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List with two values in every List Item
I want to store a list with name and email address and use it in the single for loop. And I want to do it in Shell.
Knowing that shell list has a white space separator
list = "john, john@gmail.com" "...
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Find file while other file exist in same directory
I'm trying to do "one line script" or really small bash script.
It have to find file (for example ./xxx/one.php) and if that file exist edit (with printf or echo) other file IN SAME directory (for ...
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How do I add this field?
I'm trying to print the signal strength of two wifi devices connected to a hotspot. I manage to do this script that prints the ip, hostname, mac and signal. In the script below the macs are stored in $...
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Scripting School Assignment renaming files without extension .old to have .old [closed]
My goal is to change the file extension of files that do not have the .old extension to contain it after the script. Another goal is for me to do it with a for loop piped with grep -v to check match ...
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How can I grep each file in a directory for a keyword and output the keyword and the filename it was found in?
I have a directory with 2000+ text files. I am trying to make a script that:
Reads a list of IP addresses from ip.txt
Cats each file in the directory
Greps each file for the IP address
If keyword is ...
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Using sed command in for loop across multiple servers
I am trying to manipulate the same text file across multiple hosts. The command I currently have it:
for host in $(cat /etc/hosts | grep text | cut -d' ' -f 1 | sort -u); do
ssh $host \
sudo ...
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Run Rsync for multiple files in parallel from 2 different directories and find elapsed time for each file and all files
I have lots of dump files in 2 different directories that need to be uploaded using rsync, I want to run rsync for each dump file simultaneously to save time.
Dump Files:
Dir1:
- /u05/expdpdump/...
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Looping through a file with two columns and reading those two columns [duplicate]
I have a txt files with all the file names I need to analyze. I have this file (inputFile.txt) :
/path/file1a path/file1b
/path/file2a path/file2b
i have a code which needs two two input files in ...
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Bash script to link networked account directories to local account directories
I'm working on a script that will create a local user account, and link local account directories to networked account directories. The only directories I would like to be created and linked are the ...
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Understanding $() (and for-loops) in bash
I have a directory with git inside and git branch gives me the following output:
$ git branch
branch1
* branch2
master
The * marks the current branch. I would like to use this output in a script....
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Read from file then use for to split fields but honor quotes
This what I am trying to get in a bash shell script:
for a in "1" "2 3" "4 5 6"
do
echo "a: $a"
done
a: 1
a: 2 3
a: 4 5 6
But the quotes are treated differently when you use a variable:
echo "\"1\...
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Moving Specific Files in Specific Directory
I've some files in directory /app/me/all_off which filename like below :
access_log
alarm-batch
alarm-service-root
db_wrapper_access_log
db_wrapper_api_service
moqueue-job
mt_push_api_service
mtqueue-...
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Sum and count in for loop
I have five files each with a number in the first line.
I am attempting to write a bash script incorporating a for-loop that can calculate both the number (count) of the files and the sum of the ...
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How to pass arguments to a command from two files?
I'm trying to replicate the setup of 50 printers from one server to another server.
Command:
lpadmin -p printer_name -v printer_ip -E and some more parameters.
I have the printer names in one text ...
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Bash for loop on all files in folder except one [duplicate]
I have a folder filled with 9 Robot Framework test files. Only 8 of them have to be executed, as the last one is used to set up all the others (let's call it config.robot).
If I had to run all those ...
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Awk command inside a for loop
I try, with no success, to use an awk command inside a for loop.
I've got a variable which contains a series of strings that I want to cut with awk to get the data.
I know how to do that but what I ...
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Command substitution not working inside for loop condition
for (( a=1;a<=$(wc -l sedtest1);a++ ));do echo $a; done
Gives me an error:
-bash: ((: a<=21 sedtest1: syntax error in expression (error token is "sedtest1")
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Reading multiple files and operating on stored Arrays
I have 2 text files "${LinkP}" and "${QuestionP}. I want to read these files and store each complete line in the respective array,
IFS=$'\r\n' GLOBIGNORE='*' command eval "LinkA=($(cat "${LinkP}"))"
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Looping through all sub directories in a folder?
I have requirement where in I need print relative path of each folder.
Folder structure is
is there any way by using single for loop I can print absolute path.
output :-
image_script
...
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Start range from 1 onward
I am counting multiple log files with the range starting from 1 onward however it's starting from 0.
path=(/home/folder/text/*)
for 1 int ${!path}; do
printf "$s: $s\n" $i "${list[i]##*/}"...
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compare column of two files and print data accordingly
I would like to compare the 2nd column of file1- freememory with the 2nd column-usedmemory of file2. If file1(2nd column) that is "freememory" > file2 (2nd column) that is "usedmemory" then print ...
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Unix Script, problem with a 2d array
I have 2 arrays that refer to files for example
alpha=file 1
beta=file2
Charlie=file3
delta=file4
beta2=file5
beta3=file6
Charlie2=file7
charlie3=file8
delta2=file9
delta3=file10
array1=("$alpha" "$...
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I want to find if a word exists in a file
I have a directory with some files.
I want to know if a word exists in each file.
$1 is my directory that I give it as a parameter
e.g. ./myscript.sh /mnt/c/User/er/Desktop/shows
I have written ...
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How to search multiple files for a specific string one by one based on partial name
I'll try to explain my problem as best as I can, but please pardon my English ..
What I'm trying to do, seemed simple enough to me, however every solution I've found so far just won't work.
I wanna ...
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2answers
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Need to iterate through subdirectories, concatenating files, with an iterative number
I'm trying to concatenate files from three different subdirectories into one file. The names of the files in each subdirectory are exactly the same. I'd like to use a loop to iterate through the ...
