What I am trying to accomplish is a way to read only the lines that have been added to the file mylog0 since the last time the script looped (5 seconds). I am open to new suggestions too, I have been stuck on this little script for a few hours already.
Code: #!/bin/bash
i=0
firstline=0
[code]...
how do I write a workable script that demonstrates that variable expansion occurs before pathname expansion
View 14 Replies View RelatedThis script is intended to allow you to simultaneously run a command on a set of remote hosts in a single gnome-terminal tabbed window. It runs it through screen so if it's a long process it's immune to network failures.
The command string gets built ok, but when it comes to executing the gnome-terminal command, it chokes with
Quote:
Argument to "--command/-e" is not a valid command: Text ended before matching quote was found for ". (The text was '"ssh')
If you copy/paste the "Running: gnome-terminal" line, it works as expected.
I'm pretty sure the problem is with the commandline variable expansion, but dont know what else to try.
Another thing I'd like to be able to do is keep the shell open after the command finishes. Right now, I just get "screen terminated" and the gnome-terminal tab says bye-bye.
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included shell script inside c program, and i wanted to assign the value of c variable to shell variable..Can any one please suggest me how to do it?
View 8 Replies View RelatedIn my .bashrc file, I am attempting to set JAVA_PATH to a local path, using the HOME environment variable or '~' symbol as shown in the following examples.Using ${HOME}
export JAVA_PATH='${HOME}/Software/java/jdk1.6.0_24'
When I attempt to use ${JAVA_HOME} in a my ${PATH} javec is not found. To debug it, I tried a simple ls command:
ls ${JAVA_HOME}
and get the following error:
ls: ${HOME}/Software/java/jdk1.6.0_24/: No such file or directory
Using '~': Trying to use '~' symbol as follows:
export JAVA_PATH='~/Software/java/jdk1.6.0_24'
the ls command results in the same error, however javac is found.I prefer the '~' symbol anyway, but would like to understand why the ls command does not work for either, and why it seems as though ${HOME} is not being expanded.
I'm trying to use brace expansion on a string, but I can't seem to get it working with variable substitution:
Code:
$ cat script.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo {1,2,3} # 1.
VAR=1,2,3
[code]....
I've searched google, tldp.org and these forums and I can't seem to find an example of how this would work. I want #2 to work like #1. Any suggestions?
**Edit: I forgot to add, the values in VAR are not sequential and can have multiple digits. For example, VAR=13,17,10.
**Edit2: [URL] The bottom line of code in the first gray block of code shows that you cannot use variables in such an expansion:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
a=1
b=5
echo {$a..$b}
But I'm looking for pasting the complete contents of a variable into these braces, not some portion of it...
Does anyone know how can one improve his debugging skills or how can one narrow down the problem and try to get to the solution ASAP.Or rather how once should approach a problem.I know this is a bit vague question but I want to know how you people approach?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been searching most of today and am stuck on getting a variable into an awk portion of my bash script. I have this working:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
SRC=/var/log/mail.log
DEST=/var/www/output/myFile.txt
VAR=userName@myDomain.tld
[code]....
Can awk take a shell variable? Or do I have to do something completely different?
Using things like awk/sed, but have managed to cobble together what I needed so far without a problem. The only thing I'm struggling with is to assign the content of a particular line as a variable, and then to use it again throughout the file.
For example, if what I want is the first line of the file to become the variable "from1", and then to replace the word "Subject" in the file with the string "Message from [from1]". What I thought would work
I tried a few diff combinations but nothing seems to work. All I get is the terminal hanging indefinitely.
Code...
I am somewhat confident that there is a neater way.
Question: Does anybody know the answer?
I have the following code :
Code:
E_BADARGS=65
if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
[code]...
