Want create script that run in background 5 programs from 5 given dirs and all of them should be in one controlling screen. In other words how via script after created screen and attaching to it via screen -r via script vreate new window within that screen, run given program and detach for new itaration
View 7 RepliesI desire to take an image,overlay a text on that image;then, use it as aackground or text document.Would I use Gimp;then,somehow mount the image to a theme for x-window?If so,how?I would use a colored background text for various priority rated documents.I would use a yellow background text document with a red cross;and,a blue text, for medical documents[as an example].
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to to create a slide show of background images, is there an easy way to do this? I would like the image to change roughly every 12hrs to 1 day
View 5 Replies View RelatedHave you noticed the space "background set" that is in Ubuntu from the 9.04?It is an xml file (as I discovered on this beautiful forum ).But creating it manually is very boring and long, it would be simpler to put wallpapers into a directory and use them all as background set. So I've created a simple script that generate the xml background file with the images in a directory. You can set the timetion of wallpapers and of transitions setting the proper parameters.
here's the link to the script:generateXMLBackground.shHow to use it?Create a directory and put into it all images you want to be in the background setOpen a terminal [Applications->Accessories->Terminal]Type "cd " and drag into the terminal the directory previously created and press enterDrag into the terminalhe script generateXMLBackground.sh and press enter [you can use parameters -t -d. For help use the parameter -h]The xml file has been created!!Now you only have to set it as background:in the "Change desktop background" window click "Add", navigate to the directory created at the beginning, set the type filtre to "All files" (at right bottom, normally it is 'Images') and choose the .xml file named #DIRNAME#Background.xml.Note:not run the script generateXMLBackground.sh you have not rights type into the terminal "chmod +x " drag the script and press enter (to make it executable).
So I was reading one of the Unix Philosophy rules by Eric Raymond:# Rule of Composition:Design programs to be connected to other programs.How does one achieve that? I know one could several C programs and then use a bash script to feed in the stdin, but how do you do that with just pure C, do you do it with pipelines?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes someone know how to create desktop shortcuts to programs (e.g to rdesktop) to all users on Ubuntu 10.04 ?Where (in which file) do I put the shortcut so it will appare (clickable) on the dekstop for all users logging into the machine
View 1 Replies View RelatedI made this thread last night~[URL]... Because my Ubuntu failed, and i have no idea why. I hadnt done anything different or risky.. and Ive no idea what to do. So, It appears Im going to have to do a re-install. Which, I really dont mind too much... (especially with Ubuntu) But It will stink if i *again* lose all my bookmarks , and lose track of all my installed programs. The programs, not as much of an issue as the bookmarks in my browser.. I would like to know, If I can somehow access the HDD from the LiveCD, So that I can create just a simple text list of all programs installed on the hdd? I cannot access my HDD except through the LiveCD So is there a way I can do this? Some kind of simple command I can toss into terminal, and have it output me a text file of all programs installed? or something? I really am totally clueless on how I would be able to save my chromium bookmarks.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI know that Linux is open source but there must be ways of creating non-open source programs to be run on a Linux system? Does such a thing exist and/or have a name? Would any source code that has been compiled be unable to be read by anyone properly unless the soruce code was released?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like to create a custom boot disk that would include some programs already installed on my computer, so I wouldn't have to re download them, is there a way to do this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an NTFS file system nfs-automounted on our RedHat servers. Users can read and write to the file system no problem, and can create new files, edit them, and delete them to their heart's content. The only issue is that utilities such as "dos2unix" cannot create temporary working files:
$ dos2unix events.0818.dat
dos2unix: converting file events.0818.dat to UNIX format ...
Failed to open output temp file: Operation not permitted
dos2unix: problems converting file events.0818.dat
This isn't limited to "dos2unix"; any other utility that creates a temporary working file gets the same problem. If I copy the file to a local file system like /tmp, it works fine. Here's the kicker: this works fine on Solaris systems. I can take the "dos2unix" utility over to a Solaris system that has that exact same NTFS file system automounted via NFS, and it works. No issues creating temporary working files at all.
