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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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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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Analyzing tricky one liners & having handy list of useful ones

Have seen one liners like below & took a little time to analyse exact use & working of it – something like set the value to later one if it is not set. export ...
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1answer
57 views

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 ...
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119 views

Capture output of a bash command, parse it and store into different bash variables

Explanation: I have a small bash script which simply runs any Linux command (e.g. say ifconfig) The typical output of ifconfig is something like this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ...
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1answer
77 views

Capabilities for a script on Linux

If I want to set a capability (capabilities(7)), such as CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, on an executable file and that file is a script, do I have to set the capability (setcap(8)) on the interpreter starting ...
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Confused on user and su in linux

How could I run a script as a specific user (non-root)? As this? sudo su - john /usr/share/script.pl for user john?
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192 views

sed - replace complex lines in a file using variables

How do I replace a complex line in a file using sed? For example I want replace a udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. This doesn't work: OLD_RULE='SUBSYSTEM=="net", ...
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2answers
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Add a suffix string to end of each line? [duplicate]

I have two files: file01: line1 line2 line3 file02: A B C And I want to get line1 A line2 B line3 C I could possibly write a Perl script but it is better if I don't need to. I have tried ...
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Using tcpdump to log blacklisted IPs

I am using tcpdump to log traffic outbound on a network. I would like to be able to log traffic on a host or IP-only basis but then I would like to be able to log large numbers of potentially ...
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1answer
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when to use double quotes with a variable in shell script? [duplicate]

I am in a confusion with what is meant by the double quotes referring to a variable. For example following two scripts gives the same output. What is really meant by the double quotes? Script1 ...
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1answer
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Use of .. in Linux scripting and makefiles [closed]

what is the use of .. in linux scripting and in the following makefile? MODULE = EQUALIZER = .. SRCS = include ${EQUALIZER}/xyz.mak include ${EQUALIZER}/pqr.mak
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2answers
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How to create as many variables as needed from shell script(bash)?

I'm making a script for monitoring some user processes with Upstart but, since its for the company I work for, they asked me to do it generic...how's so? Well, the number of processes being monitored ...
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1answer
219 views

How to clone a read-only portion of /proc file system

The problem with reading /proc file system is that it is not atomic. I tried using a library (procfs in Python) that wishes to read it, but it has glitches about 5% of the time because the process ...
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2answers
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Executing a program according to the last modified date

I need to write a script which would execute some executables in a directory according to the last modified date. The oldest should run first. How do I do it? This is what I have done so far for f ...

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