Questions tagged [bash]
Questions specific to GNU’s Bourne Again SHell, as opposed to other Bourne/POSIX shells. For questions about Unix shells in general, use the /shell tag instead.
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Save output of command in array
I am executing this command
ar=($( ssh -i id_rsa -T -y root@1.1.1.1 sh -c "id;whoami;ps aux"))
I need to save the output of each command executed into the array and call the array, but i ...
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My confusion about the usage of double quotes in bash
Recently, I am busy coding the bash script to feed my needs. However, during the coding time, I found the usage of double quotes is contradicted with each other at some times. For example, I try to ...
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What is this code supposed to do?
#block 1
#
#
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
exit 1
fi
ID=`echo $1 | awk -F / '{print $NF}'`
# Set the user agent ID to use
USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0"
# Check we have the tools we need
which wget
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How to loop through a CSV with multiple lines to grab 2 variables?
I have a CSV file that contains usernames and passwords. The file looks something like this:
user1,password1
user2,password2
user3,password3
I need to loop through each line to grab the username and ...
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run another while read after first one finished
I want to run another while read with different input file + python script after first one is finished.
Example code:
#!/bin/bash
while read -r line;
do
python3 script.py -d $line --output test
...
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Use find -exec in a script
I'm a long-time find and bash user, but this seems to be the first time I've tried to run a find command in a script.
I'm trying to loop through all the project source files to find the first argument ...
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array isn't printing the count it got appeneded in it
I'm declaring an array and keep adding in it and add a comma(,) next to each addition. When I count the number of appends done on that array it shows me 1 though it shows all all the values appended ...
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Ubuntu terminal not showing path
I have added one line in bashrc and after that terminal is not working as expected, no path is showing and I am unable to run any command:
Below line i have added in bashrc:
. ~/.profile
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Bash script for editing action camera firmware values
New to script writing, new to bash, new to firmware modifications, but... enthusiastic as all get out.
Here's the link to my camera's firmware.
I'm trying to edit and replace the bitrate values ...
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Can I make shell consider NBSP a whitespace character?
This seems like a common issue: you paste a simple command from somewhere into the terminal and it's not being understood by a shell:
$ echo test
$ zsh: command not found: echo test
The reason is ...
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get the stdout and stderr redirection back to terminal
I was running a script in nohup as
nohup bash test.sh > logfile 2>&1 &
i was tailing to the log file as this script runs for some 2-3 hours.
What happened is that i accidentally deleted ...
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Script in Git repository to durably set $PATH
I have a Git repository which needs some setup to build in a way that replicates our CI system. Particularly, we have a complex tool named emerge which does much of the dependency management, and a ...
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Shell script, a function to verifie if FILES=$(ls) contains a file
I am a beginner in shell scripting and I need to find a function, to check if a variable exist in a list in bash. The list is generate this way: FILES=$(ls) and so I need to check if a file is there. ...
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Checking Background Jobs after Using Script to Submit
When I submit a job to the background using the below line, I have no issues using the jobs command to see the status.
nohup orca result0000.inp > result0000.out &
However, when I use a bash ...
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Bash - make counter print superscript numbers
If I had a script with a counter, printing numbers like this:
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
i=$((i+1))
echo "$i"
done;
prints:
1
2
3
4
5
[...]
how can I make the script print superscript ...
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Create script to manage service
i need your support to create a script necessary to deploy, start and stop a service from one server to the others server. This service is a jar with a properties file.
I would create a menu script ...
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How do I rename multiple files by removing everything but numbers?
I want to rename files like:
SL Benfica vs. SC Beira-Mar 136.mp4
SL Benfica vs. SC Beira-Mar 137.mp4
SL Benfica vs. SC Beira-Mar 138.mp4
SL Benfica vs. SC Beira-Mar Jogo 074.mp4
SL Benfica vs. SC ...
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How to set a valuable as an integer [duplicate]
I have a txt file and there has random numbers in it. I try to pick the smallest value from that txt file and set as an integer. I achieved "pick" part but I cannot set this value as an ...
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pass each line in .txt file as argument to python script
I have infinite loop in bash, I need to pass each line in my domain.txt file as argument to python script which can only accept one at a time, when it goes through all lines in domain.txt file its ...
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Purge lines in a file based on age in shell script
I wanted to record the slave delay in mysql server every minute,so prepared a simple script.
#!/bin/bash
echo "`date` : `mysql -uroot -pXXXXXX -e"show slave status\G" | grep -i ...
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Is there a way to add lines to .bashrc without permission to access?
I have sshed into another computer, on which I’ll be working. In order to access the tools I need, I’m supposed to “go into my .bashrc file” and add two lines:
eval 'path/to/file/setup.sh'
AND
source ...
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Sed works standalone but not in command substitution [duplicate]
When I use the following command in Bash, it works fine:
sed -n '/##/{p; :loop n; /##/q; p; b loop}' FILENAME.txt
It outputs something like this:
##
* Some line
Command substitution
However, when I ...
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How to define PATH? Without PATH errors
When I write in .bashrc:
export PATH=\$PATH:\/usr/local/qc/OPENMPI_3_1_4/bin/
after a reboot, I get this error with any command line:
david@doc1:~> less
If 'less' is not a typo you can use command-...
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How can I find multiple files in multiple subdirectories?
I need to find a list of files in multiple subdirectories and save the path of each file in a txt file. I have all the filenames in a list in filenames.txt.
I am trying to do this:
while read -r fname;...
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Is there a limit for the read command?
