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Trying to call a script while passing two arguments
I have a script that greps with $1 and $2, first argument being a pattern and second being a file.
I need to create another script that calls this first one, passes the two arguments to it, and if ...
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run a process from script and kill it from another script using PID
I want to run a process from script and kill it from another script using PID. I can think of two things to do but I think you can help me get more effective way of doing this. The first one is to ...
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Number of arguments requirement input validation
Writing a script to search a file for a pattern and output the lines found with that file and the number of each line.
I have the script as
#!/bin/bash
echo "------ File =" $2 "------"
grep -ne $1 ...
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How can I programmatically send a blank password?
I have a shell script that checks out a subversion repo. The connection asks for a password (I know it's an unnecessary layer since the password is blank), but how can I send a blank password to ...
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How to install mysql client on OpenWRT WhiteRussian?
I'm trying to install mysql client on openwrt whiterussian.
To do this, I installed libmysqlclient (ipkg install libsqlclient), but it doesn't works.
When I run a script with mysql queries, this ...
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How to make a wget and mysql bash script
I want to make a bash script that will get a bunch of urls from a mysql table and pass all the urls one by one to the wget --spider , and update the mysql with the response code from wget: "HTTP ...
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Count the distinct words
I have an input file is like:
com.a.b
com.c.d
com.a.b
com.e.f
com.e.f
com.e.f
And I would like the output to be like:
com.a.b 2
com.c.d 1
com.e.f 3
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linux bash script get user input and store in a array
I want to write a bash script that will get user input and store it in an array.
Input: 1 4 6 9 11 17 22
I want this to be saved as array.
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cygwin kill process issue
I am trying to run a shell script in Cygwin, but I am having problem with passing variables to the subshell !!
I have a very simple script that actually takes the PID of a process and from there I ...
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cURL - notify about upload progress
I have script in Xcode, which runs automatically at the end of Archive operation. It's signing and submitting build to TestFlight service. The problem is that uploading takes a lot of time, and I ...
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syntax error: unexpected end of file
I am getting this error when I run my Bash script:
syntax error: unexpected end of file
Cant really find where the error is, been looking for hours and still get this error.
Here is the script ...
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Filter non-alphabetic characters out of string in shell script
Very simple question but can't seem to find a simple answer...
I am writing a bash script which needs to remove all non-alphabetic and non-numeric characters. Eg. I want...
INPUT_STRING="ABC# ...
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What does single parenthesis do here?
I encountered this code:
file=$(<filename)
This reads the file from the filename.
My question is how does this work?
I read from this post:
bash: double or single bracket, parentheses, curly ...
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4answers
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Bash script - If conditional with [ ]
I have the code below and am receiving the following error output:
Enter your exam score
40
./if2.sh: line 6: 40: No such file or directory
Very well done. You have an A grade.
I'm using bash ...
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Bash Script Issues
I am having a problem with a bash script that I am working on, I am practically new to Bash Scripting and been working on this problem for hours and cant figure out what the problem could be.
When I ...
