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How to paste same information into 2 different files?
I'd like to create two files in /etc/skel using a script which does many other things in addition to the creation of the files in /etc/skel.
The part from script regarding /etc/skel looks like this:
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Bash in Linux v.s Mac OS
I am buying an iMac. I've been working on Linux for a long time and I do a bunch of bash scripting. I was wondering if all the bash commands and features are available on Mac OS ? Anyone has any ...
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Assigning a value with echo piped together with the bc command and using a variable as an argument
Basically i'd like to assign to variable $finalbyte a value (which consists of a binary representation of a byte e.g 11100000). So trying to do that i put the following as part of some script:
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./script.sh : line 52 : 1372757584 : not found
I am getting this really weird error despite of the fact that the same script runs fine on one platform (Arch linux) but not on my other mobile platform (Maemo Linux). I'll pass here the relevant part ...
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I need to check a list of directories if it contains a directory newer than 1 month before now
Maybe the title is quite confusing so i'll try to explain what i have done until now.
First of all i have build the list of directories i want to investigate with the code below:
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Graphically ask for password in a bash script and retain default sudo timeout setting
The sudo -A (SUDO_ASKPASS) option apparently causes sudo to lose the timeout (e.g., timestamp_timeout) setting.
I want to use the sudo -A option but I want to retain the default timeout (e.g., 15 ...
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Find the process id of a java application in a bash script (to see if the target application is already running)
I know there are a million questions on getting the process ID, but this one seems to be unique. Google has not given me the answer, so I hope stackexhange will help rather than close this question.
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how to make my bash script look 100% like a GUI app (so user never sees terminal)
I created a bash script using kdialog (and it runs on Kubuntu 12.04). The GUI is used for every user interaction (after the first one). However, the script still has to be launched from the terminal ...
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start autossh reverse tunnel automatically when network comes up
I connect from my home PC thru an Internet server I own to a restricted client (that I also own) using a reverse ssh tunnel.
I have a script that sets up the restricted client to middleman leg of ...
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Change the text on a single line number in multiple text files
Suppose that I have ten bash shell scripts: script1.sh, script2.sh, ..., script10.sh. Initially, all ten files are identical.
Now, I would like to make two changes in each script:
In each file, ...
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calling ruby script from bash and vice versa [closed]
how do I call a ruby script from bash--especially if a condition in bash script has been met.
also how would I call bash script from from a ruby script. Please let me know if you have ideas.
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Securely feeding a program with a password
After understanding the problem with using a password in the command line, I need to find a way of feeding a program with a password without it being a problem (without the password being recorded ...
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How to remove any string from a file via shell scripts?
I try to remove string from .bash_profile. String is added when my shell script run:
My string at bash_profile as follows:
# for Myapllication
export MYAPP_HOME=/opt/myapp
I want to remove the ...
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Writing starting from a certain line number in a text file
In a bash script I want to write some lines to a text file, but this file has already been used before and there are texts in it. So I want to echo some additional text in it, starting from a certain ...
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Ubuntu Bash - Changing permissions to user files for automating Apache VirtualHost creation
Moved here from AskUbuntu
I currently have a small Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine (test environment) with about 3 non-root users created. Each user has their own public_html directory under their ...
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Guide/help using Dialog with bash scripting
While I understand how to create menus, no guide I've found teaches how to actually link them to commands
I was hoping to have something like:
dialog--clear --title "n00b's spellbook" \
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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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What does mean ` AWK=@AWK@` in shell scripting
I found AWK=@AWK@ while reading sh script, it's something like AWK=$(which awk), but it's not working.
So can anyone explain this ?
Script :
#!/bin/sh -
# makelist.sh: Automatically generate header ...
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Open any kind of application with BASH
I have made a Java program that could open any application. Suppose there is a file name "*.jpg", the it would allow the OS to recognize the type of application and then open the default application. ...
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Compare multiple files
I want a bash-script to compare OR find differences for multiple files which are stored in different locations:
Files under /tmp/test/
A.txt
B.txt
C.txt
Compare with files under /home/oldtest/
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How do I move .bash_profile away from home
I need .bash_profile to be synched with Dropbox. The easiest way I can think of is to "redirect" the shell to search for .bash_profile in a custom folder.
So is that possible? Or are there any better ...
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bash script , echo output in box
I have created this Function , which generate below output on terminal , but this function seems complex, So I posted here for any improvement or for same alternate solution.
#!/bin/bash
function ...
