Questions tagged [scripts]
A script is a series of instructions written in a "plain text" file. The script interpreter (for example, Bash or another shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) reads the file and carries out the instructions as if they had been entered at the command prompt.
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script to “full clean” your system
I am trying to create an script to "full clean" an Ubuntu system, could you complement/modify the following commands to make it as an standard for lastest Ubuntu versions?
sudo apt-get autoclean -y ...
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A generalized leechblock?
Since I seem to be unable not to procrastinate, I installed the leechblock app on my browser, which allowed me to block the access to given websites at given hours. Now, I was wondering whether there ...
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oneliner which should redirect
I have to make a script which prints the sizes of all .conf files from /etc recursively in a specified file, and that prints the errors caused by the lack of permission in another file. I don't know ...
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How to automate the input of a password, in a custom batch file?
I know this will sound naive to most of you, but I'm still new in Linux so please bear with me.
I am trying to create a batch file in order to automate a few commands.
One of those commands is the ...
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Will this script safely (un)mount an NTFS partition for a swapfile?
I am using a persistent live USB running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Bionic Beaver, as partitioning my hard drive is very difficult. When playing Steam games, I need a swapfile. With help from @malte-skoruppa, ...
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How to display selection menu for Bash Program [duplicate]
I am new to both programming, Unix and bash. I've created some small scripts in bash and I am still learning the basics. Looking for help!
I would like to know how to display the following menu ...
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No audio from recording script while using cron
Good day,
New to the group, and I am having an issue with cron. When I run this script (start.sh) to record audio in terminal it works perfectly:
!/bin/bash
sleep 1
source /home/will/roboradio/161....
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How to create a shortcut that stores some previous state?
What I'm trying to do is to create shortcut that opens a terminal. On pressing the shortcut the second time, I want it to switch back to the window that was active before the terminal was.
I managed ...
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How to make a shell script to move files to individual folders based on the filename?
I want to automate moving TV show episode files into individual directories for each episode.
Essentially, in the folder I want to run the script in, I have a list of files. For example: tvshow.2009....
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Listening to Joypad Input in Bash Script
I'm looking to write a script to kill a game process with a button combo on a joypad. Is there a way I can listen for joypad button presses in a bash script?
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How to change Recording tab from pavucontrol with terminal
I want to change the input source to a recording program (e.g. Audacity) via terminal as I would in the pavucontrol recording tab. . I found this thread already:
Changing in pavucontrols tab "...
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Running Script with USB device
I want to copy a directory and its contents to my external USB hard drive when I connect it to my laptop automatically.
So, I created a file called 00-usb-backup.rules on /etc/udev/rules.d with this ...
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Output redirection to a file, used inside script, is not working when executed from crontab
The script is working when executed from terminal but, it's giving "(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)" information when executed from crontab.
Below are my script contents.
I have 2 ...
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Remove ssh keys in github from command line [on hold]
I'm creating a script in bash to install and configure all my workspace. How do I remove my ssh keys in github from command line?
I already search about and found this command, but this is ...
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virsh list is empty when run from user crontab
I have added a couple of hypervisors with Ubuntu 18.04 and added the scripts that works on 16.04 and 14.04.
Among them are some scripts that are installed in the user crontab.
Here's part of the ...
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What is the correct and documented way to run a script during shutdown of Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS?
During shutdown I must make sure external HDDs are spun down.
I'm hoping to do this by running a script. It doesn't happen automatically. One disk is a seagate ultra slim. I can controll it with ...
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How to put YAD form fields value into variable after submit?
How to put YAD form fields value into variable after submit?
My script actually looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
default_jpg='/';
default_mp3='/';
default_resolution='1920:1080';
default_filename="/";
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Combine JPG and MP3 to MP4 using FileManager-Actions and shell script (Ubuntu 18.04)
What I try to achieve:
Expanding my Nautilus context menu by an action to simply select a JPG-file and a MP3-file to combine them to a MP4-file like I already do in terminal by this command:
ffmpeg -...
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Ubuntu 16.04 not running scripts in /etc/profile.d/
I have a machine running Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop (running Unity). I was playing around with different desktop environments for xrdp, so I installed xfce4 (sudo apt install xfce4) and mate-desktop (sudo ...
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Which programming language to use when interacting with shell?
I want to write a program that uses shell commands to make changes to audio such as:
pactl set-sink-volume 0 +10%
As I need it during my podcast I want to be able to quickly interact with it via ...
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Batch execute ncap2 command
I want to batch execute this command
ncap2 -s 'where(S<0.005) S=0.005; infile.nc outfile.nc*
on all the nc files in a folder.
I am using this script:
for f in dir/*.nc
do
ncap2 -s 'where(S<...
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How do I unzip multiple files with multiple passwords in 7zipfull on ubuntu
I'm kind of a beginner in Linux and I'm having a hard time. On Ubuntu 19.10, I made a small script for 7zip to unzip multiple files with password:
FILES=/mnt/sdx
for f in *.7z;
do 7za x -oUNZIPPED $f ...
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How to list also two lines after a grep match?
grep 'STRING' filename
searches the file for STRING and lists the lines that contain a match.
How can I also list two lines that follow the match?
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Why doesn't system() work when called in a loop with cd and rm commands?
I started using Linux recently, so my program is just for learning. Having said that, here's my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main () {
FILE *fin;
char buf[200];
fin ...
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Ubuntu Docker: How can I specify `set -exu` globally for all scripts?
I'm using a docker image based on Ubuntu 19. I execute my entrypoint using Bash:
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-c", "tini -- /entrypoint.sh"]
I also create a user in my entrypoint script:
addgroup --...
