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How to print / echo positional parameters index
I have this working and simple code to echo positional parameters VALUES
for i
do
echo "Argument = $i "
done
Here is the actual output from the scrip
Argument = --atleast-pkgconfig-version
Argument ...
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grep count mismatch in UNIX [closed]
while counting the number of records between source and modified using grep command difference showed. In the source file the trxn word is repeated 6339 times. After processing sed operation on it ...
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Using parameter substitution on a Bash array
I have file.txt that I need to read into a Bash array. Then I need to remove spaces, double quotes and all but the first comma in every entry. Here's how far I've gotten:
$ cat file.txt
10,this
2 0 ...
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Pass associative array as parameter list to script
In a script I have an associative array like:
declare -A my_vars=( ["key1"]="value1" ["key2"]="value" )
Is there a single command to transform that into a parameter list in the form
--key1=value1 --...
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Shell Function: Sequence of Pipelines as Argument
I have a shell function (in .bashrc) which creates a temp file, executes the arguments (including all sequence of pipelines), redirects it to a temp file and then open it in VS Code.
I invoke the ...
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Bash: Error in assigning default value to a variable
Inside my bash script:
This works:
CWD="${1:-${PWD}}"
But, if I replace it with:
CWD="${1:=${PWD}}"
I get the following error
line #: $1: cannot assign in this way
Why I can't assign to ${1}?
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how to pass argument to shell and check if argument is not empty
i have this little piece of code lets say get.sh that sets the date into a variable like this
date=$(date +%b%d%y)
now I want to be able to pass custom date parameter to get.sh like
./get.sh --...
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How may I echo all but the last parameter in bash?
I have the following
#!/bin/bash
function f1 ()
{
echo "${@:1:-2}"
}
f1 1 2 3 4 5 6
I need to echo 1 2 3 4 5
man bash tells me that when I use @ I can't use a negative length.
I resorted to using ...
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How to distinguish between a positional parameter and an option?
Both a positional parameter ($1, $2, and so forth) and an option (and/or argument) are both written directly after a command, so what is the definition or phrasing to explain how to distinct them?
In ...
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sh shell: how to use $1 inside quotes
I am using this code:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
echo "wrong syntax"
echo "ct_cmp.sh <label1> <label2> [<file_extension>]"
else
if [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
...
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Removing digits from beginning of filename [duplicate]
I was hoping this would work:
$ find . -type f -exec basename {} \; | while EFS= read -r f; do echo "${f##[0-9]}"; done
But, for example, for files named as:
1foo
11bar
it returns:
foo
...
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How to use parameter expansion with find -exec {}? [duplicate]
I want to incorporate something like:
for f in */*; do mv "$f" "${f%/*}/foo.${f##*.}"; done
Into my find x -exec y {} \;-style workflow.
The for loop construct & "$f" variable will ...
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Is there a way to protect a file in any way so that other superusers CANNOT modify, delete or overwrite it?
Due to keyword hell I can't find the answer to this question and I'm hoping someone can let me know what the answer is.
When entering a sudo command file is there a way to set a parameter(s) which ...
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Pass parameter to a different bash shell
I have written a bash script
Script1.sh
#!/bin/sh
read -p "Enter name of the document file :" name
read -p "Enter LHOST :" lhost
read -p "Enter LPORT :" lport
echo "use exploit/...
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Handling unused getopts argument (are options not mandatory?)
I have a script that starts with getopts and looks as follows:
USAGE() { echo -e "Usage: bash $0 [-w <in-dir>] [-o <out-dir>] [-c <template1>] [-t <template2>] \n" 1>&2;...
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How to pass in log file creation to pass in to script to attach the file
I have several cron jobs I run to back up dbs:
0 8 * * * BACKUP=DEV DB=01 /usr/local/bin/backup.sh > /var/log/backup-db01-`date "+\%m\%d\%y"`.log 2>&1||/usr/local/bin/create-ticket.sh
0 16 ...
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How does FIO benchmark set IOdepth?
NOTE: My question stems from this other U&L Q - What exactly is iodepth in fio?