I'm trying to use tar which I've used a bit before but have never had to do this so I'm unsure. I'm trying to remove parent dirs from the backup. example;
Code: tar cvpjf /path/to/backup.tar.bz2 /path/to/the/source I want the backup.tar.bz2 to only contain the contents of source. At the moment the contents of the backup.tar.bz2 have the following file structure /path/to/the/source/files. How can I remove the parent dirs from the backup.tar.bz2? Alternatively, How could I just extract the contents of source with out the above folder structure? at the moment when I extract the backup.tar.bz2, I get the full folder structure in the location that I extracted it to.
I need to list a directory recursively but I want to skip subdirs that were already mounted. There are 2 cases:
a) a filesystem was mounted twice, like in this example:
- "/dev/sda2" was mounted on "/mnt/mnt_point1"
- "/dev/sda2" was mounted on "/mnt/mnt_point2"
I want to list "/mnt" but descend only in "/mnt/mnt_point1"
b) part of the file hierarchy was remounted somewhere else, with "mount --bind":
- "mount --bind /home/user/tmp/test /home/user/tmp/mounted_test"
I want to list "/home/user/tmp" but descend only in "test" "statfs" and "statvfs" don't offer any information to discern if a dir was mounted twice. One solution would be to read "/etc/mtab" (as "find" command does it) and perform some checks, but I think that this is pretty expensive (one has to read /etc/mtab every time one encounters a dir; if this file is read only when program starts, a mount could occur in between reads, so that the program will be inaccurate). Another solution would be to filter kernel events (via libudev or Netlink) and do this reading of /etc/mtab only when a MOUNT event was issued.
When I add the line (sleep 5 ) & in the script then the "while read" loop does not read all lines from the file, but only prints the first line.But when I remove the ( sleep 5 ) & from the script, then the script prints all lines as defined in the file.And how to solve the problem? I want to create a new process (for which the sleep is just an example) in the while loop:
$ more test
#!/bin/ksh
while read -r line ; do
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I'm trying to use the dirs command with the +N option. The manual says: dirs [-clpv] [+n] [-n]Without options, displays the list of currently remembered directories. The default display is on a single line with directory names separated by spaces. Direc- tories are added to the list with the pushd command; the popd command removes entries from the list. +n Displays the nth entry counting from the left of the list shown by dirs when invoked without options, starting with zero.
dirs -v shows:
0 /dir1/
1 /dir2/
2 /dir3/
However, dir +n 1, dir +N 1, dir -v +n 1, dir -v +N 1 all give:
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For example I have "/some/dir" which contains user's files and directories. I want to check if there are any files or directories of root. I guess I should use "find" command but what's the full command to find it out?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have to format 4 years worth of awstats data "static" for a client and then move it to their new server.I don't want to run the commend to do this 48 times. If possible I would like to use a bash script that uses the folders in a directory so the script knows which year-month to do this for me and which folder to place the output in.
View 5 Replies View RelatedNow I'm porting a WIFI driver to my platform, MIPS little endian, Linux-2.6.18, uClibc environment for STB. And I'm experiencing some strange symptom. As you know, there are some kind of include files that system provides such like GCC-provided(usually in /usr/include), LIBC-includes(/usr/include), Linux-includes(${LINUX}/include/linux), ASM-includes(${LINUX}/include/asm) and so on, and there are many files resides different directories as the same name (e.g. time.h, types.h, limits.h ...) and many of them has
different contents.
I'm confusing because that some include files are read from unexpected directories.
The command line is like following. $ cross-gcc -o Target -I$(GCC_INC) -I$(LIB_INC) -I$(appl_inc) -isystem $(LINUX)/include -isystem $(LINUX)/include/linux Source.c
And some symbol means:
GCC_INC: directory for GCC include files.
LIB_INC: directory for LIBC include files.
LINUX: Linux kernel directory.
[code]....
