Questions tagged [sh]
sh stands for a shell. It is also often used as extension for a shell script.
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How to create a file of the exact size of a directory (and its files), to hold a FAT32 filesystem?
I'm trying to create a file with the minimum-enough size to contain a FAT32 filesystem, which, in turn, mirrors the contents of a directory (an ESP structure). This is needed to create an UEFI-...
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How to remap a preconfigured keyboard shortcut under linux mint XFCE from a bourne shell script?
TLDR: I am trying to configure a keyboard shortcut from a script (on linux mint XFCE), but the preconfigured key binding gets in the way.
I have an installation script that installs apt packages, ...
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How to run a command when any process starts?
I have an sh script to update my wallpaper which uses pscircle in order to display running processes. The script runs every five seconds to update the wallpaper, but I would like it so that the script ...
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How can I use a “here document” in the middle of a pipe?
I am wanting to generate some content using a heredoc as a template:
passphrase=$(<passphrase) envsubst <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: openshift-passphrase
stringData:
...
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Bad number error with Linux float variable value comparison operator condition
I'm trying to test some logic on an Antminer S9 where I get the output of a command and then from that output I grab a specific float value so I can then put this value into a variable and process ...
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Find filenames with uppercase extension
How can I find all the files with their extension in uppercase in recursively in a directory.
I've tried :
$ find -name "*.[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]"
Seems to work but of course this does not check files ...
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Is it POSIX-compliant to use a shell function in a pipeline?
Is it possible to use a shell function in a pipeline?
Say I had a function that acted like grep, called mygrep.
Is there any way, using only POSIX shell features, to be able to invoke
mygrep like ...
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What is wrong with “echo $(stuff)” or “echo `stuff`”?
I used one of the following
echo $(stuff)
echo `stuff`
(where stuff is e.g. pwd or date or something more complicated).
Then I was told this syntax is wrong, a bad practice, non-elegant, excessive, ...
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Grep regex result not as expected?
Using FreeBSD 11.1:
#!/bin/sh
if printf 'abcde.fgh' | grep -iEq '^[^][$^*_-]'; then
echo "test 1 success"
else
echo "test 1 fail"
fi
echo
if printf 'abcde.fgh' | grep -iEq '^[^][.$^*_-]'; ...
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Raspberry Pi headless, my if [[ file1 -nt file 2 ]] that thinks the two files have the same modified date
So I have a player script "player.sh" and an updater script "updater.sh".
player.sh plays any mp3 file in /home/filepath/ using a wild card *.mp3, this works as expected.
what I want is for the ...
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Is redirection with `>>` equivalent to `>` when target file doesn't yet exist?
Consider a shell like Bash or sh. The basic difference between > and >> manifests itself in a case when the target file exists:
> truncates the file to zero size, then writes;
>> ...
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SSH : “Connection reset” for one of my LXC's
I've been stuck for a while about my ssh connection to one of my LXC's.
Indeed, when I connect in ssh to my other LXC, everything works.
However, one does not want to connect and displays this error:
...
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Bash modifying text between marked lines
I have a file with more than 8000 rows. File is divided into sections, each section is labeled with text like ##C, ##T,##N. I have to modify some rows in the file. I used command SED to mark lines ...
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Quit loop if a key is pressed
I want to exit the script if any key is pressed.
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
df -h | head
sleep 10
clear
done
Any suggestion?
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Get intermediate nodes using ping
I need to get intermediate nodes when requesting the route through ping.
I can get the intermediate routes through traceroute url, but in the server there's a problem
I cannot use traceroute. I ...
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using xargs pass arguments to sub shell with pipe
I want to rename a number of files. I think I can use xargs to do it.
find ./ -name "upload.log-*"
./upload.log-20180622.gz-20180624.gz-20180626.gz
./upload.log-20180624.gz-20180626.gz
./upload.log-...
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Handle filename with blank in shellscript
These are my folder structure.
[set symbolic links here]
/links/
[entity]
/data/a 1/ #(folder name has blank)
/data/b 1/
/data/c 1/
/data/d 1/
.
.
.
I want to made symbolic link for each ...
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free -m and uptime commands sometimes not returning result
I have http://trafikito.com agent running on several servers and what it does - it takes commands to execute, executes and sends outputs to Trafikito dashboard to display stuff on charts.
I have 10 ...
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Shell script get email notification when the server is connected to internet
I want to check if a server has connected to the internet or not. I have tried following script unsuccessfully, which runs every 5 min and checks and sends an email if it is connected to internet.
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Appending new lines to multiple files
I'm trying to append new lines to multiple files with the following command:
find -name *.ovpn -exec sh echo "line to append" >> {} \;
before doing this, I ran a different command to make sure ...
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Command After Semicolon Not Executed in Crontab?
Here is my crontab:
42 17 * * 1-5 /bin/pkill -f 'MyExecutable.exe' ; touch /tmp/here.log
And according to /var/log/cron it did run:
May 22 17:42:01 server1 CROND[326732]: (myuser) CMD (/bin/pkill -...
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sh syntax to handle zero files matching a wildcard, as well as more?
I want to write a /bin/sh shell script which will handle any files matching a wildcard. It's easy to handle 1 or more matching files. However, I'm finding it awkward to handle the case of 0 matching ...
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Openvas ' Failed to read response' in bash script
Im a beginner with bash script. I have an OpenVAS bash script that is trying to create a target, retrieve the target ID then create a task and retrieve the task ID.
#!/bin/bash
Target_return=$(omp --...
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Running IPTABLES commands on boot (on locked down, IoT device)
I am using a cell modem/router that is running a vendor custom distribution of Linux kernel 3.12.70. I'd like to add custom iptables rules, but they keep being deleted on reboot. I've tried https://...
