General :: Inverting A Bash Script Statement?
Jul 11, 2010
I want to have the System Bell ring when a process is over say a download. First I created a file named 'beep' that plays the System Bell. Because the System Bell rings by hitting cntrl-G the 'beep' file looks like this.
Code:
echo ^G
I then give the file owner execute permission. I know that this command would serve my purpose.
Code:
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However I want to sharpen my Bash programming skills. I wanted to write the Bash script along the following logic and with the fewest lines possible. Not really a script, I want to insert this short script via command line instead of a file. Let's say the download has commenced and the PID = 16666.
Code:
until ps -p 16666
do
/root/beep
done
Now obviously 'ps -p 16666' will already evaluate to true. My question is, is there a way to maybe enclose 'ps -p 16666' and prepend some operator that inverts the condition to where until 'ps -p 16666' evaluates to false then run /root/beep?
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May 14, 2010
I need to to write a bash script using an If...Then...Else statement that will accept a day of the week from the command line what do I do or where do I go.
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Apr 21, 2010
Here's the bash script:
Code:
FILES="/usr/sbin/accept
/usr/sbin/pwck
/usr/sbin/chroot
/usr/bin/fakefile
[code]....
Notice the extra" file size" lines in there? What's causing that? I'm trying to learn more bash skills. I have no experience with awk because I have been unable to understand it's basic necessity. But I thought maybe if I try it with some test scripts I might become more interested in using it more and expand my very limited capabilities.
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Aug 12, 2009
When you use an if statement directly in bash you have to put the ";" at the end or not? or am I mixing it with the for loop? I am reading advance bash scripting and it shows the if - then statements without ";" so I need a little clarification here.
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May 31, 2010
For some reason, I get said block of errors when I run my script without arguments:
Code:
/home/mark/bin/backup: line 34: [: =: unary operator expected
/home/mark/bin/backup: line 37: [: =: unary operator expected
[code].....
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Jun 9, 2010
the following works and BASH doesn't complain, but VIM highlights the closing square bracket is if it sees a syntax error. Is there a better way to express regex in a case statement or is this an issue with VIM?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
[code]...
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Jan 23, 2010
Does it possible to escape * in the case statement
Code:
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Jun 7, 2010
The script that Iam trying to write is running a for loop and reading line by line from a text file. inside this for loop i would like to execute update SQL statement .
a pesudo code is
Quote:
`$ISQL -U $username -P $Password -D $Dbname -I $INTERFACE <<QRY
for id in $idlist #idlist iam reading from a file
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Jul 14, 2010
I know with if statements in bash you can do
Code:
if [ $fruit = apple ]
then echo "Good, I like Apples"
fi
But I was wondering if you could do something like this:
Code:
if [apt-cache pkgnames smbfs = smbfs doesn't exist]
the apt-get install smbfs
fi
If so how would you capture the output from apt-cache pkgname smbfs to determine if it's installed?
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Oct 6, 2010
This script that I found online does the job it promises. it does convert the files to mp3 without an issue. What I need to include now is an if statement that says If $file.mp3 exists then delete $file.wav
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# name of this script: wav2mp3.sh
# wav to mp3
# Credit to the script creator (Nikesh Jauhari):
[Code]...
After that I'm stumped as to how to do the if statement
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Feb 15, 2011
At the moment I got my md5sum checking working which I write to a text file and see below.
If the md5sum works it will write the output to check2.md5 test.txt: OK
If the md5sum fails it will write test.txt: FAILED
How do I write if statement to check the output whether or not the md5sum failed or not ?
check1="/home/ops/Desktop/test1/check1.md5"
check2="/home/ops/Desktop/test1/check2.md5"
cd /home/ops/Desktop/test1
md5sum test.txt > $check1
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Jun 28, 2010
We are building our C++ project in Kdevelop IDE. Every time we run "Run Configure" from the "Build" menu, a file named "libtool" gets automatically generated. This file contains a statement as "ECHO="echo"".f we run "Automake", without modifying the "libtool" the system hangs and theputer needs to be restarted.Therefore every time we run "Run Configure" we need to include the line "echo="echo"" below the statement "ECHO="echo"" manually.I think a script can be written which does the above on its own.I am not a shell script programmer, I know the good tutorials for shell scripts are available on the net, but learning scripting only for this task would be time-consuming and painful.
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Oct 6, 2010
I've written a simple perl code to learn switches in perl.My code is pasted below,
#!/usr/bin/perl
$opt = 1;
switch($opt) {
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Jun 5, 2011
a few months ago, I installed Ubuntu Studio 10.4 x64 edition on my computer, and I was able to invert the colors in Firefox by pressing "Windows-Key + M".Since I updated to the latest Ubuntu Studio release, 11.x, via the upgrade function, this inverting of colors does not work any more. How can I do it now ? PS: I'm using Firefox 4.0.1 right now - maybe I was using Firefox 3.6 (I don't recall it exactly) under Ubuntu 10.4 and hence it's got something to do with the browser rather than the OS ?
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Jul 12, 2010
the script below prints the pwd of where I want to be. after the fi it puts me back at the original dir. just writing these scripts to understand what's going on.
#! /bin/bash
if
[ -d mydir ]
then
cd mydir/ && pwd
fi
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Feb 2, 2011
I want to have an if statement that does multiple things:
Code:
if [....] ; then
1=...
2=...
[code]....
