Fedora :: Can't Quite Figure Out What The Cause Is?
Apr 29, 2011
I'm attempting to put together a 'nice' front-end for a set of image deployment scripts I've written. I'm running in to two different issues that I'm sure are related, but I can't quite figure out what the cause is. I am populating a variable with information from several text files to form my tag, string and default state for a dialog statement...
Code:
for dir in /tmp/apps/* ; do
APPMENU="$APPMENU $(echo $dir | sed 's//tmp/apps///') $(cat $dir/info)"
An example of the contents of /tmp/apps/office/info:
Code:
'Microsoft Office Enterprise' 'on'
The result of echo $APPMENU:
[Code]...
Does anyone have any idea what I should check for? Is there's a specific quoting method I need? In a Bash script I'm pulling quoted text from a file with cat then writing that same string (hopefully quoted!) to a variable. I have a single set of hard quotes (') in my text files presently.
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Code: DeviceS-state Status Sysfs node PCE2 S4*disabled pci:0000:00:02.0
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Code: [root@Zion ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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I know you've probably seen this type of request numerous times, but I just can't get it right.Objective: to get to grips with Linux network routers.Problem: Cannot ping across the router.On the router itself, I can ping to clients on ether side.Server: Ubuntu 10.10NIC1: connects to home broadband router. Static IP address. Eth1 has no problem pinging outside world.NIC2: Static IP address. This NIC is configured for DHCP server and will have a home machine or two connected to it assigned IP addresses from the DHCP server.Set ip forwarding from 0 to 1
/etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Static assignment of IP addresses to the 2 NIC's of router.
i have an old system. I am total layman in reading motherboards and chipsets. is there anyway in any linux distro, which can tell me what kind of sound card i have so i can search and install it ? Basically i am concerned about finding what sound card i have in my system
Very simple question but I cant proceed without thWhat is this symbol 'and how do I type it? I tried google but dont really know to search for it.I'm trying to type in:Quote:
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