When I use the scp command, here is a command prompt "Input password:",Now I want to use a one line command to perform the scp command.I tested the "echo "password" | scp xxx yu@10.xxx.xxx.xxx:/", but failed.
View 2 RepliesI'm basically setting up two sshfs mounts and I have it set up so I run one command but type my password twice.Is there an easy to way to input a password using bash and pass that variable to another process asking for a password?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to known whether I can configure the server to input the password for the encryption disk automatically during boot up.Is it possible
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm creating a bash script to do some tasks for me. I would like the script to be run at a set time of everyday. My first question is if it is possible that if one of the commands in the script requires sudo, is there a way to get around it with out making sudo not require a password. Such as, is there a way to include the password in the script? If that is the case, I can always just set the file as read only by sudo. I've been looking for a way to do this, with no success. if I have a command that wants input, how do I give it to the program. For example, if I want to make a zip file that is encrypted, the command would go as:
Code:
zip -r example * -e
now how would I get the script to insert my wanted password.
Now, I have one script called "defcon" defcon gets the current DEFCON level and outputs it using echo.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
DEFCON=`curl -s http://members.tripod.com/~Swat_25/defcon.html | sed -n '/^$/!{s/<[^>]*>//g;p;}' | sed '/^$/d' | grep '[12345]$'`
echo "The current DEFCON level is $DEFCON"
The second script ("tweet") updates my twitter account.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
curl -s -u USER:PASS -d status="$@" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null
What I want to do is be able to update my twitter account with the current defcon status (this is really more of a learning thing than something I actually want to be doing). The original script for tweet replaced $@ with $1, but if I use:
tweet `defcon`
it only uses the first word in the string, similarly if I used $2 or $3.So I changed it to $@. The normal function still works, but typing:
tweet `defcon`
updates twitter with nothing.
EDIT I should mention the /dev/null is there to catch the output of curl, otherwise it won't run silently. It still updates twitter normally with the send to /dev/null
If I have an interactive program, e.g top, which, after launch, can be fed with key strokes and changes its behavior, for example, after launching top and then pressing "1", you can see the CPU utilization per core. I was wondering if there is a programmatical way to do so, so I don't have to press "1" every time. I would think it is an easy task, but so far my attempts have failed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen Linux ask for my password in command line,my keyboard becomes unresponsive just for that moment or let me put it this way,until i need to write my password my keyboard is unresponsive,but for all other things is fine.or for example,i can input my password when i have a graphic interface but i can't with command line or i can't login to my computer from command lineexcuse me if my question is doll,i moved from windows to ubuntu just lastweek,( & i am flying high in sky with ubuntu & digging a very deep hole for windows too!!.)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a backup script. For my second version, I want to make a GUI that will ask the user three things:
1. which folders should be excluded
2. where to store the backup
3. the user's email
I need to store this input, and later input the values into variables in my script. How do I go about doings this?
i was able to input it directly from the script using this code
Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
set USER "bibingeorge"
[code]...
I am using Fedora and trying to auto run a script soon after the unit boots to desktop. I found many suggestions and finally decided to use the Sessions->Startup Programs option (under System->Preferences->Personal->Sessions menu). I added my script in the Startup Programs with the command 'sh myscript.sh'. Now I have two questions here:1. When I use the command 'gnome-terminal -e myscript.sh', I get 'There was an error creating the child process for this terminal' message after logging into the desktop. Can any one tell if I am missing something here?2. Even if I use sh instead of gnome-terminal, I still want to see the script executing. In other words, my script has certain echo statements indicating the flow of the script. But I don't see any shell opening up with these echo statements showing up, after the unit boots to desktop. But the script was still executed with no problem
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a BASH script which at one point asks the user a yes/no question. I want to make it so that if the user types in an invalid input 3 times consecutively then the BASH script will echo an error and terminate with exit status 1.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am a bash newbie, and am writing a bash script that will allow transfer of files between two computers. BTW, is there a more secure alternative to scp? Currently, I am doing this manually, by using scp. The remote server always prompts me for the password, and I supply that. I want to automate this (hence the bash script). However, I dont want to supply my password in plain text (or if at all - I was under the impression that open SSL does away with passwords and uses certificates etc?).
how I can automate my current process, without explicitly displaying my password. I am running on Ubuntu 10.0.4
I use a USB webcam with a built in microphone. It works fine, but every time I plug it in I have to go to sound properties and select it as the input device. There are no other input devices present on my system. Since it's the only one there, is there any way to get it to automatically select when I plug it in? If not, I think that would be good functionality to add. Does anyone know who or what team to contact about that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI wrote a script ages ago to automate an FTP transfer. This was easy as within the script you can specify the password with password <whatever>. Now I am wanting to do a similar thing with SFTP (SSH). I know that SFTP works differently and I cannot specify the password within the script - what do I need to do on the server I am connecting to to either "trust" the host I am connecting from or to somehow specify the password for "sftp user@some_host"? It's IP address will always be the same.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an app startup script that requires user input.
# start-app.sh
Enter PIN <user manually enters PIN here>
<app startup continues>
[code]....
