BASH is the GNU Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix Bourne sh (shell). It's the default shell for various GNU systems.

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SSH passing your Public key to all the users on remote host

I've grown tired of typing my password back and forth to all the hosts you connect to, i want to be able to jump to every single user on all the hosts with ease. So i've made this script with a ...
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Monitoring an output file and killing a program when possible strings are found [closed]

My first attempt was with this code below which function is to dynamically monitor the outputs of a program and then kill the program if possible strings are found. It worked when I was looking for ...
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Bash script to determine a distro, update, upgrade and install the apps I use

This is my first bash script. I am trying to learn scripting and needed an idea. This is the first idea I came up with. When I used to distro hop I had to reinstall everything. This helped me out once ...
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Bash script for showing newly introduced env variables [migrated]

I'm making this test script to help me reverse engineer scripts in charge of setting the dev environment. The script: ...
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Bashscript - Find and run main.py file (part of vim-Python IDE)

I try to get into Python and thought I build together my own IDE. Most of it consists of different addons for vim and changes in the vimrc (which of course I simply copied of google), but I also ...
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Setting up a development environment - 2

This is the new code after following the advice from here: Setting up a development environment General feedback is requested. Also, should I be using $() or ...
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Setting up a development environment

I'm looking for feedback on improving the structure of this code. Also, I could not find the command line executable for Chrome. General feedback is also requested. ...
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Using arrays to read in file, append it with parsed program output and overwrite original

Yesterday a friend of mine asked on U&L: How to optimize 'grep'-and-save? I will summarise shortly. The output of the torque pbs queueing system tool qstat ...
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Wordpress downloader and unpacker

Wrote a small bash-script today that downloads the latest swedish wordpress archive , extracts it and writes wp-config.php Would appreciate any feedback that could improve it / prettify it. The ...
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Watch log dir for new file, automatically tail to slack

We have a process that outputs to log files in the format /var/log/xxx/YYYY_MM_DD.log - the file name is chosen programmatically and is not rotated using logrotate ...
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Simple load testing script in bash

Here's the code ...
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Bash script menu

Any comments on this? Like there is a way to get rid of all the if-statements or a better way to # check model and build (which ...
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Making time lapse screenshots using Bash

My experience in bash is... well, around the Bourne shell on AIX. I wrote a semi-complex script in Bash, and I feel that it could be improved in 100 different ways. The Github project is here: ...
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Resolving the path to a Bash script

I wrote a function to resolve the full path to the current Bash script, and I'm wondering if it's SOLID: ...
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Search and merge split-archive backup parts

I wrote some code which searches parts of a split-archive backup (it's an Android backup, I used flashfire to backup) and rejoins them. As you can easily see, I've achieved this by ...
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Locating the Bash history file for a user

This looks quite verbose to me, using the command substitution and echo: ...
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Start the Python interpreter with an import statement

When I'm writing Python, I wanna be able to pull up an interpreter quickly, and import what I need easily. Previously, this involved: ...
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A Dockerfile for Composer (a dependency manager for PHP)

I recently built a Docker image for Composer. I'd love to get a review of the image, the Bash based wrapper script, its recommended use, and the repository structure. Here's the Dockerfile for the ...
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Un*x terminal history wiper

Using various answers from Stack Overflow and Ask Ubuntu, I've hacked together this simple C program that wipes terminal history. It works but I'm relatively new to C so I'm not sure if everything is ...
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Generates a randomized locally-administered unicast MAC address

This is the first time I've attempted writing something in bash, and would appreciate any feedback or criticism to make it better. ...
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Bash script to create directories and files with a numbered prefix

I wrote a pretty simple bash script. It takes a directory with subdirectories with incremental prefixes in their names (01test, 02test, 03test), creates a new ...
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Bash “Rotating” MySQL backup

I'm quite a novice in shell scripting so far, but i'm learning and getting quite comfortable in writing shell scripts, but i have a lot to learn. The snippet at the bottom of the page creates backups ...
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Shell agnostic startup flow - env, profile, rc, login

The goal of these files is to have some common behavior between Bash and Zsh when starting them. As is known, when Bash starts as a login shell it will source the first found of the following in your ...
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Bash script to open or close gnome-terminal with a single keybinding

I wanted to bind a single hot key to open and close gnome-terminal in a way similar to terminal emulators such as tilda or guake. I use Ubuntu, and have configured this script to be executed when I ...
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Nagios plugin webdav check 2