As shown above, some include files are read from unexpected directory. This causes some severe compile errors. I've verified these by adding '-E' to the command line. How can I order GCC to read files from where I'm expect?
I have to use the older ksh on SUN and AIX alot...and kinda missed the pushd concept for jumping around a bunch of directories.but not really, because I didnt always want to pop off my directory, just wanted to cd there.So I wrote a ksh or bash friendly script with usage as below.Make it available by sourcing: . godir.sh
Code:
# Script: godir
# Written: 05-16-11 13:49:17 By: AWJurgensen
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Trying to write a shell script called make to read a file called dirs with the following in it
programs
scripts
documents
Read file line by line and make the directories in the current directory when you type ./make dirs if no file is given then program should print usage:
make dirs filename
I am searching a GUI based "tree view utility" which shows me which directories consume how much hard disc space (cumulative, including recursively the sub directories; including hidden files). Is there such a tool fur Ubuntu/Linux and how do I install it? Is there at least a cmdline command which does the same job in terminal window?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have this message in the syslog from squeeze:
Code:
May 2 21:18:19 squeeze x-session-manager[1732]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update" (No such file or directory)
I've got a Web app on a server, that may dynamically create some directories inside "/public/sites/medias" from the inside of the app. I've got no problem so far to tell Git to ignore everything _actually_ in "public/sites/medias", but the problem is when users begin to create new dirs and add files like these :
/public/sites/medias
---------------------/images
---------------------------/4
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Anyone know why each time I boot up the machine the cube background image goes away and the background colour is left. This image i am placing is in Apparency/Skydome
View 2 Replies View Relatedsuppose in my current directory, I have 50 sub-directories. Now, I am interested only in about 20 of those sub-directories (whose names match a pattern). I would like to recursively list the contents of these 20 sub-directories. How do I do that ? I would like to do this in Solaris 10 and Linux(RHEL 5.x).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have installed the files from Betavine - SuSE Linux Drivers and installed it by clicking the rpms and installing now the error is this- Vodafone Mobile Connect needs the following files and dirs with some specific permissions in order to work properly: /etc/ppp/chap-secrets should have 0660 mode, found 0666 /etc/ppp/peers should be readable and writtable by group root user Rob should be a member of group root
View 3 Replies View RelatedI originally have Ubuntu Lucid on my machine. I just installed opensuse 11.2 on another partition without bootloader installed. So I'm still using the Ubuntu Lucid default bootloader grub2. I can boot up opensuse correctly. the nagging thing is that there's no splash screen show up during the boot process, instead, lines of command are flashing, the console background is also missing and the font under console (tty1-6) is huge. what can I do to have these back to opensuse? the current entry in grub2 for opensuse
Code:
menuentry "openSUSE 11.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9ac05ede-e7c4-47f3-b55b-66d5844$
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop root=/dev/sda2
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop
}
which parameters should I add?
I have spent the most part of 5 hours trying to fix this issue. For some reason I cannot change the background image to any of mt .jpg wallpaper files (and .png files). I've tried using the Ubuntu-Tweak application, but I end up getting a purple screen (default) or a black screen (default). So then I tried using the terminal method by making the Appearance window appear when I would log out. That works, except when I go to use my background image, it shows as a question mark for the image preview, and the icon for the file is a gray box. All while doing this my background images that I tested are all in the /usr/share/backgrounds location. Please help! I really want to get rid of the default images and use my images... :/ My desktop/screen in 1440x900, and most my background images are around that size. They work with my regular desktop for my account.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to change installation background image in fedora 12.
How to change the installation background not desktop background.
can open the programs pe-install, but can't open other programs or install new programs
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently bought an host to have a personal website and would like to create a bash script to create make a mirror copy of it and then add it to crontab to run once a week. Essentially what I want to do is to get the website by using wget -m ftp://user***@ftp.host/mydir
Once this is done I'd like to have everything in an archive called mysite.date.tar.7z I've no experience at all of bash scripting but I guess this should be an easy task? How to make the user and password not visible ? Is there any other option better than wget? (maybe rsync it works better?)