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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AppImage unmount / process kill option
fresh started with linux, im trying to migrate from my win media srv to linux 20.04. i have qbittorrent appimage 4.4.3.1 installed, and the AppImage works fine. I have added the path to the appimage ...
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Help with Ping and Rsync Script
Wondering if anyone is willing to provide help with a script.
I have the following scenario:
Home1 - System1
Home2 - System2
I have DNS fail over between these two locations. I'd like to implement a ...
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Bash script ignores shell script to run
I have a bash script, My script ignores one shell script to run... How can I make it run?
12th line isn't working..
clear
pkill -f ts3server
clear
echo -e "${RENK4}TeamSpeak3 Sunucunuzun Query (...
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Unable to find and run a script on a new SSD
I have just installed a new SSD on my machine as I was having storage issues. I am looking run a script (Nethermind for the ETH 1 Execution layer) and store the data on this SSD.
New SSD disk image:
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Disable IPv6 before launching Citrix Workspace
I am unable to establish a Citrix session if I have an IPv6 address. After spending a few hours going down the certificates rabbit-hole, as guided by other threads that also related to the unable to ...
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How can I create a service in WSL2?
In WSL2, since there's no systemd, it's necessary to use service to monitor and deal with services. I can list all the services with: sudo service --status-all
My question is simple: How can I add a ...
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Netifaces gives KeyError: 2 while running from cron
I want to schedule a cron job for running a server client application during startup. What I did is crontab -e and then put the following line @reboot cd path/to/folder && /usr/bin/sh /home/...
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Runing sh scripts in system startup, files not available error while running in root
I am a newbie in Ubuntu 20.04. I have a file structure for an application as -
Home-->Folder1-->execute.sh,main.py, utils.py, ui.py etc..
What i intend to do is run the execute.sh file on system ...
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Creating an automated script for Ubuntu [closed]
This is what I need to do:
Males | Use the season value as password
$ mongo admin --eval 'db.createUser({user: "teddy001",pwd: "season", "roles" : [ { "role" : &...
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uptime/tuptime Query
Because my umpc handles suspend/hibernation poorly, I've had to script a shutdown after timed idle.
The main script:
#!/bin/bash
idletime=$((15*60*1000)) # 15 min in milliseconds
#idletime=$((5*20*...
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Ubuntu 22.04, bash script problem. TAR
Welcome friends. I wrote a bash script, I'm a novice programmer. It looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
TIME=`date +"%d-%m-%Y_%H.%M.%S"`
FILE1="my_folder"
FILE2="file_name.sql"
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Run command in terminal through gedit without opening terminal
I am sorry if this is asked before but I really cannot find anything,I basically want to open anaconda navigator from desktop by just double clicking on a *.sh file instead to opening the terminal and ...
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Installing PeaZip. Need Nautilus Scripts Folder for Context Menu Addition. Where Is It?
The instructions for PeaZip seem to say that, if I want PeaZip to appear in the Nautilus context menu, I should copy a specified PeaZip program folder to the system's Nautilus scripts folder. The ...
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What is the fish equivalent of set -e?
bash has a builtin called set with an "exit early" feature described as follows:
-e
Exit immediately if a pipeline (see Pipelines), which may consist of a single simple command (see Simple ...
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How do you prevent color output of "snap refresh" in a bash script?
I'm using a primitive script to automatically update APT packages and snaps. For debugging purposes I also log to a log file:
#!/bin/bash
# Print output and log it at the same time.
exec > >(tee ...
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How can I read a text inside of a txt file
my question is might be confusing. I have a bash script, I want this bash script to do a create a password by mkpasswd command, write this password to a .txt file, then read this password on this text ...
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How to kill a program after it's executed from a script?
I have made a script that plays audio using ffplay directly onto the terminal. Now after it's executed I am unable to stop the sound without specifically killing it through the terminal or System ...
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How to run same script on multiples servers
I have some scripts that run some commands and send results to my email. I want to run the same script on multiple servers. How can I do that? I know there is an option "ssh". But I'm not ...
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How store incoming data from serial port in bash?
I try a little bash script for a analog serial modem to record an incoming call.
The commands for voice mode, compression and silent dedtection will return OK. So I am ready to receive data. For ...
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Nautilus bhaviour preferences in 22.04
What has happened to the Preferences-Behaviour settings in 22.04. Is there another way to set the behaviour of script files when they are double clicked? There used to be that option in the nautilus ...
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How to reserve an autogroup percentage to one process in a script?
So I have this code:
AUTO=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled)
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled
setsid -w taskset 1 ../esx 100000000 8 3 0 0 0 0 2>/dev/null &
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newline in bash script
needing to check every hour a logfile looking for "unable to connect to the ldap", I've put in cron hourly this script:
#!/bin/bash
> result
cat logfile.log | grep -a 'unable to connect ...
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How to call script B from script A as if script B is in script A's location
To the detail,script B is at a location different from that of script A. Script B will also call other scripts. If I call script B from script A, bash will report the scripts called by script B do not ...
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Start service from systemd with ubuntu
I'm trying to launch a .jar file (Spring Boot 1.4.0) through systemd and it's returning error exit code 126
Code that is in the system folder
/etc/systemd/system/Painel.service
[Unit] Description=...
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Can be Bash Script used to automate proces for multiple files in an open program? for exmaple GIMP?
So i know to open a program, i just have to type the name of the program in.
