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Shell scripting : want to login on some server, which are in same domain and execute command and exit

I have 10 unix servers, I want to log into them one by one, execute 4-5 lines of code, save the output and exit. For Example: 10 serves: Intially at xyz server Login in server 1 --> execute 4-5 ...
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Wait until gnome-terminal ends

I'm trying to implement a script who runs four terminal window in parallel using this function gnome-terminal -e sh -c "python scraper.py". I would like to know if there's a way to wait until each ...
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Install Jupyter on Centos [migrated]

so I've got Python 2.7 properly install on CentOS, with pip configured to install packages on a custom location. Everything has worked so far, but now I'm installing Jupyter like so: pip install ...
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Installing specific version of python and its dependencies in chroot enviroment

I'm trying to install python from source on chroot environment in CentOS 7.1, If I'm using ./configure --prefix=/chroot but I need to find the dependencies and copy them to chroot directory also, How ...
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How to use equivs-build for creating deb from python app? [closed]

For my PyGtk application in Ubuntu I plan to use 'equivs-build' for the purpose of creating distribution deb file. The application is based on ./configure, make, make install . Any body suggest the ...
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Unknown media type error while installing

I'm trying to install gmate on fedora 23 First, it require some packages: pywebkitgtk, python-sexy, python-inotify and ack Installing them without any problems: [root@host gmate] # dnf install ...
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Centos 5.11 No module named yum [closed]

I'm running Centos 5.11 and I installed python 2.7 (replacing 2.4) I soon found out that yum won't work with 2.7, as expected if I put python -V it shows Python 2.7. My classmate did a snapshot of ...
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[alsa][python] recording audio in “if” condition results in static [migrated]

My goal is to record sound while a button is being pressed. The first step was actually recording audio. The following script works like a charm: import alsaaudio, wave, numpy inp = ...
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Upgrading python to 2.7.11 on Ubuntu 14.04

I've been trying to upgrade my python to 2.7.11 or 3.4 (the latest one) but I'm having doing so. I followed the guide here: Upgrade to Python 2.7.11 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Everything completes fine but ...
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Running Python application on boot through init.d script

I am trying to start an Python application on a Debian based OS that is running on a router. This application comes prebundled with site-packages and a python binary. Like a virtual environment. The ...
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Need some support on Python for string append/replacement

I am writing a python script to replace/append certain strings with their equivalents.. Actual string: Name = "com.icon.t2p" Object = "/com/icon/t2p/host" Expected Output : Name = ...
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Which is more expensive, shell command or manipulating file in python?

docker ps which gives the LIST of running dockers with <ID> <name> <port> etc. We can get the same info in /var/lib/docker/containers/<ID>/config.json. (Here ID is same in ...
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placing words corresponding to a key in a singe row

I have a symbol table of the form (key-value pairs) 01 aaluu desii 01 aaluu cipsa 01 amaruuda ilaahabaadii 02 hai 02 nahii 02 txamaatxara To start with, I am supposed to place ...
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Jenkins, Python and root

I am trying to run Python unittest as part of a Jenkins build. My build was failing as follows: + export ...
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how to find default SMTP server name?

I have a python script which uses smtplib to send out an email. I am not sure what to use for mail server name in the smtplib.SMTP initialization. On my test server I use the below and it works fine. ...
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Extract Strings from Web Log file

Given a file containing web access logs for a YouTube video, every line is a hit and is in the format. 62.172.72.131 - - [02/Jan/2003:02:06:41 -0700] "GET /random/html/riaa_hacked/ HTTP/1.0" 200 ...
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Python installation fails in chroot

I tried to install Miniconda Python in a chroot: chroot $1 wget -q https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-3.19.0-Linux-x86_64.sh -O /tmp/miniconda.sh ...
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Program run from udev cannot open a window [duplicate]

I have a script, written in python: #!/usr/bin/python3 from tkinter import messagebox variable = messagebox.showinfo('title', 'question') This python script does nothing else than showing a message ...
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Program cannot resolve host name if it's started before first successful internet connection

This is related to a stackoverflow post I posted. Basically I have a Python script that I'm running on an embedded system (Buildroot-based). The python script runs on startup, but I cannot guarantee ...
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Set maximum number of processes started by incrond

I am using incrond to monitor a directory for incoming files. After each file arrives in the directory a python script is called to process it. A problem arises when the rate of incoming files is ...
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uwsgi , application not found

Ok so I have been trying to find a solution to this for 2 days now but I cannot seem to make much progress. I am running this on a nginx server but that appears to be fine. I copied over a python ...
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ImportError: No module named '_struct' when installing setuptools

I've installed separate Python versions on Centos 6.7 using the instructions listed here, using a local install (not my package manager). When I tried to install [setuptools][2] (e.g. python3.5 ...
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Permission denied error without ssh connection

I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server which runs a python application. The application is started manually in tmux or automatically when the server starts. Application processes http requests from android ...
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Why is there an EOF in the middle of the arguments?

