The Bourne-Again SHell (Bash) is a successor to the Bourne shell (sh). Bash is the default shell in many Linux distributions.
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Unexpected EOF in .bashrc alias
I am getting an unexpected end of file error after including this line in my .bashrc
alias domsrv01='echo -e ?HT_R8\'% | xclip ; ssh 10.50.0.35'
The desired exit from echo to xclip is:
?HT_R8'%
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Bash: Find position of character in a string under OS X
Is there any way to find a position of a first character within a string in Bash under Mac OS X?
Something like:
stringZ=abcABC123ABCabc # 6
echo `expr index "$stringZ" C12` ...
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How to separate different values and make them variables
Want to separate different values and make them variables:
db2
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS_LIST= (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=server1)(PORT=1521))) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=db2))) ...
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Exit code of redirected command
So I want to verify the exit code of a specific command
runuser -s /bin/bash @user_name -c $command > /dev/null 2>&1 &
How can I find whether the command runuser -s /bin/bash ...
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How to kill all subprocesses of shell?
I'm writing bash script, which does several thing.
In the beginning it starts several monitor scripts, each of them runs some other tools.
At the end of my main script, I would like to kill all ...
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Basic bash script variable declaration - command not found
This seems like such a simple question I'm embarrassed to ask it:
test.sh
#!/bin/bash
STR = "Hello World"
echo $STR
when I run sh test.sh I get this:
test.sh: line 2: STR: command not found
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Using Case for Range of Numbers in Bash
I am trying to do the following using CASE in Bash (In Linux)
If X is between 460 and 660, output X information.
If X is between 661 and 800, do something else.
Etc..
Right now this is what I ...
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Bash - moving a file and adding the date to the filename
#!/bin/bash
while read server <&3; do #read server names into the while loop
if [[ ! $server =~ [^[:space:]] ]] ; then #empty line exception
continue
fi
echo "Connecting to - ...
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Automate xmodem file upload
I have a device where a software update is done by uploading a file through xmodem.
I was able to do this in two ways using the lrzsz (http://ohse.de/uwe/software/lrzsz.html) package.
1) Using ...
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Find files and add a line
I am doing bash script and I need to add a line to all files of the type .info in a directory and subdirectories of that directory.
The text I want to add is version = $version on new line in the ...
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How do I get a bash script working on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux without modifying it?
Sorry, the headline might be a bit irritating, but I didn't know anything better. Anyway, I want a bash script to work on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux without modifying it, but bash isn't located at the ...
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How to extract lines in between a file & read a part of a string with linux shell commands?
I have the following string (say, string1) as below:
20130403,012319 0
$GPRMC,012319.000,A,5055.1987,N,00624.5035,E,0.01,0.00,030413,,,A*63
I find the string length as 80.
Now I want to ...
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PostgreSQL Command fom bash script
I work with PostgreSQL 9.2 and bash script. I have a problem.
My DB is TestDB ,
Table name is config
and my bash code is
sudo -u postgres psql -c "select count(*) from public.config where ...
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equivalent of rm and mv in windows .cmd
I have the following in a shell script,I want to convert the following lines into a windows cmd file..can anyone provide inputs on what is the equivalent for "rm" and "mv" in windows cmd file.
rm -f ...
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converting while in shell script to windows command file
I have a shell script with sample code as follows..am trying to convert into a .cmd file.. can anyone provide inputs on what is the syntax for while and case in .cmd file?
while getopts "c" flag
do
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