I wanted to make an alias with arguments (like in cshell) which is in bash done by functions. The function must simply perform a command (nedit), append the arguments from the cli and make it run in the background (adding &).
So here is the function in a naive attempt:
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when using the command
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How can i use arguments and still start it in background? In cshell it was like:
I've got a sticky little problem with a bash script. Please consider the following code:
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#! /bin/bash
processArgs() {
echo "Count = $#"
while [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; do
echo $1
shift
done
}
processArgs $* If I call this script with Code: ./script first second third it'll print each of the argument on a new line - exactly what I would expect. However if I call it with
Code: ./script "Single Argument" "Second-Argument" it splits the first argument in two using the space as a delimitor. The problem appears to be the call to processArgs, where $* doesn't honour the quotes around the variables sent to the script.
I'm trying to compile the hidtouch driver, but hit a snag. The error I get is
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Context: this is the driver for the touchscreen attached to an LTSP client. The server uses the AMD64 arch, the client uses the 1386 arch, both Debian. The client does start, but lacking a pointer device the pointer is useless. The build takes place on the server, in the i386 chroot of the LTSP setup. Basically, I'm stuck now...
I need to call functions that match an input string (if input str = "func1", call func1), so I have this:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
void function_a(void) { printf("Function A
"); }
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In the above example, the functions take no input arguments. Can they take a different number of arguments, for example, function_a(int), function_c(int, int), function_e(int, char, int)? How can I do that?
I need to pass a large number of arguments to a function which takes variable number of arguments, such as gtk_list_store_new. But it doesn't look nice if i write something like gtk_list_store_new(NUM,TYPE_A,TYPE_B,TYPE_C,...,TYPE_OMEGA); because of large number of arguments. And, it will be a trouble to change number of columns because of need to manually change arguments to large number of such functions. So, how can i pass all the arguments to a function using a loop? Something like
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for(i=0;i<NUM;i++)
{
push_arg(args[i]);
}
call_function(func);
?
Of course, i could just use asm code for this, but is there a portable way of doing so?
P.S. i mean C language.
The code:
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Problem: I need a method to maintain the $i variable. In fact, actually, this variable get lost when executed. I think that an escape can preserve this variable and permit its execution inside the function, but I've no idea about.
I want to set a key binding in bash for "history-search-backward" readline command to a combination of Control+some other key (I'm using 2 as an example), but I'm unable to do so. in fact, I'm unable to alter or add bindings to Control+key combinations.
After several tries my ~/.inputrc now looks like this
But it doesn't work and bind -p | grep "-2" gives nothing. If I try something without the control key:
I can search in the history by prssing the sequence C + - + 2.
bind -p gives control in C form, for example:
I've tried different formats in my inputrc:
But nothing works.
works if I press Escape followed by 2.
Setup:
Fedora 11:
Bash version 4.0.23(1)
GNU Readline 5.2 (according to the man page)
I have a directory containing the following files.
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1-res-opt-I189N-0001.pdb
1-res-opt-I189N-0002.pdb
1-res-opt-I189N-0003.pdb
1-res-opt-I189N-0004.pdb
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What I want is something like:
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for i in *.pdb
do
python my_script.py 1-res-opt-I189N-00{1..10}.pdb 3-res-opt-I189N-00{1..10}.pdb
done
such that always the two files with corresponding index are submitted together to the Python script. How do I do that?
I know that $1 ... $n will set the argument to the values but what happened if I have many options in one scripts lets suppose.
I can run:
myscript -1stargument -2ndargument -3rdargument
or myscript -1stargument
or myscript -1stargument -3rdargument
In my scripts I have
if [ $1 = "-1stargument" -o $2 = "-2ndargument"] #for every instruction I need
fi
but is there any way to do:
if [ (any arguments or commands) = "(mydesired option ] ; then
(do this...)
fi
I've been reading about getopt and getopts but it doesn't seem like it's possible to parse arguments like --foo or even -foo. I've started my own script trying to achieve this, but I'm still wondering if I'm losing performance and if there is a better way to do this task.
