I've been playing around with awesome wm, uzbl and doing quite a bit of reading and thinking. Do more programs need scripting support? I've found that being able to tell a program what I want it to do specificially has made life much easier. I'm finding some things (my prefered editors, ed and vim) are starting to seem a little limited since what they can do is fairly well defined and hard to change.
View 1 RepliesA few days ago I tried out Fedora 14, but it didn't really live long. However, I have now Slackware on my netbook again. While I was trying Fedora I installed Clementine and I had to install an extra mp3 lib (I installed Fluendo MP3) to enable mp3 support. On my main machine I have also installed Slackware and Clementine and I can play mp3, so I ponder where's Slackware's mp3 lib? I egrep'ed /var/log/packages for "mp3" but I couldn't find any appropriate. Does Slackware use a shared mp3 lib or is the mp3 support in all the programs?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhy Fedora doesn't supports non open source programm?
View 6 Replies View RelatedFrostwire and Nicotine + they both have outdated RPM's for 10.x that dose not support 11.3. They have newer .deb files. What would I have to do to install a .deb file. Navigate to the file using CD (change dir) and then? Model: Toshiba L505-ES3045 (Intel i3, 4gb Memory, OpenSuse 11.3/Windows 7, Intel HD Graphics)
OS: OpenSUSE 11.3 Prior OS's: Mac OS/X11/Fink/Windows XP/Vista/7.
I have GParted installed, running openSUSE 11.3 with GNOME. When running GParted, it always grayed out most file system actions, supporting only hfs fully. This made no sense, as I had all the required packages installed for other file system support. However, I recently figured out how to get it to work. Using the installed menu button doesn't work, running "gnomesu /usr/sbin/gparted" doesn't work; to get it to work, I have to open up a terminal, type "su -" to log in as root, and then run gparted. The menu button and gnomesu both prompt for a password, so it should be running as root, but launching it through the root terminal is the only way to actually get it to work. Is one root different from another?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a HP laptop which can support 1600x900. But after I install ubuntu 9.10 on it, it can only support up to 1280x700. My laptop has a Nvidia graphics card. And i am using GNOME as my desktop environment.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a firefox add-on to script HTML and/or Javascript directly inside firefox
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of any man pages that would provide me information on commands in shell scripting like while or case? I have a test tomorrow where we have to write shell scripts and we're allowed to use the man pages, but not allowed to look at previous scripts. I don't feel like memorizing a bunch of commands if I don't have to.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhat is shell scripting? what is 'bash'?
View 14 Replies View RelatedThere is a scripting language made for Windows called AutoIt. It can do things like, for example, if a user highlights a word and presses a certain hotkey, it can copy that word into memory, open up firefox, go to google.com, paste the word into the text box, and click the button to search. What are some of the easiest scripting languages in Linux to learn that can do this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat is the purpose of bash scripting? Is it just for file manipulation?
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust give me any project on shell scripting .. to start working on it and practice my self ..
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am a bit confused with the first line while writing a shell script , if someone can please explain me the meaning of the first line " #!/bin/bash "the confusion for me is the # at the beginning , in shell scripting # means a comment. but in this case it loads the shell which the script must use,instead of commenting the line how is this possible. where is this defined , any particular file.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a question;
Is it possible to set incrontab in bash script? I tried to set normal crontab and it works like a charm but unfortunately not "incrontab"
I have two bash files; test-incrontab.sh and addlinetocrontab.sh and here are the contents of these files respectively;
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As you can see there are two enteries in each file. One for normal crontab and other one for incrontab. When i run "test-incrontab.sh" like following;
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crontab works perfectly and i can see cron job set but for incrontab it just does not work. No error either!
I am only getting this back "table unchanged"
So for example, I uses VBscript to script out my tasks in Windows, and more recently PowerShell.From a Linux Admin's point of view, what scripting would he/she need to know? Would being proficient in Bash be sufficient or should you supplement that with something else? (if so, what is that something?)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been working on CentOS from the last 6 months. I want to know that which scripting language is best to learn.I heard about Python and bash scripting.And I think Python is fastest among others.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am willing to learn. I purchased and am currently reading The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and I think I have found my first side project. First, the book said Ubuntu Server is pretty much coded with a scripting language called Python. I want to define the different init levels of my server. I want to define like init 5 to have a GUI interface, just for kicks. A GUI might come in handy when doing certain things in Ubuntu Server, I just don't know, simply because I've been working on the command line. So my first question is, do I need to learn Python to script in Ubuntu Server? I have very little experience coding let alone scripting. The book has example of Upstart scripts, but I was wondering if the language is Python?
So I guess my question is a general question to scripting If I were to focus my time in learning Python as well, would I be able to customize/utilize more of Ubuntu Server? I'm not exactly sure what to learn/read as well to this. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, and I've decided to experiment with Ubuntu Server.
