I 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.
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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?
First post from a very new Linux user....I am trying to create a BASH script that will allow user to provide multiple directory names, Checks if the directory exists and if not create the directory.
I am using the following code:
Which works fine as long as the user enters a single directory name. How can I modify this so it will process all directory names user enters on the read response?
I am literally bashing (pun intended) my head against the keyboard at this minute! I am trying to automate a script via cron for my centos server. The script requires two user inputs (e.g. read VAR). However, I do not want to edit the original file, as I would like to be able to run it normally as well. It is also made by someone else, and so if an update becomes available, it will be easier to install. My idea is that i create a cron script, to run this second script from, and the only way i could find was with expect. However I am having troubles, In order to test out expect, I have created the following:
test.sh
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It looks as if the second input is completely ignored ?! what i am doing wrong? or if there is a more elegant solution to running a script from a script with user inputs?
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'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:
Trying simply to insert into table. Have succeeded in doing this but now want to correct user use of invalid characters. If I'm understanding correctly, Real-escape-string seems to correct these, so I've been trying to figure out how to use it. A short, test code version gives me a syntax error at INSERT VALUES, which--because it still has the single quotes in the text--tells me the real-escape-string didn't work. The code below gives me a parseing error with invalid $END at </body>.
Insert Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' VALUES (UTC_TIMESTAMP,'What's happen' bra?')' at line 1 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/powere15/public_html/DB/exercises_insert_record.php on line 94
<html><head><title>Exercise Catalog Insert Record</title></head>
<body>
<?
/* Change db and connect values if using online */
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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]....
I have a script im having some problems with, what I need is to have the system generate a random password for me and use that password when creating new users to it.
System is Debian Lenny and script is in bash.
The program is znc. I have made it so that it will generate the random password on the shell but the problem is to use it in the bnc software.
To make a password there the command is znc --makepass and look like this:
My question is now if it would be possible to put in the script so it would "answer" when it need those passwords ? the random password that is generated is in a variable called $setpass and is NOT crypted.
Or is there any other software that would be able to generate that md5 string for me ?
How do you catch user input while the script is running? Or, how would you make two scripts run at the same time, but use input from one script to the other? The program I'm trying to make, echos text on the screen continuously, but while thats happening, I want the user to be able to input something, so the program can detect the input and display something else. So I thought maybe I could make two scripts run to do each task.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to call a specific variable based on a user selection. For example:
Code: Select a file:
[1] foo.tar
[2] bar.tar
Enter a selection: I have already coded each possible selection to have its own variable. If the user selects 2 I need to select $SELECTED_TAR2, or if they select 1 I need to select $SELECTED_TAR1 and then do something like this behind the scenes:
Code: cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR2 /home/user/backup/$SELECTED_TAR2
I was thinking something like this:
Code: echo "Enter a selection: "
read -e SELECTED_NUMBER
cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR$SELECTED_NUMBER /home/user/backup
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Here's a challenge I've been struggling for months with:
I have a bash script that reads URL addresses of our internal server and then executes some test commands on them. Something like this:
Code:
read -p "Enter URL: " url
sh execute-what-ever-to $url
After copy-pasting the URL the user taps the enter key and the script proceeds, but here comes the tricky part: I want this to work without the need to press the enter key after copy-pasting the URL.
"read -n" does not work in this case, as the URLs vary greatly in length. However, the URLs always end to the same string. They could be like "http://url1/END", "http://url2/END" and so on. So this ending string "END" could be theoretically used to recognize that the whole URL has been pasted.
I have a system setup script for my Slackware installations that pulls all packages and source files from another machine and sets everything up to be identical between machines. The script works as expected but make it entirely unattended. How do I make the bash script deal with automatically selecting "Yes" for, for example "Install x(Yes/No): " when prompted by a make file?
View 3 Replies View Relatedin bash scripting...say I want to take the input from a user via a question...I would do this:
Quote:
#!/bin/bash
echo "How large do you want this partition to be in GB (enter only the number)?" read PART_SIZE echo "You want your partition to be $PART_SIZE GB" But I don't want to echo it back to the screen, I want to add it to the content of /etc/fstab. I have been mucking around with sed to find the tmpfs partition in /etc/fstab and add the partition size attribute (this is to use the onboard RAM as a volatile partition)...but am not having any luck...
The portion of /etc/fstab that uses /dev/shm for the tmpfs partition is:
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
So, if a user says "24" GB to the answer (from above), how do I get it to automatically add that value to the tmpfs partition line in /etc/fstab? So it would look like:
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs size=24g,defaults 0 0
I understand that I would also have to come up with a way to put "size=XXg", which I could do with a copied over generic file before this action...then the script would have to find "XX" and replace it with the user's figure...
I'm creating a bash script to do some tasks for me. I would like the script to be run at a set time of everyday. My first question is if it is possible that if one of the commands in the script requires sudo, is there a way to get around it with out making sudo not require a password. Such as, is there a way to include the password in the script? If that is the case, I can always just set the file as read only by sudo. I've been looking for a way to do this, with no success. if I have a command that wants input, how do I give it to the program. For example, if I want to make a zip file that is encrypted, the command would go as:
Code:
zip -r example * -e
now how would I get the script to insert my wanted password.
I am using "if" to force a word under the condition that the first letter of that word must be a letter of the alphabet, regardless of capitalization, using the " "" != "" " syntax.