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Bash script: Create a screen session and execute a command in it
I want to write a bash file, which starts a screen session and executes a command inside.
The problem is, that it first creates a session and when you manually exited the session it executes the ...
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Ssh X11 forwarding messes up with default shell
I have a bash specific code in my bash profile:
$ cat ~/.bash_profile
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "SHELL: $SHELL"
function printfiles() {
while IFS='' read -r _file || [[ -n "$_file" ]]; do
echo ...
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Watch + pipe + multiple arguments
I have a command diff -y <(xxd FILE) <(xxd FILE_) | colordiff and i want to put it into watch routine. Something like that:
watch -n 0,1 'diff -y <(xxd FILE) <(xxd FILE_)'
But i have an ...
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Associating linux shell (.sh) scripts on Windows 10 to Bash or WSL [duplicate]
If you ever tried to run an .sh linux script on Windows 10 by double-clicking it, after assigning it to bash.exe (Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10) by default, you most likely noticed it wouldn't open.
Why ...
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Conky and Wunderground Weather
I am editing my question for clarification... I am sorry for any confusion... The Conky syntax has changed with the latest version (I assumed users of the latest version of Conky was aware of that).
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screen command called from within a script, within a “su -c” command creates files on root directory
I'm executing this script from user root in directory "/":
su -c "sh /home/bob/start_server.sh" bob
and "start_server.sh" contains
screen -d -m -S serverscreen mono startserver.exe
However all the ...
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IF block statement in inside an execlineb script
I have a Docker Container based on Alpine which runs S6 Overlay to manage two services inside it (a music DB, and a web interface to manage it). The problem is that the second service is optional, and ...
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bash .sh script looping instead of ending/exiting
I'm writing my very first bash script. Everytime I've run it to make sure it works, everything works exactly as I'd like it to with the exception of the done command at the very end. Instead it ...
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GNU Parallel - global variables and function
I have this script:
GLOBAL_VAR="some global value"
function test
{
echo $1
echo ${GLOBAL_VAR}
}
export -f test
parallel --jobs 5 --linebuffer test ::: "${files[@]}"
How can I have $...
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sh file is not running on nginx web server
I am using nginx web server in openwrt and made page using shell script and html. The issue is shell commands are not running but html tags are running. Below is my code.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-...
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How to use source command in shell script
I would like to use source command in shell script.
What I have done is like this below,
in start.sh
source ~/tensorflow/bin/activate
then in command line run this script.
$sh start.sh
However ...
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find file containing a function
I would like to know a way to get the file that contains a function that is accessible because it's been sourced in shell. For Bash and ZSH.
For example when I want to find out the source of function ...
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How to schedule a bash script to run at a certain time
I'm using the code
#!/bin/bash
while :; do
ffmpeg -re -i "input" output.mp4
done
to loop a .sh file. Is there a way to edit this so it starts at 5pm CST every day and then stops at 9pm CST? ...
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Bash script - Finding files and manipulating paths
So I'm attempting to write a script that achieves the following:
Reads file UID from a text file
Searches for file location based on the UID
Copies the file, including it's path structure to a new ...
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Use section sign § as cut delimiter
I thought this would be pretty straight forward
echo "1§2" | cut -d § -f 2
should give "2", right? But whatever I try
echo "1§2" | cut -d § -f 2
echo "1§2" | cut -d \§ -f 2
echo "1§2" | cut -d "§" ...
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AIX sudo rootsh
I'm allowed to do:
sudo /usr/bin/rootsh -i -u user
Additionally I want do something like:
echo 'date' | sudo /usr/bin/rootsh -i -u user
Here I get the answer:
no tty/pty on stdin: Not a ...
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Method to ls and awk directory contents into a shell variable
I'm struggling to find some way to express this in some other fashion that will yield the appropriate output:
var="$(ls /var/run/ | grep searchterm | awk {'NR == 2'})"
I've seen on places like ...
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Problems in customizing the macOS menu bar with MenuSystemUIServer
In my menu bar, I'd like to hide TimeMachine, Volume, Battery, User, Clock and show just Bluetooth, and Airport.
I tried to customize it with an sh script:
for domain in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/...
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scp and line break in a shell script
I have an .sh file, containing a command, which copies a file from remote server to a particular directory, preserving original filename, and the second line is just a comment:
scp (host):~/filename....
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What does % do in Linux shell strings?
In Linux shell, what does % do, as in:
for file in *.png.jpg; do
mv "$file" "${file%.png.jpg}.jpg"
done
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Why doesn't this softlink work as expected?
bash4.3 # pwd
/bin
bash4.3 # ll sh
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 May 17 22:22 sh -> bash
bash4.3 # ll bash
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1072056 May 17 22:22 bash
bash4.3 # bash
bash4.3 # ...
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Run Script on OSX Automatically
How can I run a script I made on my mac automatically.
It needs to run once a day. Because it requires rsync the mac needs to be connected to the internet and I have realised when it is sleeping wifi ...
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Reset Cache using bash
I'm trying to automate a .sh file to run every time before Chrome opens, here's what I want to do.
rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium
tar -cvf reseterfiles.tgz /home/pi/.config/
The zipped ...
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How to transparently substitute sha1sum for shasum in sh shell?
I have a test that needs to run on multiple platforms. On all other platforms, the test uses sha1sum, but on my Mac OSX El Capitan, there is no such program installed, but shasum works fine as a ...
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Startup script unexpected results
I'm experimenting with a small script to setup my webserver on Vultr. This is a "Startup script" that is used by Vultr on the background after deploying a new machine for me.
If I run manually with ...
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sh command not found on Windows 10
I'm trying to install devkit using the command npm install -g devkit. It makes a loading bar which goes on for a few minutes then gives an error, firstly saying that the sh command can't be found, ...
