Software :: How To Write Bash Script To Locate File
Aug 5, 2011
I 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:
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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
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.
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.
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 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 &
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 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 recently installed 10.04, in the process of installing MythTV... I'm looking for installed files and find bash no longer finds updatedb or locate commands. I did change /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname to change the name of the box. Could this have hosed those commands? I tried them as root... sudo -i, same result...
i am trying to write a script that does the following..1. checks if a directory exists2. changes permisssions of the directoryi have written a script but it returns a message to say that the specified directory does not exist (but it does).my question is how to i search the entire file system as directory could potenially be anywhere. would cd or su be of any use here.
I tried to tag late onto a question similar to mine on stackoverflow (Find Non-UTF8 Filenames on Linux File System) to elicit further replies, with no luck so far, so here goes again... I have the same problem as the OP in the link above and convmv is a great tool to fix one's own filesystem. My question is therefore academic, but I find it unsatisfactory (in fact I can't believe) that 'find' is not able to find non standard ascii characters.
Is there anyone out there that would know what combination of options to use to find filenames that contain non standard characters on what seems to be a unicode FS, in my case the characters seem to be 8bits extended ascii rather than unicode, the files come from a Windows machine (iso-8859-1) and I regularly need to fetch them. I'd love to see how find and/or grep can do the same as convmv.
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 $SETUP # prints ~setupdir
Forever I've been able to use "locate" to find files, but now it finds NOTHING at all and I have no clue why.. I tried apt-get install locate and it installed it, but it's not working in bash.
I have been looking for a script example of reading and writing to the parallel port's data, status, and control registers using bash. I see it done in pascal, tcl, etc. but nothing in bash.
I need to to write a bash script using an If...Then...Else statement that will accept a day of the week from the command line what do I do or where do I go.
I have started using Ubuntu and I have to add a large number of users, over a thousand, using a Bash Script. I also have to give them a password. Do you create a text file first.
I am trying to write a bash script to call from a terminal that will change the terminal title. I am using ubuntu 10.04. The script is meant to be used in the gnome-terminal.
Here is what I have:
Code: #! bin/bash echo "New title: c" read title echo "33]0;$titl07c" -e
[Code]....
it doesn't work
I think the problem has to do with modifying PS1 inside the bash so i tried this:
Code: echo `export PS1="[e]1;u@h:wa]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h:w$ "` and it still didn't work.
I do not know how to write either PYTHON or Bash Shell Scripting. I am to learn one for Linux Administration purpose. Which one will you recommend for a Linux Admin/Eng environment?
I'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 am trying to get the ti_usb_3410_5052.ko driver installed but it gives a an error saying that "cannot locate the usb-serial.h file." Kindly let me know how to over come this problem. I saw in this forum about a patch but it is not working.
A long time ago I wrote a short essay about the 'federal' 'reserve' board. I don't remember it's name or format. I think it's somewhere on my rather large hard discs (to of them divided into various partitions).I'm trying to write a command line that will find it based on a quote that is in it: "our fathers brought forth"I have tried various configurations of grep, and or combining grep with find, but I'm getting nowhere. I really don't understand the syntax of either command, or how they work together, and the examples that I can find are really no help at all.
In my tmp directory some logs are creating continue (with name logs.txt1, logs.txt2 up to 245). Some times these logs are creating continue within 1 or 3 second gap, now I want to write a bash script that continue monitor the tmp directory and if any time logs create simultaneously within 1 or 3 section gap it will alert me..( generally logs are create with the gap of 5 or 10 minutes duration or some time after one hours )
I'm trying to write a bash script that gets the list of files in a directory and puts them into a variable, then checks each entry and outputs them as follows:
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.
