I created variables in python and would like to be able to incorporate those into bash commands that will be mixed into the script. Example:
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name=raw_input("Type your name and press ENTER: ")
import os
os.system( echo "name")
Of course this doesn't actually work, but i think you get an indication of what I am trying to do.
mkvmerge -o <filename without extension>_TV.mkv -S <filename> && mkvextract tracks <filename> 3:<filename without extension>.*** && perl /home/brian/Desktop/ass2srt.pl <filename without extension>.*** && rm <filename without extension>.***
Doing these commands for multiple command line file inputs is the goal. So I can just type ./script.sh *.mkv in my terminal.This is what I have so far, but it doesn't work whatsoever.
I can't seem to find how to export a variable to all processes I run under my user? I have an application that needs this variable, and currently I have to manually export this variable (typing "export VAR=... in terminal) every time before I run the application.
Which profile file I have to put the export expression into? I want all processes to inherit this variable, not just the shell/terminal. I.e. a true environment variable...
I'm playing around with some shell scripting and I've got a directory call CS005 and I'm trying to write a script to I can locate to the directory really quick and easy.
export CS005DIR=/home/stud/0/043234/CS005
Now I get this error
CS005DIR=/home/stud/0/043234/CS005 No such file or directory.
This is because I've got numerical values within my variable.
Is there a way to allow numbers for variable names?
I want to export the env variables in a file using a script,i tried using the below:for var in 'env'
do
var2=env|awk -F '=' '{print$1}'
echo "$var;export $var2">file.txt
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How do I export the last 10-15 commands that I typed into the command line?
I want to keep a record of what I have done in my lab book.
I'm trying to compile Ardour on jessie amd64 using the Debian source code (there's already an ardour package but I want to use different compile options). I've applied the Debian patches and have all the required dependencies installed.
Scons quits with a KeyError message from python2.7 saying that os.environ['DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS'] is not defined.
Checking with 'dpkg-archtecture -l' shows that DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux, but 'print os.environ["DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS"]' in python says that name 'os' is not defined. The scons script has 'import os' at the top so it should be seeing it.
How do I make this visible to python (I'm assuming this problem is specific to the jessie python2.7 installation and not python in general)?
I have a situation where i need to turn a dictionary entry into a variable. I think i'm close, but am getting a syntax error (quoted at bottom)...
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## Parameters.py
def dictionary_function():
p = {}
p['param_1'] = 10
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below are the details of my system. I have bash as my current shell, some really common commands aren't working.
Do I need to do a re-installation of bash? Or how do I install a selection of bash commands which I need? (for example a subset of [URL])
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root@sdptfw:~ # uname -a
Linux sdptfw.sdpt.co.za 2.4.36 #1 Tue Jul 22 13:13:24 GMT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@sdptfw:~ # echo $SHELL$
/bin/bash$
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I need to be able to set a variable that is used by my build environment. I need to be able to change this variable "on the fly" as I work with multiple build environments. A portion of the variable is arbitrary, so I need to treat the arbitrary portion of the variable as an argument.
I would normally just create an alias, but BASH doesn't support arguments to aliases. So the workaround for the no-alias-arguments bug is to use a script. No problem. Except the variable I set in the script does not exist when I exit the script.Now, if I run the script by using "$ . myscript" it works in that the variable is set after it exits. The problem is the argument checking I have in the script doesn't work anymore. BASH aliases don't support arguments and I can't export a variable from a script unless I source the script (is it even a script at that point?) Maybe I am simply taking the wrong approach.
I'm trying to write a bash script, and for some reason Bash doesn't seem to like any of my variables _except_ the one used in a loop.What's going on? The same problem with MYS occurs regardless of its name, whether it is declared or referenced before, after, or inside the loop, and whether it is a string, integer, or floating-point number. Also, as far as I can tell, everything related to Bash is up to date.
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I've been able to get this working under mac and solaris.
I've also tried not escaping the vars.
Anyone know if this is doable with ubuntu's bash shell? (or any meaningful workaround other than writing a script for this?)
I was zsync-ing the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha and thought I'd make a little GUI for it as a small project. The gui is set up, I just need to figure out how to run zsync with content from to variables, cto and cfrom. I tried the following code:
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Is there a difference when variables are referred to as $variableName and ${variableName} in bash?
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I have a file called outside_temp that has a single number, say, 63.2
I would like to make a variable in a BASH script have that value.
I know how to use the input redirection and reassignment of stdin using code...
I have something like...
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var=beer
# echo ${var/%e/E} doesn't do anything because i can only replace "r" or "er" this way
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I have a personal server and a dynamic IP address, so I wrote a script to check the currently assigned IP address and compare it to the one stored in a file from the last check, and visit the update URL if it's different.
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How do you add strings to the front and end of variables in bash scripting? for example, if I have
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in as the contents of my variable, I want to add "l" to the front and "k" to the back of the contents.
I have $db and $DATE set in my bash script, then I need to join them like this: mysqldump --user=usr --password=pss --databases $db | gzip > /backups/sqlNew/$db_$DATE.sql.gz;
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. How do I properly join those 2 variables into a filename?
I'm trying to write a bash script and I'm having trouble with it.I have a list of DNS entires from a file called zoneExport.txt.Than I want to parse a log file to see if that DNS entry has been queried for. So I'm running a grep command and trying to save it into a variable. What I'm looking for is a variable ($varGrepQ) that has the number of matches for the grep query. I will then run this through an if statement and do some things from there..
But my problem right now is with this grep query. It keeps outputting '0' even when I know there are records in that file and when I run the same query on the command line I get the actual count. My thought is that the $record variable is not passing right.
If I read in variables entered by the user, how can I check to make sure the correct number of variables were entered? For example, after reading in a data file and making it into an array, I have:echo "To check the data, enter the first element number, last element number and step size as x y z:"read x y z.It then goes on to start a loop, but what I would like now (before the loop) is a check to see if three variables have been entered, before the rest of the script continues.
I've tried specifying the variables as $1, $2 and $3, but if I echo $#, the value comes out as zero, so it's obviously not working.
I have a problem with a very big script I wrote in bash, and now I need to modulirize it in at least four smaller scripts. The problem is, that most of the variables I have will need to be shared by all scripts.
My question is: is there a way to declare global variables in bash? So that I can use and change them in any of the scripts and every change in the variable can be "seen" by the other scripts later.
I've created a script that put in dynamic variables the value HELLO 1, HELLO 2 HELLO 5. And I put the values of this variables in the file text.txt. Here's the script:
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for i in $(seq 1 5); do eval ${i}=$(cat << EOF "HELLO" $i EOF); done
cat > text.txt << EOF
$1
$2
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Can I pass javascript variables to bash script? If possible in bash script what code should I insert to receive javascript variables.
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var1=`mysql -u[user] -p[pass] -D[dbname] -e "Query1"`
var2=`mysql -u[user] -p[pass] -D[dbname] -e "Query2"`
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How do I concatenate two environment variables in bash?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to find the value of:
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$Namenumber
My script asks for the name you want to look up and I want it to return the value of $Namenumber
I was thinking:
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number=$"$name"number
but this returns
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$Namenumber
but does not actually resolve what the variable $Namenumber is equal to.