I am calling a bash shell script from a python script trying to pass several arguments to the bash script with no succes can this be done? I have researched (google) with no clear indication of how to achieve this. Using "os.system"
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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 am having some weird problems with calling commands stored in a variable (I need to do this to assemble a command with a bunch of parameters automatically and then execute it).Example code that will replicate the weirdness:
$ echo "hello world" > "test file.txt"
$ cat "test file.txt"
hello world
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I would expect the output to be:
hello world
What happens to the quotes? I have tried various combinations of single quotes, escaped quotes, etc, but it seems like quotes in a variable are not evaluated as quotes when that variable is executed.
I'm trying to read content of file to variable and use this variable in for loop. The problem is, when I have c++ comment style in file - /*. Spaces in line are also interpreted as separated lines.
For example:
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Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).
I have a bash script that changes the iptables.Now i call this bash script in my php code.When this bash script is running the part of code that contains iptables instruction is not running because we need to be in superuser mode(root)
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've implemented a python script in conky that shows my stock portfolio.But, in the output of last updated timestamp, I get a time several hours in the past. The url for fetching stock data is: [URL]This is a norwegian stock, and I also live in norway. So the timestamp is not translated to the stock market of where it came. I can't find any 'localizing' stuff in the url either.Now my question is this: The script puts the time into a variable, the varable now contains ex 11:23 Is there any way I can add 6 hours or so to this variable
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a config file that contains:
my.config:
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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'm trying to write a python script that will use the current user's name when interacting. Ex: when started, it should say "hello daweefolk" when I am logged in.
I've tried
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username=os.system("echo $USER")
but the variable remains empty.
What is the correct code?
suppose i store the history number of a command say :
1004 cat file
Then now i want to run it like : !1004 but by using a variable.
command=1004
!$command
i am getting errors like :
command=1004command
I have beat this enough and don't get what should have been a very simple thing to do. I build a variable;
Code:
CLIST=java,lua,python,php,perl,ruby,tcl
CLIST will be used by another bash script but I need to replace the commas with a space. I
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I have a bash script that I want to import in to Python, mainly just to see if I can or not. However in the script I do use some piping of commands into sed to trim it down to what I need. When I tried doing it with the os.system() call, it didn't work. The exact error is
sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unterminated `s' command
However the command that was run can be run in bash without an error. Is there a better/another way to do this? For reference the command is:
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locate -n 1 wp-config.php | sed 's/wp-config.php/
/g' | sed '/wp-config.php/ d' | sed '/^$/ d'
Ive been learning bash over the past 6 months or so and have written a few scripts etc and i have just downloaded julius to execute my scripts and a few commands with speech recognition, the example script that comes with julius to execute commands is written in python and the example works fine when executed but i would like to further extend and customize it but i dont know anything about python, so ideally i would like to translate it to bash as that is what i am learning/using at the minute and would like to learn/use one language at a time, translating it as i think im a little out of my league, i look at the script and sort of understand how it works but i dont know anything about python and my knowledge of bash is limited for use of translating languages.
the python script is:
Code:
#! /usr/bin/python -u
# How to use it:
# julius -quiet -input mic -C julian.jconf 2>/dev/null | ./command.py
import sys
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Just a simple BASH for loop to read the file path from a text file (clean.txt) echo the variable for debug purposes, and scp it to a server I have using port 50 for SSH.
I've already formatted the entries in clean.txt to handle spaces correctly, using sed replacement.
Example from the clean.txt file:
Code:
/MP3/NAS000000001/Barenaked Ladies/Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays/20 Auld Lang Syne.mp3
/MP3/NAS000000001/Barenaked Ladies/Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays/14 Deck the Stills.mp3
[Code]....
I want to write a c program with some shell scripts.Now For a simple C program. I am Setting a variable called val2 in bash, now I want to use bash variable val2 in C code. How do I do that?The above doesn't work (coz its spawning a different memory space and when shell script ends the variable dies with it as per my research but how do I keep them in same memory space)Also Is there any Good reference where they teach how to integrate C and Bash Together?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi've just started to learn about functions in Bash scripting. I'm able to set the functions and execute the commands correctly. However, if my_var is set in the first function and then later in the script in the script the 2nd function is called, it doesn't seem to remember my_var and quits (at least i suspect this is the problem).
Here's my code (it requires yad available via webupd8. org). My specific problem seems to lay in line #27 where if we view the changelog and then exit that window, it returns to the "main" function but any subsequent commands cause a crash. Is this because of the get command on line #29? It's presumably now out of scope after calling menu on line #25?
I have a file with around 1000 IP addresses in it and I need to be able to ssh into each one of them, run a single command, and then exit. I already know the ssh command I want to run and it looks like this:
Code:
shpass -p [password] ssh -p 10022 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@[ip variable] 'reboot'
(I know shpass is not good to use and keys are the correct way but I don't have any other options in this scenario.) if these ip addresses were in a .csv file, by themselves with no other information, how would I create a script to do the above command to each ip until the end of the file?
I cannot for the life of me get this little (simple) script I wrote to work. Here is the entire script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
ASPECT=`mediainfo $1 |grep "Display aspect ratio" |cut -d : -f 2`
HEIGHT=`echo "320 / $ASPECT" |bc`
SIZE=`echo 320x$HEIGHT`
[code]......
