Programs like matlab/octave and I'm sure many other ones allow you to start typing a command, and then hit Up to recall the last command that starts with the typed characters. Common linux shell bash doesnot do this. Is there a different shell that does? I'm not asking how to find out the last command, I'm asking if there's a shell that's a little friendlier.
View 3 RepliesI want to copy a file (home/remote_computer_user/Desktop/test1.txt) from my remote office computer (a permanent URL + open port) to my home computer (home/home_computer_user/Downloads/).
How can I do this with shell commands in Linux?
My current thoughts:
ssh <user>@<computer1address> -p <port> - gives me a shell on the remote computer
(I think I should use scp, but I dont how exactly how in my case)
What are the exact commands I should use?
Ares there any shell commands to display all applications installed in my linux machine,?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write a script that connects to a server and executes some commands on there. Something like this:
#!/bin/sh
telnet remote_machine
cd /home/some_directory
cat a_file_in_current_directory
Unfortunately after login/password I guess the script doesn't jump past the telnet command, until I exit. What do I need to do to make the script start executing commands in the remote shell?
i was trying to figure out a way to write my own linux commands.. in fact i wanted to write a shell script to simulate an already existed linux commands like 'cd','ls' and'adduser'i just dont know the language of scriptting and even doesnt know the steps to make a script
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there an easy way to prevent the logging of commands run into syslog as post-shell expansion?
I.e log a command of "ls *.log" as just that, rather than "ls a.log b.log c.log d.log" It makes rather a mess of the log files.
I am new to Minix. I'm so impressed by the speed of the system. It looks elegant, I like it. However, I have a question about the shell. In Linux, while using a shell, up and down arrow keys can be used to navigate through previously executed commands. On Minix with the sh shell, I can only get numbers printed out on the screen. I remember I chose a US-std keyboard when installing. Is there any way to use the arrow keys to navigate through previous commands on Minix?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to process billions of small files using bash shell commands with limited memory size (256MB). If any of those files contain certain "keywords", the file will be removed. I tried with command:
find . -type f -exec grep -i -l -H "keyword" '{}' + | xargs rm -rf
where all files are located within the current directory. But the command above failed in "out of memory".
The panel plugin from xfce4-mixer has a bug:s icon doesn't update as the volume is changed. This bug has already been reported.One curious thing about it is that, if you right click on the volume icon on the panel, go to 'Settings' (or 'Properties', I don't know, mine is in Portuguese) and then close the window that pops on the screen, the icon is updated.Is it possible to open and close the settings window automatically with a bash script? Like this, I could associate this script with the volume keys of my keyboard, so that the icon is updated as the the volume is changed.
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhat is the command for:
locking the screen
creating a new folder
log out
on the shell?
i need to run a command from a shell script that requires me to answer "Yes" to 2 questions that the command asks before it kicks off. how do i do this? i thought it was something like this.. from inside the parent script:
sh test.sh << "EOF
Yes
Yes
[code]...
How can I run the following be run from a shell script, these are shell commands and mysql commands.
# mysql -uroot -ppassw
> use mysql;
> create database cacti;
> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'cactipw';
# mysql -u root -p -b cacti < /usr/share/cacti/cacti.sql
In below program I want to add (as part of the valid_cmds string) the pwd (print working directory), lo (logout), and cd (change directory) commands. However when I add those into original program ;
char *valid_cmds = " ls ps df pwd lo cd";
they are not working I have the cout message huh?
Original source code is below code...
Ok, so I have a few web apps that need to run shell commands. Heres a great example of one:
Code:
This is a PHP script getting my system volume. Herein lies the problem... www-data doesn't have permission to do this!
I changed my apache config to use MY account as the web user, and it does in fact work the way I want it to.
Obviously, I dont want to leave apache running as me, and want it to keep using www-data.... heres my question... how can I give permission for www-data to execute certain programs?
I have a command which on the command line needs to look like this
rlam -if3 '!pvalue -H image1.jpg' > image2.jpg
Nevermind what rlam or pvalue do ... they are part of a program package I am using. The above command works on the command line, and also when written verbatim in a bash shell script.
My problem is: in the script I wish to replace image1.jpg with the content of a variable, e.g.
IM1=image1.jpg
How to I get the script to insert the value of $IM into the command when the pvalue part of it needs to be quoted?
i want to know how can i change the owner of the mysql data base with shell commands.
View 3 Replies View Relatedphp. I am developing a web-interface for an application that sometimes needs root privs. Editting /etc/sudoers is not an option since the web interface needs to be portable to other users when they install my application. Is there any workaround ?PHP Code:
php code:$command = "./script.sh /dev/$DISKNAME &";$shellOutput = shell_exec($command);
Code:
[code]...
