It is often considered a simple domain-specific programming language. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text.
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Execute Script when leaving a window
is it possible to execute a Script (Applescript/Shellscript) when I leave a window (and when I switch back to it)?
What I want to do: I want to pause my VM when I leave the VM-Window (vmrun pause ...
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solaris + egrep command syntax not work
my target is to match snmpmanager string from /etc/hosts file in Solaris machine
I don’t get any match output from the following command (but snmpmanager already defined in host file) why??
egrep ...
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How can I write a cron job to archive my log files every night?
I assume this is relatively easy but my shell scripting isn't that great so I'm hoping to get some help.
I have a task which runs every hour and appends its output to a log file. I'd like to move ...
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Create an executable from a shell script in OS X [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I create a configuration file for a shell script?
I need to create an executable from shell (.command) in OS X, with parameters.
Example:
backup -s1
-s1 is ...
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Learning Shell Script, What's Next? [closed]
I've had finished learning "Shell Script" in Linux so I'm now intermediate near advanced level but I can't guess how can I use this scripting language to make things/tiny programs!
Just as having the ...
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usermod + awk invalid syntax
I have been trying to write a command (Solaris server) that adds a user to a specific group. It's a pretty long command so I'll post the whole command here and then break it down.
USER=myUser ...
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Process plain text data
I've this plain text file that I need to be automatically examined and results written in another plain text file. Note that I'll use plain text and CSV interchangeably, since CSVs are plain text ...
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Brace expansion substitution?
I've made a small bash script to automatically split my two monitors with imagemagick when I take a screenshot.
#! /bin/bash
convert "$1" -crop 1024x600+0+0 +repage "${1//.png/}-left.png"
convert ...
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hardlinking takes a lot of space
I made an rsync incremental backup script for my server that will copy a MySQL database backup and a specified folder path to a remote server. Here's the code on Github.
Code excerpt from lines ...
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Can't run Katawa Shojo game, failes with “undefined symbol: SDL_RWFromFile” [closed]
I was trying to run the freeware game Katawa Shojo, and I cannot run the Katawa Shojo.sh file. One problem is that when the filepath has spaces (it comes in a folder 'Katawa Shojo' to start with) it ...
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Identifying a file with “file” in a shell script?
I'm currently writing a shell script that needs to be able to identify the actual type of files (not their extensions) with the unix "file" utility. However, that tool outputs human readable text ...
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Run HTML Tidy in batch on Mac OS X?
I want to run HTML Tidy on a large number of files located in folders and subfolders. I can use the following command in Terminal to run it on a single file:
tidy -f errors.txt -m -utf8 -i ...
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Why do I Get [[: not found When Running a Script?
I'm trying to write a script that has to check if a file exists. In the console I write
if [[ -a /path/to/file.txt ]]; then echo "not mod"; else echo "mod"; fi
and I get
not mod
but when I write ...
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shortcut for opening cmd.exe at a certain location
How can I create an icon\shortcut to a script that opens cmd.exe command prompt at a certain location on a certain drive under Win7?
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Downloading multiple files with wget and handling parameters
How can I download multiple files using wget? I also want to rename the files. Here are the commands I'm running one by one (copy/paste on terminal):
wget -c --load-cookies cookies.txt ...
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How can I run a shell script in Windows?
I'm a Mac user and new to Windows. How can I execute a shell script in Windows?
Generally, I would save the text file with the extension .sh and run it via Terminal. But how could I do that in ...
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Downloading files from FileSonic via terminal without a premium account
I found various blogs on the internet about how to download a file from FileSonic, Hotfile, Rapidshare, etc. from a Linux terminal if you have a premium account.
Is there any way to download a file ...
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How can I run my python program directly from the shell?
I wrote a script. When it starts, it won't stop, and it keeps getting data from the Internet.
I can call it this way:
cd /User/Desktop/project/internetScanner/
python3 main.py start
But I would ...
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Linux shell script: copy a (text) file and replace a token with a path
I need to create a text file where parts of it should be replaced by any arbitrary path. I wanted to do that by copying a template file and then replace a special pattern, e.g. ${MY_PATH} with the ...
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How declare and assign value to a variable in shell script?
I need to have two variables and want to perform an addition with these variables in shell script.
I am using the below script for this, but I get an expr: non-numeric argument error while running ...
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How to create a listener for a forked process?
I want to create a pair of bash functions something along the lines of
function generator {
while [ 1 -le 1 ]
do
# run log generator > somefile.log
done
}
function tail_log {
...
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Have the at command return the job id of the task just submitted
Is it possible to have the at command return somehow the job id it just submitted when used from within a script? (kind of like $? retrieves the last exit code or $$/$! retrieve the PID of the command ...
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UNIX script to find dirs that contain a specific file (pom.xml) then execute a maven command on it
I'm new to scripting so please bear with me (if you can).
I want to do something similar to this question but the 'root' directory will be different for different users on different OS (there can't ...
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How can I view the full exception thrown by a script in the shell?
When I'm running my ruby script, I'm getting an exception. However, since I'm running Ubuntu in VMware Fusion, I can't resize my terminal window so I can't see the whole excecption.
How can I view ...
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Custom multi-item context-menu entry for Windows Explorer
I'm trying to create a custom context-menu entry for Windows (7) Explorer that will send ALL selected items ton ONE single command.
I've read about MultiSelectModel with a Player value in MSDN Doc ...
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Macintosh OS X Logout Script
I am working on a project where I need to implement a logout script on some Macintosh computers. I have read the following Create a logoff script/task for Mac OS X article and found that while it is ...
