I use rhythmbox to do download my podcasts and I'd really like to automatically sync the new files to my phone when I attach it.The phone mounts as an external drive so I was kind of hoping to write a script that would run automatically when the drive mounts.
I would want it to delete files on the phone that are not present on the computer.Can anyone help me with the syntax for both the bash part and the correct rsync command?
I'm new to bash scripting and I've searched around the forums and Internet for this but haven't had any luck. I've found similar things but not what I need. What I need to do is write a simple script that uses what the user inputs to locate and display where a file is. I would prefer to use locate instead of find since I know that the person I am writing this for has locate on her machine (my mom, who is just beginning with Linux).I'm writing the script to make things easier for her while she learns In this particular part of the script I would like to be able to have the script prompt to enter the file she is searching for, read the her input and then display for her where the file is. I realize it would in most cases be much simpler just to teach her how to use locate, but she is very impatient and this is just a part of the script I will be writing, but I can't figure out how to do this.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a text file which stores the list of files & dir, I want to get only file's extensions from this file & want to store it in another file.eg, below is the file's contents & from it I want to get the extensions sh, pl & h & want to store it in another file. Also I don't want directory list.
A scripts/services_restarter.sh
A scripts/svn post_commit scripts
A scripts/tmp/
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I want to delete all files within a specific folder without actually deleting the folder, what is a good bash command for this?. I found this one but encountered some errors even though I am executing it within the specific folder:
useratdebian:/home/user/folder# find . -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;
[1] 5052
useratdebian:/home/user/folder# find: missing argument to `-exec'
[1]+ Exit 1 find . -type f -exec rm -rf
The command as it appears is:
find . -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;
how to delete only the files contained within the folder called "folder" for example?
I'm trying to call a specific variable based on a user selection. For example:
Code: Select a file:
[1] foo.tar
[2] bar.tar
Enter a selection: I have already coded each possible selection to have its own variable. If the user selects 2 I need to select $SELECTED_TAR2, or if they select 1 I need to select $SELECTED_TAR1 and then do something like this behind the scenes:
Code: cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR2 /home/user/backup/$SELECTED_TAR2
I was thinking something like this:
Code: echo "Enter a selection: "
read -e SELECTED_NUMBER
cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR$SELECTED_NUMBER /home/user/backup
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I would like to parse an input file in which there are two columns per each row. We want to see how many lines are duplicated where we define duplicate to be having the same second field and different first field. For instance if the input file looks like the following:
79874 13131
79873 12309
79820 13131
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I look after a server which accepts automatic overnight PASV FTP uploads from remote clients. When the uploads are complete, my Bash script copies the files to another location. The problem is, my script needs to be a bit smarter when it comes to detecting active FTP sessions.
I was using:
Code:
netstat -n | grep ":21 " | grep ESTABLISHED
to test if there were active sessions, but came unstuck when a local user left an unrelated FTP session active. The result - my script hung around all night thinking there was an active upload from a remote client. My server is behind a firewall, so remote clients all show an internal (NAT) address,so I can't differentiate by source IP address.I can't install LSOF or FUSER for security reasons. Is there a way I can test for active FTP sessions from specific users? I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga).
I need to search a bunch of files in a specific folder for a specific number and add all the numbers together to a total sum. I use Rsync everyday, everytime I run rsync i get a logfile (rsync output) witch contains the textstring "Total bytes sent: xxxxxx".
The "xxxxx" can vary in lenght. I need to extract the "xxxxxx" from each file and add the numbers together to a total size over a week or a month. Is this possible? And I wish to only use bash. One way of doing stuff at a time my friends .
I want to replace specific character in a file after every specific line. example as follows.
O 000000000000000000
A 111111111111111111
C 222222222222222222
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I'm trying to write a script that involves storing a specific PID in a variable. I've got as far as: -
Code:
$PS_OUTPUT=ps -elf | grep <process name> | awk '{print $4}'
This stored the PID of the grep itself and the actual process I want. The output of
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I am attempting to learn how write bash scripts. I want one to ask for a specific key. For example, I want it to ask a question, then if it is like, y for yes, or n for no, it does a specific thing. I'm thinking it would be something like:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Are you a boy? y/n"
read -t3
I would like to know how do I print the line # in a script. My requirement is, I have a script which is about ~5000 lines long. If there are any errors happen I just exit. And I would like to add the line # of the script where the error happened.
View 3 Replies View Relatedsimple bash code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
trap "echo 'you got me'" SIGINT SIGTERM # to trap ctrl+c
echo "Press ctrl+c during 5 sec loop"
for ((i=0;i<5;i++)); do
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How come code behaves normally and stops when ctrl+c signal is caught and resumes, but after I use at least one timeout read in the code it looks like, if signal is caught again it doesn't pause the execution but skips the loop. If you remove -t (timeout) option from the read, both loops look the same!