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Jun 6, 2011
I'm a bit stuck with IF statement. There is the code:
#!/bin/bash
# Variables
VAR1=test
VAR2="echo $VAR1"
# Case 1
echo Case 1
if [ test == test ]; then
echo "equal"
else
echo "not equal"
fi;
echo ""
# Case 2
echo Case 2
if [ "VAR1" == test ]; then
echo "equal"
else
echo "not equal"
fi;
echo ""
# Case 3
echo Case 3
if [ "VAR2" == test ]; then
echo "equal"
else
echo "not equal"
fi;
echo ""
When executed, why case "2" and "3" differs from case "1"? Where am I wrong and how to solve this trouble? (my aim is to get "equal" from all cases).
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Oct 10, 2010
On Ubuntu 9.10 I installed Python 3.1.1 successfully with Synaptic Package Manager. However the Python interpreter cannot find my scripts, currently in /home/dave/pycode. This appends _temporarily_ but python remains clueless about location of my scripts. Searched Internet and some speak of .rc or .bashrc or .profile..files. Found some of these and opened with Komodo : they are Linux script files and I am clueless as to how to modify.Currently I can import my scripts only if I change to the /pycode dir before running.Lutz's Python book says to change PATH file - Ha .Sobell's "A practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux" is no help. Ubuntu's own on line help is worth less than a fart in a hurricane. Ubuntu's gedit would not even open bash.bashrc.
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Mar 15, 2010
I am facing problem with the following script. Could you please look into this.echo 'Enter Staging number' case $STGNUM in
1)
for i in {'stg1-greg','stg1-marsha','stg1-peter','stg1-jan','stg2-greg','stg2-marsha','stg2-peter','stg2-jan'};do echo $i; ssh $i sudo -u dev /opt/usr/apps/workflow/stopwf.sh;done;
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Sep 13, 2010
I am trying to create a "GUI File Transfer " Application , for transferring the files within the network. For That I will obtain User name, Password through the GUI, I will have to append username and password in a single line and run it . I am facing difficulties in exploring the "command",
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Jan 21, 2010
right now i'm doing a find . -type d -iname "z*" to find all folders who's name starts with z or Z.
Is there a way I could with one command find all folders who's name starts with the letters M through Z, without having to do the same command over and over and just changing the letter each time?
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Apr 23, 2011
as the title,I want learn how it works.
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May 2, 2011
I am trying to use sed command to repalce one string with other but somehow replacement string contains forwards slash hence getting the error statement garbled!
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May 6, 2011
Im 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' $LOGNAME) echo "Correct";;
# If they enter another users ID (That exists in the /etc/passwd), then they get a message to say 'incorrect userid used'. Im not sure what i need to do here to get it to check the /etc/passwd to see if the input exists in there.... im guessing some kind of simple 'if' statement to say ---- "if 'input' exists in /etc/passwd then echo "incorrect userid used"
# If its entered incorrectly and not a valid ID then they will get this comment. Again, im guessing this part would be similar to te above option..... *) echo "not a valid ID";;
Ive managed to work out how the basic Case staements work, but to add a conditional statement based on the input, i just cant figure out. I have tried looking on google, and found some help but it doesnt really explain how i check the input against the /etc/passwd.
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Dec 23, 2009
I am trying to write a script that takes an input file ($FileName) and an intermediate file ($FileName.info) and removes lines from $FileName if the value in $2 of $FileName.info is <75.
I can't figure out how to feed only one line of the .info file to the if statement at a time so that it will perceive it as an integer instead of a list.
The error I am getting now is ./script.sh: line 6: [: : integer expression expected
Sample input $FileName
Code:
Code:
Code:
Script so far:
Code:
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Nov 29, 2010
I create a bash script that writes another bash file. But in the generated bash file I want to write a bash command in the file and not executing it.Here's my bash file:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
cat > ~/generateGridmix2data.sh << END
[code]...
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Jul 17, 2010
below are the details of my system. I have bash as my current shell, some really common commands aren't working.
Do I need to do a re-installation of bash? Or how do I install a selection of bash commands which I need? (for example a subset of [URL])
Code:
root@sdptfw:~ # uname -a
Linux sdptfw.sdpt.co.za 2.4.36 #1 Tue Jul 22 13:13:24 GMT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@sdptfw:~ # echo $SHELL$
/bin/bash$
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Aug 7, 2011
I have multiple drives and software that defaults to my primary drive. I want to change preferences to use my second drive.This is the current path "/home/guy/dvdrip-data" my second drive is named "2Internal".How do I properly format the path statement to use the second drive?
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Jul 9, 2010
I am trying to create a script to be used on RHEL server. If I replace the $t with a number, the script works. If I try add a variable or the $1, the script doesn?t work (returns all processes even if less than the $t value). I thought that it may be treating it as a literal, but I wasn?t sure of the conversion.
t=$1
echo $t
lcnt=`ps -eo pid,ppid,rss,vsize,pcpu,pmem,cmd -ww --sort=pid | awk '{if ($6 > $t) print
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Nov 28, 2010
I have returned the below mentioned lines of code however I am receiving error "Syntax Error On Done Statement".
while:
do
clear
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "Main Menu"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "[1] Today's Date"
echo "[2] Show files in the current Directory"
read yourch
case $yourch in
1) echo "Today is `date`,press a key ........";read;;
2) echo ls -l;read;;
*) echo "Select the yourch as 1 or 2";
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