An input filename ($1) is fed into mediainfo, which by the use of grep and cut spits out a single number which is the aspect ratio. This is then divided by bc into 320, which gives the desired height dimension for the file that I want ffmpeg to create for me. Finally, ffmpeg runs using the calculated dimensions... Basically, it's the passing of the $ASPECT variable to bc that seems to fail. It looks like bc won't read the output from the mediainfo line... It always crashes out with:
Code:
(standard_in) 1: illegal character: ^M I've tried doing something even simpler like this to debug by just trying it to display the calculation on the screen:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
ASPECT=`mediainfo $1 |grep "Display aspect ratio" |cut -d : -f 2`
HEIGHT=`echo "320 / $ASPECT" |bc`
echo $HEIGHT
and it does the same, so it's definitely bc that won't accept the output from mediainfo.
I am killing myself with this, please someone come to the rescue...
Code:
#!/bin/sh
IFILE=$@
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I have a program that loops over each word in a sentence. I need to append a constant to the beginning and end of each word. It works up until the last word on the line.
Code:
Output:
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:
[Code]....
Here is the code:
Code:
How ever when I run this script I get the following error
Quote:
I just don't get it, I have racked my brain trying to figure out every combination of how I should write this if statement and I can't get it to work.
I need to find the value of:
Code:
$Namenumber
My script asks for the name you want to look up and I want it to return the value of $Namenumber
I was thinking:
Code:
number=$"$name"number
but this returns
Code:
$Namenumber
but does not actually resolve what the variable $Namenumber is equal to.
The output of following code is not like it's intended ...
Code:
This is the output:
Code:
Test prepending ...apple is a nice word, hour is a nice word, But of course what I want to do in the first set of commands is to prepend the word "an" to the words "apple" and "hour" in the for-loop.
Within a bash script, I'm attempting to redirect file descriptors with exec, e.g. exec 3>&1 1>&2; however, I'd like to do something like exec $FD>&1 1>&2, which doesn't work because bash tries to execute the value of $FD. Various placements of eval fail, as well. Is there a way around this, or am I stuck hard-coding the descriptor?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've tried every combination of ' " that I have come across in similar threads on the forum but no luck.. I have 2 files
strings.txt: contains a list of numbers, 4 digits per line file.
txt: contains a lines that I want to grep for the strings.
for example:
>cat strings.txt
3214
8746
2411
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if I echo $i in the loop, I print out the contents of strings.txt If I put 3214 in place of grep "<$i>" file.txt I get "carls phone number is 3214"
I have a program I am writing where I have a for loop and I want to make it substitute the variable twice like:
for ((i=0;i<5;i++)) do
echo $"$i"
done
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I have to save the result of ssh/grep into a file to keep the eol ("/n"):
ssh $SSH_OPTIONS $USER@$NODE "cd $LOG_DIR; grep -h '$pattern' log.*" > $file
So that when I grep on the local file again later, it can be printed out with original log lines. Otherwise, the log lines will be dropped and lines becomes concatenated into a single line, e.g., if I rewrite the script in this way, echoing the $result is not a good idea..
result=`ssh $SSH_OPTIONS $USER@$NODES "cd $LOG_DIR; grep -h '$pattern' log.*"`
is there some workaround that I can save it to a variable rather than file but still keep the eol? That will simplify my script and don't need to do all those I/Os!
I have a bash script that calls a java class method. The method returns a string to the linux console when run independently. how can I assign the value from the java method to a variable in a bash script?running the script: java -cp /opt/my_dir/class.method [parameter]
output: my_string if added in a bash script:
read parameter
java -cp /opt/my_dir/class.method [parameter] | read the_output
echo $the_output
the above doesnt work, I also tried unsuccessfully:
the_output=java -cp /opt/my_dir/class.method [parameter]
the_output=`java -cp /opt/my_dir/class.method [parameter]`
java -cp /opt/my_dir/class.method [parameter] 2>&1
How can i get the output stored into the_output variable?
Is there a variable which will tell you which keyboard mapping you are using? I want to write a bash script that will change my keymapping from Dvorak keyboard to US keyboard. I cannot seem to find a variable to read from. I was going to use the "if [ ] then; statement".
View 12 Replies View RelatedI know of 4 different ways to use a for loop:
1. for I in {1..10}; do echo $I; done|
2. for I in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do echo $I; done|
3. for I in $(seq 1 10); do echo $I; done|
4. for ((I=1; I <= 10 ; I++)); do echo $I; done
I have a script which uses the 1st form of for loop. I'm trying to modify it to use a variable instead of a static hard-coded value in the section that controls the looping.of the for loop.
I've tried all different ways of quoting and escaping the variable, and the problem is that the quoting chars and escape char are being translated and passed into the loop along with the value stored in the variable.
For example, to change the start value of 1 to whatever value I want passed in through a variable:
Change:
I have tried: {{$a}..10} and {`$a`..10}, to have the variable evaluated first.
I have tried using the eval() function.
I have tried single and double quotes and the backslash escape character.
Nothing I've tried works. It's probably a syntax error.