Software :: Bash Script: Wait For Input From Kdialog Before Doing Sth?
May 27, 2011
The goal of the script is the following:Whenever I leave my house, my wife comes to my computer to check her mails (She has two computers of her own but they have a dangerous operating system, so they have been banned from the internet).She shuts down qbittorrent so as to download all her mails, and she forgets to execute it again on 98% of the times. End result: my computer is sometimes turned on for 10 hours doing absolutely nothing.I had therefore two choices: a) get on my wife's nerves until she gets the problem or b) write a bash script.If you are married, you will understand that bash scripts are easier to deal with than spouses.Ergo, I wrote the following script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -x
while true ; do
[code]...
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Jan 4, 2010
I am trying to learn C++.I implemented a simple archive program, and I am in a situation in which the user is prompted by a menu to make a choice.So I have some cout instruction to illustrate the possible choices and then
int choice;
cin>>choice;
and everything works fine.I introduced this code in a "while" loop that checks wether the choice made by the user is valid or not:
bool check=true;
int choice;
while(check)
{
cin>>choice;
if(the choice is valid) {...;check=false}
else cout<<"please make an other choice"
}
What is happening is that if by mistake the user introduces a character in place of a number, the loop repeats indefinitely because the program, when it get to the "cin" instruction, does not pauses to wait for a new input.
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Nov 26, 2009
I'm using bash script now,and I want have a script that can do like this: first ,tell me it will shut down ,and then shut down.My script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/curl $stop_page
shutdown -h now
[code]...
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Oct 24, 2010
I'm having trouble with a bash script. Does anyone know why this doesn't work?
Code:
nautilus ./ &
wait $!
I'm writing a script which will extract a series of .rar files, present the extracted files to the user in nautilus so they may modify them, then when the user closes nautilus, the modified files are packed back into the archive.
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Jun 28, 2011
has bash a command that reads the keyboard status and exits? I want to write a loop of this form:
Code:
while [ 1 ] do
sleep (1)
[code]....
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Jan 10, 2011
I have a wrapper script called MAIN.sh that runs several other script. It looks like this:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
script1.sh
[code]...
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Sep 18, 2010
I am running Kubuntu 10.04 and as part of the registration process for connecting to my college residences network, I have to download and run one of thosese retarded Bradford Dissolvable Agent, it is a bin file and when I execute it I get: :~$ sudo sh Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin: 92: kdalog: not found Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin :: Unable to read policy Now you can ignore the fact it says kdalog instead of kdialog, examining the bin file in kate shows it's just a typo.
I'm not entirely sure what to do regarding kdialog, I assume it is installed (it's there in /usr/bin/), does anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot this further, Here is the first 100 or so lines of the script if anyone wants to take a look:
[Code]....
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Mar 20, 2010
Now, I have one script called "defcon" defcon gets the current DEFCON level and outputs it using echo.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
DEFCON=`curl -s http://members.tripod.com/~Swat_25/defcon.html | sed -n '/^$/!{s/<[^>]*>//g;p;}' | sed '/^$/d' | grep '[12345]$'`
echo "The current DEFCON level is $DEFCON"
The second script ("tweet") updates my twitter account.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
curl -s -u USER:PASS -d status="$@" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null
What I want to do is be able to update my twitter account with the current defcon status (this is really more of a learning thing than something I actually want to be doing). The original script for tweet replaced $@ with $1, but if I use:
tweet `defcon`
it only uses the first word in the string, similarly if I used $2 or $3.So I changed it to $@. The normal function still works, but typing:
tweet `defcon`
updates twitter with nothing.
EDIT I should mention the /dev/null is there to catch the output of curl, otherwise it won't run silently. It still updates twitter normally with the send to /dev/null
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Dec 29, 2010
i can input chinese in vim ,gvim,gedit ,and also zsh...., but i can't input chinese in bash and sh , i use ibus.
If i login with another account , i can input chinese in bash and sh !
i also diff the locale and env between the two account ,they are nearly the same;
example: when i input chinese ""i type "wq" and space,then bash print :
Display all 4063 possibilities? (y or n)
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Jul 21, 2011
I've written my script so that it reads in the variables $1 $2 $3 $3....$12I have an input file as follows
word1 1 1 2 3 4 5
word2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
word3 1 1 2 3 4
[code]...
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Apr 28, 2010
I've written a bash script that allows a user to input a directory location to find out the size of the directory. However, if the user inputs a directory and finds its size then inputs another directory then wants to quit, the script asks the user numerous times if he wants to quit!! The script won't exit until the number of times the user looks at a directory is reached! What gives?
Here's the script:
Code:
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Aug 22, 2010
I'm basically setting up two sshfs mounts and I have it set up so I run one command but type my password twice.Is there an easy to way to input a password using bash and pass that variable to another process asking for a password?
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Aug 28, 2010
When I use the scp command, here is a command prompt "Input password:",Now I want to use a one line command to perform the scp command.I tested the "echo "password" | scp xxx yu@10.xxx.xxx.xxx:/", but failed.
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Mar 18, 2011
I'm making an bash script.
As input you can input different numbers from 1 to 3.
Depending from the input a text shows up.
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May 7, 2010
As I'm starting to learn bash scripting I'm trying to automatize some tasks I usually perform. I have a notification mail I need to send several times a day. It has this structure:
Quote:
Dear user,
blah blah blah blah
You need to contact the following people:
[code]...
To replace "user", I found this:
Code:
read -p "Please enter username: " username
echo "Dear $username,"
Which probe to be very useful with other simple notifications like this. But I don't know how to manage the email addresses as they are usually more than one and could vary from 1 to 10. They should appear one above the other. I found this: "Here is a little work around. The only thing the user needs to do is hit enter without anything else on a line and it will close out"
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
word=a
until [[ $word = "" ]];do
[code]....
