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| | Hi, These days I have to install a higher version of bash under my $HOME on my office server. I hope to make the new bash automatically run both when I ssh to my server and when I boot into my office computer which loads my $HOME on the server. … |
| | [code] if ! [ -t 0 ] ; then read var fi [/code] I know what the result will be but don't understand the conditional test. I've never seen it before nor can I find the -t option in any shell scripting tutorial |
| | Hello, I am trying to write a shell script which will have the following: 1. arguments like: -h, -- help, -v, --version, -V, --Verbose, -o filename, --output=filename -s searchphrase, --search=searchphrase, -f format, --format=format 2. a default usage where a user runs a search phrase where the output should go to … |
| | Hi every body, i have this file example : TD1 TD2 TD3 . . .TDn <DIE_1> xxxxxx <\DIE_1> <TD1> information 1 inormation n <\TD1> <TDq> information <\TD_q> . . . <DIE_m> xxxxxx <\DIE_m> <TD3> information 1 inormation n <\TD3> <TDP> information <\TD_p> for example i can find TD3 in DIE_n … |
| | Hey all, I am trying to write a shell script that evaluates the size of each user's home directory and if it is greater than 50 MB I want an email to be sent to their user account telling them that they need to reduce the size of their home …  |
| | Does anyone know of a simple command that could get the date and make a folder (mkdir) as its name? say todays date 20090304 as the folder name. I guess the first thing would be grep the date? Then run a mkdir command? Any help is appreciated! Thanks |
| | Good afternoon all! I am writing an address book for a class that I have, and am stuck on this last part. Any help would be greatly appreciated! When the user selects the "Edit existing record" option, I can't figure out how to make the file overwrite the previous record. … |
| | hi, i am trying to write a script to add 100 users and with certain things created. however, all the book and tutorials online recommend and only show the way to use passwd user after creating a user by useradd username. i know there is a -p option for the … |
| | I plan to start learning shell scripting but I want to start with the one I can use. Is there anyway to find out which type and version of shell program XP uses? Is it DOS, PowerShell? |
| | Hi, I am writing a script to get information on disks for Solaris 10, does anyone know of a way to print out the size of each disk on the system in MB i know how to get it in GB and could do some number manipulation however it would … |
| | Hi, I am beginning to use bashdb to debug my shell script. Here are my questions: 1. With "bash --debugger ./myscript.sh" it will run to finish without stop, while with "bashdb ./myscript.sh" would stop at the beginning. How could I stop in the first usage? 2. I am using Bashdb … |
| | Hi, I am trying to debug my shell script by bashdb. My script take as argument "--gdb", so I wrote [quote]bashdb myscript.sh --gdb[/quote] However, this way it will produce error that bashdb: [quote]unrecognized option '--gdb'[/quote] If I quote --gdb as [quote] bashdb myscript.sh '--gdb'[/quote] then I will end up with … |
| | Hello, I call the imagettfbbox function like so `imagettfbbox($font_size, 0, 'monofont.ttf', $code)` but its generating the following error: 'imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open font' monofont.ttf is in the same folder. And the code executes fine on the server. It just won't work on my computer. This leads me to believe … |
| | Hi Guys! I would like to create a shell script that checks how many files there are in a directory. If there are more than 20 then delete the ones that are older than 48 hours old. so I have portions for a script, but I can't seem to make … |
| | hi all, i have a problem with a sqlplus (v8) statement that queries several tables and writes the output into a csv file. that works so far, but one of the tables is a encrypted user password. the problem is that the encrypted characters can also include control characters like … |
| | Hi i'm planning to create a music player for linux. I actually dont knw if shell script allows you to create one. Please let me know what programming languages do i need to know to develop one. |
| | HI guys, I have file with 6 values in: [code] 1060276 2211546 7544.941158316 1060276 2211606 7545.960677177 [/code] I put those numbers into variables: [code] obyte1=`cat $TMP | sed -n 1p` rbyte1=`cat $TMP | sed -n 2p` snapt1=`cat $TMP | sed -n 3p` obyte2=`cat $TMP | sed -n 4p` rbyte2=`cat $TMP … |
