A script is a sequence of commands or instructions that are executed by an interpreter program rather than compiled into a standalone executable program.
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How do I get simple scripts which seem to need root priveliges to run via the www-data user?
I am programming a small webinterface to control samba on Debian (kernel 2.6.32-5-686). I started by writing simple scripts to add users, create folders, etc. They worked fine when run as root. ...
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Parsing SQLite output
Using -line Option I get this output from SQLite:
row1_column1 = valueA
row1_column2 = valueB
row2_column1 = valueC
row2_column2 = valueD
So one line for each column value and result rows are ...
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Import single rows from SQLite to MySQL?
I need to do some kind of incremental import again and again from a SQLite 3 database to a MySQL database. Column names are the same in both databases. Is there a good way to do this by a script ...
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What scripting language or platform to use for web page downloads and screen interaction? [duplicate]
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Does anybody here have experience in automating some tasks in web applications using curl?
Here is what I need to do? Wondering what platform is most suited - easy to ...
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Error QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running
Edit: I discovered that the problem is not related with the script cited below, but I'll leave it there just for history.
Well, this error appears when I close texstudio with the viewer open (xdvi or ...
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Script with root permission [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on
I am creating a script to change the brightness of my laptop. I discovered that I can do this using
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Execute shell script from php, as root user?
Need to execute the following line from PHP:
$res = shell_exec('sudo sh /home/nicklas/cronjobs/make_account.sh
username password');
The problem is nothing happens on execution. If i try to ...
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TeXstudio: open file at line number n
I am creating a script to produce some .tex files with a lot of lines (a kind of automatic sample).
The script finishes with texstudio /home/$USER/foo.tex where foo.tex is the file created before.
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Can capabilities be used in scripts without setcap'ing the interpreter binary?
Right now I'm using cap_net_bind_service MY_USERNAME in /etc/security/capability.conf.
Now I just need to set cap_net_bind_service+i on the interpreter of my favouite scripting language to be able to ...
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How useful is Linux scripting? [closed]
I am a beginner user of Linux and have worked primarily with GUI. I am trying to move to intermediate level by learning the shell commands.
In online Linux forums it's often the consensus that to be ...
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Check if script is started by cron, rather than invoked manually
Is there any variable that cron set when it's running a program ? If the script is running by cron, I'll skip some parts; otherwise invoke those parts.
How can I know if the bash script is started by ...
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Using join with two files fails on larger file sizes
I am having some issues with a script that is using join to join two files. Eaxmple input files contains lines like this:
Here are the input file and the output of the join command:
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How do you colorize only some keywords for a bash script?
I am running some unit test code. The unit test code outputs regular text. There is a lot of the text so I want to highlight for the user important keywords.
In this case the keywords are "PASS" and ...
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How can I use bash's if test and find commands together?
I have a directory with crash logs, and I'd like to use a conditional statement in a bash script based on a find command.
The log files are stored in this format:
/var/log/crashes/app-2012-08-28.log
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Locking in a shell script
I want to write a long-running shell script so that only one copy could be run at a time. If the script crashes, I want a new invocation of the script not to be stopped by a lock from the crashed ...
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How to emulate a KWin effect by command line?
I would like to apply the Toogle Invert Effect when I start my system.
So, I need to know how to call this KWin effect using the terminal.
OBS.: I'd tried xte "keydown Meta_L" "key i" "keyup ...
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Selecting icon for tray notifications from Bash scripts (KDE)
Q: How to make Qt KDE tray notification from Bash script ?
A: @SO: Activating KDE 4 notifications from bash scripts
Q: How to make notifications from scripts running as root ?
A: @Unix.SE: Show a ...
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How to make and apply (patch) one side diff?
I want to make a shell script that updates a config file.
The file present on the server has information, like various IP addresses.
The new file has more code, from new configs added to the system, ...
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Transform directory structure
I have the following folder structure
root folder
|-al2
|- GER.zip
|- ENG.zip
|-ww
|- GER.zip
|- ENG.zip
and so on. The folder names are random strings.
I want to sort the files in ...
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How does “options” in shell scripting work?
I found some code in one of the answers here and accommodated it to my needs but now I have two questions:
Q1: how can I display the options text after the code in case statement finishes? So the ...
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Copy/backup all dirs containing files matching a regexp
I would like to do a backup where I recursively go through a dir structure and only get directories with files whose names matching a particular regexp. I would like to keep the directory structure, ...
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What would it take to add a command to run a script at the completion any given random task?
I was playing around with Pushover, and had the thought that it would be cool if I could use it as an argument on any random command, so that it would run a pushover script at the end of the task, ...
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Automating excel report
Could you please help me for the below concerns.
I'll be executing one script which gives some output
Have to arrange them in a table format in excel
Attach the excel and send it through mail
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Making a progressbar with “dialog” from rsync output
I'm looking for a way to filter/redirect rsync output in a manner where it can be fed to the "dialog --gauge" command, so I can get a nice looking progressbar during file sync.
Currently I have only ...
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assign shortcut key to run a script
I've written a script to change the brightness of my screen.
It's useful when I am working on text mode and shortcut keys of my keyboard to change brightness doesn't work.
Is it possible to run this ...
