General :: Pass A File That Changes Name To Another Command In Bash?

Jun 9, 2011

I frequently use wget to download tarballs and zip files from the web, then either untar then or gunzip them. I do:

Is there a way for me to automatically pass the zip file to tar or unzip WHILE wget-ting?

In pseudocode: wget google.com/somfile.zip && unzip

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General :: Bash : Pass Command Line Arguments Containing Special Characters?

Jul 14, 2010

I've written myself a linux program "program" that does something with a regular expression. I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the program(there are also other command line arguments). A typical regular expression looks like "[abc]_[x|y]".Unfortunately the characters [, ], and | are special characters in bash. Thus, calling "program [abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" doesn't work. Is there a way to pass the expression by using some sort of escape characters or quotation marks etc.?

(Calling program "[abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" isn't working either, because it interprets the two arguments as one.)

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General :: Bash: How To Pass Command Line Arguments Containing Special Characters

Jun 24, 2011

I've written myself a linux program "program" that does something with a regular expression. I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the program (there are also other command line arguments). A typical regular expression looks like "[abc]_[x|y]". Unfortunately the characters [, ], and | are special characters in bash. Thus, calling "program [abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" doesn't work. Is there a way to pass the expression by using some sort of escape characters or quotation marks etc.? (Calling program "[abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" isn't working either, because it interprets the two arguments as one.)

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General :: Fetch File From There (which Is .tar.gz) And Pass It Directly To Tar Command?

Jun 25, 2010

I have access to backup server via rsync protocol (only rsync, nothing else). Now, I want to fetch file from there (which is .tar.gz) and pass it directly to tar command, without saving the archive in local filesystem. To visualize, with ssh access I could:

ssh remote_host cat backup.file.tar.gz | tar xzf - And I will get uncompressed backup locally, without actually storing .tar.gz on local machine. Is it possible to achieve when using rsync?

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General :: Pass A Paramter To A List Of Command In Another File?

Apr 19, 2010

I am attempting to write my first ever script from scratch and making some progress.

My first shell script file executes a list of commands contained in a second file. I need to pass a parameter to this command file how do I do this?

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General :: Write A Literal Bash Command In A Bash File?

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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Apr 18, 2011

Can I pass javascript variables to bash script? If possible in bash script what code should I insert to receive javascript variables.

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Aug 1, 2011

So I want to run command through ssh but also run a if check in bash to see ifa file exist. I know that to run ssh commands you do ssh user@server YOURCOMMANDbut if i need to run an if statements, how would this work??

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May 29, 2011

Just trying to execute cd command in a .cshrc file (bash shell in SUSE Linux) it says."No such file or directory".Do you see any reasons for this

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Jan 5, 2011

when I am running the script below,it performs on whatever logfile u type ,i.e, ./scriptname logfilename.But how do I convert it into a function and then call it from another script.I mean how do I prompt the user to enter a logname and then capture the name in the function and when calling this function from another script how do I pass the parameter.

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General :: Pass Response As Command Parameter?

Mar 10, 2010

I have a backup schedule running a full backup everyday. I'm using webmin to manage these backup now. The problem is when the dump command sends a prompt asking if we want to rewrite the tape, Webmin does not display this prompt and we end up having to terminate the backup -> erase the tape(which takes a long time) and then run the backup again.I was wondering if there is a technique that could be used to pass "Yes" as a parameter to the dump command, much like in windows? or if there is a more efficient way of getting this done.

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General :: Pass Carriage Return To A Command?

Feb 18, 2011

How can I pass carriage return to a command. I am writing a shell script whcih generates ssh key pair. It ask for input from user three times. I want to pass carriage return (ie. press Enter button) to this command. Is tehre any way

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General :: Pass Multiline Output Of A Command Into 'date -j'

Mar 3, 2011

I am doing some NSCA log parsing and I want to get an output like this:

2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:08
2011-Feb-18:11:00:08

[Code]....

I have tried this, but it treats the entire output as a single line, then plops a timestamp on the end (I think):

Code:

sort -b -k4.9,4.12 -k4.5b,4.7Mb -k4.2,4.3 -k4.14,4 foo.log| date -j -f "%Y-%b-%d:%T" "+%s" "`awk -F '[ [/:]' '{print $7"-"$6"-"$5":"$8":"$9":"$10}'`"

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General :: Pass Multiline Output Of A Command Into 'date?

Mar 3, 2011

I am doing some NSCA log parsing and I want to get an output like this:

2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07
2011-Feb-18:11:00:07

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General :: Pass Option To LILO In Order To Have Script / Command Executed At / After Boot

Aug 28, 2009

I have one distro installed, LILO as the boot loader, and i wonder if it's possible to duplicate the lilo entries with an option which executes some script or command during, or after the boot.Actually, i installed a Slackware + autolaunching virtual machine, but i have two VM, so i need to autolaunch one of them. May i choose it from the very beginning ?

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General :: WPA2 - NetID And Pass - Wireless Network From Wicd And/or Command Line

Sep 23, 2010

The university I go to uses a WPA2 wireless network that requires a netID and password to connect too. I installed wicd but I can't seem to connect to this network, is there a way to add this functionality to wicd, and if so, how do I do that (links to a how-to or guide would be nice, I've yet to find one).