| | Hi, I have two shell scripts that do the same thing, but are written differently. The first one works: [code] size=0 pattern=foo for file in * do [ ! -f $file ] && continue if grep $pattern $file > /dev/null then tsize=`cat $file |wc -c` size=`expr $size + $tsize` echo … |
| | hi, basically i need to find out how many lines are in a file. would someone please refer me a quick command? i don't think wc would work since i need the line number. thanks  |
| | i am trying to move to the dest_dir from Current Working Directory using the following script. my intension is instead of using cd dest_dir, i have to use the script to do the job. when ever i tried with the follwing script, iam again in my Current working directoy... #!/usr/bin/bash … |
| | '*'********************************************************************************* ' ' ' Name : SP Management Utlility ' Author : Prem Dhanendran ' '********************************************************************************* [code] 'Create an instance of the File System object dim objfile, navfile set objfile = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") if isobject(objfile) then set navfile = objfile.opentextfile("L:\OTAI\Package\sp.txt") end if 'Read the Config file sp.txt on L: Drive line … |
| | [code] #!/bin/bash # Days and Procs declaration DAYS="3" PROCS="dyyno" # 3 days Old date AGO=$(date --date="$DAYS days ago" +"%b %d") # Getting pids PIDS=$(ps eaxo bsdstart,cmd,pid | egrep "^$AGO"' | egrep "$PROCS" | awk '{ print $4}') # killing the processes echo "Killing $PROCS process created $AGO days ago" kill … |
| | i have a couple of servers that are changing perms on /dev/null so that "other" can't access it, at random (well, i'm sure SOMETHING'S causing it, but the timing is random), so i wrote a script to go in the inittab so it'll respawn if it dies (bash shell) the … |
| | This lesson presents methods that will help you automate Windows XP Professional installations. When you must install Windows XP Professional on computers with varying configurations, scripting provides automation with increased flexibility. You will learn how the Windows Setup Manager makes it easy to create the UNATTEND.TXT files that are necessary … |
| | #5report function report { clear echo "Name, Position, Department, Salary" echo "========================================" awk 'BEGIN{FS=","; RS="\n"} {printf "%s, %s, %s, %s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4}' $dataFile awk '{total += $4}END{print total}' $dataFile } i am trying to print the total sum of the salary or $4 field. However i cant figure …  |
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| | hi, can someone help me? i need a hand to get a script for a smal change. iget this kind of structure... 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104856 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104831.done 20080926RIM881T.20081202.084408.done 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104845 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104834 20080926RIM881T.20081216.084909.done 20080926RIM950T.20080929.101124.done 20080926RIM951T.20080929.101124.done 20080926RIM952T.20080929.101125.done i woud like to have a script to find all files with .done then i shoug change all files …  |
| | I want to retrieve the username and password of the current user from a shell script .... how to do this? |
 | Hey guys, i'm having some trouble using wget. What i'm trying do is log into a site, once its logged is to go to a certain link. And once it is there download all the files on the page, but check back later to see if any new ones are … |
| | Hi, I am now trying to install a C library zlib to be /usr/local/include/zlib, /usr/local/lib/zlib and /usr/local/share/man. Here is the relevent part in the configure file of the library: [QUOTE] prefix=${prefix-/usr/local} exec_prefix=${exec_prefix-'${prefix}'} libdir=${libdir-'${exec_prefix}/lib'} includedir=${includedir-'${prefix}/include'} mandir=${mandir-'${prefix}/share/man'} [/QUOTE] First, what does "-" mean in "prefix=${prefix-/usr/local}"? Second, how can I achieve what I …  |
| | I have a folder on my server named [B]'EVENTS'[/B] and it contains an additional 50 folders [B]'EVENT1', 'EVENT2', 'EVENTS3'[/B] etc, etc. Each of these 50 folders contains within them a varying amount of files and folders also. (So that is the set up). I am wondering if it is within … |
 | Could someone help me to understand what File descriptors are in Linux? |
