A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system.
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How to get data count between two strings with multiple occurences in the same file
I have the data in my file as
START-OF-FIELDS
ID
NAME
DEPT
END-OF-FIELDS
START-OF-DATA
1|joy|cs
2|sam|ec
END-OF-DATA
START-OF-FIELDS
ID
NAME
DOB
DEPT
ADDRESS
END-OF-FIELDS
START-OF-DATA
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What's the best way to backup files via network on Linux and Solaris machines?
I wonder what the best way to backup files VIA network
I have Solaris machines with Oracle 10i with VERITAS cluster, machines are connected to EMC storage
/data/oracle directory is mounted on the ...
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Query list of servers for memory/cpu allocated
Running RHEL 6.2, trying to write a bash script to SSH to a list of remote servers, and write the CPUs and Total Memory to a file, one line per host in the following format:
HOSTNAME1 CPUS: 12 ...
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Reduce redundant logfile
I often have longer redundant log files, redundant in the sense that blocks of text repeat with minor changes. The length of the files makes it difficult to spot the actual information. I had the idea ...
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Total amount of memory usage by a single process say httpd
I want to get a full added amount of memory usage for a particular process. Here say I want to have the total amount of memory taken by httpd. So if I do a tail command as "tail -M"
I get
PID ...
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Shell script to increment count of entries
I want a script which increments the count when the script runs. Basically I want to send an email notification when I find 10 devices down from the same country and scripts run after every down ...
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redirect and log script output
I am trying to tidy up the following snippets, design goals are to log all output from a script, and should not be a wrapper. Less lines are better.
I don't care about user inputs (at this stage), ...
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Global /etc/profile setenv or export overwriting user settings in .profile
I need to call a modified version of a program in /home/user_name/bin rather than the (older) version in /opt/program_name/current on a CentOS 5.3 cluster. The program creates a tcsh script using ...
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exec cp failes from script, yet works when issued directly
I have a script that copies SQL backups to a windows server. Here's the line from /etc/fstab:
//my.win.box/share$ /winshare cifs ...
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Script to Read Videos and output information
I am working on a script that reads all folders inside a Movie folder and outputs the information for each video in a file.
The current one I have is this:
movies=0
rm movielist
for dir in Movies/*
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get free string genre id3-tag and not only genre number in bash script
I'd like to read the id3-genre tag within a bash script.
I tried id3tool, eyeD3, etc -- but these tools just support the genre number. How to get the free string genre tag?
My music players (Amarok, ...
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reading from a file and changing its pattern into an array?
I have a CSV file containging entries like this :
ipaddress,VLAN,VLANid
10.192.168.1,vlan-xyz,3
10.192.168.1,vlan-abc,8
10.192.168.1,vlan-mnp,11
10.192.163.24,vlan-llz,3
10.192.163.24,vlan-bbz,5
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Command/scripts to check the Reverse DNS Lookup time
I am working on a project in which one master communicates with numbers of slaves. For that it has to make connection with hosts in network. But sometimes it hangs.
I think that the reason behind is ...
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Script that unpacks a initrd, allows editing of the preseed.cfg and the packs it to cpio and gzip again
I want to program a script that allows what is said in the title. So basically I gunzip the initrd, than unpack the cpio, open vi to allow editing, save, pack with cpio, and gzip again, so nothing ...
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Can I redirect output to a log file and background a process at the same time?
Can I redirect output to a log file and background a process at the same time?
In other words, can I do something like this?
nohup java -jar myProgram.jar 2>$1 > output.log &
Or, is that ...
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Starting Resque worker with script doesnt work, starting by hand does
I am trying to figure out why my process doesn't work if started via a script, but works fine if started by hand.
Here's the details:
script is a resque worker start script. The script location is ...
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perform ping test to change dns
I wrote this script to check if my dns server works fine or not, and if not change it. but it gives out error ./dns-ping.sh: line 15: ((: 3 < : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "< ...