Original post: nagios plugin webdav check According to the good advice I have received I've made some modifications to the code: ...
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nagios plugin webdav check

I have written a small plugin for nagios to check a WebDAV server. It is supposed to connect using a username and password and upload & delete a test file This is my code: ...
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Grep for pattern recursive and disable file

On a shared host, I'd like to setup a cron which scans folders recursively for some base64 malware strings. Therefore, I've written the following script: ...
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Automated owncloud installation script

Here is a shell script which installs and configure owncloud on a Debian server. It also installs apache2 and MySQL as dependencies and fail2ban with a specific rule for owncloud. Apache2 is also ...
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Bash script to install vim configuration files

For the first time ever I decided to write a bash script. It works fine, but I'm feeling that I didn't write the most efficient code in order for future extension of the script. I also don't really ...
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Bash function to parse git status

I have a function here and wondered how well this can be refactored. I currently have this: ...
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Finding hidden field values in a web page before submitting a login form

In order to submit a login form using wget, I need to find the values for the hidden field that were added to the form recently. Grepping for the names gives the ...
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Cleanup and server restart script

I have written a simple script for managing our Tomcat and Apache instances for deployment. What this script basically does is, when called, it copies the ROOT.war ...
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Dockerfile to install Apache

I'm getting started with Docker, and I've set up a very simple image built from a Dockerfile. It's based FROM the ubuntu image, ...
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Function to get specified key from /proc/cpuinfo

On Linux, the file /proc/cpuinfo returns a set of key-value pairs, where the key and value are separated by a colon and each pair has its own line. It's a bit more ...
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Print values of an array while stripping out some parts of the string

Is there a more efficient way to run this? I am especially interested in a way which perhaps does not require a for loop... ...
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Bash command helper in C

Previously, I had written this program in C++ and asked about it here on Code Review. After spending some time with C++, I desired to become more familiar with its namesake. This is my first C ...
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Editing a playlist configuration file

What I'm trying to do here is first set the first eight variables to the proper default values. That's the first area I'm thinking there might be a way to optimize. Is there anyway to set both ...
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Bash script to download sequentially numbered images

This is a pretty basic bash script (3.2 on Mac). I am downloading 584 images from a site in order to create an album. ...
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Automating a WordPress install

I do not have a whole lot to do over winter break, so I wrote this little script to automate a Wordpress install (currently can only install once instance) on a fresh Debian server (tested, working ...
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Script to redo a rails migration easily

I need to redo a migration occasionally. The workflow is usually something like this: find or ls | grep the migration using ...
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Notification script | from RSS to Email | Bash

This is a script that must send an email at each new article published on a specific website. Any suggestions or improvements to do? ...
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Checking and converting [[HH:]MM:]SS input format

I would like to use the following routine in my job submission bash script which expects the allowed walltime in the format [[HH:]MM:]SS. (Brackets indicating ...
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Command line google searching

I have a bash script that is meant to start a google search from the command line. I am also looking to implement a way of getting source code for the search page possibly through a subscript. This is ...
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Format conversion of localized file | xliff to csv

I need a revision for this code... it's a working code, but i'm pretty sure that can be simplified or even improved. This is for converting a normal xliff file (localization file) into a csv, having ...
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Format conversion of localization files | 3txt to xliff

I'm trying to build an xliff for localization from 3 specific files: one contains a list of IDs, the other a list of source strings and the last, a list of translated strings. Basically, each file ...
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Egg timer in Bash

I just started to learn programming, going through a lot of different tutorials, trying out different programming languages and I stumble in the same sort of questions all over the place. I give you ...
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Return the first number found greater than the provided input number (13 digits)

This script converts the numbers to be at least 13 characters long (for UNIX_MS strings). For use with timestamps, I'm having issues with it being very slow. I wanted an alternative to grepping for ...
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Shell Script (Bash) to sum multiples of different arguments below a number

I'm interested in learning how to create shell scripts with bash so here's one of my first exercises, taken from here. It is an extension of the problems Elementary - 4 and 5. The goal of the program ...
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Build script for an operating system written in C++

I recently started following the James M Kernel Dev tutorials and was able to create an operating system in C++. Here is the source on GitHub. I have a couple of questions: Is my coding style ok? ...