Also I'm using the [[ =~ ]] regex syntax which seems to be available only in newer bash versions, should it be a big issue? My bash version: GNU bash, version 4.1.7(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
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This should be a simple thing to accomplish, but I can seem to figure it out. Essentially, I want to have a bash alias or function that will let me recursively grep the current directory. A while back I added this to my .bashrc:
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alias rg="grep -r --exclude=*/.svn/* --exclude=*.swp"
This works fine, (and also ignores any svn and vim swp files), and I can call it like:
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rg foo *
However, 99.999% of the time, I am only interested in searching in the current directory, so the "*" is a bit redundant. Also, I would say 5-10% of the time, I am typing faster than thinking and forget the "*", so grep just sits there trying to read from stdin. It's a pretty minor thing, but ideally I'd like to be able to just type:
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rg foo
I've tried creating a function to handle this:
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function rg(){
grep -r --exclude=*/.svn/* --exclude=*.swp $1 *
}
but it behaves exactly the same as the alias above. escaping the "*" with 's doesn't work, and neither does trying `pwd` (or even a hard-coded path) in its place.
It seems incrontab wont see spaces properly at all. I setup a script to echo the arguments passed to it by incrontab to a file, and no matter what I put around the arguments on the incrontab file it will count a space as the next argument.
I have written a script to automatically retrieve imdb artwork for a given filename. Here is the script:
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You can ignore all the commented "echo" commands that was just me testing. Anyway, the script work fine, however I am trying to use incrontab to monitor a folder, when a new (video) file is moved into the folder, it should execute the script and retrieve the artwork. My problem is, when incrontab passes the $# argument to my script, the script wont work because the spaces aren't escaped.
Here is some more detail:
Incrontab
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The problem is, the script GetArtwork, doesn't see "Bangcock Dangerous" it just sees "Bangcock"
I have tried putting quotes around the $# in the incrontab - this just makes the script see "Bangcock (notice the single quote character)
Is it possible to pass arguments to a source file in a bash script? For example
#!/bin/sh
#
. /dir1/dir1/funclib -a -b
How would you check for the passed arguments in funclib without getting confused with any arguments passed to the main script?
First, I made a simply script which let me download a file from a filehosting site on my server, but I can only put one link there, so I need help how to put multiple links in.Here is my script:
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#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter URL:"
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This is what I have:
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#!/bin/bash
#ascript.sh
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I looked on the net for such function or example and didin't find anything, thus after having made one i guess it would be legitimate to drop it to see what others thinks of it.
#!/bin/bash
addelementtoarray()
{
local arrayname=$1
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I wrote a C++ program that uses two different parsers. The first parser is reading program arguments from command line:./mybin arg1 arg2 ...then during program execution there's an interactive prompt asking for more parameters:
...
>> (second bunch of arguments here)
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I'd like to run my program inside a bash script, but I don't know how to give the second level arguments.
I wrote a simple bash script to let me treat any set of programs like a deamon. For example if I configure the script a certain way I can start/stop/get the status of apache, mysql and php all from one command. I am having a bit of a problem though. I am passing commands as strings to a function and then depending on the arguments to the script it might run one of these commands or another. Some of these commands need to beun in the background though, such as deluge-web. When I send "deluge-web &" to the function and it execute it deluge-web does not start in the background. I can't figure out why this is. I have tried escaping the & with ''s and with a , but nothing seems to work. I know that this is some idiotic thing that I am overlooking, but I am a bit stumped. Here is the script configured to start/stop/get status of deluged and deluge-web.
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#!/bin/bash
function checkanddosomething {
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I've written myself a linux program "program" that does something with a regular expression. I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the program(there are also other command line arguments). A typical regular expression looks like "[abc]_[x|y]".Unfortunately the characters [, ], and | are special characters in bash. Thus, calling "program [abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" doesn't work. Is there a way to pass the expression by using some sort of escape characters or quotation marks etc.?
