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how to run the dialog command with proccess

Please look on my code – ( bash script ) I want to display both dialogs on the screen on the same time, one dialog display the: tail –f from - /var/log/proccess1.log , and the second dialog ...
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Match and combine records in Bash [duplicate]

Consider two csv files: $ cat given.csv 123,John 246,Paul 369,George 987,Ringo $ cat family.csv 246,McCartney 123,Lennon 987,Starr 369,Harrison Note that the lines are not ordered! How might I use ...
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Combinatorics of letters and words - preferably bash, will accept perl or other

I am trying to write a shell script to generate all possible words in the English language less than 20 characters. I doubt there is any truly efficient way to do this other than to brute force some ...
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Format cputime for ps

I'm trying to write a script that can monitor a process's CPU usage over an interval (to create a graph). So far, this is the command I'm using ps -p $PROCID -o cputime,etimes My only concern is ...
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Find Stale NFS Files

I've been pondering about an efficient way to locate stale NFS files for a few days with out much success and was wondering if there are better approaches to the problem. Problem: every once in a ...
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Bash script error with strings with paths that have spaces and wildcards

I am having trouble getting the basics of Bash scripting down. Here's what I have so far: #!/bin/bash FILES="/home/john/my directory/*.txt" for f in "${FILES}" do echo "${f}" done All I want to ...
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How to take screenshot of /dev/pts?

I am connecting to another server using ssh service. I want to execute some commands (like creating users) on some servers and take the screenshot of the pseudo-terminal, which is to be stored on my ...
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Gather job usage information on cluster

I am running simulations on a linux cluster shared by hundreds of other users. There is a job scheduler installed on the cluster that determines who runs where, and one of the scheduler commands ...
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Get a list of applications that are playing sound [on hold]

I want to get a list of applications that are currently playing sound (using the sound card). I tried to search on a lot of places but did not succeed. Any method is fine (bash, Java, etc.). I want ...
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Having an issue searching for a string in a file

I have tried to use a 'case' loop but it doesn't work for a reason unknown to me. This is my script for the case loop. echo "Do you wish to search again? [y/n]" read INPUT_STRING2 case ...
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bash find using variable

I have an issue I don't understand. It is simple and it should work, but it doesn't. =EDITED exactly what I can see from terminal= I have a list of filenames: [molni@archlinux picasa_album]$ cat LIST ...
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Is it possible to set the users .gitconfig (for git config --global) dynamically?

I have the problem, that we login to the systems as our own users johndoe and then have to do a sudo su - root to be able to do administrative tasks. We have the system config files in a git ...
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what is hexa dump and how to handle in unix? [on hold]

I am trying to extract some portion of text from the file by using awk command, The file is separated by comma. awk -F, '{print $1 FS $3 FS $6}' sample.csv But always I am getting wrong output , ...
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tput command + how to locate dialog window on the top of the screen

Is it possible to use the tput command in order to place the dialog window on the top of the screen ? For example The following dialog command display the log is running by tail command dialog ...
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bash how to remove options from parameters after processing

I remember having seen somewhere a bash script using case and shift to walk through the list of positional parameters, parse flags and options with arguments when it encounters them, and removes them ...
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bash + timer in dialog window

is it possible to insert the following code ( timer ) in the dialog progress bar ? date1=`date +%s`; while true; do echo -ne "$(date -u --date @$((`date +%s` - $date1)) +%H:%M:%S)\r"; done ...
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How to modify ENV in Solaris 10 [duplicate]

I wanted to edit the contents of environment when entering this "ENV" in terminal. I googled this but so far none of the solution offered works in my end. The closes solution that i got was to edit ...
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Solaris jdk 7 installation error java -version No such file or directory

Am trying to follow this website for instruction on how to install jdk for Solaris 10 with the following information: $ isainfo -v 64-bit amd64 applications ssse3 tscp sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx ...
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shell script to run on boot on Mac OS X does not run all commands

On OS X, I am trying to use lingon to run a shell script upon booting. I have a file ~/desktop/_admin/boot/bootdocker.sh: #!/bin/bash boot2docker up export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://192.177.59.103:2475 My ...
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Get PID of any command in backgrounded piped sequence of commands

If, in bash, I execute: cmd1 | cmd2 | ... | cmdi | ... | cmdn & where the cmd{1..n} may not be distinct, how do I get the PID of cmdi? Alternatively, how can I signal the cmdi process? (For ...
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Can I trap a clock signal in my bash script?

Could I trap a 5-minute signal inside my script? I imagine something like this, function dosomething { echo "It's been 5 minutes." } trap dosomething SIGNAL-EVERY-5-MINUTES while true do ...
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How to completely detach a process

I want to spawn a process and run it at the top level so that when the shell exits, the process keeps running. I had mistakenly thought that nohup would do this, but when I exit from the shell (the ...
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From a bash script, is there a way to get the keybinding for “Resize window”?

This question is related to another that I asked How do I execute a program in Xfce and make it use another xfwm4 theme other than the default one? However, I'm now trying to get an answer that will ...
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Can I specify a redirected input before a compound command?