 | I'm getting into bash shell scripting with Ubuntu 8.10, and the tutorial I'm using is telling me to open the file .bash_profile which is allegedly in the home directory. However, I cannot find this file, except in /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.config.examples/skel and it's called "dot.bash_profile". Plus, the whole thing is just comments. The …  |
 | Hi, everyone. My name is Jerry Hamilton, I've been a SAS programmer/analyst for a little over 28 years and an independent consultant for most of that time. I am busily developing my UNIX shell scripting skills and dabbling in things like Perl. I will be looking to learn from this … |
| | Hello, i'm trying to print specific lines from a file using only [U]one command[/U] for example: a file contains 30 lines , i wish to print the content of lines 13, 14, 15, 16?? what command to use for that? |
| | Hey Guys, I am a newb when it comes to bash scripting,but I am loving the learning so far. I am at a wall though. I have scoured for hours tryng to find an answer. Basically here is the pseudo code: 1. ask for users grade 3 times in using … |
| | Hi, I read something like "\mkdir ${RESULT_DIR}". Just curious about why "\" is added before the command? Thanks for help! |
| | ok what i need to do is to make a script function which allows me to change the records in a file. I read some other posts about using sed but i still could not get it to work. The function runs But nothing changes in my file. This is … |
| | I am doing a shell script to be able to read some records from a file, then ask the user to input a name. The script should then be able to search the records and only print out the requested record. I have figured out how to print the records … |
| | Any one please tell me about the algorithm used for updating the Cpnel used in webservers |
| | 1) vi . profile shows alias for commands, you can set the new ones. 2) esc = displays the file and folders in a numbered fashion. 3) esc – or esc k ( esc n does the same thing reversely) shows the previous commands 4) cd esc \ [type something] … |
| | Can someone please help me with the following questions. 1) Create a script that will produce a text file that has a list of the files in the present working directory. Ensure you use the proper syntax to allow auto-execution from the command prompt. Use internal documentation (comments) to place … |
| | Hi All, I am trying to compare two folder using "cmp" command. Folder1=/path/to/folder1 Folder2=/path/to/folder2 Folder1 has file name abc.txt efg.txt hij.txt . . . ..................... xyz.txt Folder2 has file name abc.txt efg.txt . . . ..................... xyz.txt I want to compare this two folder with similar name. Means Folder1/abc.txt should … |
| | I want to replace a text in a file eg (old_text) with another text eg (new_text) . new_text is a variable in my shell script. few methods that i tried .. but this doesnt work cat $line".sh" sed -e 's/abc/ABC/g' $line".sh" sed 's/ordprg/new_string/g' $line".sh" > $line".sh" Could some one can … |
| | Hi, how do you append to a variable? I can only get it to work with a seperate file like this: printf $number1 >> sum.txt I tried this : $number1 >> $sum but it says $sum: ambiguous redirect, any ideas? :) |
| | Can I use my own variables within awk and sed for example: I've written a while loop with a counter $i and I want to use the value of $i within sed and awk to edit certain lines of text within a data file. I want to use : sed … |
 | Hi There, I have a third party EXE file (on which I have no control of any modification) which invokes a new CMD window in order to execute itself. In other words it a windows console application. Now it executes with some switches for runtime options [ICODE]<exe_name> /opt1 "param" /op2[/ICODE] … |
| | hello, i'm new with scripts and linux and need a little help. i made a text file called colors using a vi editor and contains as follows: red green blue gold now i want to delete the 2nd line with the word green using a script file. well i know … |
| | Hi I have a simple question. Is there an easy way read a date of birth from a file and calculate how old that person is based on today's date? And would I need the make sure the birthdates are enterered in a particular format? |
| | hello all, I work at a newspaper, and we use QuarkXPress for Desktop publishing...and we have a pretty unfortunate glitch, when Quark crashes, it seems to untick the backup option in the pref's... so I was thinking this would be a good place for a small recursive script, that would … |
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