I am trying to do some shell programs. I tried some sites regarding the while loop, they give the structure as:
Code:
while [ n1 -lt 500 ]
do
echo $((n1+100))
done
But the below code also worked for me:
Code:
while ((n1 > 500))
do
echo $((n1+100))
done
By using (( )) I could use while, for. But the documentations didnt follow this way. I mainly use this for datastructure programming.
hint me why and how to execute the below for loop, the way i am trying to?
[bkcreddy17@local:~]$ cat -n test
1 date
2 ls -l
[code]...
# variable declaration
stt=10
enn=20
stp=1
# I want to do it in the following structure but not sure how to call # the stt, enn and stp in a for loop
for (( i = $stt; i -le $enn; i=i + $stp ))
do
blah blah
done
I have written the following script in my linux server to add users for LDAP database.But i can't able to run this.
The script is as following
#!/bin/bash
echo "Mention the username which you want to convert LDIF format"
read username
if ["$username" -e "/ldiffile/passwd"]; then
echo "Username already exists"
else
cat /etc/passwd | grep -i "$username" >> /ldiffile/passwd
fi
The output which i got :
. ldapadd.sh
Mention the username which you want to convert LDIF format
yal2361
-bash: [yal2361: command not found
please let me know where need to change and what
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function investigate
{
path=$1
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#for file in *
[code]....
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Here is what I have:
for i in DIR1 DIR2 DIR3 DIR4 DIR5 do;
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done
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08 2010
09 2010
10 2010
........
........
........
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Quote: Linux dave-desktop 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: [URL]...
0 packages can be updated.
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find . -name DOC* | while read i
do
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done
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Code:
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
d=`pwd`
for i in * ; do
if test -d $d/$i ; then
echo "$i:"
code....
Is there some type of functional way to read things in the Python shell interpreter similar to less or more in the bash (and other) command line shells?
Example:
Code:
>>> import subprocess
>>> help(subprocess)
...
[pages of stuff to read]
...
I'm hoping so as I hate scrolling and love how less works with simple keystrokes for page-up/page-down/searching etc.
i can not figure out why my program does not terminate if i type n when i read loop unless it is the last if statement in my program ?
while [ "$loop" = y ] ; do
echo "what does baket mean: " ; read word
if [ "$word" = why ]
[code]....
Here is my code
Code:
I just cant seem to understand loops. i havent put the loop in yet but what i would like is the user only to have 3 tries at guessing number then exit if wrong or it says "correct if right" tbh i dont even know if the above code is correct. i have tried several ways and position of the loops but each time is comes out wrong
I have a directory file capturing script, the variable is fine with in the loop but gone after the loop is done:
Code:
DIR="/usb/sdb1/media/music/"
i=1
[code]...
I am about to move my scripts to the next generation level, so I need some help I am stuck in varying my variable names in a loop. For example:
for user in ben dorothy mike pat
do
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[code]...
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Code:
for ( x = 0; x < 70; x++ )
{
fputs ("CSN00", target);
fprintf (target, "%d", userid);
[Code].....
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/home/user2
/home/user3
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[code]...
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Code:
check_ink_levels ()
{
for ID in $INKS
do
[Code].....
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
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[code]...
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for x in list:
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Code:
for(i=0;i<NUM;i++)
{
push_arg(args[i]);
}
call_function(func);
?
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P.S. i mean C language.
I have images in jpg format
Code:
CIMG0100.jpg
...
...
CIMG0131.jpg
I used imagemagick to convert the files to gif with the following command
Code:
for i in {100..131}; do convert CIMG0$i.jpg CIMG0$i.gif; done # works
This worked like expected, but when afterwards I wanted to scale the images
Code:
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Code:
convert -scale 25% CIMG100.gif CIMG100_scaled.gif # works
works as expected and gives me a scaled image. What does the convert command do in the second case? is the for-loop wrong?
I'm learning c but then when i tried looping as i follow a tutorial, the numbers are wierd that it seems not right..
This is the example.
Quote:
When i run it, it outputs this.
Quote:
why?
I hade created a file with following text entries.
content of fileitems.txt
kdeaccessibility-4.4.92
kdeadmin-4.4.92
kdeartwork-4.4.92
kdebase-4.4.92
How do I read the file one line at a time and so its ready to do something with that line.