Also, I spend most of my time on campus in the command line, so I'd like to know if there is a way to use command line utilities to connect to this network (again, a guide or how-to would be nice)

I can get online through my fedora live USB just fine (w/ network manager) but I'd rather get on directly from slackware.

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Programming :: Bash Ambiguous Redirect - Redirect One Command Output Which Will Be Treat As A Content Of File For Another Command?

Mar 9, 2011

I am trying to grep multiple numbers from file, grep does have the -f option for that.

Code: grep -f <`seq 500 520` /etc/passwd I know this could be done with

Code: for i in `seq 500 520`; do grep "$i" /etc/passwd; done But my question is fare more behind this example. It is possible to redirect one command output which will be treat as a content of file for another command ?

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General :: Pass File Content Through URL Using Shell Script?

Jul 16, 2011

I am calling a URL from shell script and passing few argumants,Here i have to pass file content as one argument.How can i pass file content through URL.

eg:
content=`cat /Users/test1.txt`
open http://localhost:8080?filecontent=$content

[code],...

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Ubuntu :: Pass Parameters To Bash Through Shellscript?

Mar 21, 2010

How do I pass file names as parameters to the shell through a script? I have installed 'wipe' from the repos and it is a shell based app. so I made a shellscript and put it in my script folder.

the normal usage of wipe is 'wipe -q /path/to/file' so if I were to make a shell script, right click on the file in question, and run the script on it, how to I permit the shell to wipe that file only, in other words pass it as a parameter. I think on windows it was the use of %1, such as. 'wipe -q %1' for example, which was simple enough. how to I achieve this with bash?

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Apr 26, 2010

I am not parsing on a webserver so is it possible to have both

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#!/bin/bash

in the same script? Alternatively, I have a current bash script that I need to get some variables from mysql and not sure how to get mysql results in bash:

Quote:

mysql -h server.net -u username1 -paaa -e "USE squid; SELECT email, usern FROM TABLE WHERE blah blah;"
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usern="resultfromabove"

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Jun 7, 2010

Bash's command history is great, especially it is useful when adding the history -a command to the COMMAND_PROMPT.However, I'm wondering if there is a way to log the commands to a file as soon as the Return key is pressed, e.g. before starting the command and not on completion of the command (using the COMMAND_PROMPT option would save the command once the prompt is there again).

I read about auditing programs like snoopy and session recorder like script but I thought they're already too complex for the simple question I have. I guess that deactivating that script logs all the output of the command would lead already in the right direction but isn't there a quicker way to solve that probelm?

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Ubuntu :: Chroot - Cannot Run Command '/bin/bash' - No Such File Or Directory

Jul 1, 2011

I have booted up into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS disc live.

When I type 'chroot /media/(UUID)', I get:

chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash': no such file or directory.

'/bin/bash' does exist.

Why is this error occurring?

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Dec 30, 2010

Trying to do a simple bash script, and having some issues. I am relatively new to bash, and did my best to search, but idk what exactly to search for.

Doesn't work code...

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Mar 20, 2011

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General :: Command To Delete Bash Command History?

May 31, 2010

What's the command to delete bash command history?

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Feb 2, 2011

I have a Python script that I run which needs to execute under a special environment, so I would run the program like so from my working directory (~/project/src):

python manage.py shell

This opens up an interactive shell for me to start typing my own commands.I have another set of administrative activities that I would like to house in another directory (~/project/admin). The manage.py is really finicky about running from the working directory. So, to make this whole thing work, I made a script which starts off like so:

#!/usr/bin/python ../src/manage.py shell

There are a couple problems with this. The first is that it doesn't work:

/usr/bin/python: can't open file '"/../src/manage.py" shell': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

How do you specify multiple parameters to the interpreter?How do I change the working directory?

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General :: Executing Binaries - Pass The Hostname As A Variable Or Read From A File?

May 2, 2010

I am looking for a clue in shell or ant script, where I excecute a binay file on linux. For example ./myfile.bin which ask me few questions.

./myfile.bin ...........................100%

I would like to automate this process where I want to pass the hostname as a variable or read from a file is it possible? If yes any sample`s on this. I can do if this was a shell script ($1) but not sure when its binary.

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Debian :: Determine File Type On Bash - Command Not Found

May 10, 2015

I cannot find a bash command: "file" !

It say "-bash: file: command not found"

"file" is used to determine file type on a bash right ? is there a package i have to install ? deprecated ?

I use debian wheezy distro

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Ubuntu :: Chroot Not Working: Cannot Run Command `/bin/bash': No Such File Or Directory

Mar 20, 2010

I'm trying to change the root directory to /tmp/somedir using chroot, but even using sudo or su-ing to root I get the message:

Code:

cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

I tried copying /bin/bash to /tmp/somedir/, but the same error occurs. What's wrong with my chroot?

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Ubuntu :: Bash Command To Find And Replace Text In File

Apr 3, 2010

I'm having problems with Tomboy. I have a few hundred note files and I need to go through all of them and replace all instances of "<link:broken>a</link:broken>" with "a". Is there a bash command I can use to do this?

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