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Object-oriented shell for *nix

Preface: I love bash and have no intention of starting any sort of argument or holy-war, and hopefully this is not an extremely naive question. This question is somewhat related to this post on ...
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Direct recursive shell script output to each subdirectory, not parent directory

I'm processing a batch of subjects data recursively, calling the script within the parent directory. For example, I have the parent directory: /home/subjects and the subdirectories which contain ...
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shell scripts in linux [closed]

The "time and network" script •Find the current time. •If the current minute-of-the-hour is greater than 30, then use ifup to enable all network interfaces, otherwise disable all network interfaces ...
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CD into directory from HISTORY in a bash script or alias e.g. $(!!)

I often want to change into the directory of a file on my file system, but I'm not sure where the file is. I search for it like so: find -type f -name "myfile.txt" Lets say for the sake of ...
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1answer
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Invoking a script with ld-linux.so?

I just downloaded a tar file that is supposed to include everything required to run a program that we can call some_binary. I extracted it's contents, and I see the following: A binary (let's call ...
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Evalute passed in variable in bash

Is there a way to pass in a variable as an argument to a bash script and have it evaluated scoped by the bash script? Given: # cat /path/to/file/of/host/names bob tom joe etc... # dofor FILE=$1 ...
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4answers
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store and execute redirection/piped command in script

How do you store, and later execute, a command with redirection and and a pipe? (And is it the pipe, or the redirection, or both, that's causing my problem?) I tried to print the urxvt version in a ...
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1answer
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Increase %e precision with /usr/bin/time shell command

When I run the time command in shell time ./myapp I get an output like the following: real 0m0.668s user 0m0.112s sys 0m0.028s However,when I run the command \time -f %e ./myapp I lose ...
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Processing bash variable with sed

Been banging my head off a wall on this bash variable LATLNG contains a latitude & longitude value in brackets like so (53.3096,-6.28396) I want to parse these into a variable called LAT and ...
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List any file ending with .in and corresponding .out with shell script

I have a directory full of files ending with different extensions, how would I list/select only the files ending with .in and corresponding .out that share the same basename? e.g. file1.txt file1.in ...
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1answer
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How to match 2 large file and print the difference in shell script

I have 2 files. File1 has 400k numerical records. e.g: 1 2 3 4 5 6 .. and so on File 2 also has 420k numerical records. e.g: 1 2 3 4 6 .. and so on Both these file are in unsorted manner. I want ...
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Allow setuid on shell scripts

The setuid permission bit tells Linux to run a program with the effective user id of the owner instead of the executor: > cat setuid-test.c #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int ...
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2answers
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How to correctly concatenate strings in shells script?

I have a bash shell which I need to modify, and I have to set a variable in a script and then call another script. My variable, EXTRA_JAVA_OPTIONS must be -javaagent:myagent.jar="-d 0 -i 1000 -l log2 ...
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3answers
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Rerunning the same command with a different parameter

I know that I can run the following command ls Some{File,Folder} And it is equivalent to running this: ls SomeFile SomeFolder (I also use it a lot for things like mv place_{a,b}) However, I was ...
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2answers
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Check whether files in a file list exist in a certain directory

The runtime arguments are as follows: $1 is the path to the file containing the list of files $2 is the path to the directory containing the files What I want to do is check that each file listed in ...

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