A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system.
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Configure L2TP IPSec on Mac using command line
I have a bunch of IPSec VPN servers I'd like to add on several mac clients ... is there a one-line I can execute from the console, or a simple way to do this in an automated fashion to save time?
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Trying to find any home directory that is writable by anyone
I am trying to locate any user home directories and their files that are writable by anyone.
I wrote this:
find /home -type d -perm -200 | grep . ||
echo no world-writable directories here
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How to launch X11 program at start up and have it execute custom scripts when the X session is closed?
I need to run a script at the end of each user session, and this seems like the best way to do it. I have no experience making X11 programs, so how exactly do I go about doing this?
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Linux setup to run a bash script at logoff, shutdown, and restart
I need to run a bash script each time a Debian-esque thick client logs off, shuts down, or restarts. Outside of that, it can be any distro, desktop environment, window manager, or otherwise ...
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How to merge ls commands colors with the output of find or du?
I have a simple alias to list the size of files&folders in cwd.
( including dotfiles in this case , ignoring zero sizes )
du -sh .[!.]* * | sort -hr | grep -v '^0'
which can be achieved ...
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How to run my script on VM
I have script on my Virtual machine that i would like to run without []$ ./myscript
[studentuser@CentosStudentSvr ~]$ myscript
-bash: iduser: command not found
otherwise it errors:
-bash: iduser: ...
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Capturing output of .bat script in VMWare Fusion 'runProgramInGuest'
I've recently started a new job where we run virtualized copies of Windows inside VMWare Fusion (Mac OSX is the host). Among other things, we have a few utility .bat files that get run regularly. I'd ...
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Delete old log files in AIX
I am trying write a script to delete old log files in \var\log\applog\nmon on my AIX system. We usually get alerts that the file system is almost full and at the moment delete old files by hand. So ...
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shell_exec not working in php web appl [migrated]
I made a shell script that detects network interfagces then for each interface it detects the IP address, mask, broadcast address, then it makes a ping to all IP addresses for this network interface.
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Unzip file from source to destination within user directory across multiple versions of windows
I have a source zip file which is located in a user's "My Documents" directory. It is guaranteed to always be there. I'm looking for a way to create a batch or script which will let me unzip that file ...
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Creating unique template HTML files for all MP4 files in a directory
I've prepared a number of video files that will each have their own HTML page. (I'm making a series of lecture videos and trying to keep things simple since I'm a chemist, not a coder.)
I'd like ...
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Changing the case of the Nth character of a filename using Bash?
I have a folder of files and I want to change the case of one of their characters at the 5th position.
From this:
ABC-xyz
DEF-xyz
GHI-xys
To this:
ABC-Xyz
DEF-Xyz
GHI-Xys
You'll notice the X ...
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A way to paste predefined list of text in bash script to browser?
I am looking for a way in bash to paste a few lines (which will be selected in a loop) to a form on a webpage at a certain location (i.e to a specific field on a page). Is this possible? Hope I've ...
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Get USB key manufacturer serial number
I am looking for a batch command to retrieve an USB key manufacturer serial number. I need a command that works in both Windows XP and Windows Seven.
This is for a hardware follow-up. I have a script ...
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Queue commands to last subshel even if one of them launches new shell
I want to automate something writing simple script launching consecutively few scripts one after another. And then setting some aliases at the top shell.
Problem: few of these commands launch new ...
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SSH and SCP giving error
I am doing the same steps (Perform SSH and SCP Without Entering Password on openSSH). But it keep asking password prompt while scp or 'ssh -l' command run. Same steps i did few days back, it was ...
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Auto backup photos to network drive
My wife's ultrabook is getting full of pictures. I have a NAS that all our pictures are on. What I want to do is store EVERY picture on the NAS (easy) but keep all the photos from the last 12 months ...
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Merging two folders with the same or different names
How can I merge two folders with the same or different names with subdirectories, using shell script or terminal. Also, if there is a file with the same name, then it should skip.
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Can you switch into Single User Mode Without Rebooting?
Is it possible to switch into single user mode WITHOUT rebooting and holding CMD+S.
For example, can I write a shell script to switch into single user mode?
If so, for which operating systems?
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How to rename to existing folder
i am not able to rename the folder name. i tried these ways. please correct me,
[testuser@backupdev1-lnx backup]$ cd /opt/backup/
[testuser@backupdev1-lnx backup]$ ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 ...
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How can i automate attaching log files in SBM serena business manager SCR tickets
I have to automate the following task.
Using a script, I want to automatically attach a file to SBM Serena Business Manager's SCR ticket's ATTACHMENT section --or update other infomation in SCR like ...
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How to perform zipped mirroring on Windows?
My source is a directory hierarchy. I need to auto-copy the files in the source to a destination directory, but to have each file individually zipped inside the destination sub-directories. ...
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Commands inside shell script can't be found [closed]
I am taking my first steps in shell scripting with CygWin thus, I would be grateful for understanding.
I am trying to execute my first script (called "script1"). When I type the command "sh script1" ...
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Launching a Shell Script via .desktop in Raspbian Wheezy
I am trying to launch OMXplayer and play a sequence of videos on loop on a RaspberryPi running Raspbian Wheezy. I have got a working shell script which launches and plays the videos courtesy of ...
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bad interpreter shell script
Hi I'm trying to write a shell script for plotting with gnuplot however I keep running into the error: bash: ./plot.sh: usr/bin/gnuplot: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
I have checked the ...