Like so:
Code:
if [[ "$interface" != "WHAT DO I PUT HERE?" ]] ; then
echo "Invalid input"
exit 1
fi
I'm trying to make a script that loads at boot and asks for user input before doing it's stuff. So I created a script in /etc/init.d/ following the example given there (skeleton file) and used update-rc.d to make it load before GDM.
But when my script requests user input, init doesn't stop, and goes on loading other services and loads GDM. I have to CTRL+F1 to get to my script. I want my script to pause the init system till it ends doing it's stuff and the the other services can go on loading.
I tried
#X-interactive: true to no avail.
I have Fedora11 machine : 192.168.0.3 ( Bare metal )--> vinay.linux.com
Another Fedora 11 machine : 192.168.0.4 ----> test.linux.com
Virtual Machine on FC11 : 192.168.0.6 ( VM )-----> centos.linux.com
I have DNS configured on Fedora11 machine, Also I have checked the connectivity of centos.linux.com to port 53 of DNS.
Here is my /etc/named.conf file of FC11 machine code...
I am an 'experienced perpetual newbie' using Ubuntu 9.04. I know a little about quite a few things but nothing past intermediate knowledge so:I am trying to set up a simple LAN between 'rhino' (192.168.1.102) and 'polly-laptop' (192.168.1.101). My router address is 192.168.1.1
From polly-laptop:
sudo mount rhino:/home /media/rhinohome
polly-laptop can access rhino:/home fine.
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I have problem with sshd server, its authenticate user and then terminate the session. Here is debug log:
Jan 1 04:26:41 server sshd[29677]: debug1: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method none
Jan 1 04:26:41 server sshd[29677]: debug1: attempt 0 failures 0
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29677]: debug1: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method password
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29677]: debug1: attempt 1 failures 0
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29676]: Accepted password for root from xx.xx.xx.xxx port 50971 ssh2
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29676]: debug1: monitor_child_preauth: root has been authenticated by privileged process .....
I just purchased a new server and loaded it with Ubunut server 10. I installed apache2, php5, and mysql5. apache needs a little bit of configuration left (I need to tell it to accept index.php in addition to index.html), but other than that, all the php is working. MySQL is working as well, at least on the server. If I do a "show databases;", it shows all the databases properly. I loaded phpmyadmin on the server for testing, but I'll be removing it once everything works - this is my production server. phpMyAdmin can find all the tables, perform successful queries, and do everything I want it to, HOWEVER If I try to use the login page, I get the error mentioned in the title of this thread.
The database is a carbon copy from my development server, which works flawlessly. All the php and html pages are exactly as they are on the development server too, yet I still get that error. I've reloaded all pertinent programs (apparmor, apache2, and mysql). Apparmor was because I had to declare some new lines for mysql to access a different location for the DBs I resolved the "can't load InnoDB issue", but this one is stumping me.
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 $@. The normal function still works, but typing:
tweet `defcon`
updates twitter with nothing.
EDIT I should mention the /dev/null is there to catch the output of curl, otherwise it won't run silently. It still updates twitter normally with the send to /dev/null
I'm basically setting up two sshfs mounts and I have it set up so I run one command but type my password twice.Is there an easy to way to input a password using bash and pass that variable to another process asking for a password?
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Just "unmount. No objections!". Special kernel patches or configuration is allowed. Filesystem should be really unmounted, so umount -l is certainly not an option. For example, for cryptsetup remove (BTW how to forcibly cryptsetup remove? Update: cryptsetup luksSuspend, but you won't be able to cryptsetup luksResume if it is not LUKS). How to make all filehandles on that filesystem invalid?
The only reliable way I know is mounting the filesystem through the FUSE (there is usually no problem to unmount FUSE thing because of I can just kill it's process). P.S. Already know mount fuser, lsof | grep, cat /proc/*/mounts | grep and obsolete non-working "badfs patch".
If I have an interactive program, e.g top, which, after launch, can be fed with key strokes and changes its behavior, for example, after launching top and then pressing "1", you can see the CPU utilization per core. I was wondering if there is a programmatical way to do so, so I don't have to press "1" every time. I would think it is an easy task, but so far my attempts have failed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am querying a single string column in a table. The string values have spaces in them. I want to loop over each value in bash. I set IFS to split lists on newlines instead of spaces. When I try this, it is splitting the list of results on the actual character 'n', not the newline ''.
DATA=`mysql -u root -ppassword --silent 'SELECT name FROM table_a;'`
IFS=$'
'
for i in $DATA; do
echo "item = $i"
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I have a section of a script that is supposed to change the filename of similar files in a directory. It works the way I need it to work, except that I would like to input the new filename each time it runs without having to edit the script.
I capture 5-6 images into ~/screenshots. They are labeled Picture 1.png, Picture 2.png, etc. I would like to be able to rename them as Lesson 1.png, Lesson 2.png, and so forth. It works if I hardcode the new NAME (Lesson) into the script, but I want to replace NAME with a variable that I can input at a prompt or pass into the script from another. I have tried setting a variable and replacing "Lesson" with $variable in line #11, but that leaves me with only the extension and no filename.
I have also tried using $1 on the command line:
Here is what I have that works:
How do I get a variable into this script?
How to make internet sharing in Fedora with two inputs & one output.
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