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Executing a program according to the last modified date
I need to write a script which would execute some executables in a directory according to the last modified date. The oldest should run first. How do I do it?
This is what I have done so far
for f ...
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What scripting language can I use to automate a concatenation & zipping process?
For a project I'm doing I need to concatenate and compress (with zip) many (midi) files and compare their sizes. I've thought there must be some language that allows me to do something like this:
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How to get the arguments to a php function via grep?
I am writing a script to let me know the database login info for each PHP-based web site on a server that I am migrating. The login information is usually done either like this:
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Bash: pair up two series of files
I have a number of files with this pattern:
file1_foo.ext
file1_bar.ext
file2_foo.ext
file2_bar.ext
and so on.
I need to "pair them" and put them in a file like this
file1_foo.txt ...
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Searching for Failed attemps in /var/log/secure
I'm currently writing a script to examine /var/log/secure file and report how many failed attempts there were that day. I need to output it in the following format:
Date: 03/15/10 Time: 10:30 Number ...
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Create sub-directories and organize files by date
I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example;
-rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 ...
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Running a script as Grub boot option
I'm assembling some DR stuff for my Linux boxes. One item that would be really handy would be a GRUB option that would run a script to change my boxes from static IPs to dynamic.
I know we could do ...
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bash scripting add arguments
I have created a script which takes parameters and arguments. I want to insert the --help argument.
I already know how to parse normal arguments with -, but I don't know how to parse the -- ones.
to ...
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Iterate over multiple parameters with spaces in bash script
I have a bash script for my RaspberryPi (running Raspbian) that is supposed to take multiple file names as parameter(s) and play one after the other (using omxplayer). The basic structure is this:
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How do I write a script to keep retrying Yum Update Program?
My job let me always release a new version of the program to a satellite server, then in the running server, I use yum update program to update the program.
However, due to unknown reason, in most of ...
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How to set Cols and Lines for a Subprocess
I have a script that runs a series of scripts numbered 001,002,003,004... etc down to 041 right now, will be more in the future - and these scripts them selves use some cursor control to print a ...
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why there is random behaviuor for a background job?
going through advanced bash scripting guide example 3.3 running a loop in background, i found this :
#!/bin/bash
# background-loop.sh
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 # First loop.
do
echo -n "$i "
done ...
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Concatenate multiple files under subdirectories
My directory structure is given below
x:\Project_2012-158A\Sample_4041
SampleSheet.csv
4041_CGTACG_L002_R1_001.fastq
4041_CGTACG_L002_R2_001.fastq
4041_CGTACG_L006_R2_001.fastq
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How to capture text formatting in bash?
The following shell script works but removes colored formatting generated by rspec:
#!/bin/bash
OUTPUT=`rspec`
echo "$OUTPUT"
How to preserve the colors?
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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 ...
