Is there any inbuilt functionality in Unix shell script so that i can able to convert lower case string input to an upper case? I dont want to use high level languages like java,python or perl for doing the job.
View 4 RepliesIm a bit stuck with a simple script that im practicing with... im trying to get my head around some simple scripting. Basically i want to write a script that will work as below: It will ask the user to enter their userid. If its correct it will say 'Correct' If its the wrong id (But the ID exists in /etc/passwd) then it will say 'incorrect' If its not a valid userid it will say 'doesnt exist'. What i have so far is:
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# If the user enters their own userid they will get a comment saying 'correct' $LOGNAME) echo "Correct";;
# If they enter another users ID (That exists in the /etc/passwd), then they get a message to say 'incorrect userid used'. Im not sure what i need to do here to get it to check the /etc/passwd to see if the input exists in there.... im guessing some kind of simple 'if' statement to say ---- "if 'input' exists in /etc/passwd then echo "incorrect userid used"
# If its entered incorrectly and not a valid ID then they will get this comment. Again, im guessing this part would be similar to te above option..... *) echo "not a valid ID";;
Ive managed to work out how the basic Case staements work, but to add a conditional statement based on the input, i just cant figure out. I have tried looking on google, and found some help but it doesnt really explain how i check the input against the /etc/passwd.
How do i make my strings case-insensitive while comparing them with an if statement?
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View 3 Replies View Relatedwhile learning to write bash scripts, i decided to write some script that, given an integer as input, will tell you the square root of that integer (provided the integer in question is a perfect square). i have already done on using primarily if statements and a while loop. i decided that using a case statement would be a lot simpler and i would be able to make the script more functional. here is what i have so far
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i have tried all posible combos of using -ge or >= but i get pretty much the same thing.
the idea is, for now, if the input is greater than or equal to 0 that it will echo test. can you do this sort of thing with case statements? or will it only work if i give it specific values like [1-9] (if this is the case then i dont think the case statement will work for what i want to do)
What is the purpose of bash scripting? Is it just for file manipulation?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a question;
Is it possible to set incrontab in bash script? I tried to set normal crontab and it works like a charm but unfortunately not "incrontab"
I have two bash files; test-incrontab.sh and addlinetocrontab.sh and here are the contents of these files respectively;
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As you can see there are two enteries in each file. One for normal crontab and other one for incrontab. When i run "test-incrontab.sh" like following;
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crontab works perfectly and i can see cron job set but for incrontab it just does not work. No error either!
I am only getting this back "table unchanged"
I'm trying to get an output of a file in numeric order. Basically I need the starting number and the ending number in sed this into anther file. The test2.lis file I'm just awk'ing for the first row and if its out of order put it in order so I can grab the first and last numbers. I'm sure I can do this all in an array. The first sed command gets rid of blank lines and outputs it to a file. Then I head and tail for the first and last number then I want to sed those numbers into a file that exsist.
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The error I get is:
sed: -e expression #1, char 24: unterminated `s' command.
i would like to ask something very simple i hope for most off you but i couldn't find anything in other questions so specific...
So...i need a command to stop another command.
more specific i have to run airodump-ng and i want this command to stop after some seconds (or minutes) automatically....
how to combine bash scripting with apache.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am working on a simple script that should take two command line arguments, a [number] and a [name]. The first thing the script should do is check to make sure that no more and no less than two command line arguments have been entered when calling the script - an error message should be delivered if the condition is not true.
If two args have been entered, then the message 'processing "scriptname"' should appear, where scriptname is the name of the script being called. The script should then write to the screen "Hi [name]!", and should write this phrase [number] of times. For example, the command $ myscript 2 joe would produce the output: I have read the manual many times looking for examples, and I am very close by virtue of my own efforts. Further, I have searched these forums and others for good examples, which have also gotten me very close. Still my script is not completing the objective, and I am wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Script:
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I have made a simple bash script through which i can add, del, edit user from certain file using different CASE variables. like
case
1. adduser
2. del user
3. edit user
Now i want to add a exit CASE like
1. adduser
2. del user
3. edit user
4. exit
Now i want to make a script such a way that, if user input is 4 then only script quit. I used with exit function also but it didn't work. if user press ENTER or other keys then also it quit the program.
I need to make a bash scripting, based on a password and a user,that connect to pop3 server and see if it login,if you can,return ok, otherwise return ERR .
