I'm using CocoaDialog to present some feedback during execution of a download script. I wish to present an indeterminate progress bar whilst command operation us taking place. This is possible by piping text to CocoaDialog for the duration of the operation. http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#progressbar_control I tho...
Hi, I am a shell script newbie. I want to know the difference between ${var%pattern} and ${var%%pattern} Thanks ...
Hi all, Started to learn some shell scripting. I have a perl script that runs on one file. How would I write a shell script to run the perl script a bunch of times on all files with keyword "filename" in it? So in English, for /filename/ in filenames perl myscript.pl completefilename Thanks, Michael ...
Hey everyone, I have created a shell script to backup my webfiles + database dump, put it into a tar archive and FTP it offsite. Id like to run it X times per week however I only want to keep the latest 10 backups on the FTP site. How can I do this best? Should I be doing this work on the shell script side, or is there an FTP command t...
I want to update some file in a server, with an automated script and the target files on a different server. Haven't started yet, but I think there will be authorization and connection issues during the process. Any suggestion on how I could approach? Thank you ...
Hi, How to get the current date value in epoch i.e., number of days elapsed since 1970-1-1. I need solution in unix shell script. ...
Hi all, I have a simple question. Is that possible to simulate an keyboard action ie: ctrl-a d for detach a screen in a script, I need this to check in the screen the folowing keyword "SEGFAULT" an then restart the processus. If you have any suggestion... Best regards Paca ...
I need to use scp update some directory at another server. It is similar to for i in /usr/some/???/unknown/dir do cp /usr/some/file $i done so how can i do the search while the destination directories are on other server? thank you ...
Hi people, I have a text file, a.txt. Contents are: $ cat a.txt microsoft.com google.com ibm.com I'm trying to run a host command on each line to get the IP address. Here is my script: #!/bin/sh for i in `cat a.txt` do echo $i host $i done When i run it I get this: $ ./a.sh microsoft.com Host microsoft.com\013 not found: 3(NXDOMA...
On a coupon site someone posted a shell script for finding Godaddy discount codes. 1 - Could someone explain how this script works? Specifically, I'm confused about the syntax: links url -dump | grep AI 2 - Does shell scripting allow you to spider a site just as perl/python/ruby would? 3 - Is the most efficient way to accomplish...
I want to match just the folder name that a file is in, eg: pic/2009/cat01.jpg pic/2009/01/cat02.jpg I want to just match what I put in bold. So far I have this: [^/]*/ Which will match, pic/2009/cat01.jpg Any idea? ...
I am trying to perform a big checkin of a lot of semi-automatically generated files, and they should all have svn:mime-type properties. I've set a lot using find, but how do I now find all those remaining files that are to be added and which haven't had a MIME type assigned? ...
Im trying to use inotifywait to detect every time a file or folder gets moved into a folder in realtime (eg. /root in the case) I tried this, which does detect both folders and files, but this is for a created file, I want it for a moved file/folder. inotifywait --monitor --format %f --event create /root So then I use this, but using...
I was thinking of using inotifywait to watch the original folder where the original folders are in, then when ever it detects that a folder has been deleted, then delete the same symbolic link in the other folder. So my question is, is that the best way? Or are there better ways to delete a symbolic link when the original folder gets de...
Dear Gurus, I am using NetBeans 6.5 and whenever I save a LessCSS file I would like to run less compiler to compile it to native css. How do I go about achieving this? Many Thanks. Ravi EDIT: I can do a build file as Kim recommended below. I am searching for a solution where I can run an external command. So the question now is How Do ...
Hi, i created a crontab which will run a bash script test.sh. This test.sh file requires some input from the user, and saves the user input into a variable. How do i ensure that the user input will be saved to a variable in test.sh, and when crontab runs the script i can get the output i want? for e.g i have 2 files, file1.sh and file2....
Borderline ServerFault question, but I'm programming some shell scripts, so I'm trying here first :) Most *nixes have a command that will let you pipe/redirect output to the local clipboard/pasteboard, and retrieve from same. On OS X these commands are pbcopy, pbpaste Is there anyway to replicate this functionality while SSHed into ...
I'm very low with shell scripts.. I need to check with a cron (no problem for this) if my connection is up. If it isn't, i want to call some scripts to reconnect. I was thinking about using grep and ping to some site (or ip), then check the returned string. Then call my command: sudo pppd call speedtch I need a clue thanks! Or ther...
I'm looking for a script I can run to check if a text file is empty, if it is then do nothing but if it has something in it, I want it to send me an email with the text file as the message. No idea how to do it. ...
Hello, Do you know how to extract attachments from a raw mail message on Unix? I want to do it from shell script (ksh). The mail file is the raw e-mail with headers and encoded attachments.. PS: I can't use perl! Thx. ...