A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system.
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Unix script to connect 4 different servers [closed]
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Automatically run commands over SSH on many servers
I need to create a script which will connect 4 different servers one by one, and check if the server is running then ...
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What does exit do in an if block in a shell script?
I have a question regarding unix shell script.
Say if you do exit 1 in inner if: will it exit or will it still execute the outer if? The following is a dummy example.
if [ "$PASSWORD" == ...
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Parse apache logs to exclude IP ranges
I need to look for some requests in a huge pile of apache logs. My only requirement is this:
I need to only view the requests coming from any IP address that is NOT included in a list of 50 IP ranges ...
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Run one-line bash command in tcsh [closed]
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Syntax errors in a bash script executed from tcsh
I write the line below in order to verify if first or second fields of list of numbers are equal to 146.
I want to ...
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Download from dynamically changing urls via script
I want to write a script to download all Walter Lewin lectures from this page in wmv format: http://videolectures.net/mit801f99_physics_classical_mechanics/
However the links to the wmv file for ...
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gnuplot shell variable substitution and arrays
I need to use shell variables in my gnuplot commands, for which I'm using the here document style. I also need to use loops inside the gnuplot code. Both these things are working.
Now -- I want to ...
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Shell script to become root
How can we write a shell script to become root?
That is I donot want to input the password at prompt it should be within the script itself. I was trying to make but failed to do so.Is it possible, if ...
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Parameretrize file descriptor number to open a tcp socket in shell script
I'm tried to parameretrize in a variable the file descriptor number to open a tcp socket using exec command but it failed. Only work correctly when file descriptor number is a constant. In the next ...
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please help with my script [closed]
I need to write a simple homework script for my Unix 101 course.
I need to take a directory name from the user, and list how many things are in it.
For some reason it doesn't work and gets the next ...
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solaris 10 + display 2 lines after match by grep?
I want to match for example:
The string e1000g0 from the lltconfig -a list , and then to display the two lines after the string e1000g0
so I get only the lines:
Node 0 du1a : ...
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How to effectively use bash scripting (different cost reductive ways and good habits)? [closed]
This is one of the most perennially important questions. How to effectively script ? What are the bad ways and what are the good ways ? I know of some, which i will point out here. If anybody does ...
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Executing a script from Nagios event handler fails to run
I have Nagios running on a webserver. For this one Nagios service check in particular, if it fails, it will run a script. This script is triggered via Nagios event handlers.
Nagios event handler ...
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Executing user defined function in a find -exec call
I'm on Solaris 10 and I have tested the following with ksh (88), bash (3.00) and zsh (4.2.1).
The following code doesn't yield any result:
function foo {
echo "Hello World"
}
find somedir -exec ...
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Requesting user input while reading file line by line
For class I need to write a Bash script that will take the output from ispell and when I try and request user input inside the while loop it just saves the next line of the file as the user input.
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Is there an easy way to create a FreeBSD rc script?
I have a FreeBSD jail in which I run a server using the command:
/usr/sbin/daemon /path/to/script.py
At the moment I have to run this command every time I restart the machine and the jail starts. ...