I wanted to write a little bash function such that I can tell bash, import os or from sys import stdout and it will spawn a new Python interpreter with the module imported. The latter from function ...
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Getting Error updating CentOS 6.7

I am trying to update CentOS and getting errors as follows. I tried to remove Python and I couldn't. [root@csc ~]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 6.7 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m Error updating ...
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echo $PATH shows path to python scripts, but they cannot be executed

I am new to using the shell, and wanted to create a directory in $HOME where I can put all my python scripts, set a path to that directory, so that I can go into any folder on my Mac and execute those ...
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CentOS 6, having hard time with yum, repos and installing packages

I'm having some hard time with yum and hoped to get some help. My end goal is to install the pymssql library for Python. It fails because it needs freetds install. yum install freetds fails with ...
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How to add a counter in a list comprehension expression? [migrated]

Is it possible to do a list comprehension expression on the following? end_pieces = ['ATCGCTGCAATG', 'CCTACGGCATGG', 'AGTACTTTATTA', 'TAACAGTTCTTC'] genome_ht = {'ATCGCTGCAATG': [18], ...
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trying to get fbpanel installed but getting confusing errors

I'm not too keen on these python errors to figure them out. this is the error I am getting, but I'm using alsa/pulseaudio so I have no idea how to read python errors. %mike@voidz ...
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How do you list number of lines of every file in a directory in human readable format.

I have a list of directories and subdirectories that contain large csv files. There are about 500 million lines in these files, each is a record. I would like to know How many lines are in each ...
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Need help in data arrangement

Could you please help me to sort this out, I have data which i would like get output in below format using shell/perl script. Data: Virtual Machine Test status Running. Assigned Server ...
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Equivalent to OS X's py2app and Windows's py2exe?

I'm writing an application in Python. I don't expect my end users to be particularly tech-savvy, so I'd like to package it up like a familiar native executable. For OS X, that means running it ...
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Build xpra on local directory without root priviledges

I am trying to build xpra on local directory without root priviledges. The xpra official site says: https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Building Building with distutils For installing into a local ...
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Can I copy output from sage to my clipboard?

I run sage from the terminal. One nice feature of sage is that it can automatically latex-ify results. I would like to be able to pipe these results to my clipboard (I run Ubuntu 14.04). I have ...
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Can I change owner of a tunnel after creating it?

I've been trying to finagle pytun to do my bidding in creating persistent ssh tunnels, but I very much do not want these to be owned by root and unless I modify the python package myself (which as a ...
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FreeBSD Selenium PhantomJS - Can not connect to the Service

i am stuck to run PhantomJS with selenium. So i have prepared a FreeBSD Jail and installed phantomjs via ports. whereis phantomjs > phantomjs: /usr/local/bin/phantomjs /usr/ports/lang/phantomjs ...
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Script for ssh automatic login to a specific port

So currently, the "traditional" way to connect through SSH is the following one: ssh USERNAME@HOST -p PORT I would like to create a script in which I will include all the appropriate information ...
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Bulk downloading PDFs

This may/may not be possible using bash happy for a suggestion in Python if there is one. But I would like to download all the PDFs/ePubs from the following link https://mises.org/library/books ...
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wget changes downloaded file size

I'm using wget to download Excel file with xlsx extension. The thing is that when I want to deal with the file using openpyxl, I get the following error: "BadZipfile: File is not a zip file" But when ...
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Email generated with Python stuck in mailq, times out (Debian)

I want to send emails out, originating from my Debian computer. I do NOT want the emails to originate from my gmail account, like in most Python smtplib examples. I called my ISP regarding port 25, ...
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How do I print the data received on a serial port?

Below is the python code I have written : import serial,time #initialization and open the port ser = serial.Serial() ser.port = "/dev/ttyUSB0" ser.baudrate = 1152000 ser.bytesize = serial.EIGHTBITS ...
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Cronjob python script

I have a python script that parses some html and then writes it to output file. I want that cronjob would execute that python script. When I run this script from command line it works fine (python ...
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OPENSSL_1.0.0 not found when running PyPy 4.0.1 on Amazon Linux (AWS EC2)

I want to run PyPy 4.0.1 on Amazon Linux (AWS EC2), and then downloaded and unzipped the tar.bz file. Also, I created the symbolic links to fix problems, such as pypy: error while loading shared ...
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What is wrong with my systemd unit file?

Here is my unit file: [Unit] Description=Backend Service After=mariadb.service Requires=mariadb.service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/var/www/html/pythonscripts/Backend.py [Install] Alias=BEd ...
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How to Load data to one table from Multiple excel files?

I have to load data from multiple excel file into one table , Please help me to achieve the solution. We are getting excel file from different retail shop which contain multiple column , each file is ...
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How to specify the python path for pip?

With pip installed, I am trying to install matplotlib in Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. I got the following error when executing "sudo pip install matplotlib" I guess this is because the python version is too ...
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Building python with openssl support

I have the following directory structure: nchambers@nchambers-305E4A-305E5A-305E7A:~/mini-bin$ la 2to3 cpp-5.3.0 gcov-5.3.0 grmid-5.3.0 objcopy-2.25.1 ...
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Running a command on all servers using Fabric

I am not sure , whether i should i ask this question here or some other stack-exchange community , but i am trying some simple commands to run on a list of servers , using python fabric. The code ...
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Upgrading from Python to 2.7.10 to 2.7.11 on OSX

How can I upgrade Python from 2.7.10 to 2.7.11 on OSX (Yosemite)?
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How can I run this python script on all html files under a directory? [duplicate]

I have a python script $ cat ~/script.py import sys from lxml import etree from lxml.html import parse doc = parse(sys.argv[1]) title = doc.find('//title') title.text = span2.text.strip() print ...