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Why does this for loop ignore my variable? [duplicate]
I am trying to do a simple script which runs a few commands N number of times, determined by the user's input. However, when it comes to run the commands (in a for loop) - The variable is ignored:
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Force alphabetical order in for loop with if conditions
I want to create a large number of folders and do some operations in them. The folder names are based on permutations of several chemical elements which I define as variables in a for loop:
for ...
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Skip identical values in nestled for loops
I want to create directories in bash by iterating over values from multiple loops (here for simplicity just 2) while skipping identical values. A demonstrating example looks like this:
for i in 1 2 3;...
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GREP for pattern and remove all the junk characters before or after the pattern
I have a set of files in a directory. And every file will have a line called ---PUBG-xxxxx-- or ---PUBG-xxxxx, PUBG-yyyyy ----. Below is the output of the grep command.
grep "^--" FILE*.sql | grep "...
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bash script looping two functions
I would like to order the 5th column by highest value and select the 4th if it matches the 5th column.
cat TABLE_LIST
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
3 No ...
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Why won't the for loop execute for more than 4 iterations?
In the following script, the for loop only outputs till unph4. I tried to write the value of $coils directly but doesn't work as well. I tried other iteration values to see the maximum I am getting is ...
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Excluding Bash File from modifying itself
I'm learning how to make script "fool-proof". I have some scripts that modify files in the current folder but they also modify the script itself. I know it all boils down to the "for" loop with "find" ...
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How can I sum the time based on usernames?
Basically, I want to see how much time every user spent logged in.
(username) pts/0 (IP adress) Tue Dec 12 17:51 - 18:14 (00:22) - this is how one line looks in the last command. The ...
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outputting 2 positions from same file into script and then echo
I have a file which looks like this:
Sender Bob IP 10.1.1.1
Sender Alex IP 10.1.1.2
Sender Jim IP 10.1.1.3
10 lines like this in same format.
I need to echo Name and IP.
While iterating through my ...
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unrar'ing everything in subdirectories without getting into a loop
So I've been trying to unrar multiple .rar files in lots of different folders. Some are packed a little differently and looping is causing a problem.
- folder 1
- file.part01.rar
- ...
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The $@ variable is not working in a for loop, trying to iterate through a users list
PROBLEM:
I can't get the $@ variable to do what I want in a for loop, the loop only sends one name into the file while looping, it should loop through all the arguments and write them to the file ...
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Properly feed paths to executables in bash script
Hello all I have a text file (1.txt) that contains full paths to binaries which I need to execute a command (val_bin) for each path in the file.
1.txt Example:
/source/ed/dev/ed/ab/ed_len/comercial/...
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for loop logic porting from bash to csh
I have below code snippet working in bash:
for i in `ps -eaf | grep -i <pattern> | awk '{print $3}'`; do kill -9 $i; done
But I have a requirement to port this code to work in csh shell due to ...
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echo list / array to xargs [duplicate]
Say I have a list/array:
list=(a b c)
how can I echo each element to xargs? Something like:
for v in list; do echo v; done; | xargs
is there a less verbose way?
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Can an array be the first argument to a function? [duplicate]
I have a function that one of the arguments is an string that has space separated words.
E.g. "foo bar ccc"
I think this kind of string can be treated as an "array" and loop over each word.
My ...
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Default variables in Bash
The default variable for loops in Perl is $_. Is there any equivalent of this in Bash?
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Populate a CSV file from data file with nested loops in bash
I have a file, 4.txt that contains full paths to *.cfg files as well as additional data I need to strip for the final report (5.csv).
For example /source/EDDG/env1/dom1/proj/config/test.cfg
<...
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sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
This command gives an error "sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file"
for file in /dev/DataStage/myProject/source/TEST/MyFile_*.csv; do echo "Testing" done
What is wrong with the above ...
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joining each line of the file with underscore
I have an input file named test.txt like this:
Homo sapiens
Mus musculus
Rat rattus rattus
I want to use a for loop here and loop through each line. Some thing like this:
for i in "`cat test.txt`"
...
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Reverse-exchange file names of files in a folder from bottom up
I have a some jpg files in a certain folder:
hg_test_spr.jpg
hg_test00001.jpg
hg_test00002.jpg
hg_test00003.jpg
hg_test00004.jpg
hg_test00005.jpg
hg_test00006.jpg
.
.
.
hg_test01200.jpg
I want to ...
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ImageMagick - Incrementing file names over several for loops
This is a Bash question about renaming / incrementing file names with a series of 'for' loops. I don't understand the behavior...
Working with the ImageMagick convert command
If I do this with say, ...
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for loop folder list without expansion
I try to generate a command line for a backup script on bash shell.
Simple example:
EXCLUDES="/home/*/.cache/* /var/cache/* /var/tmp/* /var/lib/lxcfs/cgroup/*";
for FOLDER in $EXCLUDES; do printf --...
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Ensuring that subdirectories won't be affected by a loop (or by find)
Please review these codes that are aimed to do basically the same task (finding the main .htaccess of the site and changing it):
for dir in "$HOME"/public_html/*.{com,co.il}/; do
if pushd "$dir"; ...
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I need to create a loop in bash to join images vertically and ouput multiple joined Pages for print
I am running Ubuntu 18.04. I have a directory full of storyboard images in .jpg format as below.
image-0000.jpg
image-0001.jpg
image-0002.jpg
image-0003.jpg
image-0004.jpg
.
.
image-3898.jpg
image-...
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For loop not working in a function with arguments
So I'm creating a function that does a for loop in all the files in a directory as a given argument and prints out all the files and directories:
#!/bin/bash
List () {
for item in $1
...
