Questions tagged [for]
A tag to denote any questions relating to for loops
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Writing a bash shell for loop question [closed]
trying to write a Bash shell for loop that will iterate through each line of the confidential.hex file and add each line of the hex string to the name of target domain name server, ns.example.com and ...
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using sed in a for in loop to remove words from file
I have a file 'book'(not txt) which contains text. I also have a list of words which I need to delete from said file.
I have written this script but for some reason when I try to check and see if the ...
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For loop for subfolders and flat folders at once
I use this code in my scripts to process files inside a folder, but it only works for subfolders.
if [ -d "$1" ]; then for file in "${1%/}/"*/*(*.mkv|*.mp4|*.avi); do
I know I can just remove /* ...
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Concatenating files with delimiter in for loop
I'm loading data from the filesystem to postgres. I have 500 millions of single files, 1 json in each file.
In order to be more efficient with postgres I want to load those in batches not as single ...
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Bash script that runs parallel threads slows down substantially over several hours
I have a script I came up that simply executes another process into the background that attempts to control the max number of processes running (300 in this case).
It initially executes scripts at ...
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Reference items in bash for loop from find command
Suppose I have this code:
for i in $(find * -type f -name "*.txt"); do
# echo [element by it's index]
done
How do I access, if possible, an element by it's index?
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for-loop simplification
I would like to understand the for-loop below and perhaps simplify it.
For example, I'd like to concatenate the rem files for each sample in the directory.
Files:
file1.1.fq
file1.rem.1.fq
file1.2....
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How to ignore file in a for loop
I'm making a script to start up a number of services at server reboot. To do this, I'm looping over the directory, checking that each has a start.sh script, and calling that script if they do. ...
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bash: problem with looping through array of directory paths
Array arr1 contains two directory paths extracted with find command:
echo "${arr1[@]}"
/archive/logs/2020/02
/archive/raw/2020/02
I am testing if I can loop through the array arr1 with this code:
...
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Echo variable with index
I set var inside loop, like this:
eval "PB_$i=`cat btc_pub_$i.key`"
where $i is the index of loop.
I want to do echo or printf of
$PB_$i ($PB_0,$PB_1, etc)
I tried with
echo $PB_${i}
but ...
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How to convert my For loop into sequential execution
I wrote the following for loop (spread over multiple lines here for better readability):
for F in CLEAN_READS/*_1.fa; do
R=${F%_*}_2.fa; BASE=${F##*/};
SAMPLE=${BASE%_*};
metascript assembly -1 ...
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bash: opening multiple files in for loop
I want to open all the images in a small directory containing a small number of arbitrary, each image in its own window that has rotate and zoom controls.
I have tried eog,eom,imagemagick,gimp,...
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For loop with grep and spaces
I seem to have a little bit of an issue with spaces when trying to use for loops and grep together. The whitespace is important because, for example, I'd like to match 'k117_19650 ', but not '...
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3answers
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csplit multiple files into multiple files
folks-
I'm a bit stumped, on this one. I'm trying to write a bash script that will use csplit to take multiple input files and split them according to the same pattern. (For context: I have multiple ...
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ssh multiple hosts with respective users
I am trying to loop through multiple remote servers with respective users and ssh and run some command.
I tried, something like in shell script:
#!/bin/bash
Q_HOST=host1 host2 host3 #list of hosts
...
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Bash - move/rename numeric sorted files from input number onwards [duplicate]
I have a numbered list of files like this:
01_file_name.log
01_file_name.txt
02_file_name.log
02_file_name.txt
03_file_name.log
03_file_name.txt
04_file_name.log
04_file_name.txt
05_file_name.log
...
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How to replace Linux command with variable in for loop?
These are my sample files
user@linux:~$ ls -l | cut -d ' ' -f 10-
01. old Name.txt
02. old Name.txt
03. old Name.txt
test.txt
user@linux:~$
This is what I want to do.
user@linux:~$ for output in *...
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Changing a file with values from another file - Bash script
I am trying to write a script that takes two files as arguments and changes an .svg file with values from a .csv file. Csv file consists of lines with two values; id,colour. I need to find the id in ...
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Checking values consecutively - Bash script
I want to write a script that gets its arguments(study hour of every day) from stdin and checks if a student regularly studies. Regularly studies means that the student studies for at least 4 hours a ...
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Mathematical operations - Bash script
I am trying to write a script(script1.sh) that gives the sum of each digits in the first number, raised to the power of second number. So
./script1.sh 12345 2
should output 55
(because 1+4+9+16+...
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How to write the following script in a single line?
#Gives a list of servers and their instance
for server instance in `/swb/local/scripts/swdList -p SMARTS -a A5SV_2017.1b -e 1 --type=instance --function=SAM --priority=1 | grep -v sis`
do
echo "...
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awk command combining if and for
I have a csv file 20 columns. in the first part of the file is the geolocation info. What I am trying to do is to find the geolocation data for a certain record.
First if identifies the user "ROSA". ...
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execute for loop on remote machine over ssh
i am trying to execute for loop on a remote machine using the below line
ssh ubuntu@host -n "RPM=\`ls /var/www/html/tmp/* | for i in "${promotebuilds[@]}" ; do grep -E $i /var/www/html/tmp/*; done'...
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Loop rows and columns inside awk to count a specific substring for each cell
I have a .vcf file of 138 first header lines (starts with #) and the others of data (snp in rows(322045) and patients with some infos in columns(the first 10). I used a script bash to calculate for ...
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Attaching multiple files using bash and emailing it out using SWAKS or another program
I'm trying to:
Attach multiple files into one email.
Have the email sent out using a Gmail account with the current date and time in the subject header.
I'm having trouble with the for a loop ...
