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
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I want to write a bash script to parse a text file with the following lines and set variables for each line so that I can use them in the rest of the script.
Timestamp=123456789
Company=ABC Company
Server=Server
Recipient=Joe Smith
Email=joe@abc.com
simplest way to read each line one at a time for everything before the =, set that to a variable name with the value equal to everything after the =
I have a text file that contains a single word and I want to write a bash script that will read the word from the text file... The following is my incorrect attempt, as it assigns the name of the textfile to the variable as opposed to the word stored within the textfile:(assume I have a text file value.txt that has its contents a single word, say wordone)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
for f in value.txt
do
echo $f
done
so the output of the above script is value.txt, however I want it to be wordone.to summarise: how do I assign the value of the word contained within a textfile to a variable?
I want to write a bash script that will launch a command when ever I plug my phone in. how would I monitor the port in a script.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been looking for how to set this up in bash with no luck so far. I can change what file the history log is written to, and how much history is saved. But it only writes the saved part when bash exits. Instead, I'd like to have bash write that file continuously as each command is entered (and maybe also do an fsync(2) to flush it to disk). That way I can see the command I crashed the box with Anyone know the magical incantation for that?
But there appears to be nothing that I can find there, in the man page, or other searches, that suggest it even can do continuous.
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
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??
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to write a bash script program in the Linux command terminal that will write to a fellow user and then continue reading down the program. this is what i have (kind of explains the idea too):
#!/bin/sh
clear
echo "this is before the write command"
write jcummins
this message should go to jerry
echo "the message didn't send and this string will not appear"
echo "it appears it has stopped at the write command"
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
View 3 Replies View RelatedI mean codes on how to write a bash script for locate file. E.g: This utility shows you all files and directories that have a specific substring in the name. Press '?' for help, 'q' for quit or enter your search terms:
Kuala bin
I have searched for two terms for you,
Kuala, which has three hits:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Asia/Kuala_Lumpur bin, which has 2312 hits.
Are you sure you want to see all of those? [Y/n] n
Press '?' for help, 'q' for quit or enter your search terms:
Sorry, you didn't enter any search term.
Press '?' for help, 'q' for quit or enter your search terms: q
I got a problem with terminal, since i'm really a noob with terminal i don't know how to fix it.Everytime i type in a command it shows for example:
-bash: ls: command not found
Even the basic commands don't work... just cd <directory> and those things works
trying to learn how to write a bash script that will create a new text file named jimbola in my home directory. The file will need to be able to have the first and last name of Jim Bola included in it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedAt 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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I have a bash script that checks for contents in a folder every 15 seconds and then acts on it's contents. This works great for the average size file however on very large files it starts acting on the file before it's completely written. Is there a facility in bash shell to get a file complete signal or such? here is trigger to launch a larger script.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
$HOME/bin/hpgl.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 &
[code].....
I have a folder of 2 many files that the old ls just hangs.
I am trying to write some log files such as;
I don't mind doing one at a time, but I am just playing and even getting the listing I am not getting the date stamp, I have the following;
That does create the file, but all the files look like this;
So basically it's just sticking that ls inside the log file and not actually running the ls, so how can I use the above type to get files just created per year?
I am trying to write a bash script that sources another bash script. Essentially, I need a few lines to check to see if a certain variable is set. If not, I set it manually, and then source a scripts with that variable in the path. I wrote a test script to try it, but for some reason the last line does not work. Here is what I wrote:
#!/bin/sh
source ~setupdir/setup.shrc #just a test, this line works
echo ${#SETUP} # prints 0 if setup is not set, which it isn't
if [ ${#SETUP} -eq 0 ]
then
SETUP="~setupdir"
fi
echo $SETUP # prints ~setupdir
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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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item1 is a FILE
item2 is a DIR
item3 is a DIR
etc etc.
I am able to get the list of files into a variable, but unsure how to get the output I want.
how do i write a bash script to mimic my right button click any ideas or command names to steer in the right direction would be great.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow to write secure code for bash scripts in general? Strangely I didn't found anything in google and in the forum so far. If someone here is willing to review a bash script for me (about 600 lines).
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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?
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
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?
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?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have managed to write a bash script that moves files to the recylce bin instead of being deleted. Then (with a bit of assistance) wrote another bash script that deletes the files from the recycle bin. Now I need to write one that will restore the files preferably to their original location? I am very new to linux and stuggling with where to even begin...any ideas? There seems to be some advice about creating a cloning tree, but I've never heard of them?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'd like to know some good resources, links, e-books to learn basic Linux system administration scripting. I know how to write very basic BASH shell scripts so I'm still at beginner level. There are so many docs out there that I'd like to narrow down people's opinion's on the best easy to understand resources that are available. Eventually I'd like to learn basic PERL as well.
View 3 Replies View Relatedbelow 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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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 ?
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?