Questions tagged [bash]
Bash (Bourne-Again SHell), is the shell used in Ubuntu's command-line interface by default.
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how to replace a variable in middle of reoccuring commands
I'm in a middle of a merge and I'm trying to find specific variables that went missing in the following way:
grep -Rn "<variable string>" <old_branch> | grep -v Binary | grep -v metadata
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Having trouble getting .sh working with crontab
I've checked this link for suggestions but I can't seem to get a .sh script working. I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux (from Windows).
Why crontab scripts are not working?
Here is the dummy .sh I'm ...
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What does `fd01h/64769d` mean in Device and `142368` in Inode?
When I checked the state of a file:
[root@iz2ze9wve43n2nyuvmsfx5z ~]# stat test.py
File: ‘test.py’
Size: 33 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode:...
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Search recursively for all files with a .sql extension and pass them to mysql as argument
Given:
Directory tree that contains files with .sql extension.
Requred
Find them all recursively and pass found files one by one to mysql client as:
mysql < ./dir/subdir/subsubdir/schema.sql
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Call scripts in directories relative to main script
Currently, I am working with a shell script and make a system where I write a shell script say main.sh and the same directory there is a directory containing other shell scripts. The structure is:
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shell script test a telnet connection
I'm Trying to make a scipt that checks if my own specific port is open and can be connected.
I tried doing it by netcat by
nc -vz localhost 25565
but this only tells me if the port is open.
I need ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 boot as init=/root/init.sh and exec init 3 in shell, but why X11 started?
Ubuntu 16.04.5 default environment.
I want to do some custom job before init. grub.cfg as
linux /boot/vmlinuz ... ro init=/root/init.sh
init.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# do some task
exec init 3
after ...
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How to unbind a shortcut in a terminal
Ubuntu 18.04
I'm using embedded terminal in my IDE and there is IDE-binding Ctrl8 which is pretty useful and convenient and I would not like to rebind it. However the Ctrl8 shortcut works as ...
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How to replace string in file with variable
The command is like below:
new_value="some string to be replaced"
sed -i "s/old_string/$new_value/g" file_name
The explanation:
new_value is the variable name
s is substitute command
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Avoid trailing whitespace when copy/pasting from bash/byobu terminal
I wrote a bash script that computes information and echoes it into my byobu terminal.
I then select the whole thing with my mouse and paste it into a Gmail conversation after editing it a bit.
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problem cs231n launching jupyter notebook from bash terminal
I'm a student currently working on cs231n.
http://cs231n.github.io/gce-tutorial/
This link tells a step-by-step setup guide to setting up ubuntu vm machine.
Currently working in windows environment.
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Make ShellScript run with custom CLI command [duplicate]
I have a shell script i use frequently to manually clear the dentries, inodes and page cache in my RAM: ramflush.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo " ██▀███ ▄▄▄ ███▄ ▄███▓ "
echo "▓██ ▒ ██▒▒████▄ ▓██▒▀█...
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Nslookup function within script
I am trying to create a script which can perform a DNS lookup for a web address.
This is the start of my script
#! /bin/bash
echo "enter web address : "
read address
echo "Entered web address : $...
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Delete Users From List
I'm working on a script to delete users from a .txt file but give the option to delete as a final failsafe.
The text file is called badUsers.txt
I'm basically modifying this script which I know ...
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Can not root: after removing ZSH and returning to default bash
I can not $ sudo su everytime, I enter the command, the terminal says :
can not execute /usr/bin/zsh no such file or directory
How to return to default bash of Ubuntu and make bash as default ...
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Changing the Background Template in Dialog GUI Menus
I am working with the Dialog menu System for my bash scripts and I am wondering if it was possible to change the background color from the default blue, to either a custom image of my choice, or at ...
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monitor service user account activity
I've a service account that has a full root access "user1 All=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" . The user account is not used by a human user but it is used by an application which is running some bash and ...
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bourne shell script
I'm trying to convert this line of C program to bash script:
C:
bin = bin+d*10^n-1;
bin,d,n are declared as int.
bash:
bin=`exp $bin+$d\*10^n-1`
but it's incorrect
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Cron can't seem to run python script
I have a python script that does a bunch of stuff. I need cron to run that script, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's my cron job:
* * * * * /home/deploy/bin/monitor
Here's that script that handles ...
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Command line social media? [duplicate]
Is there a command line program whereby I can post to multiple social media accounts, i.e Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, at al?
I am not talking about spam. This is for all the corporate communications ...
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Another desktop's application showing on current desktop task bar
I'm having this annoying problem and need some help. The thing is, I have a script which opens/closes chrome windows to run some macros. In order to keep my desktop clean, I put this script on desktop ...
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Proper method for storing user input in bash scripts
I would like to make a chat bot using bash.
And I was just wondering if anyone in the community knows of a proper / preferred method for storing user input as a variable in a shell script.
For ...
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BASH Alert Script for Ubuntu 16.04
We see the running PHP scripts with this command below on terminal:
echo 'User | ProcID | CPU | MEM | ----------------------- START | ELAPSED ---------- COMMAND';
ps aux --forest | grep php;
I ...
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Ceate a yes/no dialog box to verify user entries
I am writing a bash script that prompts for for several user entries prior to the start of the script. I am looking for the best way to use dialog to have the users verify the information. I am trying ...
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How to get a log of at what points in time a directory was modified?
In my present working directory, there is a subdirectory called modelled_data
I wish to get information on last few (may be 10) modifications of the subdirectory (including its subdirectories and ...
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nproc produce results inconsistent with hardware report
I check the manual to count cpu
DESCRIPTION
Print the number of processing units available to the current process, which may be less than
the number of online processors
it output
$ ...
