOf=oci_parse($conn,"SELECT*FROMMFGOPEWHEREMFGNUM_0LIKE':ociOf' ");
oci_bind_by_name($selectAllFieldsFromOf,":ociOf",$ociOf,15);
$resultQuery =oci_execute($selectAllFieldsFromOf);
if(!$resultQuery){
$e = oci_error($selectAllFieldsFromOf);
return trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'],ENT_QUOTES),E_USER_ERROR);
[Code]....
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Jan 21, 2011
Say, i have an imaginary std library function, which I want to call.
Code:
void std_lib_func(ObjectType *param);
Now in my c++ program, I have a main() function, and I will like to call a customized function (which will in turn call the std lib function) from the main function, as below:
Code:
int main()
{
ObjectType *aobj;
customized_func(aobj);
}
[Code]...
I tried the below but get an error that the std lib function is expecting a ObjectType* param, not aobj. How should I work this out.
Code:
void customized_func(ObjectType aobj)
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Aug 27, 2010
How can I to pass a perl variable into html input tag? For example, If a have got a cgi script:
Quote:
use CGI;
use DBI;
my $owner = $cgi->param('owner');
[code]....
How can I to pass $owner variable?
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Sep 17, 2009
I'm trying to implement an assert function similar to:[url]
However, I'm having trouble with file existence testing when the file name has a space in it.
I have distilled the problem down to the following:
This code works as expected, printing 'yes' if '~/test file' exists, and no if not.
Code:
However, this code gives an error.
Code:
The error:
Code:
Which tells me that it is splitting ["~/test file"] into ["~/test] and [file"]. Why? Is there a way around this?
Note that if you simply use a file path without a space, both cases work perfectly. Is this a BASH bug possibly? I just can't understand why the first would work, but the second wouldn't.
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Jan 14, 2010
I want pass a variable at compile time.
for example in x.c
int global_var = POSITION;
How can I send this POSITION at compile time. ie like # make POSITION=10 Is it possible?
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Jul 3, 2011
"While ; do ; done" is very convenient for SH coding. However sometimes you may be annoyed by your computed variable within the "while do done" type loop. What to do how to pass it out of the loop to the outside of the bash code? A solution is to write it into the /tmp or on the disk... and to call it back after. - not elegant... really not... Anyone would know a trick another alternative that would look nicer?
Code:
# Count file total size
TOTAL_SIZE=0
LISTOFFILES=`cat "$HOME/.fvwmoscfg/fvwmburnerlist.lst"`
echo "$LISTOFFILES" | while read i ; do
SIZE=`du -bs $i | cut -f 1`
TOTAL_SIZE=`expr $SIZE + $TOTAL_SIZE`
echo "$TOTAL_SIZE" > "$HOME/.fvwmoscfg/fvwmburnerlisttotalsize.lst"
done
TOTAL_SIZE=`cat $HOME/.fvwmoscfg/fvwmburnerlisttotalsize.lst`
echo "The total size of all files and folders is : $TOTAL_SIZE"
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Mar 9, 2011
I am trying to make a simple alias for find command that acceps a variable.
alias myfind="find $@ -type d -exec chmod 777 -fv {} ;"
this alias tells me that "find:paths must precede expression"
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Jan 8, 2011
I am new to bash scripting. I want to know whether i can pass one variable to another. For example $1 represent argument1. Now if i want to get the argument 1 like USER="1" now i want $ of $USER to execute $1 so what should i do..
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Jul 24, 2010
How can I pass xml data from memory or a variable to xmllint that expects a file as input? Or does xmllint have the capabilities to read from stin or a variable?
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Jun 19, 2010
I have installed FC13 on my laptop and set it up as a development server. Here is my issue when passing variable from one page to the next it gets lost. My PHP includes work DB connect string works from the include.
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Aug 21, 2009
I'm trying to read content of file to variable and use this variable in for loop. The problem is, when I have c++ comment style in file - /*. Spaces in line are also interpreted as separated lines.
For example:
Code:
Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).
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Apr 7, 2010
my script has a variable which comes in the form +00.00 +0.00 -00.00 or -0.00 (the numbers can be any in that form) for any that have a + symbol I need to remove the +, but if it has a - symbol it needs to stay.
i need to make a new variable with the string from the old variable btut without any plus sign. I have tried a lot of different ways with no success, each thing I tried either left the + or removed the entire string. I think this should work but doesn't
foo=+12.40
bar=${foo#+}
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Apr 25, 2011
how I can search within a variable and assign the results to a new variable. I'll use the following as an example -
cars="Audi BMW Cadillac Chevy Dodge Ferrari Ford Mercedes"
list=`echo ${cars} | egrep -o '<A?+|<C+'`
with the echo command I get the following output assigned to list -
A
C
C
What I'd like to get for output is -
Audi
Cadillac
Chevy
how I could do this regardless of upper/lower case letters?