I have some messy code that I wrote a while back and I am trying to organize it. The program opens xpaint and uses xwit and xte to draw packman and so on. I want to split it all up I am going to add more to it. Basically like i would want drawing packman in one function i guess you could call it and then coloring him or the background in another
<code>
#!/bin/bash
pkill xpaint
res=`xwininfo -root | grep geom | sed -e 's/^.*try ([0-9][0-9]*x[0-9][0-9]*)+.*$/1/'`
Xoriginal=`echo $res | cut -d 'x' -f 1`
Yoriginal=`echo $res | cut -d 'x' -f 2`
X=`echo "($Xoriginal/2)-400" | bc `
Y=`echo "$Yoriginal/2" | bc `
#t=$(($Y/2))
bob=`echo "$Y/2" |bc `
echo $X
echo $Y
/usr/bin/xpaint -size "$Xoriginal"x"$Yoriginal" -popped &
sleep 4
paintersMom=`xwit -all -print | grep XP | cut -d ":" -f 1`
canvasWin=`xwit -all -print | grep Untitled | cut -d ":" -f 1`
#toolres=`xwininfo -id $paintersmom | grep geom | sed -e 's/^.*try ([0-9][0-9]*x[0-9][0-9]*)+.*$/1/'`
#canres=`xwininfo -id $canvasWin | grep geom | sed -e 's/^.*try ([0-9][0-9]*x[0-9][0-9]*)+.*$/1/'`
#echo $paintersMom
xwit -id $paintersMom -move 0 0
xwit -id $canvasWin -move 0 0
xwit -root -warp "$X" "$Y"
sleep 4
for((i=45; i < 315; i++))
do
xte 'mousedown 1'
ang=`./deg2rad $i`
movex=`echo "$X+$bob*c($ang)" | bc -l`
movey=`echo "$Y+$bob*s($ang)" | bc -l`
xwit -root -warp "$movex" "$movey"
done
xwit -root -warp "$X" "$Y"
xte 'mouseup 1'
#xwit -id $paintersMom -focus -raise
#sleep 1
#xwit -id $paintersMom -warp 30 390 #// fill in command on tool bar
#sleep 1
#xte 'mouseclick 1'
#sleep 1
#xwit -id $canvasWin -warp 221 40 #// color selection
#sleep 1
#xte 'mouseclick 1'
#sleep 1
#xwit -id $canvasWin -warp "$(($X-150))" "$Y" #//location on pac man
#sleep 1
#xte 'mouseclick 1'
#sleep 1
#xwit -id $canvasWin -warp 62 44 #// selecting color black
#sleep 1
#xte 'mouseclick 1'
#sleep 1
#xwit -root -warp 62 120 #// selecting back to canvas
#sleep 1
#xte 'mouseclick 1' #// color canvas black
#sleep 1
#xwit -id $paintersMom -focus -raise
#xwit -id $paintersMom -warp 27 108 #//click back to pencil
#sleep 1
#xte 'mouseclick 1'
#sleep 1
</code>
Here for example $paintersmom is would be in the drawing of pacman but I would also want to use it when I colored him in.. but I would want both processes in a different shell script.
Code:
grep -r $SEARCHDIR --include="day_$YYYY-$MM-*" -h -o -e PATTERN
The above command does exactly what I want: limit the search of files in $SEARCHDIR to those specified by --include.
I use double quotes rather than single quotes because of the shell variables. I would have thought this would cause the shell to expand the "*" but this doesn't seem to be the case.
I am trying to map the coordinates of a grid.
Code:
R=7 # number of rows (lines)
C=6 # number of columns
X=200 # initial horizontal location
Y=100 # initial vertical location
[code]....
I'm using sed to remove certain line in a text file based on a match with 2 variables from input. Here is how it looks like in file
Philip S:Odds:45:343
Mike Junior:Odds:3:56
I prompt for 2 inputs in variable form which is compared to the first 2 fields of the above text (: seperated). So say i enter Philip S and Odds then it should delete the entire first line.
I need to check whether a shell script variable contains non-zero numeric data to proceed. The variable should contain numeric values, but may in fact contain zeroes, blank space or nothing. So far, I have tried various combinations of:
Code:
if test $variable
then
if test $variable -gt 0
then
echo "good data exists"
else "no good data exists"
fi
fi
It partially works, but I get either "too many arguments" or "integer expression expected".
Is there an easy way to prevent the logging of commands run into syslog as post-shell expansion?
I.e log a command of "ls *.log" as just that, rather than "ls a.log b.log c.log d.log" It makes rather a mess of the log files.
I am testing some bash script using -fx flags:
#!/bin/bash -fx
Now when the program runs i get output in which i need to trace i my script the different lines.
Is there some built-in flag for line numbers output on debugging?