I want to know how internally FIO sets I/O depth. I.e., one of the parameters we submit to FIO when we run it is "...
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Create custom parameters (options) for already existing commands?
Recently I 've been wanting to create a custom parameter for pacman.
To elaborate, I have tweaked pacman.conf so that specific packages (linux, linux-firmware, and a couple more) are ignored when I ...
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Parameters passed to a sourced script are wrong
A script on AIX which checks the number of parameters passed and complains if they are not correct:-
if [ "$#" -ge 1 ]; then
...
else
echo 'Usage: myscript <a> [b] [c]'
fi
The script sets ...
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2answers
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How to pass a search pattern starting with $ to less on the command line
I just tried to pass a search pattern starting with $ to less:
less +/'\$l' myfile.pl
and I got
There is no -l option ("less --help" for help)
After reading the manual, I tried the alternate -p-...
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How to pass variable values to a script and run it in one line?
I have a file (temp_4n.in) with the following lines:
5 C 172.0696
5 C 135.6942
5 H 30.9062
5 H 31.8124
12 H 31.0377
12 O 293.0612
12 H 32.4678
I have a script (...
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parameter operation inside awk line
When I run bjobs -w in the machine where I work, I get the next output:
JOBID USER STAT QUEUE FROM_HOST EXEC_HOST JOB_NAME SUBMIT_TIME
821213 user1 RUN parallel16 hpc2 16*...
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Is bash special parameter $@ treated as a loop in printf?
So I am testing the following:
foo() {
printf "\nAll the parameters, each on a separate line:\n"
printf "param: %s\n" "$@"
}
foo The "nicely colored" rainbow
The output is:
All the ...
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1answer
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Why does substring expansion [ test=“-efoo”; echo ${test:0:2} ] fail?
On Linux Mint, using bash..
test="-ffoo"; echo ${test:0:2}
works outputting the first two characters
but
test="-efoo"; echo ${test:0:2}
fails, with apparently null output.
I'm thinking the form ...
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Use of positional parameters inside function defintion
How to use the positional parameters which are given from the command line in a function definition?because inside the function definition ,$1 and $2 mean the values that are input to it!
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1answer
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Syntax error near unexpected token `}' in a Bash function with an if-then statement [closed]
I stored the following script in a file and created an alias to that file in the user's bashrc, then sourced that bashrc:
#!/bin/bash
domain="$1" && test -z "$domain" && exit 2
...
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How to use param values inside for loop
I am running my script as script.sh 12345 12346 12347
for z in 1..$(seq 1 $#);
do
echo "param $z is $($(echo $z))"; //Line 4
done;
I am expecting output as below:
param 1 is 12345
param 2 is ...
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What is the meaning of “#nnnnnnnnnnnn” in GNOME terminal configuration file?
The file ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml contains:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="use_theme_colors" mtime="1517920383" type="bool" value="...
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Bash: Extract one of the four sections of an IPv4 address
We can use the syntax ${var##pattern} and ${var%%pattern} to extract the last and first section of an IPv4 address:
IP=109.96.77.15
echo IP: $IP
echo 'Extract the first section using ${var%%pattern}: ...
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0answers
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Bash: Special variables $@ vs. $* in For Loop [duplicate]
Using $@ instead of $* would preserve quoting. Consider the following script:
#!/bin/bash
# Test.sh
for arg in $@
do
echo "I found the argument $arg"
done
./Test.sh "One Two Three"
I reach the ...
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Is there a way to get the positional parameters of the script from inside a function in bash?
The following variables are used to get the positional parameters:
$1, $2, $3, etc.
$@
$#
But they are used for both positional parameters of the script and the positional parameters of a function.
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command line terminology: what are these parts of a command called?
At the command line I often use "simple" commands like
mv foo/bar baz/bar
but I don't know what to call all the parts of this:
┌1┐ ┌──2───┐
git checkout master
│ └──────3──────┘
└───────4─────────...
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How to output an individual element of “$@”?
I have read that $@ is an array that holds the positional parameters.