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Shell Script to Execute Shell Script to All Subdirectories
I am making a script to simplify my daily tasks. Everyday, I have to grep for a few things inside a company server. It was okay, however, now, they have segregated each object into sub directories. I ...
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Bugzilla email_in.pl script will take 111 hours to complete - how can I change that?
I have an old Bug tracking system, with about 20k bugs. We have installed a new bugzilla system, and part of the initiation will be to import all the bugs from the old system to the new.
I am able to ...
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Which command will open the default browser on a system to a given web page (terminal)?
Title says it all. Is there a way to open the default browser on a user's system to a specific page from within a Bash script, or other-language script?
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HDI script fixed (non-interactive) input in a command-line gui program?
I want to create a simple script that initiates a simple gui-based program (think ncurses-style, text-based graphics in a shell) in Debian. I only access the server through SSH, so I can't do ...
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printing colored text using echo
I know that for printing a colored text using echo, for example red color, the code is: echo -e "\e[1;31m This is red text \e[0m"
and I know that in this example, 31 is code of red color and the ...
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Execute remote script with local parameter value
How can I automatize this task?
1) You are at A.
2) You ssh into B.
3) You run a script at B, that needs a parameter known at A.
First, I thought perhaps I could send the value when I opened the ...
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What does “3>&1 1>&2 2>&3” do in a script?
I saw this line in a script:
DEVICE=`dialog --inputbox "Festplatten-Laufzeit auslesen. Gebe Sie das
gewünschte Device an: " 0 70 "" 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3`
What is
3>&1 ...
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How to add variables to script output?
A program to calculate statistics outputs its data in this format
Calc_Statistics -input_data
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How to parse many variables to bash?
A program outputs its data in this format:
n=4607356
null_cells=5668556
cells=10275912
min=0.0433306089835241
max=0.53108499199152
range=0.487754383007996
mean=0.40320252333736
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Peculiar piping grep/head behavior
I'm helping the netadmin here with a perl regex to automate operating on some snapshots from our SAN and our scripts does stuff like this:
varinit1=$(iscsiadm -m session | grep rbmsdata1 | head -n1 | ...
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is there any command like “wall” that runs a “command” in all terminals
as you know "wall" command sends a message to all terminals:
wall message
now my question is this: is there any command that can send a "command" to be run in all terminals?
for example sending ...
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Exiting a pipeline if a former command fails
I'm trying to check the number of running and queued PBS jobs by parsing the output of qstat -tn1 from a bash script.
So far, this has worked:
count ()
{
qstat -tn1 | awk '
BEGIN { R = 0; ...
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How to tweet using terminal?
I would like to tweet a message using terminal.
I tried something like:
curl -u 'TwitterUsername':'TwitterPassword' -d status=”Your Message Here” https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
but seems ...
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cut / grep and df -h
How can I grep or cut the "173G" under "Verf"?
I need this for Unix scripting in school.
jonas@jonaspc:~/$ df -h /dev/sda2
Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
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Re-assigning (specifically, incrementing) a variable in a bash script [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I do command line integer & float calculations, in bash, or any language available?
I would like to simply re-assign a variable (to be specific, increment it ...
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Is learning a text editor like vi necessary and still worth the time today? [closed]
I started a new internship where all the servers run on AIX. Logging in for the first time I was suprised to see that my favorite text editor nano was not installed.
Everyone here uses vi not ...
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chown all files based on file name pattern in current directory
I'm trying to chown all files whose filenames begin with ChownFileNames. I've used this command, but it doesnt seem to work:
find . -maxdepth 1 |grep 'ChownFileNames*' -exec chown hadoop:hadoop -- {} ...
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Bash script to ftp only files of type gz in current directory
I have a bash script that cd to the right directory then uses the mput command to ftp all the files in the directory to a remote server, as below:
for from_dir in $DATE_LIST
do
cd ...
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KTorrent: Moving data in a shell script
I'm trying to make a script for my magic folder that will move files to a seeding directory without KTorrent losing track of where the data is, similar to the "Move Data" context menu action in the ...
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Loop with 2 variables in a bash script
I am trying to utilize an API. I need to either do some type of "for loop" that replaces or utilizes 2 variables...
In pseudo..
# Declare New Servers
newserver=(
box001
box002
box003
box004
box005
...
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How can I trim the carriage return from text that is being piped in bash?
I'm using this command to get my last typed command:
history | cut -c 8- | tail -n 2 | head -n 1
It works very well in bash, removing the line numbers, but there is one problem I have with it, (er, ...
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In linux, would it be possible to run a script every day 3 minutes later than the previous day?
My first solution to this was to execute date +%Y%m%d%H%M and put that format of numbers into a file, and run the script every minute from cron. Then if the date from the file matches the date ...
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Quick and dirty way to run a process more than once
I am looking for very simple bash script that would allow me to launch a process a few times. What's essential to me is that after the processes terminate, everything will clean up automatically.
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How to parse fields out of a text file and write them to another file
I have executed a database command and have generated an output file of the results.
Each field name starts with dbt_xxxxxx
Each field value is the value after the equal sign.
how can I parse the file ...
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How to write bash script that deletes the oldest file in a directory if there are greater than N files in the directory?
Wondering how would one go about writing a script that:
Counts the number of files in a directory.
If that number is greater than a specified number N, delete the oldest file in the directory.
For ...