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I want help to modify a script to recognize both Firefox and Firefox (Private Browsing)
I have this script that runs via a keyboard shortcut (and toggles the Stylus extension stylesheet on/off***). It is specifically for maximized windows so the xdotool values won't change:
#!/bin/bash
...
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Crontab bash script doesn't work
I have a simple script and I try to run this every 3: 00 am via crontab.
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/screen -SX fbbot quit;
/usr/bin/screen -dmS fbbot /home/vemu/.nvm/versions/node/v10.16.3/bin/node /home/...
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Shutdown after a running command terminate?
I have a long-running command, and forgot to add && shutdown to it. Is there any way to shut down my PC upon its completion, while it's running?
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Xbindkeys launches correctly application for the first time only
When I put the following line in ~/.xbindkeysrc GNOME correctly launches application vlc.
"vlc"
XF86Calculator
The problem is that I'd like to run a shell script. When I put the following in ~/....
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How to download certain folders from url
when I use this command:
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=6 -R "index.html*" -e robots=off "https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/challenge/2018/training/"
It will download all the folders (994 ...
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Select file from system in sh scipt
I have a script that lets me concat my gopro videos into one video, I currently have it able to select from the correct folders inside and then generate a file including a logo.
I would love to be ...
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Test ssh connection as root
I'm trying to make an script just to test if I can connect throw ssh as root user in a list of servers that I have in a file, for the moment i have this:
for i in $(cat servers.list); do
if [ "ssh ...
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What is “STRING” and “+%s” in this script using the date command?
I have the following script (based on this):
#!/bin/bash
runtime=$(zenity --title "Send notification repeatedly" --entry "Enter the period in minutes like this: nn minutes")
endtime=$(date -ud "$...
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curl in bash script adds ? at end of the file name
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, and I have a bash script with a curl command, for example:
#!/bin/bash
curl https://www.example.com/file.txt > ./file.txt
The file should be downloaded with the name file.txt ...
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syntax error unexpected token fi nano [duplicate]
#!
clear
echo Enter the budget
read budget
if((budget <=10))
then
echo Tarjet
else
if((budget>=11 & budget<=100))
then
echo chocolate
else
if((budget>= 101 & budget<250))
then
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ubuntu server Execute python script via crontab
I am trying to run a python script on a server with Ubuntu but it does not work. I manually tested the script and it WORKS correctly but I automatically tested it in 3 ways but nothing;
1 * * * * /...
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How do you copy a directory that has a variable in a path to a designated destination with a standard path
I'd like to automate the following. A bunch of stuff in a folder called ~/Backup/28_10_2019_files/LoadsofStuff needs to be copied to a folder called ~/Backup/Daily/LoadsofStuff on a daily basis.
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Replace string with another string in bash script?
I have a .csv sheet with 3 columns and 'n' number of rows.
Column1: It defines the name of the Rule.
Column2: This is the schema line present in all the test files.
Column3: This is the line which ...
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Getting an “Unexpected end of file” error
I'm receiving an error saying line 44: syntax error: unexpected end of file
#!/bin/sh
touch $results.txt #creates txt file
now="$(date)" #records current date and time to be posted
echo "Name: ...
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Adding if statement to an existing while loop
I have to do add an if statement to my while loop. When writing ./scriptname 1 it executes my while lopp. When I instead write ./scriptname hello it still executes my while loop. What I want it to do ...
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How to rename the exisitng cell names based on number of their occurnaces in a particular column?
I have a column in my excel as below:
REF
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BV1013_1
BV1013_1
BV1013_2
BV1013_2
BV1026
BV1040
BV1040
BV1041
BV1041
BV1042
BV1042
Desired OUTPUT: Some of the cell values/names are same at ...
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Invisible space when trying to remove file (but exclude all files in a list)?
I'm trying to accomplish a simple task using the excellent post here: I would like to remove all files from a folder except those listed in a .txt file contained in the folder. The syntax works fine, ...
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Bash script not creating file from crontab
I have already tried half of askubuntu but still not succeeding.
I got the following shell script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "test" > "/mnt/ssd/test.txt"
echo "test"
And the following crontab -e line:
* ...
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Executing bash script on wakeup
Since some time I have a Prolbem with my Linux distribution (Kubuntu 18.04). Every time my linux comes back from standby modus the touchpad is not working properly anymore (can't grab and drag files ...
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Start up script .sh using systemd not working and exits with status=127
I'm trying to create a startup script .sh by using systemd (I've tried with /etc/init, /etc/init.d, crontab -e but it didn't work.
I was able to solve the error the first time I configured it with ...
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Convert an existing debian systemd init script to Ubuntu 18.04 compatible version?
I need to create an /etc/init.d startup script for msmtpd and thought it would be a good idea to convert an existing one from Debian to Ubuntu 18.04. What should be done to properly convert this .deb'...
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display some text at the end of a script
At the end of my scripts I use often put "konsole" bash command, to know that the script is completed.
Now I'd like to add a text within the konsole (terminal), something such as "done!".
How should I ...
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Script to change the background
On Ubuntu 19.10, I wrote a little script to change the lock/login screen background and added it to cron (every 10 minutes), all the script does is select a .jpg at random from a folder and copies it ...
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How to silently install using dpkg
I have a deb package which I want to deliver via sript.
Normally when this deb file is iniated it completes with an 'OK' screen where the user must press enter.
As I want to automate the installation,...
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copy content of folder to multiple sub folders
So i'm trying to understand if its possible to copy the contents of a template folder into multiple existing folders.
So i have
opt/application/tenant_template
opt/application/tenant_template/src
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