I am using sda1 as /, which is a bootable drive. I do not know if my problem is that I did not create a /boot drive. After removing the iso dvd, I tried to reboot and I get this back: -bash: /sbin/reboot: input/output error Then it returns me to the terminal prompt.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThis is an old question asked many times, which, however, is NEVER answered directly in any manual I've checked. So...I'm writing a bash install script (instead of a rpm or .deb package) that must be run by a normal user. change to superuser (asking for password and receiving it) and the rest of the script to be executed in the superuser mode in order to install what I mean to install.I know how `sudo ...` or `su `root"..."` or `gnome-terminal -e ...` can achieve this purpose by creating certain batch files and then give them as argument to these commands. That's NOT what I'm asking, however.I want to know how I can make the script interactively switch to superuser mode and go on running the rest of the script (can be a lot of code) in that mode. I don't mind if it oens a separate terminal window to do that; just how can that be achieved?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a bash script that I am using for doing tape backups. The meat of the bash script is
sudo tar --totals -H pax -cvf /dev/st0 *
This all works just fine.
But of course tape functions have to be ran as root, therefore sudo, requiring the standard user to enter the root password. I would like to be in a situation where the standard user does not need (does not know) the root password. I think my solution is add that standard user.
User named dog to the sudo list.
I have reviewed the sudo man page and looked at [URL]. I am still fuzzy.
1- Will adding user 'dog' to this sudo list do what I expect meaning I can run:
sudo tar --totals -H pax -cvf /dev/st0 *
and the user is not queried for the root password
2- How do I do that? and do I make a cmd alais for only: "tar --totals -H pax -cvf /dev/st0 *"
My distro is OpenSuse.
I want to automate the following manual process.Currently, I am encryptying a set of files using openssl as follows:Encrypt file.txt to file.out using 256-bit AES in CBC mode $ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file1 -out file1.enI am then prompted for a password, which is then used to encrypt the fileWhen decrypting, I type $ openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -infile1.enc -out fileI am then prompted for the password - which again, I manually type.I want to automate this process of en/decryption - so I need to find a way of providing openssh with the password.
My first thought is whether it is possible to read the password from a file (say)? Or is there a better way of doing this?Also, I suppose that I will have to place restriction on who can view the password file - otherwise, that defeats the whole objective of using a password. I am thinking to run the bash script as a specific user, and then give only that user read rights to the contents of that file.Is this the way its done - or is there a better way?Ofcourse all of this leads to yet another question - which is, how to run a bash script as another user - without having to type the user pwd at the terminal.
i can input chinese in vim ,gvim,gedit ,and also zsh...., but i can't input chinese in bash and sh , i use ibus.
If i login with another account , i can input chinese in bash and sh !
i also diff the locale and env between the two account ,they are nearly the same;
example: when i input chinese ""i type "wq" and space,then bash print :
Display all 4063 possibilities? (y or n)
I've written my script so that it reads in the variables $1 $2 $3 $3....$12I have an input file as follows
word1 1 1 2 3 4 5
word2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
word3 1 1 2 3 4
[code]...
I've written a bash script that allows a user to input a directory location to find out the size of the directory. However, if the user inputs a directory and finds its size then inputs another directory then wants to quit, the script asks the user numerous times if he wants to quit!! The script won't exit until the number of times the user looks at a directory is reached! What gives?
Here's the script:
Code:
I'm making an bash script.
As input you can input different numbers from 1 to 3.
Depending from the input a text shows up.
As I'm starting to learn bash scripting I'm trying to automatize some tasks I usually perform. I have a notification mail I need to send several times a day. It has this structure:
Quote:
Dear user,
blah blah blah blah
You need to contact the following people:
[code]...
To replace "user", I found this:
Code:
read -p "Please enter username: " username
echo "Dear $username,"
Which probe to be very useful with other simple notifications like this. But I don't know how to manage the email addresses as they are usually more than one and could vary from 1 to 10. They should appear one above the other. I found this: "Here is a little work around. The only thing the user needs to do is hit enter without anything else on a line and it will close out"
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
word=a
until [[ $word = "" ]];do
[code]....
I tried to use it and modify for my needs but I failed, I don't realize yet how can I use it. If possible, I would like to use the until loop like the above example just for learning purposes but any other form will be accepted as well.
I've been using python/bash to help myself automate things for a long time, however I am curious. One reason I use python more is because I don't quite know how to work with user input in Bash, such as getting it to ask for input and wait, and then placing that user input into a command.
Here's an example of a script I use from time to time for converting OGG video files into AVI.
How could I write this same script in Bash? Keep in mind I am mostly self taught, so I am by no means an expert programmer.
Code:
I installed Asterisks On a VM machine.
The asterisk I downloaded came with Centos 5.3 It runs well on VM console But the problem is when It request for localhost login which accepts input but the password does not accept input at all.
I'm trying to make a script to make it quicker to encode videos.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Type the path of the video file"
[code]....
When in the interactive envirment, my Input and Output are all mess-up. So i want to color the Input and Output with two different colors.. so i can figure them out..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a prgramme that output the lyrics when I give it an mp3...
Code:
fetchlyrics mymp3.mp3
based on its data inside of mp3
The goal of the script is the following:Whenever I leave my house, my wife comes to my computer to check her mails (She has two computers of her own but they have a dangerous operating system, so they have been banned from the internet).She shuts down qbittorrent so as to download all her mails, and she forgets to execute it again on 98% of the times. End result: my computer is sometimes turned on for 10 hours doing absolutely nothing.I had therefore two choices: a) get on my wife's nerves until she gets the problem or b) write a bash script.If you are married, you will understand that bash scripts are easier to deal with than spouses.Ergo, I wrote the following script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -x
while true ; do
[code]...