I was wondering if there is any software to logically reformat shell scripts- for example, like HTMLTIDY does with HTML? or PERLTIDY does with Perl?The reason I'm asking is I am going through a shell script with a 3 page IF-then block.. and what seems like a million smaller if-then blocks within this bigger block. And nothing is formatted, indented, commented to make it easier to figure out.
View 4 RepliesSetup: 10.04 server with "bash" as /bin/sh
When I run "ls -l" in a shell I get the following format:
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-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2010-06-13 06:53 /var/log/user.log
Whereas if "ls -l" executes from a cron job the format is:
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-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 Jun 13 06:53 /var/log/user.log
Notice the different time format. Now I could fix this by changing the cron job to
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ls -l --time-style=+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M ...
but I'm interested in knowing why this behavior occurs. What's different between the cron job and the shell?
just wondering is there a simple script to convert datetime to UTC format. I have been searching different forums but most answers are for converting UTC to datetime. For example what is a simple command/script to convert todays datetime to UTC format i.e. '2009-10-09 11:47:59'.
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mke2fs vfat /dev/sc1
fdisk vfat /dev/sdc1
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1
What am I doing incorrectly?? Can someone please point me in the right direction??
the time format i have used is %m:%d:%Y:%H:%M:%S eg- 06:21:10:13:29:18 and i want to convert it to 2010-06-21 13:29:18..
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i have installed transmaggedon software but it fails to convert because quicktime muxer plugin is not installed.
This plugin is not available in the repositories.
How can i get this video converter to work or what else can i do to be able to convert videos to 3gp format?
My pendrive has become read only. I want to format it using Linux - how do I do that?
If I run mkfs.vfat devsdc1, it doesn't work.
Here is my stupid question of the week. I downloaded an ISO image from SuseStudio and it came as a tar.gz and untarred it is a image.raw. How can I create an ISO image with from that format. SoRAW ----> ISO ---> to cdrom or DVD
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I tried JFS and EXT4.
My kernel is code...
I thought Linux couldn't do anything with Windows Media Audio files because the format is proprietary. So when a friend sent me a WMA file, I was surprised to find I could listen to it without needing to borrow a Windows-using computer. Is it only recording and saving in WMA format that we can't do? (And is it the same with the Windows movie format (.WMV)?
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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?
I am using ubuntu10.04-server 64bit AMD with fluxbox. After I ran Matlab in a shell (without GUI) the shell does not display characters anymore, but will execute any command, I just can't see the characters that I'm typing.. I use aterm and xterm, does anybody know why that is, am I missing a package?
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(For console shell, we goes to /etc/passwd. But for desktop, I can't find the way to config.)
Is there a way to export a variable to parent shell in shell scripting ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to create a shell script similar to ls, but which only lists directories. I have the first half working (no argument version), but trying to make it accept an argument, I am failing. My logic is sound I think, but I'm missing something on the syntax.
Code:
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
d=`pwd`
for i in * ; do
if test -d $d/$i ; then
echo "$i:"
code....
We are in the process of backing up our hard drives to Blu Rays. I am creating tar.gz files and burning them to Blu Ray.Is it possible to use a simple (preferably Python-based) solution for creating images of those tar.gz files, of a predetermined size (to fit in the Blu Ray), and simply burn this images to the disc?Do you have any other approach for creating physical back-up of your hard drives?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOpensuse 11.4 seems to be creating problems with booting from USB devices. (I have read in a couple places that people are having similar problems.)
Every time I try to boot from a different live USB image, I see a GRUB screen flash and the hard disk starts to boot up. The only live image I have had success with booting was another OpenSuse 11.4, then I got the options to install or run live. I was thinking of just wiping the hard disk and seeing if that made a difference. Can I get into the grub limited command line, can i format from here? Is some other way of installing over the WAN from inside the Suse OS?
I am using Fedora 14 and when I am executing a file:
#!/bin/bash
asd #assuming this command does not exist
I am getting following error:
/path/to/file: line 2: asd: command not found
I want to format it so it outputs error in same way as it would when it was executed from terminal:
$ asd
bash: asd: command not found
I have a problem I hope you can help me with. I have an Ausus EEEpc 4G with a 4GB SSD I DO NOT have an external CD/DVD but I DO HAVE an external USB hard drive I also have the orignal restore DVD in ISO format
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI was reading Linux Format a few minutes ago. They have an article in May 2011 (LXF144) issue called, 16 Thing We Would Change About Ubuntu. One suggestion mentioned is that Ubuntu change from debian to rpm package format. Could someone please tell me why rpm is better? I have only tried an rpm distro a couple of years ago with Mandriva and with a live-cd now-and-again. But, I never have used one long enough to experience why it might be better. Why is rpm better? Or, are those folks at LXF wrong?
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