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How to iterate more than 10 directories using “for dir in equil[0123]”? [duplicate]
for dir in equil[0123] could iterate over folders of equil0, equil1,equil2 and equil3. But if I have folders with name number more than 10, e.g. equil23, how to properly refer to them? How the ...
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Bash loop 1000x overhead over loop core
Here is a little experiment:
t1=$(date +%s%N)
ta=0
for i in `seq 1 1000`
do
t1a=$(date +%s%N)
echo blabla
t2a=$(date +%s%N)
((ta=ta+(t2a-t1a)))
done
t2=$(date +%s%N)
echo diffb: $((t2-...
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Bash for loop executes multiple echo statements “out of order”
I have a bash script:
for j in "$(ls -d */)"; do
echo "$j"
echo "$j"
done
and this outputs:
dir1/
dir2/
dir3/
dir1/
dir2/
dir3/
What I want it to output is this:
dir1/
dir1/
dir2/
dir2/
...
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1answer
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How to use bash variables in a awk command within bash for
I want to use a set of previous variables created to filter columns of a file called a.ped_snps.temp with awk within bash for loop.
For this, I created bash variables: var_i_1, var_i_2, ... ...
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1answer
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How to print output to look like stairs?
My code is this in my shell script file:
for i in {0..3}
do
COLOR_Value="\033[1;3"$i"m \t Hello World"
echo -e $COLOR_Value
done
The output is this: (Each Hello World changes color as it ...
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vifm: run command on each selected file individually
I want to for loop analog for vifm.
When I don't select any file I can type :!echo %f and I see output of echo with current file name as argument.
When I select several files :!echo %f yields output ...
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Bash: Multiple for loops in Background
Is this the correct way to start multiple sequential processings in the background?
for i in {1..10}; do
for j in {1..10}; do
run_command $i $j;
done &
done;
All j should be ...
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(Bash) For Loop Not Functioning Properly
I have a loop in a bash script, test.sh that reads as follows:
#!/bin/bash
CHOSEN_NQUEUE=0
foo(){
for chunk in $(seq 0 $((${CHOSEN_NQUEUE}-1)));
do
echo "CHUNK = $(($chunk+1))"
done
}
...
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Loop to run a program using multiple files from different directories
So I am trying to run a program iRep and usually it runs as-
iRep -f Bins/10000A-01-01_bin.* -s sam/10000A-01-01.sam.sorted.sam --sort -o 10000A-01-01_iRep_output
in sam folder -
10000A-01-01.sam....
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Is it possible to use && operator in terminal command template loop?
I wanted to make a list of similar clear commands clearer to read, so I've made a little terminal loop
for what in \
cache \
thumbs \
; do my template $what:clear; done
It works great, however ...
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Show progress of a for loop after it was started
I started a for loop in an interactive bash session. For this question we can assume the loop was something like
for i in dir/*; do
program "$i"
done > log
The command takes a lot longer than ...
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Command ssh connection for 1000 linux servers
Please help me out from below situation.
There are 1000 linux servers with me. i need to find out which all servers are accepting passwordless connection from my master server. Below is the command i ...
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Issue with replacing the value of a parameter based on some condition
I am working on a script where I am passing a file as a argument to it.
The file has databases of two categories. One which starts with GDH_ and the others can be anything other than that. For ex:
...
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“ for vs find ”
I have alot of directories, the name of which are floating point numbers (0, 0.5 ,...,199.5,200). All of these directories contain a text file named p. I want to replace the word value with freeValue ...
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for loop not working in bash
i have the below code to replace some strigns in multiple files, but the for loop is checking for the first file and not executing the perl script. below is my code
if [ -f zebu.work.post_opt/...
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looping through command to submit several jobs
I am submitting a job to a computer.
It looks something like this:
mpirun -np 12 example_S57 -o S57.results -r S57.final
mpirun -np 12 example_S58 -o S58.results -r S58.final
...
...
...
...
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Pipe inputs from more than 1 process
I am trying to automate some make commands. Along with the target we have a variable that is passed to make (corresponding to set of a #ifdef's in code).
The make command looks like this:
make <...
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associative array execution order problem [duplicate]
in a bash script i'm using an associative array to create tables, tablespaces, indexes and partitions in my database. this is the script (the main script is too long with complicated queries so i ...
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Issue with `echo` in bash when looping over output of python script
Given the python script
if __name__ == '__main__':
print("first")
print("second")
print("third")
the bash script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
declare -a choice=$( python3 test.py )
echo "You ...
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What is correct syntax to for loop variable in PATH?
I have to execute following loop:
root1=path/to/root1
root2=path/to/root2
for i in {1..2}; do ${root${i}}; done
It doesn't give desired output:
path/to/root1
path/to/root2
Admin suggested ...
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Shortcutting in a loop
Shortcutting: (expr1 && expr2), rather than an if ... fi statement. If expr1, expr2,... are to be generated by a loop, can you do it?
Here's a toy example:
$ for cond in {0,0,0}; do if [[ $...
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bash if statement help
I am currently using 2 scripts. 1 script to filter the files by year. 2nd script into which sits inside the year subfolders to filter by month # (01-12).
Is there something that would be better ...
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How to loop for 3 times in bash script when docker push fails?
I have a bash script which simply docker pushes an image:
docker push $CONTAINER_IMAGE:latest
I want to loop for 3 times when this fails. How should I achieve this?
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for loop with indices [duplicate]
Let's suppose I have the following loop:
for i in {1..3}
do
mkdir $i
done
Since I have many other loops in the main code and I am going to change regularly the size of the sequence, I would like ...
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bash for loop multiple number ranges
I want to run a bash numeric 'for' loop but I want to skip some numbers in between.
Example:
for num in {1..4, 7..11, 23..34}; do (echo num $num); done
or
for num in {17..24, 41..48}; do (echo num ...