Does anyone know of a way to single-step through Bash shell scripts in order to debug? (similar to the way Windows 98 used to let you single-step through autoexec.bat)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am interested in a more flexible targeted search in my directories. For example, if I am searching for all .txt .dat and .bat files (then perform an operation), I would think that the following would work:
find . -name '*.{txt,dat,bat}' -exec ...
But I get no results. I am running on Cygwin.I have confirmed that:
find . -name '*.txt' -exec ...
find . -name '*.dat' -exec ...
find . -name '*.bat' -exec ...
all find the aforementioned files. But, find . -name '*.{txt}'still produces no output.
Is there a way to export a variable to parent shell in shell scripting ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'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:
Code:
Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).
my script has a variable which comes in the form +00.00 +0.00 -00.00 or -0.00 (the numbers can be any in that form) for any that have a + symbol I need to remove the +, but if it has a - symbol it needs to stay.
i need to make a new variable with the string from the old variable btut without any plus sign. I have tried a lot of different ways with no success, each thing I tried either left the + or removed the entire string. I think this should work but doesn't
foo=+12.40
bar=${foo#+}
how I can search within a variable and assign the results to a new variable. I'll use the following as an example -
cars="Audi BMW Cadillac Chevy Dodge Ferrari Ford Mercedes"
list=`echo ${cars} | egrep -o '<A?+|<C+'`
with the echo command I get the following output assigned to list -
A
C
C
What I'd like to get for output is -
Audi
Cadillac
Chevy
how I could do this regardless of upper/lower case letters?
i need to debug a application which is using many threads. i am using eclipse with GDB debugger but it is not possible to debug it since it has a lot of different threads and i can not not debug it as wre debug in case of single thread(main) . So i would like to know, is there a way to debug such an application, if there is some tutorial that would be nice to know.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm running gdb across a network using gdb server. I've got it up and running. However I can't see any source or variables for my code (in ddd /gdb). At start up gdb says (no debugging symbols found). I've got a g in my make file,
CPFLAGS = -Wall -Os -g -pedantic
I've tried loading symbols in using "symbol-file testarm", this sort of works in that I can view symbols but not names, e.g. if I ask dd to show x y and z, rather than
x = 10
y = 20
x = 30
It says:
display
10/20/30
Also ddd does not show anything in the source window, is there a way I can get it to show this? I think it's because I've started ddd with ddd arm-linux-gdb, as I'm calling a crosscompiler gdb. So can I tell ddd to point to the correct folders? What commands I need to set in gdb/ddd to view variable names (it's hard to keep track when it bunches them all together) and how to view my source code.
How to switch between processes when debugging with gdb?
View 2 Replies View RelatedA thread-aware version of gdb receives a system notification when a thread starts in the app it is debugging. GTK+ has hidden threads associated with loading icons into menus. So trying to debug a GTK+ program, even one that is apparently single-threaded, can produce a deadlock between gdb, the app and XWindows. The app (actually GdkPixbufLoader) grabs the focus, the mouse and the keyboard and then starts a thread when a menu is opened. If gdb has trouble with threads, it leaves the app blocked but still holding the mouse, et. al. Then you can't talk to gdb or any other GUI interface. To make gdb happy, all GTK+ apps need to be linked with -pthread, if you have the source. If not, gdb cannot be used. In order to break the deadlock, you need a non-GUI shell. If your /etc/inittab starts agetty, mingetty, or the like, and you can get to it with <CRTL><ALT><F3...F6>, you can do a kill -KILL <pid> on the offending app, recover and then go back to XWindows with <CTRL><ALT> <F1/F2>. Otherwise it's reboot time.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to debug "ls". I downloaded coreutils and compiled them in debug mode."ls" uses readdir() kernel API to fetch files/directories from a file system. readdir() fetch data from any file system (suppose FAT or ext3).I have debug version of FAT/ext3 and installed, I also have debug version of coreutils (ls) as well.Now I want to debug from "ls" to "FAT/ext3 readdir()".How to do that?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI found on the Internet a rough suggestion to debug code which says to add a line:
An example shows this lists the lines of source that do work.
I do not know where these lines are supposed to go and whether the "notdeadyet" should be a call to a subroutine or what. I only found that "%define" is used to link to external files, so I am confused because what I tried did not work.
(I am unable to use (and learn) any debugging tool for another few weeks and I'd like to progress on this If I can.)