View 10 Replies View RelatedI've been surfing and searching the net quit a while now to make my own script, but I haven't been really successful ever since I want to make a script which can remove strings from my mp3 collection (file names).
For example:
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101-bob_sinclar_feat_sean_paul-tik_tok_(radio_edit).mp3 --> bob_sinclar_feat_sean_paul-tik_tok_(radio_edit).mp3
10-Young Jeezy-Lose My Mind (78 Bpm) (Repack).mp3 --> young_jeezy-lose_my_mind.mp3
Now the problem is how can I remove the strings like:
101 & 10 (dynamic)
(%%% Bpm) (dynamic)
(Repack) (static)
I do not know how to write either PYTHON or Bash Shell Scripting. I am to learn one for Linux Administration purpose. Which one will you recommend for a Linux Admin/Eng environment?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've been switched to a new department at work and am totally clueless when it comes to scripting in bash. When I told them I was a fast learner, I didn't think they'd throw me into the deep end of the pool so fast. So to make a long story short. What is a great book to start learning scripting in bash? My supervisor already gave me a simple task to do. Conceptually it sounds quite easy in my head, but actually writing out a script is a bit more daunting and complexed than I first thought.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a config file that contains:
my.config:
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Now in my bash script, I want to get the output /home/user instead of $HOME once read. So far, I have managed to get the $HOME variable but I can't get it to echo the variable. All I get is the output $HOME.
Here is my parse_cmd script:
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Two files contain:
file1:
cat
dog
fish
hamster
file2:
cat
fish
ferret
dog
How do you change the case of the letters in file1.txt to uppercase and compare with file2 all in one command?
I'm writing a bash script that executes a few perl scripts. One of the perl scripts that I need to execute requires two arguments with it. The arguments are stored in a txt file, each line contains a hostname and its corresponding IP address separated by a ":" (colon), the txt file looks like this below:
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I'm not sure if it's the best way to accomplish this but here it goes. In the bash file, let's call it getHosts.sh, I create an array and assign each line of the file to an element in that array. I then think I need to create a new array where I take the hostname (which is before the ":") separate it from its IP address and place the IP address on a new line just below the hostname (this way I can reference to it like $hostNames[$x] would be the hostname, and $hostNames[$x+1] would be its IP address). So the new array would now look like this below:
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I'd like to know some good resources, links, e-books to learn basic Linux system administration scripting. I know how to write very basic BASH shell scripts so I'm still at beginner level. There are so many docs out there that I'd like to narrow down people's opinion's on the best easy to understand resources that are available. Eventually I'd like to learn basic PERL as well.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to part a string into separate integers ....like "0x0-0xffffffff,0x20000" into 3 integers 0x0 and 0xfffffff and 0x20000.... i can't use any other high-level languages ..
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've a string "this.is.a.name", and I would like to return "is.a.name". How can I do that in bash?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have to create a bash script that takes an arbitrary length number from the command line, and add up each individual digit
Ex:
server> myscript.sh 123
server> 1 + 2 + 3 = 6
The problem I'm having is pulling out each character.
Is there a way in bash I can parse the input string for each character? I can't figure out a way to do this.
I would like to return the last part of a string in an array of strings in bash.
The array contains in each position the content below:
Code:
a.b.c
a.d.f
a
a.d
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how do I split a string into an array?In this string:"this is a story"how do I split it by the space?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI do this:
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a@b:~$ export A=hi
a@b:~$ echo $A
hi
a@b:~$ bash -c "export A=blah; echo $A"
hi
a@b:~$
Why doesn't the bash command print the new value of $A? Is there a way to make it do so?
I would like to evaluate a postfix string using bash shell script,but I do not know how to start.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a file (.tmpfile) and inside it is a string which i only know part of, the rest being a random group of characters... I would like to know how to pull the whole string out of the file and into a variable.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to write a script where I want to check if any of the parameters passed to a bash script match a string. The way I have it setup right now is if [ "$3" != "-disCopperBld" -a "$4" != "-disCopperBld" -a "$5" != "-disCopperBld" -a "$6" != "-disCopperBld"]but there might be a large number of parameters, so I was wondering if there is a better way to do this?EDIT:I tried this chunk of code out, and called the script with the option, -disableVenusBld, but it still prints out "Starting build". Am I doing something wrong?
while [ $# -ne 0 ]
do
arg="$1"
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