What i want to do is pretty simple.I want to uncomment every line that begins with "deb" (except for deb cdrom) in /etc/apt/sources.list.I know how to do this through system > administration > software sources.I know I can gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.I'd rather not do it that way.I'd rather have a script do it. It's less work, less typing, less clicking, and would work the same on every ubuntu version.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a log file that contains information like this:
----------------------------
r11141 | prasath-palani | 2010-12-23 16:21:24 +0530 (Thu, 23 Dec 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /projects/
M /projects/
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what i need is, i need to copy the data given between the "---" to seperate files, for, e.g. the first set of data between the "---" should be in one file and another set of data in another file.
I have a config file that contains:
my.config:
Code:
Now in my bash script, I want to get the output /home/user instead of $HOME once read. So far, I have managed to get the $HOME variable but I can't get it to echo the variable. All I get is the output $HOME.
Here is my parse_cmd script:
Code:
I have written quite a few separate bash & scripts and php scripts that up to now I have run from cron jobs. However I have to estimate how long each takes to run, before running the next and so it probably takes much longer than necessary to run them all. They have to run in order.
Now there are so many I am thinking it would be better to have a master bash script that would run one after the other, but I am not sure how to get the master script to wait before starting to run the next script. Is this possible and is there a command that will make the script wait between bash and php scripts , for them to finish, before running the next?
I'm trying to write a bash script which will find files then move them to a specific directory.
So far I have:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#script to find and move files
src_dir="/path/to/source/directory"
des_dir_mov="/path/to/destination/directory/for/movies"
des_dir_img="/path/to/destination/directory/for/images"
find $src_dir -iname '*.avi' -type f -exec mv '{}' $des_dir_mov ';'
I'd like to have all the possible movie file types then the image file types checked in a loop.
Every time I try to include an array in this script it breaks
I would like to get the filename (without extension) and the extension separately. The best solution I found so far is:
Let FILE="thefilenameofsomefilesfor_instance.txt"
Code:
NAME=`echo "$FILE" | cut -d'.' -f1`
EXTENSION=`echo "$FILE" | cut -d'.' -f2`
I think it would be better to count the len and remove 3 chars to right to get the extension, but it can be macintosh filenames with have 4 chars for extensions.
I need to rename the resulted searched files from a loopI have the following code:
find . -name DOC* | while read i
do
find $i -type f -name '*.txt'
done
basically, I am searching for all txt files inside any folder starting with DOC name.this code is working fine with me.I need to rename those .txt files to .txtOLDOS: Ubuntu 10.4Bash shell
What I am trying to achive is the editing of /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have the line
Code: AllowUsers usera userb
And I want to be able to append to the end of this line from a bash script.I have muddled together from other sites and got the following:-
Code: sed -e "s/^AllowUsers/� userc/" -i /etc/ssh/sshd_config
But this appears to add userc directly after AllowUsers and not after userb
I'm struggling myself with this problem: I have a file which contains a single column of data
2
.
.
.
45
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Is there a way to do it with awk?
I am loading variables for cXtXdXsX disk names into a script, and at present I have only accounted for there being 3 characters from c to t. I need to change it to a variable recognition so that it can count any number of charcters such as c1t , c10t , or c100t.
I can then take that information and use it with the following string to strip off the lead characters so as to make the 3 in $substr either a variable or redirect to multiple occurrences of raw based on the count returned.
sub raw {
$substr = substr ($_, 3);
$raw1 = substr ($substr, 0, -4);
$raw = lc($raw1);
}
how to count from the c to the t inclusive so I get 3, 4, 5, etc ...
These must a be a question you received a lot, but I couldn't find a similar thread! It's a simple question.
I need to delete a specific string from a file. For example the specific numbers "3456" from a file. I've tried with the tr comand, using
Code:
tr -d '3456' file,
but it also deleted whichever ocurrence of 3,4,5,6 from my file. Should I use a regular expression?
i need to overwrite each line of the file starting from a specific position to the end of the line
example:
ATOM 981 N PRO B 159 55.662 7 1 1.47 0.75
i need to write " 1.00 0.00 " starting from 20position
i tried
sed -i 's/^(.{20})*/ 1.00 0.00 ' filename
but it doesnt work :"(
I'm using the following awk command to find out the users home directory from /etc/passwd file.#grep jeesun /etc/passwd |awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"};{print $6}'But problem is when there are two name like "jeesun" and "jeesunadm" exist the script shows both result not specific one.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have 50 files in the following format.
fileone.0001.txt
filetwo.0002.txt
filethree.0003.txt
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I want to compare 2 IP addresses, so that I may compare which is more/less "specific" or "restricted" than the other. So is there any function/library that may help in doing this comparison in C (on Ubuntu 10.10)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm fairly new to Perl and regular expressions. I have a large collection of files with their file names in the following general format: string - another string with spaces (2004) [year].ext I would like to know how I could create a regex to separate out:
the first string
another string with spaces
year
extension
If you know of a better way of doing it without regular expressions, I would be happy to hear that way too.
I am a beginner with php ,trying to work my way through.
I have a file to be written with particular indentation and by appending some special characters...
this is the o/p file i wanted. could anyone please guide me as to how i can write it? code...