I have a few questions regarding HTML, UNIX and Javascript. I've been tasked with creating a fairly simple webpage that takes a few inputs. Each input must correspond to an argument in a UNIX command running on a server.On a UNIX server we have a script (.ksh) that takes 3 arguments. The result of the script is a data file which is FTP'ed to an external server. Let's forget about the FTP portion for now. I would like to know where I should begin.What I know so far:
1) I will need HTML to create the webpage. Skill level is high
2) I will need Javascript to make my webpage more interactive. Skill level is high.
3) I will need to understand the UNIX environment. Skill level is high.
I upgraded from Slackware 64 13.1 to Slackware 64 13.37 a week or so ago. I am now having a perceptible delay of a few seconds when launching commands from the command line, say for example: screen -R.
My laptop is an X200 with 3GB of RAM.
Note: I have made a thread similar to this before, but the title/contents were too botched to repair.I know that using C-r you can search for past bash commands containing a particular string, but how would you search for past bash commands matching a particular regular expressionIs there a keyboard shortcut for that or do you have to use a shell command?
View 4 Replies View Relatedfinally i found the script for telnet automated login session...<<Mod edit: questionable link removed>>
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have found a file beginning with a question mark in my home dir, not sure how the hell it got there. It's from a downloaded rar i think.
Does anyone know how to do this?
I'm using ubuntu (natty), and when I use ls -l, the files are listed, but apparently the sorting algo ignores any special characters. For ages I've used underscores to mark special folders. And it seems to me, that they were always listed first. Now, the underscore is completely ignores. Let's assume that I have the files fileA, _fileB and fileC in a folder. Currently, ls -l orders them like so:
malbert@dredg:/tmp/1$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 malbert domain users 0 2011-08-03 15:27 fileA
-rw-r--r-- 1 malbert domain users 0 2011-08-03 15:27 _fileB
-rw-r--r-- 1 malbert domain users 0 2011-08-03 15:27 fileC
[Code]...
I've dug through the ls man page and could not find anything. Is there somewhere a system-wide collation option? Or something the like?
I have a lot a folders, each named by a number, and in each of these folders I have a specific file (stddev.dat) containing a single line (of numbers) I need to have a single file with each line being one of the stddev.dat (no matter if it is sorted or not), and also I need to add at the begining of each line the number of the folder it comes from.
I 'm no bash expert, and the "add at the begining of the line" is a bit of problem to me". Here is what I've come up with so far, just to put everything in one file, (and also if you know a better/more elegant way to do the same thing I've done, I'm listening)
[Code]...
I want to convert strings like 002, 049, 050, 100 to numbers: 2, 49, 50, 100.
I tried to use:
Code:
`printf "%5d" $i`
, but it doesnt work , it convert:
002=>2
014=>12
049=>0
In a wide family of "ancient" text editors, by pressing ^T you erased from the cursor up to the beginning of the following word. If we use '_' to represent the cursor, the thing was like this:
Code:
If I now hold <CNTL> down and press <T>, the result will be
Code:
Want to feel at home with vim. Many times I have consulted and even tried to systematically study vim's man page. Sometimes I consulted it with profit, sometimes not. This is one of the latter.
In a wide family of "ancient" text editors, by pressing ^T you erased from the cursor up to the beginning of the following word. If we use '_' to represent the cursor, the thing was like this:
Code:
want to feel _ at home with vim. If I now hold <CNTL> down and press <T>, the result will be Code: want to feel at home with vim. Many times I have consulted and even tried to systematically study vim's man page. Sometimes I consulted it with profit, sometimes not. This is one of the latter.
I am trying to create a shell script where a user can specify a file with a list of logins and the script will create a batch file with specific information in specific columns.
Example:
loginfile.txt has
User1
User2
User3
I need the output to be as below:
1 User1 Date 12/31/9999
2 User2 Date 12/31/9999
3 User3 Date 12/31/9999
Where the columns are separated as below.
1[tab][tab]User1[tab]date +%D[tab]12/31/9999
2[tab][tab]User2[tab]date +%D[tab]12/31/9999
3[tab][tab]User3[tab]date +%D[tab]12/31/9999
I can use the nl utility to get the numbers easily enough, but I need two tab separations between the number and the user list. Is there a sed command that will insert at the beginning of each line? If so I can just run nl after I get some tabs up in the front.
In bash, I would like to remove all zeros (if exist) from the beginning of a strings:
000001234
00123
0000568
I have and avi file and an ac3 file that contains an alternate audio stream. I run mplayer like: mplayer -audiofile foo.ac3 bar.avi
mplayer takes the audio stream from the ac3 file as expected, but when I try to scroll the video using arrows or pgup/pgdown keys, the audio gets desynced: mplayer just starts playing the audio stream from the beginning. Do I have to pass any additional command line arguments in order to make it scroll properly without desyncing audio?