I'm trying to get an output of a file in numeric order. Basically I need the starting number and the ending number in sed this into anther file. The test2.lis file I'm just awk'ing for the first row and if its out of order put it in order so I can grab the first and last numbers. I'm sure I can do this all in an array. The first sed command gets rid of blank lines and outputs it to a file. Then I head and tail for the first and last number then I want to sed those numbers into a file that exsist.
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The error I get is:
sed: -e expression #1, char 24: unterminated `s' command.
I know this is somewhat lame, but I remember back in college the MOTD on some of the systems was a random quote. I always wanted to do that. It seemed really trivial, but still neat and clever.
I searched a bit and don't see anything built-in for CentOS, so I was considering writing a Perl script to parse the RSS feed from a quotes site, then update /etc/motd with a random quote from the feed. This would nearly guarantee I could have this on any distro with identical results. Does anyone know of anything that already exists? Is anyone interested in using a script that I write to have the MOTD updated with random quotes themselves, or am I the only one? I'm perfectly willing to share the result when I'm finished.
I am trying to learn more about global expressions and how it is needed in changing stuff in vi and in shell scipting in general.My question is basic:
How can I add a " # " pound sign at the beginning of every line in a file. So if I want to remark out every line in a file, what would be the global expression for that? Is there a global expression cheat sheet?
I'm looking for a way to dynamically modify a fied in the SQL file.
Example,
INSERT INTO `TABLE` VALUES(1AADFDF,DFF33D,10023,SOMEDATA, SOMEDATA);
INSERT INTO `TABLE` VALUES(1AADFDF,DFF33D,10098,SOMEDATA, SOMEDATA);
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The third field in this SQL file is what needs to change to n+1
"10023" needs to change to "1"
"10098" needs to change to "2"
"10123" needs to change to "3"
"10983" needs to change to "4"
etc...
I tried with awk and sed, but since both require the usage of ' (single quote), my variable fails to get updated. I know i can use cut and recreate the sql statememnt, but i believe there should be easier way using sed or awk. Would anyone know of any creative way to get this to work in one-liner? This needs to be a part of the script preferable without making call to external file.
I am working on some homework, however i am not here to be spoon fed. I am trying to get the numerical modification date of each file in a folder. Ie lets say there is a file called bob and it was modified 2006-11-23. i want to get it into a variable as 20061123.
Now i currently have this code:
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However for some reason my output is:
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See how the 2011 has been placed next to it? i ran it with -x and saw this:
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However i do not know how to find a way around this?
i would like to ask something very simple i hope for most off you but i couldn't find anything in other questions so specific...
So...i need a command to stop another command.
more specific i have to run airodump-ng and i want this command to stop after some seconds (or minutes) automatically....
how to combine bash scripting with apache.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am working on a simple script that should take two command line arguments, a [number] and a [name]. The first thing the script should do is check to make sure that no more and no less than two command line arguments have been entered when calling the script - an error message should be delivered if the condition is not true.
If two args have been entered, then the message 'processing "scriptname"' should appear, where scriptname is the name of the script being called. The script should then write to the screen "Hi [name]!", and should write this phrase [number] of times. For example, the command $ myscript 2 joe would produce the output: I have read the manual many times looking for examples, and I am very close by virtue of my own efforts. Further, I have searched these forums and others for good examples, which have also gotten me very close. Still my script is not completing the objective, and I am wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Script:
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Now i am writting one bash script. in that my requirement is i need to create one directory and that the directory details to be stored in one file Ex. date/time and all in one file. after that i need to delete the folder automatically exactly after 3months. between these time period in 2month itself i need to send one mail to admin "regarding this still one month only more to delete the folder" . is it possible to do like that date calculation in script.
View 10 Replies View RelatedWrite a script to list all the differences between two directories.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm writing a script that gives me some pertinent info about my servers, and the last little piece I need to figure out is the process list. There are going to be non-technical people looking at the output of the script and I'm trying to make it as simple as possible.
Right now, if I do ps -ef | grep <process> | grep -v grep
It obviously shows me the process, but the problem is that there is 4 lines of info in front of the process. ie
root PID date time java -1024 -cp oh,my,god,there,is,so,much,data,it,carries,on,for,4,lines,I,want,to,shoot,myself,trying,to,read,it,f inally,in,the,end,there,is,a,space /here/is/the/process
I'd like the output to be something like this:
PID: #### Process: /here/is/the/process
I've thought about how I could take the output and use awk or sed but I know there is probably an easier way to do it with perl.
I am trying to learn shell scripting and came up with a lil first script that I could actually use.I have a basic shell script and all it does is run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
So basically just a shell script that updates your packages. NOW, my question. I made another shell script that makse a bit of a menu and asks what you wanna do, 1 to UPDATE or 2, to CLOSE. How do I make it so when they enter 1 it runs my update.sh ?
I'm using the linux 'script' command [URL]... to track some interactive sessions. The output files from that contain unprintable characters, including my backspace keystrokes.
Is there a way to tidy these output files up so they only contain what was displayed on screen?
Or is there another way to record an interactive shell session (input and output)?