Questions tagged [bash]
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replacing part of find output in a readarray command
I need to create filelist (playlist) for using it in a Docker container. So the path of the file on the host system is not the mounting path. Now I try to fix this, but I have some trouble.
This is my ...
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nohup: can't execute 'display_files.sh': No such file or directory
I want to run my code with
nohup shellskriptname &. But whenever I try to see the nohup, it says there is no such file. What can I do, so I can enter it like that?
#!/usr/bin/bash
# To Display ...
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Split code in bash brace expansion
I have got stupid question about line break in bash while using brace expansion.
For example, i have got something like this:
echo {a,b,c,d}
Now i want split code on several lines:
echo {a,b, \
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Is it possible to pass a bash array by name as a parameter to a function? [duplicate]
I'd like to pass an array to a bash function but I get a bad substitution error
Example
mapfile -t ray < <(parallel -j 0 echo ::: {1..10})
declare -p ray
declare -a ray=([0]="2" [1]=...
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Grouping commands of if...then statement, including assignation of variable for shell/bash in a single line
I know the existence of while-do-done. Alternatively, I know that I can use for-do-done. But, I was trying to test manually using if-then-else.
I would to like to execute a command, but doing a shift ...
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"cd" in a function works, except when it doesn't
The first thing I do after cd'ing to a directory is to use "ls", as I imagine is the case for a lot of people. So I decided to define a function in my .bashrc to do both together. This is ...
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readline key bindings don't work properly in the default shell in Debian EC2 instance
I created a Debian EC2 instance. After I ssh into it, the default bash shell is strange to me.
When I type in a command and want to edit the command before running it,
moving left arrow key doesn't ...
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Bash Script to Recursively Rename Files without changing file extension
I am attempting to rename all files (.jpg,.jpeg,.mov,etc) in parent directory and all subdirectories to date_time_7digitnumber without changing the file extension. The below script accomplishes this ...
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Fastest way to merge millions of small files together
I regularly need to transfer millions of small files (small images, txt, json) with average of 5-50k per file between servers or to aws s3.
Is there a faster to merge them into a single file to ...
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Use variable from file to push data through JSON
I'm currently stuck where I try to push data through API that requires JSON structure. I need to read value from file, where I wrote:
file="/value"
name=$(cat "$file")
So $name is ...
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How can I batch rename all files that match a pattern in Linux?
I have folder which contains many .mkv files that I'd like to rename without having to manually do so.
The pattern is this:
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[XVC]_Control_-_10_-_Doctors_[SCB055Y].mkv
[XVC]_Control_-_11_-...
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mv: A and B are the same file
I'm trying to move 5 .MOV files to a folder called MOV. I'm using find to list the files and mv to move the files:
$ mkdir MOV ; find . -type f -iname '*.MOV' -exec mv "{}" "MOV" \;...
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How to do pattern matching on `.bashrc` for file extensions
I'm modifying my .bashrc: I want to make it so that .zip,.tar and .tar.gz files (and maybe more later down the road) are shown with a red color. Thing is, I want to match for all those files once. So ...
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MSYS2: Command works fine in terminal, but syntax error `(' in script
On Windows, with MSYS2, I want to add the file extension for an executable back to the output of which, if it has one. Here's a one-liner:
locAlt="$(which "mingw32-make")" ; echo &...
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open a file with a shell / bash script and get the filename
I want to create a script which handles specific files. It works so far with a simple open file dialog but I'd prefer the "open with" option where the file is opened with the script itself ...
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Why bash in X not child of login from where startx was run? How to add user to a group w/out restarting whole OS with systemd?
I booted (Linux Mint 20.2 distro) in text mode. Added account to a group. groups did not list that group. Fine (I recall works after re-login). So I've exit and logged in. Yes, now groups listed new ...
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The letter "y" won't print in macOS Terminal
I'm learning BASH scripting, and I upgraded my BASH to version 5.1 using Homebrew. When I try typing "y", I just get a sound. When I run a script with a letter "y" in it, I get the ...
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tee is faster than no tee
I have this simple bash script
#!/bin/sh
for i in {1..1000000}
do
echo "hello ${i}"
done
That prints a message a million times
I try to compare the performance of dumping all the ...
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Remove all words from string that match a pattern
I have a string like
/usr/bin/gjs /usr/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate /media/ismail/SSDWorking/book-collection/_Books/_misc/100 Things.epub
Here, I want to remove all words that containing /usr/...
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Bash: install.sh: line 185: syntax error: unexpected end of file
I'm trying to build my own installer for my own Arch Linux distro based but i can't get this error off of me!!!!
i know it can be a open if or while or do or something else but i can't find it!!!! And ...
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How can I assign to a variable the result of conditional expression in a Bash script?
I am looking for an alternative to such javascript expression in bash:
const a = (_expression1_) || (_expression2_);
The example of bash code that does what I want in bash is:
a=$(_expression1_)
if [...
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notify-send with stderr in notification body if there is stderr
Suppose I have a command like:
foo() {
echo a
echo b >&2
echo c
echo d >&2
}
I use the following command to process stdout in terminal but send error via notify-send
foo ...
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"Total In-/Out- coming connection awareness" - script?
once I had found a bash (or Perl maybe; it's so long ago, that I wasn't knowledgeable about bash enough to tell one set of hieroglyphs from another set so to speak) script that filtered the open files ...
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Why does subshell background process not exit on parent process SIGINT?
I have the following script test.sh
#!/bin/bash
function cleanup() {
echo "calling cleanup"
echo "PIDs associated with $0"
ps aux | grep $0
echo "killing $$ $(...
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Why can't I single quote a variable?
So this snippet of code works just fine, the "$i" is in double quotes:
for ((i=0; i <= 10; i++)); do
printf '%d\n' "$i"
done
However, if I put the "$i" in ...