Example:
#! /bin/bash
gimp
now i wanna know can i use this script to send like commands to gimp. Like open Gimp and then ...
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Can some one help me with sed command?
{
echo
finde="LOG_$(tac /var/log/lol.log | grep -m 1 "ber" | cut -d " " -f 11 | sed -e 's/\,//g' | sed 's/ber=//' && date | cut -d " " -f 2,3,4,5,...
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Bash script to load/unload pulseaudio module
I would like to create a bash script that loads the pulseaudio loopback module in the event it is not already on, and vice-versa unloads it in case it is already running.
So far, I resorted to writing ...
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Wanted set timeout for my script
I have a script where I want to set a timeout when any one of the commands not get executed, Please help me here.
#!/bin/sh
df -H | grep "LVroot" | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 }' | ...
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Having problem to create users through a shell script in Ubuntu 20.04 Server
user1=S211050
user2=4000
clear
while [ $user2 -ne 4050 ]
do
user2=`expr $user2 + 1`
echo $user1$user2
useradd -m $user1${user2}
# passwd -d $user1${user2}
echo -e "User123\...
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Bash command to check if screen timed-out / screen locked / user is inactive
I use crontab to run a script that takes a screenshot of my screen every 20 minutes, then adds it to a specific folder. However lots of times I leave my computer to do other things and the screen ...
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Bash Script to open Terminal, execute script in sudo (no password) and remain open?
I want to create a bash script to open a terminal, execute a command as sudo (without entering password) and not have the terminal close after?
Requirements:
I am trying to launch xmrig which is ...
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udev test run oke but script doesn't run
I've been trying to make a rule to run a script when i (dis)connect my qwerty keyboard. This way i can automatically switch to the azerty layout from my laptop. Super+space is a shortcut to switch ...
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Is there a way to keep Zenity open after preforming my shell script?
I have made a zenity list that opens up the terminal to run a shell script but after it is ran zenity closes is there a way to keep zenity from closing?
Here is my script -
#!/bin/bash
zret="$( ...
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crontab and shellscript
If I have a shell script that must do a job 5 times a day at different time according to a specific table,
now, I must run for manually each time
how I can make it do the job automatically by ...
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error trying to redirect output of awk script to a new file
I am working on the following code in an awk script and I need the output to be redirected to another file within the same script.
What I try to do in the first block is to round the decimals of the ...
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Cant trace sed error
My code is big so i will share the github link here: https://github.com/troopek/TropX
Clone it and run the main.sh file with bash, then to recreate the error you will type in 2 and enter in the cli ...
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Delete all lines from a line with certain string until another line with a diffrent string in a file
file.txt:
start some text works "HELLO" foo test
sum
other
end
start som "other" line with text 'also'
thing
foo
end
and I want to delete the line in which "HELLO&...
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Creating folder based on txt file name
I want to ask how could I make a directory based on the text file name
For example, I have a text file named Game,Board,Risk.txt
What I want to do is to create a folder within the folder like /Game/...
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'canberra-gtk-play' is not recognized as an internal or external command
"'canberra-gtk-play' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file". I don't know why this error appears. pls help me fix this bug
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How to create json with file name, size and version in a directory?
I want to create json holding file name, size and version of files inside a directory.
Here version number is a string written inside every file (each file is a lua file containing function like
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Shell scripts with table
I want to run a cron job monthly, weekly, daily but in everyday the hours and minutes will be changed as shown in the below table. So, how can I use a "for loop" to do this?
The hours and ...
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Are there common scripts one can use in its postinst, postrm, etc.?
I'm working on many separate projects each of which comes with a separate Debian package for Ubuntu.
For all of the projects including a service, I end up doing similar things in their preinst, ...
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systemctl not working from shellscript but works from terminal
systemctl stop tomcat_tomcat9.service
If I issue the above comand from terminal it is working but if it is executed from shell script I get the below error.
Invalid unit name "tomcat_tomcat9....
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Getting error while executing PowerShell cmdlet on ubuntu machine
I was currently running PowerShell on ubuntu machine with the help of VS code by importing packages. The commands which I used are:
sudo apt update;
sudo apt-get install libunwind8;
wget https://...
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How can I use terminal commands as pattern in grep or any other program? [duplicate]
I've been writing a small script, and one of its functionalities is to register the computer in landscape. To do so, I have to first install landscape and then run this line with the following data:
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Rename all files and directories wihtin a directory to uppercase [duplicate]
So, i have a game folder (for example, named: GAME1) which contains 250000+ files and directories. Everything inside needs to be renamed from lowercase to uppercase . I can open a single directory (A) ...
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How to launch multiple Gnome-terminal windows in a shell script and continue only after these have finished
In a script, I want to launch a number of Gnome Terminal windows, and then proceed with the script only when the windows are closed.
I have a shell script containing:
command 1
gnome-terminal ./...
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Init Script is failing?
I am using a init script for databricks cluster and the below is the script:
#!/bin/bash
apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev
This ...
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Function in Shell script
I want to apply this function in split like this
count=$(find .. -maxdepth 1 -type f|wc -l)
N=int($count/32)+1
Split -l $n file.text
But it does not work
Anyone done it before ?
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Issue with Linux multi user creation using bash script
As per our requirement we provided our devloper group: devs:r-x to /var/log/httpd directory.
Now I'm creating a Linux function , which take the developer's first name and create a linux user in our ...