I'm trying to write a bash script that will let me save a backup code (lots of numbers) in a file. I've finished the script but it's only letting me to save 4096 digits of the code.
I tried to do this:...
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Unable to run a bash loop in linux by taking two input files as an input?
Newbie to bash scripting, I made script to automate the program to run on 100 different files, can someone please correct the script.
In a directory I had 1 to 100 files with suffix *_R1_sic.fast and *...
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What is wrong with this script that is supposed to test the Collatz Conjecture?
I want to make a script that tests the Collatz Conjecture. More specifically, the goal is to make a script that allows me to enter a positive integer that is not 1, and prints out the final number ...
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How to set a variable with name from another variable? [duplicate]
I'm writing a script in bash and I added these commands that will set names of 2 directories and count of these directories.
dir1="name1"
dir2="name2"
count=2
Then, I made a ...
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How is this script (open-switch/opx-build/scripts/opx_run) passing variables?
Like many bash questions, I'm 100% sure there is an answer but Googling them is challenging.
I'm trying to understand the following script:
#!/bin/bash
# available options
export OPX_GIT_TAG="${...
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How can I enable/disable a jail using fail2ban?
We can add a line like this below a specific jail in the jail.local file, and control the jail:
enabled = true/false
But I think there should be a command to do this, as we've got bunch of "set&...
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Which binary would be run when we have multiple installations?
I wanted to set gsettings as /usr/bin/gsettings so I created an alias. But I am not sure if that works:
$ type gsettings
gsettings is aliased to `/usr/bin/gsettings'
gsettings is /home/linuxbrew/....
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create recursive snapshots with BTRFS
I'm working on a shell script (just with btrfs default tools), which should do recursive snapshots of all subvolumes. My BTRFS looks like that and each directory is a subvolume. In the .snapshots ...
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How to view all the list that can be viewed by update-alternatives?
Tabbing gives me ls data but i want something to be shown like x-session-manager , x-terminal-emulator and so on. How can i get list what can i set?
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How to convert all text files in directory to one csv
I want to convert all text files in a directory to one csv file. I want the input to the csv to be the text in the text file labeled by the author of the text file found in the filename. For reference,...
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How to split text files by character count in directory
I would like to divide multiple text files in a directory into many smaller text files by a given character count. For example, I want each file in the directory to be divided into smaller text files ...
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how to run `find -exec` inside bash function — problem escaping characters and unexpected end of file
I want to make it easier to run this kind of command:
find . -type f -exec sed -i 's|wpp-splash|wpp_splash|g' {} \;
so I created a function in my .bashrc to shorten it:
function sedall() { find . -...
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How do a dynamically switch parts of a pipe?
I have a script which should execute a series of commands through a pipe. Depending of the arguments passed to the script:
Either it encrypts the file, computes its hash, and sends it to a REST ...
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How to make sure only one instance of a bash script with parameters runs?
if I have a deployment.sh, it has two parameters: environment and release version.
deployment.sh uat release1
deployment.sh prod release1
I want to make at any time: the deployment.sh with same ...
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How to put updating data in the Bash command prompt?
I am trying to make a prompt that would show the current battery percentage, however if I have my code for setting PS1 in .bashrc the way that it's written then it only checks the data once when the ...
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bash up arrow not working, neither is fzf history
I've been using bash with fzf for quite some time now. At some point I was playing with settings, and I broke either my bash profile, or the fzf or both.
At this point, anything that doesn't return a ...
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Set a variable to the result of a division and subtraction command
I am trying to get the difference of 2 dates in epoch form and convert the number back to days:
EXPIRYEPOCH=$(date --date="$EXPIRYDATE" +%s)
TODAYEPOCH=$(date --date="$TODAYSDATE" +...
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Replace an attribute value with another value in SVG
I have a directory that contains multiple SVG files. What I am trying to do is replace the height="2500" (value of height can be any integer) with height="{{ include.height }}". ...
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How to find the top 3 process that was started in the last 10 seconds? [closed]
How to find the top 3 process that was started in the last 10 seconds using bash
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Switch all my git repositories to depth 20, to save space?
I know that git clone --depth=20 <repo> is oftentimes much much smaller than git clone. Official docs for --depth.
Looks like I've gone a bit crazy with my repos folder, here's the fd piped to ...
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Convert array into string
I have a string say, test_var=ab_c_de_fg_.txt. I need to store ab_c in one variable (characters before the 2nd _) and de_fg_ in a second variable (characters after the second _ and before .txt), so ...
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grep string that is contained within parentheses [closed]
I'm having trouble with grep strings from the logs. If I have multiple string matching, it won't find any strings after parentheses
So grepped log file looks something like this:
Jun 26 08:28:00 pzb ...
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How to show bash set -x commands in colors?
I have a bash script which throws 100s of lines.
I can see which command doing this using set -x but it's difficult to find it on terminal.
If set -x option shows in color I can find it faster.
Is ...
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Using regex with IFS variable to split Bash string
I am trying to split a string into an array by any character that is not alphanumeric. Can assign a regex pattern to the IFS variable to accomplish this?
I have tried it like so:
input="$1"
...
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Command not found despite having just installed it?
As you can see in the screenshot below, I install a command (it's a wrapper for a program called qsiprep), and then try running it, but it says it's not installed...any ideas as to what is happening?
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Measuring disk usage of specific file types per each directory (recursively, as a demo for 'du --include')
This is my working code, but I believe it's not optimized - there must be a way to complete the job much faster than this:
find . -type f -iname '*.py' -printf '%h\0' |
sort -z -u |
xargs -r -0 -I{...