(Calling program "[abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" isn't working either, because it interprets the two arguments as one.)
I have a .bashrc script to shorten the length of my shell path and occasionally I get the error:
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I've tracked it down to this line
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But can't seem to find anything wrong with it.
I've written myself a linux program "program" that does something with a regular expression. I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the program (there are also other command line arguments). A typical regular expression looks like "[abc]_[x|y]". Unfortunately the characters [, ], and | are special characters in bash. Thus, calling "program [abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" doesn't work. Is there a way to pass the expression by using some sort of escape characters or quotation marks etc.? (Calling program "[abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" isn't working either, because it interprets the two arguments as one.)
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems with bash quoting. Maybe someone can tell me what's going on.. Basically, I need to create a command line inside a bash script that contains arguments that contain spaces and bash variables that need to be expanded.
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I'm at the bottom of the bash learning curve, looking up, hoping someone can toss me a line. I need to update tracker on my system but this will erase the metatag database I've been building up over the course of months for the purpose of indexing a news archive. So the solution seems to be, 1) save the output of tracker-tag to a text file for all relevant files within a directory, 2) upgrade tracker (since the version in the Ubuntu repositories is very much out of date) and then 3) use a script to parse the text file and pass appropriate arguments back to tracker-tag to rebuild the database. It sounds as though it ought to be simple enough, but I need a push in the right direction, which hopefully will not be off the cliff. Before I confuse my metaphors any further, here's what the text file looks like.
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I am trying to build a function inside a script.
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#!/bin/sh
#System commands and other configurable.
IPT=/sbin/iptables
IP6T=/sbin/ip6tables
IPST=/usr/sbin/ipset
MODP=/sbin/modprobe
GET=/usr/bin/wget
INT_NET=192.168.1.0/24 .....
I can find lots of tutorials in how to use if, then, else. However, how do I define a variable inside the function?
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for c in $ISO
Also, am I using the 'test' command correctly( -/+ week as valid test)?
If you set or export an environment variable in bash, you can unset it. If you set an alias in bash, you can unalias it. But there doesn't seem to be an unfunction.
Consider this (trivial) bash function, for example, set in a .bash_aliases file and read at shell initialization.
function foo () { echo "bar" ; }
How can I clear this function definition from my current shell? (Changing the initialization files or restarting the shell doesn't count.)
I made a script that calls a function. However when I run the script I cannot get a value from the first parameter. Here is the function:
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$cat function_library
_file_info()
{
if [ -e "$1" ]
then
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I have trouble with using an alias inside aash function. I would like to ssh into multiple machines by executing:ssh machine To achieve this, I put something like the following into my ~/.bashrc:
alias machine='user@machine'
ssh()
{
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I have taken into count spacing of functions as a reason for not working. Can you get this function to work on your machine?
quickfind () { find . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" }
It does not print the retired output but find . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" does work. What is wrong?
quickfind () { f
ind . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" ; }
If I run this from the command line I don't get an error but no output? I am not running this inside a script but from the command line. I want to be able to run any function () from the command line. I have more functions that I can't get to work?
tt () { tree -pFCfa . | grep "$1" | less -RgIKNs -P "H >>> " }
I have been working on this way too long now...this *should* be simple. I must be missing something simple at this point.
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function f_is_ip()
{
if [ "`echo "$1" | /bin/egrep "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}"`" != "" ] ## Error on this line
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When I echo $1 ## prints 192.168.1.22
I'm making a small script for searching and doing some operations with photos, but I'm kinda stuck on this little function:
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function findallformat {
prefix=""
if [ $1 = -pre ] then
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That function should find for every file with a certain type; and you can specify a prefix using a "-pre" followed by the prefix that you want to search. The format should be "stackable", so you can use as many types that you want, without repeating the same function on the code.
Example: findallformat -pre IMG_ .JPG .CR2 #That should search files that start with "IMG_" and finishes with .JPG and .CR2. My problem it's that, when I try to use it on the script, it says "bash: syntax error near `token' unexpected `}'"