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Package Installation log creation
I have written a script for installing packages on Linux(Ubuntu). So I want to create a log file for installation of packages for troubleshooting if any problem occur during installation.So please ...
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Moving Same files from different folders using shell script on AIX 5.4
There are two folders named Folder1 and Folder2.
Folder1 has files with name:For example
S-080001-0-0.xml with its corresponding same files in Folder2 named S-080001-0-0.xml
The change in Folder2 is ...
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Deleting Non-empty Directory with smbclient
How can I remove a non-empty directory with smbclient?
I have tried the following:
1) rm
Result: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE listing [dir_path]
2) recurse;rm
Result: No Error but also nothing happens! ...
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zmodem not working without minicom
I want to upload and download file from and to the target board. I am able to send the file from the target board to PC using zmodem protocol to be specific using command
sz -vv -b filename > ...
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Is expect tool availabe for ARM platform
I need to get expect (tool for automating interactive applications) for the ARM platform. Is it a readily cross compiled to ARM and is it available? I tried googling but was unable to get the ...
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Changing IP address of Apache server using PHP statically
I want to statically assign the IP address of my Arch linux using php. I want to change the IP by using netmask,interface,broadcast,address & gateway. The user puts up the values into a html page. ...
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Batch conversion of Module files with XMP
I have the following script to convert a big bunch of .MOD and .XM files into Wave format:
#!/bin/bash
for f in ./XM.* ./MOD.*
do
xmp $f -d wav -o - | ffmpeg -i - -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k ...
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Implementing a String -> PDF Stamp tool
I wrote a little shell function which creates a fixed-size PDF file (A4) from a character string using gs:
make_stamp() {
file=$1
string=$2
tmp=${file}-small.pdf
gs -o "$tmp" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ...
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Validate Password for user account from shell script
Application is for a multiple server standardization script
Looking for a way in a shell script to check if the password for an OS account (AIX) matches a standardized plain text password.
The ...
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KSH styling text based menu using STDERR
Is it possible to format the STDERR in order to have a better looking menu using the select command?
I have a simple select
select oChoice in $(<tempMenu.menu) ; do
case "$oChoice" in
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Using sshpass, return code (exit status) differs for reasons unknown using valid commands
There are a few things going on here but I think ultimately, either CLish or SSH is returning an exit code that is messing up my work flow.
I'm attempting to connect to a remote machine (CLish shell) ...
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how to create a script to backup MySQL databases on separate files?
I need to create a script so to automate the backup process for my database server. Today there are 19 databases on the server and to prevent some schema is created and not contemplated by the script, ...
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rc.local not being executed when os boots up
I have a script that needs to be run when os boots up. I added it to /etc/rc.local. It was working fine for sometime but now rc.local does not load at boot time.
When i checked the permissions on the ...
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mapping Character keys
I really dont understand bash`s use of control characters. I understand simple things like adding colors with escape sequences but am at a loss for how to do things like bind keys in .inputrc
For ...
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How to make tcsh not insert whitespace in a command that spans multiple lines
Bash does not seem to insert whitespace but tcsh does.
Tcsh
bash-3.2.25$ tcsh -c 'echo $tcsh; echo A\
> B'
6.14.00
A B
Bash
bash-3.2.25$ bash -c 'echo A\
> B'
AB
How can I ask tcsh to not insert ...
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Can I get the backup option of cp and mv to work with directories?
--backup[=CONTROL]
make a backup of each existing destination file
The man page does say that it works on file. It doesn't seem to have any effect on directories. Is there anyway to make this ...
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IBM V7000 scripts for monitoring
Hello (I'm no hard core coder:),
I try to develop a script to do some very basic monitoring on an IBM SVC.
My goal is to get some information about the nodes and my quroum status and then send ...
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bad magic number
I have a script which I need to execute. The script file is push.sh. Below are the commands that I am using:
dragan@dragan-Lenovo-G570:~/liquibase/liquibase$ chmod +x push.sh
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