I have a user that has been used for long time now that runs o C Shell... now there is a need to change it to Bash Shell? Can I cause a problem changing his shell from C to bash? I mean apps or variables?
View 2 RepliesI want to change my default shell to tcsh. I used
Code:
usermod -s /bin/tcsh username
command as given at url
But if I open a new shell, it is still a bash shell.
How do I make my default shell as tcsh?
mkvmerge -o <filename without extension>_TV.mkv -S <filename> && mkvextract tracks <filename> 3:<filename without extension>.*** && perl /home/brian/Desktop/ass2srt.pl <filename without extension>.*** && rm <filename without extension>.***
Doing these commands for multiple command line file inputs is the goal. So I can just type ./script.sh *.mkv in my terminal.This is what I have so far, but it doesn't work whatsoever.
Sometimes it is possible to trick a Linux app by calling it like this:
HOME=/tmp/foo myapp
This would make myapp think /tmp/foo is the home directory, it won't try to get the user id, find its home directory via getpwent(). This is useful when myapp must be forced to dump some of its config files into a non-standard location different than ~.
A similar trick can be done like this: LANG=foo LC_ALL=bar myapp
This is useful when myapp needs to be called once with a different locale without having to make the change persistent by using the export bash built-in or even modify stuff in /etc/profile.
Is it possible to pull the same trick with time and date? The goal is to make an app use another time than the system ones. The final goal - to make timestamps that appear in logs/commit messages not being tied to the system time.
in gnuplot it's possible to set the value of a variable via linux shell command.or instance we can do
Code:
a="`echo 1`"
b="`echo 2`"
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Explain the following unexpected results
$ whereis date
date: /bin/date ?
$ echo $ PATH
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Ive created some custom shell scripts to run during the kernels boot process (they are called from the init script).I was wondering if there's any way to assign a variable that can be accessed between different scripts.For example my first script checks which type of pc i am installing on and assigns the hard drive location to a variable.HARDDRIVE = "/dev/sda1"at the end of the script it calls another script. In this script I cant reference HARDDRIVE as it is blank, to get around this I need to repeat the same code for assigning it.Its more of a space/aesthetics issue but I figured someone might know the solution off the top of their head
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Code:
a="1245"
[-n $a]
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Is there a difference when variables are referred to as $variableName and ${variableName} in bash?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been give a task of replicating one of our production systems to create a test system. I have been restricted to use c shell to set up its environment variables. I am new to this my questions is how do i set environment variables for a particular user on c shell e.g ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID permanently for a particualar user i know in bash you edit the .bash_profile file. What do i do for c shell?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI hav a shell script that outputs few variables. i want to output them in a table format. any unix commands?
The output i need is:
I have $db and $DATE set in my bash script, then I need to join them like this: mysqldump --user=usr --password=pss --databases $db | gzip > /backups/sqlNew/$db_$DATE.sql.gz;
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. How do I properly join those 2 variables into a filename?
I have a problem with a very big script I wrote in bash, and now I need to modulirize it in at least four smaller scripts. The problem is, that most of the variables I have will need to be shared by all scripts.
My question is: is there a way to declare global variables in bash? So that I can use and change them in any of the scripts and every change in the variable can be "seen" by the other scripts later.
I've created a script that put in dynamic variables the value HELLO 1, HELLO 2 HELLO 5. And I put the values of this variables in the file text.txt. Here's the script:
Code:
for i in $(seq 1 5); do eval ${i}=$(cat << EOF "HELLO" $i EOF); done
cat > text.txt << EOF
$1
$2
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Can I pass javascript variables to bash script? If possible in bash script what code should I insert to receive javascript variables.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI would like to run a bunch of SQL commands from mysql client in bash. However, I would like to store the output in different variables. E.g.
Code:
var1=`mysql -u[user] -p[pass] -D[dbname] -e "Query1"`
var2=`mysql -u[user] -p[pass] -D[dbname] -e "Query2"`
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How do I concatenate two environment variables in bash?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been writing a bunch of bash scripts to make possible non-interactive, secure, cron-based SVN checkouts with CollabNet's SVN client and GNOME Keyring Daemon (aka GKD) and one of the scripts was designed to start GKD, harvest its output, essentially a couple of environment variables, and export those variables in shell of a user the script is run as. All upon user login by sourcing a bash script in ~/.bashrc.The problem is that those environment variables will not be exported, because the script is being run in a sub-shell that exits upon it completion and environment variables get unset for good.Well, the question is how can those variables be set permanently, meaning they're exported and kept untouched even across login-logout sessions?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using Linux some years, but since I built a LFS, I feel noobish again. Now with the help of BLFS I am setting up my environment and somewhere I incidentally read, that not every variable is inherited by a child Bash shell. As for the $PS1 and $PS2 variables I know, that they are not inherited by non-interactive Bash shells (and there is no reason why they should in my opinion). Well, as for my first thread I hope the title gives enough information on what I want to know. But anyways: Which environment variables are not inherited by Bash shells?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor example, if I'm in csh, I can use `setenv VARNAME varVALUE` while I can use export in Bash. Given that the environmental variables are created, can BASH read env vars from csh and vice versa?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI 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'm working in Debian, and I've noticed that when I resize my PuTTY window, the console inside isn't resizing to the new dimentions, so things like nano are running at 80xwhatever instead of the more useful 130xsomething that I've offered it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow do I edit my .bash_profile so recursive directories are on my path without manually typing all the directories? For example, I want to have /home/woodenbox/SU, /home/woodenbox/SU/bin, /home/woodenbox/SU/bin/src, etc on my path without actually having to write the paths for all the subdirectories
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm running into a problem when I try to set a variable to an awk output in c-shell. Right now my command is Code: set STR_MSG_TYPE = `awk -F{ '/msg_type/ {print $2}' <filename> | tr -d }'/''*' ` I then run echo to see what the output is and it returns blank, however, when I run the same awk command from the command line, I get an actual output of "MT-715". Am I setting my variable incorrectly? I do something similar using the date command to set a STR_DATE variable earlier in the code and it works fine and I use the same syntax.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have following code :
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TMPDIR=`mktemp -d`
mkdir $TMPDIR/old/
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I've got a CGI that I'm trying to debug. Apache gives me an ambiguous 500 error; it would be nice to see the raw output via the shell. I've got the POST request w/headers as follows. What's the best way to troubleshoot this?
POST /cgi/packBoxes.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 70.87.60.214
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
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Somehow I'm not really managing this thing, which would d be a nice way to useariables.What I am doing is setting up compound variable in ksh. What I have is a "config" file, which has fields delimited by a semicolon
Code:
cat ${CONFIGFILE} | grep -v "^#" | grep -v "^$" | while read line
do
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I used c-shell previously in unix. One of the useful command I used frequently is foreach.> foreach a (`cat list`)>> echo $a need to use bash shell now instead, and realized that I can't use foreach anymore. The command is not found. Does anyone knows if there is similar command / function in bash shell?
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo I open firefox from my bash shell with:
Code:
firefox google.ca
it opens firefox, I can browse, etc.
Now if I alt-tab back into my shell, i can't enter any commands in the shell.
I know that i can do this if I close firefox, but I want to keep working in my shell with firefox still open.
Is this possible?
I want to automate my tasks of administrator using shell scripts like changing owner of a file which usually only the super user which requires password can change i want to do this thing using shell script how to do?
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