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Jan 17, 2014
I am writing a script that calls a program which writes a lot of lines to stdout continuosly. If the last line in stdout has some regex, THEN, certain variables are updated. My problem is that I don't know how to do that.
A simplified example would be (it's not my exact case, but it I write it here to clarify): suppose I issue a ping command (which writes output to stdout continuously). Every time that the response time is t=0.025 ms, THEN, VARIABLE1=(column1 of that line) and VARIABLE2=(column2 of that line).
I think the following code would work in awk (however, I want the variables in bash and I don't know how to export them)
Code: Select allping localhost |awk '{ if ( $8 == "time=0.025" ) var1=$1 var2=$2}'
In the previous code, awk analyzes each line of the output of the ping command as soon as it is created, so the variables $var1, $var2, ... are updated at the appropriate time. But I need the "real-time" updated values of $var1, $var2 in bash, for later use in the script.
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Apr 28, 2010
included shell script inside c program, and i wanted to assign the value of c variable to shell variable..Can any one please suggest me how to do it?
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Mar 17, 2011
This loop is part of a bash script which takes multiple arguments.
Code:
for ((i=1;i<=$number;++i)) ; do
offset=$(($i+5))
[code]...
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May 18, 2010
I'm struggling with the issue of passing a vector of a class to itself, here's what state its in now... (tried many variations, but without direction).
Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
[code]...
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Aug 21, 2010
I'm trying to work out the best way to achieve the following.
1)php page that grabs data from a local database. (not a problem)
2)It then needs to send this data to a c program/service running on a remote server. (I probably need it to be able to handle 4+ million reocrds in an array)
3) The c service then needs to process the data and send it back to the initial php script that called it. i was hoping this could be in a an array like structure of some kind. 4)update the db with the results.
I was thinking of using gsoap to write a simple c soap service that php can communicate with. Would this be the right way of doing this or would something like sockets in php be a better way of sending this volume of data as an array or struct to linux c socket if thats even possible.
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Jan 12, 2011
i'm programming a small tcp client, but i need that the server knows the source ip. My client receives a external connection and forwards, but the ip seen by the server, of course, is the client ip. I would like, change this ip to original source ip.
I don't know how to do this. I tried with the connect and select function.
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Jun 11, 2010
If I have the following links in HTML
Code:
<a href=lang.php?lang=cymraeg>Cymraeg</a>
<a href=lang.php?lang=english>English</a>
and lang.php has a link to page2.html, how do I pass on the value of the lang parameter from lang.php to page2.html? The value needed is the one passed in to lang.php.
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Apr 26, 2010
Below I've presented the declaration, definition and the calling method of a function w.r.t pass by reference:
Declaration
Code:
void getUnpackedMsg (unsigned char &data, unsigned int numberOfBits);
Definition
line 278: Shown in RED
Code:
void packedMessage :: getUnpackedMsg (unsigned char &emptyArray, unsigned int numberOfBits)
{
...
...
printf ("
[code].....
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Mar 19, 2010
I was trying to make a code for passing variables by reference..here's the code:
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
void fun(int& ,int& );
int main(){
[Code].....
invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'int&' from a temporary of type 'int*'
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Feb 11, 2011
I have to launch a new thread from my existing main program and pass data to it.
For now the data is simply a string value.
How I go about passing data to a new thread while it is running.
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May 23, 2010
I have the following snippet HTML code:
Quote:
<table id="profile">
<tr>...............</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40%">
[Code].....
How can pass values in args[0] and args[1] to Perl/CGI script?
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Jun 19, 2010
I am trying to simulate a shell. So what I do is checking of having the parameters from standard input, suc as "/bin/ls -l /home/france/Documents", and then passing them to function execute, which at some point calls execvp(argv[0],argv)The problem is that I don't succeed in using these arguments, while if I call execvp(paramList[0],paramList) it works!!!! Where paramList is exactly what I would put on standard input, but defined statically.
Code:
#include<unistd.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
[code].....
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Apr 13, 2011
I started to run a C++ my program in Linux and I don't know how to test my program that works fine with a text file. This is a project for my uni and to explain more clear, My program is a sample database for modify or add and search and it read data from a binary file and also write into a binary file. I have got an input from my lecture and she said after compiling in Linux I must write:
1-to compile:
Code:
g++ (files with cpp)
2-to see the output:
Code:
./a.out
3-to test with input:
Code:
./a.out < input.txt >
My problem is in step three. What I must write in the command part after" step2" to see the output?
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