How can I pass carriage return to a command. I am writing a shell script whcih generates ssh key pair. It ask for input from user three times. I want to pass carriage return (ie. press Enter button) to this command. Is tehre any way
View 8 RepliesHow can I pass carriage return to a command in the shell script. I am writing a shell script whcih generates ssh key pair. It ask for input from user three times. I want to pass carriage return (i.e., press Enter button) to this command.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI need to send the following command to a device via the com port:
<esc>&PR1<CR>
How can I do that using the echo > /dev/ttys0 or minicom ?
In particular, I don't know how to translate the "escape" and "carriage return" keys
I trying to write a UART(interfacing of serial devices) to linux machine but after I execute the following code to receive data I need to enter key (carriage return).... but I don't want to remove carriage return/enter key
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I'm trying to get a return value from the command running within screen. I have tried
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screen "some_command ; echo $? > retval"
but this refuses to write "retval".
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I frequently use wget to download tarballs and zip files from the web, then either untar then or gunzip them. I do:
Is there a way for me to automatically pass the zip file to tar or unzip WHILE wget-ting?
In pseudocode: wget google.com/somfile.zip && unzip
when I am running the script below,it performs on whatever logfile u type ,i.e, ./scriptname logfilename.But how do I convert it into a function and then call it from another script.I mean how do I prompt the user to enter a logname and then capture the name in the function and when calling this function from another script how do I pass the parameter.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a backup schedule running a full backup everyday. I'm using webmin to manage these backup now. The problem is when the dump command sends a prompt asking if we want to rewrite the tape, Webmin does not display this prompt and we end up having to terminate the backup -> erase the tape(which takes a long time) and then run the backup again.I was wondering if there is a technique that could be used to pass "Yes" as a parameter to the dump command, much like in windows? or if there is a more efficient way of getting this done.
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View 4 Replies View Relatedgetting a error return code for useradd commandthe return code is 1cite or tell me the explanation of return code 1 .
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to get a return code for the command ldapmodify.I try this and didn't workrc=ldapmodify -a -v -c -p $PORT -h $SRV -D cn=$USR,cn=Users,dc=company,dc=com -w $PWD -f $LDIFFILENAMECOUNTecho "return code " $rc what exactly the way to get the return code of that ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am doing some NSCA log parsing and I want to get an output like this:
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:08
2011-Feb-18:11:00:08
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I have tried this, but it treats the entire output as a single line, then plops a timestamp on the end (I think):
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sort -b -k4.9,4.12 -k4.5b,4.7Mb -k4.2,4.3 -k4.14,4 foo.log| date -j -f "%Y-%b-%d:%T" "+%s" "`awk -F '[ [/:]' '{print $7"-"$6"-"$5":"$8":"$9":"$10}'`"
I have access to backup server via rsync protocol (only rsync, nothing else). Now, I want to fetch file from there (which is .tar.gz) and pass it directly to tar command, without saving the archive in local filesystem. To visualize, with ssh access I could:
ssh remote_host cat backup.file.tar.gz | tar xzf - And I will get uncompressed backup locally, without actually storing .tar.gz on local machine. Is it possible to achieve when using rsync?
I am doing some NSCA log parsing and I want to get an output like this:
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
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I am attempting to write my first ever script from scratch and making some progress.
My first shell script file executes a list of commands contained in a second file. I need to pass a parameter to this command file how do I do this?
Below is an example output of what I see when I run the 'ls' command on some directories in linux (this is from a tomcat/common/lib directory). However I'm not clear on why some of the filenames are appearing inside [square brackets]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038825 Aug 30 2006 [ant].jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 566376 Apr 1 2008 [commons-collections].jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107392 Aug 18 2006 [commons-dbcp].jar
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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'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 assumed :i insert mode would allow to simply back space, no appearently not? it seems none of the websites anywhere on earth mention how to delete a carriage return in vi.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a command line option that will allow less to return to the command line if there are not sufficient lines in the file to warrant paging.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have one distro installed, LILO as the boot loader, and i wonder if it's possible to duplicate the lilo entries with an option which executes some script or command during, or after the boot.Actually, i installed a Slackware + autolaunching virtual machine, but i have two VM, so i need to autolaunch one of them. May i choose it from the very beginning ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe university I go to uses a WPA2 wireless network that requires a netID and password to connect too. I installed wicd but I can't seem to connect to this network, is there a way to add this functionality to wicd, and if so, how do I do that (links to a how-to or guide would be nice, I've yet to find one).
Also, I spend most of my time on campus in the command line, so I'd like to know if there is a way to use command line utilities to connect to this network (again, a guide or how-to would be nice)
I can get online through my fedora live USB just fine (w/ network manager) but I'd rather get on directly from slackware.
I am testing the serial ports on a Single Board Computer(SBC) running Linux kernel 2.6.29. I usually do this by connecting the serial port to another PC serial port, then doing "cat /dev/ttyS0" on PC and "echo hello > /dev/ttyS0" on the SBC. However in the current system, "echo hello > /dev/ttyS0" command does not return at all! Also no characters appear on the destination port. I am running the echo command as root. The system boot messages show that the serial port in indeed /dev/ttyS0.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have the following code :
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E_BADARGS=65
if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
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I am writing a short script to do some backups.Here is a small section of it:
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echo -n "Please enter your choice ..."
read CHOICE
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I'm creating a usb device driver that needs to be able to read from two different endpoints. I couldn't see any way of having two read functions in the driver, so I got round this by reading from one of the endpoints with read, and the other with ioctl.However this hasn't worked, the ioctl call from c returns -1. I added a printk command in the driver in the ioctl function, however looking at kern.log I can see that this function is never being called. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem called be, or a better method of being able to read from two different endpoints?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a program that would locate the oldest file of a certain type on a server. Here's the commands:
OLDEST_PATH=`find -L / -depth -maxdepth 6 -mindepth 6 -type d | sort -f | head -1`
OLDEST_FILE=`find -L $OLDEST_PATH | grep .mp3 | sort -f | head -1`
ls -al $OLDEST_FILE
I'm writing this all in expect but I'm having problems. The main problem I have is whenever I try to run the first command, I can't seem to isolate the result of the OLDEST_PATH so that the 2nd command will work. There always seems to be a newline in the variable and the result is only "find -L" command running and it bypasses the variable. If I can just figure out how to get the 1st and 2nd command to work, then I can figure out the 3rd. Here's some code:
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send "find -L / -depth -maxdepth 6 -mindepth 6 -type d | sort -f | head -1
"
sleep 20
expect -re "(.*)
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I know there is a better way to write this. I've tried multiple ways and this just happens to be the last way I've tried it. If you try running this, you'll notice that there is still carriage returns after the result of OLDEST_PATH and it prevents the 2nd "find" command from working properly.
Normally one can start the Jboss with
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./run.sh -c server-name
But in this way the command console will keep hang. Now I want to write a script which calls u this command and return back to the command console. Here is what I wrote but it doesn't return back to the command console:
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#!/bin/sh
MSGBP_HOME="/opt/jboss/MSGBP"
case "$1" in
start)
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i am trying to write scripts to pass 2 different variables to find command.
find . -name $var1 -exec grep -H $var2
find . -name CDR_2010-07-21 -exec grep -H 9892614477 {} ;
1st variable CDR_2010-07-21(passed by var1) is the file name inside which i am trying to search string 9892614477(passed by var2). i have tried following script
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