I tried to use it and modify for my needs but I failed, I don't realize yet how can I use it. If possible, I would like to use the until loop like the above example just for learning purposes but any other form will be accepted as well.
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Jun 2, 2009
I've been using python/bash to help myself automate things for a long time, however I am curious. One reason I use python more is because I don't quite know how to work with user input in Bash, such as getting it to ask for input and wait, and then placing that user input into a command.
Here's an example of a script I use from time to time for converting OGG video files into AVI.
How could I write this same script in Bash? Keep in mind I am mostly self taught, so I am by no means an expert programmer.
Code:
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Jan 29, 2011
I'm trying to make a script to make it quicker to encode videos.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Type the path of the video file"
[code]....
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Jun 5, 2009
When in the interactive envirment, my Input and Output are all mess-up. So i want to color the Input and Output with two different colors.. so i can figure them out..
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Aug 30, 2010
If I have an interactive program, e.g top, which, after launch, can be fed with key strokes and changes its behavior, for example, after launching top and then pressing "1", you can see the CPU utilization per core. I was wondering if there is a programmatical way to do so, so I don't have to press "1" every time. I would think it is an easy task, but so far my attempts have failed.
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Dec 18, 2010
I am looking for a prgramme that output the lyrics when I give it an mp3...
Code:
fetchlyrics mymp3.mp3
based on its data inside of mp3
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Jan 20, 2009
I have this little shell script which copies file names taken from inputfile:
Code:
while read line; do
cp -i $line something
[code]...
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Nov 12, 2009
I am not sure if that Subject really explains it, basically I have a script that executes a CLI java-applet that requires a passphrase from the user. I can easily execute this by issuing the -p argument followed by the passphrase however that shows up on possible logs or at least on the results of the ' ps ' command. If you do not supply this -p argument it provides a new line with the echo " Enter Passphrase: " and asks for input.
how can I provide a result/input for the Passphrase request and is it still possible to throw this application in the background with the ' & ' following the command? I have seen a few examples that show a /bin/expect that expects a result and sends a command however I would like to refrain from any extra dependencies. Example of Regular Execution of application:
Code:
$ /usr/local/***/**** -u USERNAME -r Default-Realm -f certificate.der
Password:
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Aug 9, 2009
I have a script im having some problems with, what I need is to have the system generate a random password for me and use that password when creating new users to it.
System is Debian Lenny and script is in bash.
The program is znc. I have made it so that it will generate the random password on the shell but the problem is to use it in the bnc software.
To make a password there the command is znc --makepass and look like this:
My question is now if it would be possible to put in the script so it would "answer" when it need those passwords ? the random password that is generated is in a variable called $setpass and is NOT crypted.
Or is there any other software that would be able to generate that md5 string for me ?
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Nov 17, 2010
I have a script which checks on my jobs that run on some cluster.The script, "script.sh", takes as an input the job-id for the job to be checked. Sometimes I have 100s of jobs and I want to check them all (for successful completion.) I could put these job-ids into a text file, "job-id.txt", each id in its own line.For each job-id, the script would ask me few questions (with a yes or no answers) to see if I want to do some other checks for each job-id.I want to know how may I direct my job-ids from this text file into the script one job-id at a time.
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Oct 30, 2010
How do you catch user input while the script is running? Or, how would you make two scripts run at the same time, but use input from one script to the other? The program I'm trying to make, echos text on the screen continuously, but while thats happening, I want the user to be able to input something, so the program can detect the input and display something else. So I thought maybe I could make two scripts run to do each task.
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May 3, 2011
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
[code]....
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Dec 4, 2010
I'm trying to create a backup script. For my second version, I want to make a GUI that will ask the user three things:
1. which folders should be excluded
2. where to store the backup
3. the user's email
I need to store this input, and later input the values into variables in my script. How do I go about doings this?
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Sep 23, 2010
Here's a challenge I've been struggling for months with:
I have a bash script that reads URL addresses of our internal server and then executes some test commands on them. Something like this:
Code:
read -p "Enter URL: " url
sh execute-what-ever-to $url
After copy-pasting the URL the user taps the enter key and the script proceeds, but here comes the tricky part: I want this to work without the need to press the enter key after copy-pasting the URL.
"read -n" does not work in this case, as the URLs vary greatly in length. However, the URLs always end to the same string. They could be like "http://url1/END", "http://url2/END" and so on. So this ending string "END" could be theoretically used to recognize that the whole URL has been pasted.
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Jun 17, 2010
I have a system setup script for my Slackware installations that pulls all packages and source files from another machine and sets everything up to be identical between machines. The script works as expected but make it entirely unattended. How do I make the bash script deal with automatically selecting "Yes" for, for example "Install x(Yes/No): " when prompted by a make file?
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Jul 21, 2010
I am having a strange problem I've never encountered before. I have an Asus Eee S101 10.1" netbook with the 32GB SSD. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition.
The other day, I was browsing with Firefox, when suddenly the entire computer came screeching to a halt. Had to power it down with the power button. After this happened, I have been unable to use the same Firefox profile I had been using. I had to start Firefox from the command line with the -ProfileManager switch, then create a new profile to keep browsing.
I wanted to completely get rid of the old profile, so from the Profile Manager I tried to delete the old one. Computer hung, had to reboot with the power switch. I then tried to browse to the .mozilla/firefox directory and delete the profile's directory there, from both Nautilus and the command line. Both times, the computer froze.
I tried a few more times, and the couple of times the computer didn't freeze, I got an error from the command line saying a Bash input/output error. After this error appeared, it would appear no matter what command I ran - I couldn't even run a sudo reboot now.
I can create/delete other files and directories, just not that Firefox profile.
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