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Check if string equals asterisk in Bash scripting?
I'm making a bash script to do basic arthmetic and when I do:
if [ $2 == "*" ]
it does not work.
How can I check for asterisk?
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Run a shell script on OS X without having a terminal window appear?
I'm trying to set up a few keyboard shortcuts that open specific iTerm sessions, which I was able to do with BetterTouchTool and a bit of AppleScript magic. The problem is that OS X insists to open a ...
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Shell script to read value from a file and compare it to another one
I have a C program which puts one unique value inside a test file (it would be a two digit number). Now I want to run a shell script to read that number and then compare with my required number (e.g. ...
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How do I delete a certain line from a file with Perl?
How would I delete the line
[[ -f /var/tmp/Li.ksh ]] && /var/tmp/Li.ksh
from a file by a perl command in a ksh script?
I tried:
perl -i -pe "s/[[ -f /var/tmp/Li.ksh ]] && ...
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Shellscript does not run from crontab
This script runs fine in terminal but not as a crontab entry:
#!/bin/bash
value=$RANDOM
while [ $value -gt 1800 ] ; do
value=$RANDOM
done
sleep $value
notify-send -t 7000 -i ...
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How to avoid duplicates when copying files that have been renamed at the destination
I have to get pictures from a folder – with subfolders which are updated automatically – with their extensions.
These files have to be copied in a folder where a website based on PHP will edit them ...
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Bash script: rename all files below a directory?
Here's what I'd like to do in pseudocode:
for subdir in [all first-level subdirectories of the current directory]:
for file in [all files in subdir]:
rename file to "myprefix_" + ...
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Bash Shell Scripting - How to iterate through files and directories, and copy and rename files?
I have a directory setup as follows:
/Group1/audiofile1.wav
/Group1/audiofile2.wav
/Group1/audiofile3.wav
/Group1/audiofile4.wav
/Group2/audiofile1.wav
/Group2/audiofile2.wav
/Group3/audiofile1.wav
...
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Unix pkill error; does wily obstruct me killing the process?
I have two scripts on Unix; one that starts some processes and the other one for killing a process. At first, I ran the .sh without WILY in it and it worked perfectly; in this way, I could also ran my ...
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Writing scripts for use on multiple system with change in some variables etc
The title may not be much clear. I have written some scripts for housekeeping tasks on the Ubuntu servers we maintain. When ever there is a new deployment for a client, I have to change user ids, ...
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Echo multiple lines of text to a file in bash?
How do I write:
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
print "<h3>$count metal prices available</h3>";
to a file, index.php?
I've tried:
echo "$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
print ...
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1answer
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Authenticate connection to remote repository before committing files
All,
I have an app (using shell script) that automates the process of committing to svn , generating svn info and emailing it. But every now and then I get the following
Authentication realm: < ...
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2answers
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Automatically reconnect interactive SSH session
What's the best way to automatically reconnect an interactive SSH session to re-establish the shells on terminals? I looked at autossh but that seems to be dedicated to port forwards (which I do not ...
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CScript Terminates before completing task
I am using the below with mods but ziping several Gb of info the last command is Wscript.sleep 2000.
I have extended this to 20,000 and 200,000 but I use the script vor various diferent sizes. Is ...
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Trap ctrl-z key to perform cleanup
All,
I have a shell script where I want to call a function to do some cleanup if user presses the ctrl-z key(SIGTSTP signal). I read about the trap command and found an example where I can trap the ...
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JAVA main class not found when using Apple auto-ingest tool
I am trying to setup a cronjob to download my daily and weekly reports from iTunes Connect. I have downloaded Apple's Autoingestion.class and I have made the following shell script to download the ...
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awk match whole word
I want to use awk to match whole words from text file. Including words bounded by non alphanumeric characters.
For example -
string to search for - ABC
Source file -
HHHABCCCCH
HHH ABC
...
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Rsync in bash script not recognizing spaces
An excerpt from a bash script I'm using to backup some photos:
#!/bin/bash
FROM="/cygdrive/f/\"Trip to Austria\""
TO="/cygdrive/s/\"Trip to Austria\""
rsync -av $FROM $TO
When I print the final ...
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File name with spaces piped to two xargs commands
I have a directory and many more subdirectories like the following -
file with spaces.txt
filewithsuperlonglines.txt
ordinaryfile.txt
binaryfile.bin
The command -
find . -type f -print0 | ...
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How can I automate modifying key/value pairs in a shell script?
I often want to automate this sort of task in a shell script:
if the line:
SOMEKEY=SOMEVALUE
exists in a file, then change it to
SOMEKEY=SOMEOTHERVALUE
otherwise, append the line ...
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Find strings that appear consecutively in a file
All,
I have a file where strings appear on each line in following format:
STRING1
STRING2
STRING1
STRING1
STRING1
STRING3
STRING4
STRING4
STRING5
STRING6
STRING5
I want to ...
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Find all filename.ext1 where no filename.ext2 exists in OS X or the shell
I need to create both TIF and JPG versions of a large set of images.
All JPG images already exist, but only a part of the TIF images. Is there an easy way to search a directory to find all JPG files ...
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How to sync a Portable Apps folder?
Couldn't find a good resource for this particular dilemma, so I thought asking the good people at super user for help.
Background:
I am a portable apps enthusiast, and whenever possible, my apps are ...
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Should I put *.sh and *.rb file extensions on all my scripts?
I have a bunch of hand-rolled executable scripts in my $HOME/bin directory. Some are written in bash, some in Ruby. All of them have the shebang line at the top telling the shell what interpreter to ...
