A small program written to be read and executed by a command interpreter or another scripting language.
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votes
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How exactly does <script defer=“defer”> work?
I have a few <script> elements, and the code in some of them depend on code in other <script> elements. I saw the defer attribute can come in handy here as it allows code blocks to be ...
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votes
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How to require commit messages in VisualSVN server?
We've got VisualSVN Server set up as our Subversion server on Windows, and we use Ankhsvn + TortoiseSVN as clients on our workstations.
How can you configure the server to require commit messages to ...
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votes
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What is x-tmpl?
Was looking for the answer on the net, but couldn't find anything. This little snack of code really frustrates me, as I can't understand it. (It's part of the plugin called: jQuery File Upload)
...
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votes
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Auto increment version code in Android app
is there a way to auto-increment the version code each time you build an Android application in Eclipse?
According to http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/versioning.html, you have to ...
android
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votes
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Bash : iterate over list of files with spaces
I want to iterate over a list of files. This list is the result of a find command, so I came up with:
getlist() {
for f in $(find . -iname "foo*")
do
echo "File found: $f"
# do something ...
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votes
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Command substitution: backticks or dollar sign / paren enclosed?
What's the preferred way to do command substitution in bash?
I've always done it like this:
echo "Hello, `whoami`."
But recently, I've often seen it written like this:
echo "Hello, $(whoami)."
...
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votes
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Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal
I am trying to write a shell scipt that creates some directories on a remote server and then uses scp to copy files from my local machine onto the remote. Here's what I have so far:
ssh -t ...
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votes
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install mysql on ubuntu without password prompt
how to write a script to install mysql server on ubuntu?.
sudo apt-get install mysql will install and ask for password for this how to assing password in script.
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install ...
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votes
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Check if a file exists with wildcard in shell script
I'm trying to check if a file exists, but with a wildcard. Here is my example:
if [ -f "xorg-x11-fonts*" ]; then
printf "BLAH"
fi
I have also tried it without the double quotes.
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votes
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How can I add numbers in a bash script
I have this bash script and I had a problem in line 16.
How can I take the previous result of line 15 and add
it to the variable in line 16?
#!/bin/bash
num=0
metab=0
for ((i=1; i<=2; i++)); do ...
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votes
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Using time command in bash script
I'd like to use the time command in a bash script to calculate the elapsed time of the script and write that to a log file. I only need the real time, not the user and sys. Also need it in a decent ...
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votes
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Is the 'type' attribute necessary for <script> tags?
I've seen both this:
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js'></script>
and this:
<script type='text/javascript' ...
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votes
3answers
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“find: paths must precede expression:” How do I specify a recursive search that also finds files in the current directory?
I am having a hard time getting find to look for matches in the current directory as well as its subdirectories.
When I run find *test.c it only gives me the matches in the current directory. (does ...
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votes
1answer
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Export from sqlite to csv using shell script
I'm making a shell script to export a sqlite query to a csv file, just like this:
#!/bin/bash
./bin/sqlite3 ./sys/xserve_sqlite.db ".headers on"
./bin/sqlite3 ./sys/xserve_sqlite.db ".mode csv"
...
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votes
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How can I check in a bash script if my local git repo has changes or not
there are some scripts that do not work correctly if they check for changes.
I tried it like this:
VN=$(git describe --abbrev=7 HEAD 2>/dev/null)
git update-index -q --refresh
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