I looked on the net for such function or example and didin't find anything, thus after having made one i guess it would be legitimate to drop it to see what others thinks of it.
#!/bin/bash addelementtoarray() { local arrayname=$1
Code: #!/bin/sh #System commands and other configurable. IPT=/sbin/iptables IP6T=/sbin/ip6tables IPST=/usr/sbin/ipset MODP=/sbin/modprobe GET=/usr/bin/wget INT_NET=192.168.1.0/24 .....
I can find lots of tutorials in how to use if, then, else. However, how do I define a variable inside the function? SEE>> Code: for c in $ISO Also, am I using the 'test' command correctly( -/+ week as valid test)?
I'm making a small script for searching and doing some operations with photos, but I'm kinda stuck on this little function:
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function findallformat { prefix="" if [ $1 = -pre ] then
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That function should find for every file with a certain type; and you can specify a prefix using a "-pre" followed by the prefix that you want to search. The format should be "stackable", so you can use as many types that you want, without repeating the same function on the code.
Example: findallformat -pre IMG_ .JPG .CR2 #That should search files that start with "IMG_" and finishes with .JPG and .CR2. My problem it's that, when I try to use it on the script, it says "bash: syntax error near `token' unexpected `}'"
I was wondering if possible in bash for a variable to take the value of a function, I mean the function returns a value and a variable will take it. example:
I found a weather function for bash from searching google, and started to finesse it. This is what I have so far, any tips to finesse it even more?
Code: # Based on code by Crouse at www.bashscripts.org weather() { declare -a WEATHERARRAY WEATHERARRAY=('lynx -dump "[URL]?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=weather+${1}&btnG=Search" | grep -A 18 -m 1 "Current:" | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//' | cut -d '|' -f 1-5 ') echo Weather for the zipcode of $1:$' ' ${WEATHERARRAY[@] } }
I'm having trouble trying to make a script. What I want to do is check if xScreenSaver is running in my user account. If not, run it. If it's running, kill it.
So this is the script I've made:
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The problem is that I've echoed the output of $(pgrep -u $(whoami) xscreensaver) and it always seems to add 4 numbers to the pid, even if the pid doesn't exist. What do I mean by "doesn't exist"? That no xscreensaver is running in my user, and if I run pgrep -u $(whoami) xscreensaver in bash, I get not output, but if I run the command though the script, I get (for instance) 4050. If I run it again, I get 4054, and again 4058... etc. What the hell is going on with that?
As part of my script I need to compress a 50Gb file. but I need to check that the compressed is not corrupt if it is ok it will then send it over if not it will report an error.
cd /home/ops/Desktop/temp tar czvf backup-"$(date +%d-%b-%y)".tgz /home/ops/Desktop/temp
I need some here to check the compress file then somelike if the file is
if send the file else send an e-mail reporting a failure
I am looking for a little help with a Bash Script. I have just finished a PC GUI application using Pygtk and glade. But, I would like to write a Bash Script to check if the user has the needed software to run my application on his or her computer. For example, the software needed to run my application among others are Python, nmap, and pygtk. Code: which python which nmap With a little bit of research I found:If python or nmap are installed on my computer and I run the above commands, the above code will tell me where it is located. But if python and nmap are not installed and I run the commands, nothing is displayed.
Could I get a few ideas on how I would go about getting a boolean value to determine whether or not the software is installed or not. I would like to use the boolean value in my bash script to perform other actions ie echo "Python is not installed" or actually install Python if the boolean value is false.
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):
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After that I'm stumped as to how to do the if statement
I'm creating a bash script to check how much free space is left in /var directory then, if it hits a certain threshold, delete certain files with numbers for extensions (e.g. fileA.1, fileA.2 fileA.3, and fileA.4, fileB.1, fileB.2 fileB.3, and fileB.4 ). Here's a snippet from my script:
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If I use a * as a wildcard for the number extension, the script fails. Maybe regex would work here, but I'm not particularly accomplished at it. Or some other construct.
I have been searching for 90 minutes for something that I "think" should be fairly easy. I'm pretty new to Bash Scripting so I could be completely wrong. Then again it may be a weird request to even need something like this. But here it is.I have a script written to convert data from one of our software version to another. The only thing I need to add to it is a "check to make sure the user running the script is in the /tmp directory".
I am doing some Linux kernel programming for my research project. I need to record the timestamp (by using cpuid and rdtsc) when an interrupt handler (top half) is first invoked. Due to the time critical nature of the problem itself, I have to do the timestamping inside the interrupt handler itself (the first operation when the handler is called). However, I understand that tasks that are not so time critical should be deferred to a tasklet function (bottom half) for processing because other interrupts are disabled in a (top-half) interrupt handler. I am currently out of idea on how I can pass the timestamp information that I have obtained in the interrupt handler to the corresponding tasklet function.
I use command "find" in my bash script: if the filename exist command find work quiet, and if the filename not exist I see the message "find: /tmp/filename: No such file or directory". My problem is following, i want to have in my script something like this:
find "/tmp/filename" -type f -delete | "if no_any_errors execute command1" , if file_not_found execute command2"
I am trying to make a script that can be used to check server load on a remote server and produces sound on our local machine, when server load exceeds a particular limit.1. I want to execute command uptime or uptime | awk '{print$10}'on the remote server and store the result in a variable(say x), and later use it in the bash script.
I want to check my php script which contains php mail() function.But all the free hosting sites blocked the php mail() function because of spammers.I spend 5 hours for signing up in various hosting sites to check my script but none works.Is there a way to check whether a site allows php mail() function
-bash: export: `/usr/java/default': not a valid identifier messages when we login as root to one of our server. This started occurring after a consultant installed software on the server. I have looked around in .bashrc, etc. for the error path so I can remove it, but can't seem to locate it. Does anyone have any tips on how to locate script line where this is being included, and/or trace the login procedure to find the culprit?
I wanted to make an alias with arguments (like in cshell) which is in bash done by functions. The function must simply perform a command (nedit), append the arguments from the cli and make it run in the background (adding &).
So here is the function in a naive attempt:
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when using the command
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How can i use arguments and still start it in background? In cshell it was like:
If you set or export an environment variable in bash, you can unset it. If you set an alias in bash, you can unalias it. But there doesn't seem to be an unfunction.
Consider this (trivial) bash function, for example, set in a .bash_aliases file and read at shell initialization.
function foo () { echo "bar" ; }
How can I clear this function definition from my current shell? (Changing the initialization files or restarting the shell doesn't count.)
I need MatLab for a course at the university, but it's not an open source software as all of you know, so I wanted to know if there are valid freeware alternatives. I was told to use Octave or Scilab if I didn't want to buy the license and so I would like to know what's better in terms of MatLab compatibility and ease of use, if there are any other (and maybe better) alternatives and also if there are free Simulink-like programs.
I have trouble with using an alias inside aash function. I would like to ssh into multiple machines by executing:ssh machine To achieve this, I put something like the following into my ~/.bashrc:
I have taken into count spacing of functions as a reason for not working. Can you get this function to work on your machine? quickfind () { find . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" }
It does not print the retired output but find . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" does work. What is wrong? quickfind () { f ind . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" ; }
If I run this from the command line I don't get an error but no output? I am not running this inside a script but from the command line. I want to be able to run any function () from the command line. I have more functions that I can't get to work? tt () { tree -pFCfa . | grep "$1" | less -RgIKNs -P "H >>> " }