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Inline grouping commands in case statement not working: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
In my bash script, I parse arguments. I want to try to allow only one argument to be without specific pattern, which would be the "path". Any other argument that doesn't fit the cases should ...
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Need help on shell script option processing
I am struggling to make a script have this behavior:
I want to pass options like this ./script -ab is the same as ./script -a -b
And have this logic: "a & b -> c", "a & c -&...
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Can getopts arguments be combined with other input?
I am writing a script that would take a string as input along with other options the user can select by using arguments as indicators. So in other words, something like this:
./script "My input ...
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Bash meta-history: recall bash history modification to prompt?
With
!!:gs/foo/bar/
I can modify a previous bash command. Is there any way I can recall the history modification command to the prompt (rather than the result of the modification) in order to be ...
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"ls" sees different files in the same folder on the same machine in two different terminals. How is this even possible?
A very strange situation occurred to me just now. I'm managing some stuff on a cloud VM running Ubuntu over SSH in a TMUX session. Right now, I have two panes open, which see different files even ...
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How to compare hashes of files in bash script?
I am using sha256sum to check whether file has changed or not within the bash script. My idea is to first store the sha256sum in a *.sha256 file. Then if this is present then use this for sha256 ...
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Getting an error in the if condition
I am just checking whether the password contains a small and capital case letter, I am getting an error at line 19.
myscript.sh:
#!bin/sh
read password
conditionarr=(0 0)
if [[ $password =~ [A-Z] ]]
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How to do smart backups of terminal history
Trying to implement smart backups of my zsh terminal history (~/.zsh_history). Same goes for bash no difference just the file is called .bash_history.
So far I have decided to create a private git ...
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x unbound variable
I am trying to run that script here:
#!/bin/bash
set -o errexit # be strong with errors
set -o nounset # be strong with unset vars
PROG="${0##/}" # Scriptname
USAGE="usage: $PROG ...
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bash tab-completion: complete full path on single tab in git commands?
Whenever I tab-complete a file path after a git command in bash, e.g. git add, I have to press <TAB> multiple times to complete to the actual filename, depending on how many subfolders there are ...
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No new line when piping into xclip
Is there something I can do so that whenever I pipe something into xclip it does not include a new line at the end?
As a workaround, I am using echo -n $(CMD_TO_COPY) | xclip, but it's kind of ...
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Slow mounting cifs-share
I wrote this simple script to save my daily screen-/worktime.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Make this as an alias for reboot & poweroff,
# so the complete uptime per day is logged
log="$HOME/.local/...
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Passing jsonfile content as request to cURL [duplicate]
I have a bunch of json files that I need to use to test a docker container. From postman I extracted the code to use and it looks something like this:
curl --location --request POST '<adress>' \
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Podman Ps Format help
I am trying to list podman ps in a very readable format using podman ps -a --format="ID\t{{.ID}}\nNAME\t{{.Names}}\nIMAGE\t{{.Image}}\nPORTS\t{{.Ports}}\nCOMMAND\t{{.Command}}\nCREATED\t{{....
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Can I point cursor to a character on bash CLI prompt using mouse?
How can I point my cursor to a character on bash CLI prompt using mouse?
Example: user@host:$ grep abcd /tmp/dir1/dir2/dir3/ *.c | grep st1 In this example the command is lengthy and if I want to ...
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Creating a secure transcient duplicate of a folder for consumption by ‘psql’ running as ‘postgres’
This is a question about finding an ideal way to deal with a particular situation.
In a folder under my home folder is a group of psql script files that reference each others through \include_relative ...
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How to know if `script` command (which recordings terminal sessions as typescript) is already runing?
This SO answer says that script adds the variable SCRIPT to the environment of the command it runs. I tried that but it doesn't seem to be working now.
This is what I have tried
ma08@IWeighHar:~/pro$ ...
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linux find command + delete all snapshot files except last 5 ordered by date
under /zookeeper/version-2 , we have many zookeeper snapshot files
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-rw-r--r-- 1 zookeeper hadoop 495333240 Aug 3 14:51 snapshot.5d00011991
-rw-r--r-- 1 zookeeper hadoop 495333240 Aug 3 14:53 ...
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Rename files and folders recursively depth first
From another answer on this site I've gleaned the following snippet for renaming files recursively:
find . -iname "*oldName*" -exec rename oldName newName '{}' \;
This works great if you're ...
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Copy file to same path as source without changing directories [duplicate]
Suppose I have a path like this under some directory (e.g. home): ~/mydir/subdir/file1,and I want to make a copy of file1:
We could do this from the home directory:
cp ~/mydir/subdir/file1 ~/mydir/...
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Use Git Version of mv/rm etc When in Repository
Git has its own versions of commands such as mv and rm that we really ought to use when doing these operations inside repositories.
However, I'm sure I'm not the only person who often forgets to do ...
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How to determine the active systemd-resolved link number using a script?
Because several of the resolvectl commands take the link number as an argument, how do you determine which of the links is the active (current) one?
So far I have:
$ resolvectl status | grep -PB1 '...
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Append files output dynamically
I'm trying to append the contents of several files into a single combined one. Right now I'm doing it like this:
cat file1 >> file2 >> file3 >> combined
It is working fine, but the ...
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How can I obtain a full tabular list of the running process on my system (with their command name and PID at least) for text processing consumption?
When I run top I see a screen similar to this,
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
654 root 20 0 25.5g 147780 70084 S 3.7 0.9 72:08.69 ...
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How to include all scripts of a directory into the current shell session?
I have a directory that contains some script files:
/scripts
api.sh
time.sh
certificate.sh
docker.sh
nginx.sh
wifi.sh
...
These scripts are not commands. They just contain ...
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