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Script to find the default Desktop Environment?
What is a distribution agnostic snippet of code to find the default Desktop Environment or better yet, the DE last used. The code must run from a remote SSH session or CTRL-ALT-F2 text only console. ...
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Variable Substitution in sed [duplicate]
I have this script and I need to count the lines inside a file, then pass the number of lines counted to a for loop so that I can get the contents of each line and put it in a variable.
My question ...
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How to put the following information in a CSV file?
I have a text file with the following type of content:
OPERATION_CONTEXT VMD1HTE1A71_ns:.oc.GJ_OAD2 alarm_object 1130
On director: VMD1HTE1A71_ns:.temip.VMD1HTE1A71_director
AT Fri 18 Oct 2013 ...
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Delete all files in directories except those whose path are listed in a file
Given the following files:
data/A/a.txt
data/B/b.pdf
...
date/P/whatever.log
...
data/Z/z.jpg
I would like to delete all files in the data/A/, data/B/, ..., data/Z/ directories except those files ...
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Running commands after event based outputs
there are commands like
iwevent
or
tcpdump -n src host x.x.x.x
that send to the stdout some lines when something happens. Is there any form of running some command inmmediatly after a ...
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Run level script - Help
I want the following command to be ran, as soon as system boots.
glances -s -P redhat &
How to achieve that?
I tried writing a run level script which didn't work as expected.
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Make a new sniffer [closed]
How can use the Linux-kernel to supervise what is going on, about the new connections, new ports, connected hosts? Like I will do a new sniffer.
Which files should I monitor to know what is going ...
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Optimized way to list and delete files
I need to list and delete .php, .xml files. For this I am using find command.
To list :
find . -type f -name \*.php -print0
To delete :
find . -type f -name \*.php -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r
As I run ...
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How does this find command using “find … -exec sh -c '…' sh {} +” work?
@StephaneChazelas posted the following solution to this Q&A: Having some trouble using “find -exec {} +”.
$ find . -iname "*.extension" -exec sh -c '
exec <command> "$@" <additional ...
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How to add Multiple Searches in AWK command
Im trying to search for the files Created in June,July and August months. I used this method
ls -lrth|awk '/[Jun][Jul][Aug]/ {print}'
but it ain't working.
Please help me correct the syntax.
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Regular Expressions within a string in AWK using if/then control structure?
PROBLEM
I want to specifically use AWK (GAWK, MAWK, whatever) in an AWK script to sum up the values in field 9 for every record that contains "runner__.jpx" (the underscores are placeholders for two ...
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Bash shell scripting basic question regarding the syntax and basename
Consider the script below:
myname=`basename $0`;
for i in `ls -A`
do
if [ $i = $myname ]
then
echo "Sorry i won't rename myself"
else
newname=`echo $i |tr a-z A-Z`
mv $i $newname
fi
done
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Summing up an array inside of awk?
I have the following piece of code:
sum1=
sum2=
declare -a a
echo $temp | awk '{split($0,a,","); name=a[1] ; for(i=2;i<=4;i++) sum1+=a[i] ; for(i=5;i<=7;i++) sum2+=a[i] }'
This code is ...
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Shell script to validate mount point status in the linux server
I'm in need of a script which should work as below.
A script where it would validate if that specific mountpoint is currently mounted on the server. It would search for mountpoint name in /etc/fstab ...
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How can I write a sed script to delete numbers from a line?
Sample File
a.b.gg3d 0000000001 0000000001 y
a.b.112a 0000000000 0000000001 y
a.b.gg3s 0000000001 0000000001 y
a.b.1111 0000000000 0000000001 m
I have a file that includes about three thousand ...
