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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Code:

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/usr/sbin/chroot
/usr/bin/fakefile

[code]....

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May 31, 2010

For some reason, I get said block of errors when I run my script without arguments:

Code:
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Code:
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Code:

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a pesudo code is
Quote:
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Jul 14, 2010

I know with if statements in bash you can do
Code:
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then echo "Good, I like Apples"
fi
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Code:
if [apt-cache pkgnames smbfs = smbfs doesn't exist]
the apt-get install smbfs
fi
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Oct 6, 2010

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Code:
#!/bin/sh
# name of this script: wav2mp3.sh
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# Credit to the script creator (Nikesh Jauhari):

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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.

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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 ?

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check2="/home/ops/Desktop/test1/check2.md5"
cd /home/ops/Desktop/test1
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Jun 5, 2011

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if
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Code:

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I'm a bit stuck with IF statement. There is the code:
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# Case 1
echo Case 1
if [ test == test ]; then
echo "equal"
else
echo "not equal"
fi;
echo ""

# Case 2
echo Case 2
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else
echo "not equal"
fi;
echo ""

# Case 3
echo Case 3
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fi;
echo ""

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1)
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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";;

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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.

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Code:

Code:

Code:

Script so far:

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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:
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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
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t=$1
echo $t
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I have returned the below mentioned lines of code however I am receiving error "Syntax Error On Done Statement".

while:
do
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echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
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echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
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echo "[2] Show files in the current Directory"
read yourch
case $yourch in

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