A script is a sequence of commands or instructions that are executed by an interpreter program rather than compiled into a standalone executable program.
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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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Why is expect's interact command not working?
I am trying to automate gdb with expect. My script will start gdb, do some initialisation, and then pass the control to the user. Expect's interact command seems like the perfect tool for the job.
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Extract single file from tar to other folder
I've searched for multiple forums for this questions and have seen different answers but so far, nothing have worked yet even from the ones I've seen here.
I want to extract a single file from a tar ...
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tar and if-statement
I have a script that check if a file exist inside a tar file but something's wrong because it always go to the else part of the script. I am pretty sure that it shouldn't be that way.
The date is in ...
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Help write a script to make files named as arguments world-executable [on hold]
I'm a beginner to this Unix stuff and I was wondering if one of you could help me out with writing a script.
I wanted to create a command which takes files as arguments and will allow me do make them ...
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A triangle of forward differences in gawk
I need a gawk script (not a one-liner, I need a function). Given a row of integers i.e.
0 2 4 1 9 5 1 1
the function should generate successive forward absolute differences, so:
0 2 4 1 9 5 1 1
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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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Formatting quotes from the fortune to use it with conky
I'm using fortune cookie outputs in my conky script.
My fortune output is in the following format:
Text1 : Some message including( line break tags, e.g. and comma(,),=,semicolon(;) like ...
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How to see interactive output when running commands from a bash script?
I'm trying to run some commands from a Bash script, that when Enter is pressed should give some output.
An example is nmap. When calling a few different nmap scans from a Bash script, pressing Enter ...
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Get exit code of command executed by the linux script command
Note this is run on a debian linux environment
I have the following sample script called HelloWorld.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World"
exit 1
I then run the following command
script -c ...
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Notifying program that X session is shutting down
Ok. I understand X session is a bit vague here so let me clarify what I mean by the phrase. I mean the situation where a person has been presented with a display manger screen ( eg xdm, kdm, gdm, mdm, ...
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How do I drop to a shell after exiting a command I started by scripting tmux?
I'm following this tutorial for scripting the creation of tmux windows.
tmux new-window t $SESSION:0 -k -n MAIN 'cd ~/main/ && perl -Ilib myapp'
sometimes I kill myapp after I've started ...
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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
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date/P/whatever.log
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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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Advice for managing SSH keys
What is the best practice you have found for managing lots of SSH keypairs?
I use SSH to connect to several systems, both at home and at work. I currently have a fairly small, manageable collection ...
