I got myself a .bashrc file off the net. I checked it beforehand, didn't detect anything bad about it. One thing that's odd about it, is that several spaces are added to the terminal command line.Screenshot:Those spaces are not put there by me. The file can be found here: [URL]..
View 3 RepliesIs it possible, in Linux, to rename a file from something without spaces to something containing spaces? I know I can create directories and files with spaces by doing:
mkdir "new dir" and:
touch "new file.txt"
I want to rename files from:
imgp0882.jpg to something like:
20091231 1243 some topic.jpg
And how would it look in a shell script that uses parameters like:
for i in *.jpg do
rename "$i" "$somepath/$mydate $mytime $mytopic$extension"
?
I'm new to Linux (using PCLinuxOS 2009.2), coming from Windows, and I've written myself a little shell script to download files from my camera and then automatically rename them according to a date-and-topic pattern. As you can guess by now, I'm stuck on the bit about renaming. If you want to see my script, here's a copy. I'm not using jhead for this renaming because that only works with JPEG files but I want a single solution for any media format including videos.
I need a shell script that will add the users name and date to a file when the user has modified the file, these files are within a group and only accessible to this group. But we need a way for people in the group to know who and when the file was last modified.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhenever you write a program that prints its own process ID, I've always (without any exception) received numbers ranging in the tens of thousands. Never less, never higher. I was just wondering, why is are the process ID #s so high? Are the ones below it all system-related processes? And then when I run the program again, it prints out an ID that is several hundred above the previous execution... what happens between these two executions that come right after each other?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to assign the path of a sourced sub.bashrc file to an environment variable. E.g. if I type (or execute) from a known relative location
$ source ../../someDir/sub.bashrc
the sub.bashrc should set a variable like
export MyOwnLocation=/home/user1/unknownlocation/someDir
The problem is I can't use $0 as reference because the script is only sourced not executed. I also don't want to hardcode the path because the location might change and there will be more copies. Is there an easy way to create this information from within the the sourced bashrc file? I use Gnu bash 2.05b on Suse Linux 9.
attending class in the Redhat Academy Website. I was wondering how can you join the two commands of cd/usr & ls successfully in the .bashrc file?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my script. The problem is the system keeps rebooting after I put the directory file in .bashrc. The intentional for putting the file in .bashrc is to run the script automatically after login as root, I don know why is this happen. It was working fine for the first time without putting the file in bashrc. I could break the loop after hitting the "ESC" key. would it be the script problems?
Here is my script
count=20
while [ $count -gt 0 ];do
sleep 1
echo Press ESC to break the operation
((count=count-1))
[Code]...
I have installed a software and set the variables in the .bashrc file to avoid setting them everytime I would like to run te software. Now I have installed a new software and would like to do the same thing in the .bashrc file.How can I add the path to the new software directory without affecting the first software path.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried following the example from here (http:url]......)Open up publicity.html for reading and writing by anyone.
Before: -rw-r--r-- publicity.html
Command: chmod og=rw publicity.html
After: -rw-rw-rw- publicity.html
Here's my terminal session:
username@ubuntu:/etc$ -rw-r--r-- bash.bashrc
-rw-r--r--: command not found
username@ubuntu:/etc$ chmod og=rw bash.bashrc[code]....
I want to play around my .bashrc file, but I can't seem to find a general guide to customizing it. I just want a guide that will show me examples and explain them in-depth.
Does anyone where to find one?
If I want to modify my .bashrc file to change the HISTSIZE would the following command be for example; HISTSIZE=200? And if I want to change the DEBUG_LEVEL to 8 would the following command be; DEBUG_LEVEL=8?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm hoping that someone can help me, I need to remove spaces (not replace with underscores) from several thousand files on a system with cygwin.
Can I do this from the shell using rename or mv somehow?
trying to write my thesis in Lyx 1.6. It works fine on my windows laptop at home but Not on my work computer. The problem is, when i try to view it in pdflatex it comes with with: Lyx: file name error The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces
View 1 Replies View RelatedIam reading a file using C-sh script after manipulating the variables I need to dump into a new file. This in working fine but I couldn't retain the multiple spaces and tabs in a same line. For readability I want to print it back as I read. Now script treating multiple tabs as onl tab or space.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi am trying to make a script in which i can drag a file (with spaces in file name ) and it will scp the file to another computermy code is
Code:
echo "--------------------------------------------"
echo "drag file now"
[code]....
I am using Ubuntu 9.10. I was installing network simulator 2. After installation I get the following message.
Please put /home/administrator/Downloads/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/home/administrator/Downloads/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/home/administrator/Downloads/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix
into your PATH environment; so that you'll be able to run itm/tclsh/wish/xgraph.