Bash lets you specify a redirected input before a command: $ <lines sed 's/^/line: /g' line: foo line: bar Bash also lets you redirect input to a compound command like a while loop: $ while ...
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Creating an alias to Change Directory and have that directory be the current working directory in new terminal tabs

I'm trying to create a convenience alias that will change directories and then start a node server in that directory. I have it working for the most part, there's just one little issue that I can't ...
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how to insert seperate lines ( elemnts ) in parameter [on hold]

I have the following csv file more file.csv 1,yes,yes,customer1 2,no,yes,customer5 3,yes,yes,customer11 4,no,no,customer14 5,yes,no,customer15 6,yes,yes,customer21 7,no,yes,customer34 ...
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How to grab output from command in shell script [duplicate]

I'm trying to write a shell script in RHEL which will execute grub-md5-crypt and the user will type their password. Now the problem is how can I grab the encrypted md5 hash displayed to the user in ...
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How do I execute a program in Xfce and make it use another xfwm4 theme other than the default one?

I want to run a python script (the one in the answer to Python - how to make transparent window with gtk.Window but not with Gtk.) that displays a transparent window. I'm running it from a bash script ...
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How to ssh into remote machine and create new user in bash script

I am writing a bash script and would like to ssh into a remote machine and execute the adduser command. This is not working, all that I get is the --help text for adduser when I run the code below. ...
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Opening a terminal other than xterm, running a command on it, and not closing the terminal after it succesfully finished

I have the following script in my arch linux box: #!/bin/bash xterm -e "sudo pacman -Syu;bash" This will fire up an xterm, and run the command sudo pacman -Syu on it. Because of the ;bash part, it ...
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Bash: Syntax Error on @()

I have the following function in my .bashrc file: extract() { local c e i (($#)) || return for i; do c='' e=1 if [[ ! -r $i ]]; then echo "$0: file ...
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Shell script throws a not found error when run from a sh file. But if entered manually the commands work

Im trying to use the following script to generate a sitemap for my website. When I run it as sh thsitemap.sh I get an error like this and creates an empty sitemap.xml file : thsitemap.sh: 22: ...
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How do I diff the outputs of two commands?

How can I use the diff command to compare 2 commands' outputs? Does something like this exist? diff ($cat /etc/passwd) ($cut -f2/etc/passwd)
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How to match this regular expression in bash? [closed]

I'm trying to match the sub string "~goddog" in the string "sort -u ~goddog/classes". I've defined two variables as below: cmd="sort -u ~goddog/classes" #eid="gogdog" eid="goddog" The following ...
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Trying to access environment variable (array) declared in ~/.profile from shell script

I'm currently fighting with this problem. I've already read some older posts here on SE, and got the conclusion that the only sane way to put a variable (even an array) is ~/.profile. So OK, array ...
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bash_completion does not work in dtach

I start dtach from bash using the following command dtach -c /tmp/dt0 bash the problem is, before I started dtach, bash_completion worked. But once I start dtach, bash_completion does not work ...
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how to create Permanent alias from script

Please advice how to do the following magic ( I have linux red-hat machine – 5.4 ) I created the script in the following path: /usr/cti/my_scripts/MAGIC.bash I want to run this script ...
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What is happening while executing this command cd / | vi?

When I execute the command cd / | vi, it goes to the vi editor. When I type any command it does not display the command but it gets executed and the command that is executed is not shown in the ...
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Use SED or AWK to move rows to columns

I have a report that is generated in rows and I need to move it to columns. The number of rows per record will always be the same. This will be in a BASH script on Linux, so I would like to use ...
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how to recall last argument in bash with vi setting

I use set -o vi setting in bash. The shorcut Alt+. (recalling last argument of previous command) here doesn't work as in emacs mode, so what is the equivalent for vi?
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How to achieve a good format in json? [closed]

I been posting this question in other stackexchange site but I haven't receive a good solution yet for this problem in getting a good format or output in json. ...
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Brace expansion does not work for less than 2 arguments

I was expecting brace expansion to work for any number of arguments. However, for n=1 I get the following: $ find models/nsf-projects-{7}* models/nsf-projects-{7}.rdf For n>1 expansion occurs as ...
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Bash: Variable assignment doesn't seem to 'stick' [duplicate]

I am having a hard time tracking down the reason my 'boolean' flag variable won't stay false when a test fails inside a while loop. The script involves a few loops but essentially it is intended to ...
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How to debug a bash script?

I'm having some problems with some scripts in bash, about errors and unexpected behaviors. I would like to investigate the causes of the problems so I can apply fixes. Is there a way I can turn some ...
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What is the difference between double quotes (“”) and single quotes ('')? [duplicate]

I really do not know the usage of " and '. I want to know usage of " and '. What is the difference between echo "hi" and echo 'hi'.
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How to call a bash script from another script?

I know there is many similar questions but I was not able to find an answer for mine: I have couple of if and checking to get to this point of source script to call another script source ./call.sh ...
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Match empty line in an alias .bashrc

I would like to bind my empty line in my bash to a specific command (for example pwd, ls, ...), like so : $<enter> $/home/ I tried // ~/.bashrc alias ="pwd" But obviously this was ...
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Method for storing/remembering one liner commands

Often when configuring and adjusting unix-based systems I use a lot of one-line commands that are difficult to remember. For example, to determine what version of ntp (the time server) is running, you ...
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.bashrc and .bash_profile not executed [closed]

I'm running RHEL5. I added simple alias command into ~/.bashrc. When I start a new terminal, nothing happens but source ~/.bashrc works so I know the syntax is correct. I also ...
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Extract csv files from path to multiple files in bash

I have a files multiple file path for backup purpose ,now i want to filter it based on ".csv " fromat. I have tried this. filesall=(/home/abc/allfiles/*) files=$((${filesall[@]}|grep -F ".csv")) ...