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Averaging subsets of images with imagemagick, iteratively
I have a hundred images and I want to average them 5 at a time.
The imagemagick command for the first 5 is:
convert -background transparent %d.jpg[1-5] -average output1.jpg
The imagemagick ...
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Script to copy files to x locations of rules are met
I would like to create an automator script that will ask me for a specified folder, and on selection I would like it to search for the following and do x tasks
if files is .mkv and does not contain ...
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Script to make and replace files [duplicate]
How can I make a shell script that creates a directory and a file everytime it is run and then replace the previous files?
I am reposting this because the original post got closed because of the ...
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Linux tool to autodownload and build from SourceForge?
Has anyone made anything (even just a script) to automatically download, untar, and make projects off of SourceForge in Linux? How could I do that?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10, specifically.
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Is there a cross OS (win/mac) scripting languagee? [closed]
I use Autohotkey for all my Windows scripting, but would like to use something that could apply to a Mac as well. Without having to write it in multiple languages. And having it compatible with ...
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How to run apache server if it not already running
I wonder if it is possible to check whether or not apache2 is running. If it is not running I want to execute it using shellscript
Currently I have added a function which I named run_apache which ...
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Loop through folder with higher space usage in shell? [duplicate]
I would like to create an script where give me a report of which folders have the higher usage space and keep doing that until there's no folder anymore.
Today I do this manually, with:
sudo du -h ...
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parse log file with heavy output
I'd like to monitor my vsftpd logs and pull information from the logs to process the files that have been uploaded. Up till now everything was great and worked fine:
tail -n0 -F /var/log/vsftpd.log | ...
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parse vsftpd log with shell script
I try to parse this line with vsftpd:
Sun Apr 7 07:23:33 2013 [pid 23590] [cam02430] OK UPLOAD: Client "206.132.183.209", "/20130407/07/20130407_072324D.avi", 496846 bytes, 383.38Kbyte/sec
with:
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multiple conditionals in shell script
This is driving me insane. There are many posts on this but nothing is working for me. I want to check if a file is not an avi or mpg then I want to exit. Here is a simple example:
#!/bin/sh
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Exclude files in a for loop
I want to delete the /lib directory inside apk files. I managed to do this with:
for DIR in ~/ABC ~/ABD
do
cd $DIR
for APK in *
do
if test -f "$APK"
then
zip -d $APK ...
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Comparing zip files
We need to compare the contents in each of 2 .zip files we have.
Each .zip file has of different file extensions. Each .zip file also contains another .zip file and a couple of subdirectories.
We ...
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how to compare negative floating points in bash
We tested our script and it fails on negative floating points comparison in bash.
What are we doing wrong ?
$F1=10000000000
$F2=300
FLP=$(bc <<< "scale=5; ($F2 - $F1)/$F2 * 100")
if [ $FLP ...
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Shell script detecting errors from command called by script
I am calling applications from my shell script, which performs a number of important steps in sequence, one step being below:
for database in $(
echo 'show databases;' |
mysql ...
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*nix shellscript: Get disk usage on multiple OSs
I am trying to get the usage-percentage for a given disk in a system. The program I have to write will be a bash shell script. The script has to work on Debian, Arch, and Mac OS X.
My current ...
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maintain a fixed number of files
We have a linux directory where files and directories are being added to it daily.
We like to control this list of files and subdirectories in the directory by fixing the list to 50 most recent files ...
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How to find all zero byte files in directory
How to find all zero bytes files in directory and even in subdirectories
i done this
#!/bin/bash
lns=`vdir -R *.* $dir| awk '{print $8"\t"$5}'`
temp=""
for file in $lns
do
if test $file = "0"
then
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Calculate % difference and file sizes between two files
We have two zip files and would like to compare them.
We're also interested in calculating the percentage difference between them and the file size.
Is there a tool that can do this quickly?
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Using Xargs with hocr2pdf
I'm trying to use tesseract and hocr2pdf on a series of .tif files in a folder.
Using ls *.tif | xargs -I% tesseract % % -l fra hocr produces the html files which have the same file name but with ...
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wget downloads empty files even with proper referer and cookies
I'm trying to scrape Brenda Enzymes for a bunch of molecule files with a script. If I just download by file URL (it's a PHP redirect), I get a 0Kb file, so I think they're checking for cookies and/or ...
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Automator and /bin/bash Shell Script
I have the following /bin/bash script in terminal (labeled purge.sh)
#! /bin/bash
# cleaning up and being paranoid
x=`/usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
tell application "Finder"
activate
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copy last modified files and folders using batch script from one location of server to other [closed]
@echo on
set SOURCE=\\sourceservername\c$\temp
set DESTINATION=\\destinationservername\c$\temp
xcopy %SOURCE%\* %DESTINATION%\* /s /e /i /Y
PAUSE
I want to paste last modified file from ...
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Rotate Outgoing Ip in Postfix, script not working
I've found what it seems to be a nice piece of code meant to rotate postfix IP but I really can't get it to work. when I run it I get this error:
rotate_postfix_ip.sh: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
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How do I make a batch file that looks exactly like a command prompt?
I want to make a batch file that, when run, looks and works exactly the same as a command prompt, except that I can do something with everything the user enters (e.g. logging it). How can I do this?
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comparing two directories and getting the output with absolute path
was trying to compare two directories. one directory is the reference directory(dir1) and the other is the directory where modifications(dir2) are being done
I need the list of files which are ...