[Code].....
My friend suggested that it is something to do with .bashrc file. I fund files like .bash.bashrc.
When I add some path in .bashrc by commenting out old path and adding new one like this:
#EXPORT HOME_PLAY=/home/gem/old_play
EXPORT HOME_PLAY=/home/gem/play
EXPORT PATH=$PATH:HOME_PLAY
After saving above changes, I enter the command: source ~/.bashrc Now if I do echo $PATH, the path shows both the old PLAY_HOME and new PLAY_HOME. This is really bad and messes up a lot of things in my project. This problem only goes away if I logout or reboot, a rather very long process. What is happening is that the old path is added to new path element and the old path includes the old path element you want to remove.
The objective is to read a file line by line, add a tab at end of each line and add a value(number) after the tab.
My script:
Code:
Report.tsv before running the script for the first time:
Code:
At the end of first run, each line of Report.tsv gets appended by a space instead of a tab. On the other hand each line of Report.tsv gets appended by tab at the end of second run onwards.
This was realized when Report.tsv was imported in open office spreadsheet. First set of appended values get merged into the original column (Strings) and the subsequent appended values fall in distinct columns.
recently I did some changes to my bashrc file the changes are as follows
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre<version>/bin/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre<version>/bin
now I'm unable even login to the OS.
I am having a lil headache with it.
Some time ego i edited my /etc/bashrc file to add some aliases and colours for my ssh console.
Today i had a need to change few thing but for some reason i can't edit or delete this file any more.
I am logged as root.
rm bashrc
cannot remove, operation not permitted
chown and/or chmod fails as well with "not permitted" errors.
ls -Al | grep bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2514 mar 31 13:05 bashrc
Any ideas what's going on?
First I hope to undrestand my English word because Iam Arabic girl and not so good in English...
my problem is:
I wrote code in .c file and I run that code on the prompt command, its ture but I want after the out put copy the code on the command by some statment in the code , how can I do that?
I wrote a bash-script that splits each of many .sql-files into two parts by some condition using head utlity. After that I execute all the scripts in sqlplus, and in one or two of them I get an error: SP2-0042: unknown command ")" - rest of line ignored. If I open the file with vi, I can see that in the end of each line there's a "^M", which is treated as a single character. If I delete this character placed before the closing parenthesis, the scripts executes without any errors. In the initial script opened by vi there's no such characters. Is it a problem with the head utility or with something else? Of course, I cannot grep these special chars.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm having some difficulty to confgure the windows X manager...
I can't find /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I'm trying to do this in opensuse 11.1 and fedora 12
I tried to install in fedora yum install system-config-display but I think that isn't the best thing to do...
And can anyone tell me a distribution that use XFree 86.4.4.x?
Opense suse, Fedora and Ubuntu use X.org-X11 isn't it?
My music files are all on an external HDD I'd like to back up onto a couple of different computers. how to keep them syncronized?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI tried Suse five or six years ago and ran into an issue that was not comfortable to work with so I went back to windows. The problem was open spaces between words was not permitted with my music files. I have transferred all of my CDs and LPs to MP3 and have a tremendous number of them and the Suse of five years ago required I convert a title like Foggy Mountain Special.mp3 into something resembling Foggy_Mountain_Special.mp3
I don't care to convert literally a hundred thousand titles to fit the latter format. Does the current version of Suse allow the use of spaces between the words or is the 'no open space' convention still required?
I have a laptop that I am in through SSH. The laptop does not have an Xwindow system so I am using the program fbi to open an image on my laptop screen from my SSH connection:
fbi -T 8 picture.jpg #this opens the image on the laptops tty8 terminal
I've found that making a for loop does not work with files that contain a space in the name. Something to due with a bug that they call a "feature" that stops the first variable at the first whitespace.
Using a "while" loop is not exactly what i require either seeing as I want to be able to view each image in the directory on screen and tag it accordingly, before it jumps off to the next image, and I'm not sure how to add a pause to a while loop.
How do I make a Bash script and loop Variables handle files like "files that contain spaces.jpg"
Kernel 2.6.21.5, slack 12.0 I have a file beginning with <?xml version=1.0?>. May I replace tabs by spaces in it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a script almost working except for 1 thing. What I'm trying to do is read a file that has the files that need to be FTP'd using a bash script. I have everything working except the reading of the file. It works outside of the ftp script I've wrote but once I put it in the FTP script it doesn't.
Here's the Script:
#Here's where the problem is that I know of
I've been playing w/ the exclamation points to see if that could be the problem, but so far no luck.