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Run a script after some command were executed

I have a list of scripts ./myscript <param> | grep "asd" ./myotherscript <param> <param> > file ... How can I automaticaly run another script when one of these command in the ...
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Passing a bash command-line argument containing a dot

How can a command-line argument containing a dot (.) be passed? Are there any escape sequences for capturing characters like dot? The following invocation of a bash-script from the shell does not ...
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How to get exact file size and file name?

Right now I am using ls -lt /my/directory (see below) then php parses the output. But inconsistently because the delimiter is space and there might be two or more spaces in between two fields. The ...
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How to format a curl command for a special task?

There is a search page in a form http://site.com/search.php and it sends a search query via POST request. I want to fetch this request via curl command line tool to inspect a POST request. The HTML ...
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How to create a confirmation question in Linux?

I have a certain command (git push server-name) that has major consequences. How to require confirmation for this command only? It should ignore white space. The confirmation could be Enter 'yes i am ...
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Functional shell scripting [closed]

I found out that when I want to create some shell script or advanced command it always made me trouble to remember the names of the commands and their switches. e.g. tr -d '\n' < file | wc -c ...
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How to pkill from a script?

How can I write a script that basically just runs pkill -HUP inetd? I want to restart inetd via a script so I can schedule it to run at a particular time. I tried to write it myself, but I'm getting a ...
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What is the easiest way to execute text from tail at the command line?

Sometimes I'm working on a new (ubuntu) box and I type git and am alerted: The program 'git' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install git-core If that happens I ...
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Postgres 9.0 linux command to windows command conversion [closed]

i am working on an application using delphi 7 as the front end and postgres 9.0 as the back end. I have to upload images to the server so i use \lo_import and \lo_export for inserting images on the ...
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How can I pass a command line argument into a shell script?

I know that shell scripts just run commands as if they were executed in at the command prompt. I'd like to be able to run shell scripts as if they were functions... That is, taking an input value or ...
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clear tmpfs in my case

I am on a Ubuntu machine. I have make a directory under root directory, by: $ sudo mkdir /hello $ sudo mkdir /hello/bye Then I mount tmpfs with size 1024M to /hello/bye by: $ sudo echo "tmpfs ...
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Move with possible rename

Is it possible to construct a command that will move the file to another directory and if the same file is already there, generate some random string that is not in the name of some file in the ...
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What's the best way to determine the source directory for UNIX process using 'ps'?

I am running a Ruby command line script (rufus.sh)which ultimately calls Thread.new, which spawns a UNIX process as shown below. I run this script for more than 1 directory as the output of the ps ...
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How to list files and directories with directories first

I have two questions. First, which command lists files and directories, but lists directories first? Second question: I want to copy a list of files into a single directory, but make the target ...
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regex find and replace 0x0D, 0x0A characters

I have a text file of a database dump with some line break characters (0x0A0x0D) in the middle of lines. I want to replace them with commas, but I can't do it simply, because those characters are the ...

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