I have tried to output an element of the $@ array:
echo ${@[1]}
But bash is giving me this error:
test.sh: line 1: ${@[1]}: ...
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Why $0 is not a positional parameter?
I have read that positional parameters start at $1 (for example: $1, $2, $3 and so on are positional parameters). But $0 is not a positional parameter.
But why $0 is not a positional parameter?
I ...
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Bash - Parameter should not be parsed as bash while outputting
I do have 2 Shell Scripts. The first one triggers the second one and adds some parameters. The second one calls a command and adds the parameters from the first script as parameters for the command.
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Word splitting in positional parameters
Consider the following example:
IFS=:
x="a :b" # three spaces
echo ["$x"] # no word splitting
# [a :b] # as is
echo [$x] # word splitting
# [a b] # four spaces
Word splitting ...
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Passing parameters by shell script file to expect script
I need to pass a paramter from a shell script under command line of ssh script
for example :
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh user@servername.com "cm1+passingparameters.sh;cmd2"
my existing script 123....
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What is the correct term for streams we substitute in a parameter?
Consider this code with my parameter:
for domain; do
cat <<EOF > "/etc/nginx/sites-available/${domain}.conf"
My \domain is ${domain}.
EOF
done
Let's break the parameter in ...
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Combining a parameter argument inside an echo [duplicate]
I use the following script to do the following actions in my environment:
Creating an Nginx site conf.
Creating a corresponding Let'sEncrypt SSL certificate.
Creating a symlink between my sites-...
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Way to specify param for all commands executed
I was wondering if there is a way to specify a mutual param for X amount of commands. E.g.
sudo cmd1 cmd2 cm3 \ --help
this obviously doesn't work, but I haven't seen anything in the manual. I'm ...
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Preventing parameter expansion multiple times
I have a code that is writing a script which is writing another script:
cat > step1.sh <<-EOF
*other commands*
cat > step2.sh <<-EOF4
if ...
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what does it mean shell read command line arguments ${1,,}
In the Shell script code, the command line arguments assigned to variable like below. what does it mean comma(,) in the statement. What will be the difference when comma is added twice while reading ...
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Pass an option to a makefile
Makefile
my_test:
ifdef $(toto)
@echo 'toto is defined'
else
@echo 'no toto around'
endif
Expected behavior
$ make my_test
no toto around
$ make my_test toto
toto is defined
...
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Linux: How do I upgrade ssh-keygen?
I want to make use of the updated version of ssh-keygen because that includes a hashing feature for fingerprints like so:
ssh-keygen -E md5 -lf ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
But my current version doesn't ...
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Sed Command behavior difference wrt argument handling
Recently I was working on performing a sed operation on a config file.
I found that the sed command is behaving differently with the parameter -ir vs -ri :-
[root@node system]# sed -ri 's|(^[[:...
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xargs ignoring 2nd script parameter
I'm calling a bash script with two parameters, let's call them param_one and param_two. I also have a file called test which contains two lines:
line_one
line_two
Here's what my script looks like:
...
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Xargs With Multiple Argument Substitutions - Use environment variable argument after sh -c '…'
This is my command:
find $1 -name "*.html" | sort -n | xargs -I {} sh -c 'echo "Dumping file: "{} >> "$2"; w3m {} >> "$2" 2>&1'
where:
$1 is the path where I will look for files ...
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In a bash shell script can $2 equal multiple arguments on the command line or do I need $3, $4, etc…?
In the example script below it is used to send to one or two email addresses, depending on which process is using the script. Do I need to add $3 to account for an additional email address or is $2 ...
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use find to locate, move and symlink a directory tree matching [0-9]{1,10}/*
I need to move some directories and make symlinks back to them.
The directory structure looks like:
/storage1
/storage1/123/named_directory_1
/storage1/123456/named_directory_2
/storage1/123456789/...
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Difference between $1, ${1} and $“1” in awk
While working on a script, the following script gave an error
file * | awk '{ ${1}=""; print substr(${0},2) }';
while both of the following scripts ran successfully
file * | awk '{ $"1"=""; print ...