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update-alternatives for sh reports bash is used, but I still get dash
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10 from Ubuntu 17.10.
I have my box configured to use bash as the default shell rather than the default dash. I've made this change with sudo update-alternatives --...
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Why isn't shell expanding the braces in the shell script? [duplicate]
I am trying the following script for listing the archived files in my current directory.
#!bin/sh
for file in *.{zip,jar}
do
echo $file
done
which gives the output:
*.{zip,jar}
Why isn't shell ...
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How to open port for Local Network Access [closed]
I've ubuntu 17.10. and want to open the port 5000 for the network access.
Want to access from other computer as : 192.168.1.76:5000
Following are the commands:
$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,...
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Bash closes on launch. Might be due to switching development modes
When trying to launch 'Ubuntu' or 'bash' the window opens and immediately closes.
The reason might have been that I switched to different Insider Edition of Windows 10 or developer mode, and forgot ...
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After a system upgrade, when I `su -` I get bash-4.4 as a prompt instead of root@hostname
I just upgraded my system. After logging in as root using su - there is no root username in my prompt, it's just -bash-4.4#
What should I do here?
Thanks.
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BSD has 58 more builtins
I read the builtins from bsd builtin(1) and gnu version from Ubuntu Manpage: bash-builtins - bash built-in commands, see bash(1)
In [25]: print(bsd_bins) ...
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parse error: Objects must consist of key:value pairs at [closed]
I want to get many values from one key using json and jq
my json looks like
{ "hn":"ME Cloud","d":"Backdoors","Payloads","Files" }
i want that
echo $json | jq -r '.d'
returns me
Backdoors ...
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xdotool with the --sync option can take a few seconds in bash script
I am working on some scripts to tile windows on portion of the scripts. Something similar to the keyboard shortcuts available to tile windows, but with my own sizes.
I would like to use the --synch ...
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Too many levels of symbolic links while installing pipenv
I've python3.6 and python2.7 install in the system.
When I run the command: python --version it shows : python 2.7.15rc1
But when I run: python3 --version it shows nothing. Also, it shows nothing ...
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Data From repository cant´be authenticated, failed to fetch
I am having problems using apt-get update it always said to me connection failed, failed to fetch... I am using bash Ubuntu on Windows
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ...
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Cron Task stops at same time every day?
I have a bash script which runs, reliably, every 15 minutes until 08:30 each day. No errors are generated by the task itself which leads me to believe there may be something else causing cron tasks to ...
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How I can search directory, that have name with two dublicate numbers [closed]
So, I have a lot of directory with name from 0/0/0 to 9/9/9/ (for exampe 3/5/1) and all directory have 1 file with name 1.txt . Example for search ../1/0/3/1.txt or ../3/5/3/1.txt
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When should spaces be provided and when not in bash scripting?
I am really confused as to when should one provided spaces between any operator or operand and when not. I have often encountered this problem which gives error on running.
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“Error found when loading /etc/profile” on login after upgrade
I upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. After upgrading, on the login I get the message
Error found when loading /etc/profile.
The error is in /usr/share/modules/init/sh file on line 43 and line 61. ...
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echo command echo the blank output instead of Variable value in Ubuntu 18.04
can you please help me with very strange situation,
I have Ubuntu 18.04 and running some bash script and my script looks like this.
#!/bin/bash
FOLDER="$1"
FILE="$2"
BASENAME=$(/bin/...
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How to skip anything that doesn't start with a character [duplicate]
I'm writing a simple script in python to automate my job, and it deals with standard output from commands to make decisions.
First airmon-ng is entered, the output is piped to ack, and everything that ...
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How do you bulk move files into folders corresponding to the name of each file?
I have several movies in a folder.
For example:
~/Downloads/Movies/Movie A (1998).mkv
~/Downloads/Movies/Movie B (1999).mkv
~/Downloads/Movies/Movie C (2000).mkv
I would like to put each file ...
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Want to print output of two background shell functions sequentially
I have two functions in my shell scripts I run in background:
function foo {
# do a bunch of things
# print a lot of output
}
function bar {
# do more things
# print out more things
}
foo &...
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Simple Ping Tool Failing
I am trying to apply what I learned about shell scripting to a ping tool, but I can't seem to work out what I'm doing wrong.
I want my ping tool to contain a prompt that creates a variable for the ...
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Simple password generator and adding a user automated shell script [on hold]
This is the code I used to generate a password and add the user using the generated password but some error occurred during execution.
#!/bin/bash
echo "simple password generator and user add"
echo ...
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echo an environment variable in bash
I don't understand why this doesn't work:
TEXT="blah" echo $TEXT #echoes nothing
I thought it might be because echo is a builtin, so I tried this:
TEXT="blah" `which echo` $TEXT #still ...
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Running script on startup
I'm trying to run a script on startup. Script contents are:
#!/bin/bash
#this script changes trackpoint settings on startup
echo 'start script'
xinput set-prop 'TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint' 'libinput ...
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while loop breaks out after one run when tried to create folders in remote server using ssh
while read -r dir; do
ssh -q "$HOST" [[ -d "$dir" ]]
if [[ $? -eq 1 ]]; then
echo "directory is not present creating one"
ssh $HOST 'mkdir -p $dir' <...
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Bash script using output of mount as a variable throws numerous errors
Ubuntu 18.04 server + LXDE. I can't get the hang of this bash scripting.
This is my script "start" (with line numbering):
#!/bin/bash
reply=sudo mount 192.168.0.2:/home/dk/NFS /home/dk/NFS
if $reply =...
