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Macxchange Script to Change MAC and Hostname in ubuntu 12.04

I'm trying to adapt a script in backtrack to work with ubuntu. I keep getting an error on line 14 which is the "if [ $? == 0 ]; then" line the script was found on ...
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Problem in Social Engineering Toolkit in My Ubuntu 12.10 System

I Just Installed Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) in my machine in /opt/ directory . i allready installed Metasploit , and changed metasploit directory to /opt/metasploit set_config file from ...
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Need to remove Metasploit from my Ubuntu 12.10 system [duplicate]

Tonight I installed Metasploit in my Ubuntu 12.10 it did not work properly, so i removed it by executing the following command in terminal sudo rm -r /opt/metasploit now when i try to re-install ...
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Installing packages remotely via bash script in ubuntu

I am trying to install firefox packages to all my linux hosts remotely using a bash script. But when ever i execute the script i get the following error. How do i enable DISPLAY in bash script? ...
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Help Debugging Backup Script

Every 3 hours the script will run and backup a folder "SOURCE" and it will save it along with the other backups of the current day in the folder "month-day-year" e.g. "03-24-13". When a new day comes, ...
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How to get select statement choices into If statements?

I'm very new to programming on Ubuntu. And I'm trying to do a simple bash script. I have a select menu working but I want the choices made in that to go into a number of if statements, corresponding ...
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Bash comparison and expression operators

I'm new to bash programming. I've read two good, long guides, but they made a mess in my head about operators and keywords. Which are more commonly and widely used? I don't know when to use which ...
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awk quoting program text

I just came across a gotcha in awk, and I would like to know if anyone can explain to me why this happens. The following 2 lines behave differently if I run: # grep -Rl BASE_DIR --exclude-dir=.svn * ...
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Why does “if [ 0 ]” execute the “then” statement in bash script?

This guide says: An if/then construct tests whether the exit status of a list of commands is 0 If I execute 0 in the bash, it says: 0: command not found So its exit status is not 0, and [ 0 ] ...
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bash script : is it possible to recognize video format from files (to batch extract audio from them)?

I have written a little bash script to extract audio from video files in batch mode. Sound is extracted from each mp4 file to flac format using avconv (and the flac codec). #!/bin/sh # # Batch ...
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Configure Fail2Ban with bash script

I'm trying to configure the /etc/fail2ban/jail.local config with an bash script. I was thinking to use sed and regular expression to change the sections I need. sed -i "s/^bantime = 600/bantime = ...
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Execute custom bash script with sudo without passwd prompt [duplicate]

I run ubuntu-12.04 desktop x86_64. I have a simple script that needs to be accessible from the Desktop and run as root: $ cat ~/Desktop/flash.sh #!/bin/bash - cd ~/tools sudo ~/tools/fastboot-HW.sh ...
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Can I store a password in a bash script? [duplicate]

Is there some way to store (for example hashed etc.) secured password in a script that will be used during connection to server? Storing password and username as clear text in code for me is quite ...
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Unable to apply wallpapers

We are unable to apply wallpapers, we are getting the following error. How do i fix it?? Error: Error setting value: Can't overwrite existing read-only value: Value for ...
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shell script to install and run

I am trying to make an automatic installer which downloads file from ftp and installs it on system . Host = "zzz " USER= "ss" PASSWD = " xxXX" FILE = " *.tar" ftp $HOST << EOF user $USER ...
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Bash scripting issue for a bifurcation diagram data generation

I'm brand new to this forum (doesn't mean I didn't used it before) but today I've a very important question with wich I found no help on the web. I've a Bash script that doesn't work and I don't know ...
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Why Byobu custom status notification code fail to show in color?

The code below runs well in Bash and shows text with proper green background color but when I add it to the ~/.byobu/bin/ folder it shows the escape characters instead. Something like ...
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What is the difference between “source x”, “. x” and “./x” in Bash?

I have one bash source run.sh as follows, #!/bin/bash if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then exit fi ... when I execute it in two ways, there are different behaviors. The first way is, source run.sh It will ...