A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system.
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Specifying a generic interpreter for a program like expect?
I am writing expect script which can be used on mulple operating systems but the problem is
i can't use #!/usr/bin/expect evreywhere so instead i tried to do
#!`which expect`
at the top but it ...
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exec cp failes from script, yet works when issued directly
I have a script that copies SQL backups to a windows server. Here's the line from /etc/fstab:
//my.win.box/share$ /winshare cifs ...
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IBM V7000 scripts for monitoring
Hello (I'm no hard core coder:),
I try to develop a script to do some very basic monitoring on an IBM SVC.
My goal is to get some information about the nodes and my quroum status and then send ...
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There is a small correction tn shell scripting in linux [closed]
Script requirements:
In a folder there will be N number of files, let’s say 50 or 60. All these files are txt files which are tab separated excel files. Each file contains 8 columns. (Among them ...
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How to use ' in alias?
I have one-line that I want to call using alias.
while printf '%s ' "$(df -P / | awk 'NR==2 { print $(NF-1) }')"; do sleep 30; done
I tried to escape ' like \' but it didn't work.
What is the ...
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How to display result of df every 30s? [duplicate]
All I want to see is the % after I issue df / every 30s but on the same line just after the previous number.
So the final output would be 86% 86% 86% 87% 87% ......
Could it be one line code? Or ...
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Modifying zsh globbing patterns to use with cp
I'm trying to write a script to copy files recursively from a particular folder except files A.extn, B/*.extn and C/* where B and C are directories and extn is just some generic extension. This is ...
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Starting Resque worker with script doesnt work, starting by hand does
I am trying to figure out why my process doesn't work if started via a script, but works fine if started by hand.
Here's the details:
script is a resque worker start script. The script location is ...
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How to convert all .wav files in subdirectories to .aac using neroAacEnc?
I have a collection of music in .wav format, and would like to convert it to .aac/.mp4 using neroAacEnc.
How do I do this?
I am using Arch Linux x86_64 and Xterm.
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how to get exit status from the command before the last
I have solaris machine ( solaris 10 )
please Look on the following simple commands (haconf -makerw | grep -iq "Cluster already writable")
# haconf -makerw
VCS WARNING V-16-1-10364 Cluster ...
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concatenating multiple files with multiple headers
Im trying to concatenate multiple files with multiple headers to have one file with all the information in it for example.
File 1:
Numbers
1
2
3
Letters
A
B
C
File 2:
Numbers
4
5
6
Letters
D
E
...
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How can I run a shell script as a daemon under Redhat?
I've got a shell script, which is essentially a one liner with some logging, which I'm trying to run this from an init script. I'm using the daemon function inside of /etc/init.d/functions to run it, ...
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XML parsing using xmllint and customizing the output
I have xml file (say input.xml) of the following schema:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<TagA>
<TagB>
<File Folder="FOLDER1M\1" File="R1.txt" />
</TagB>
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Show sum of file sizes in directory listing
The Windows dir directory listing command has a line at the end showing the total amount of space taken up by the files listed. For example, dir *.exe shows all the .exe files in the current ...
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Using sshpass, return code (exit status) differs for reasons unknown using valid commands
There are a few things going on here but I think ultimately, either CLish or SSH is returning an exit code that is messing up my work flow.
I'm attempting to connect to a remote machine (CLish shell) ...
