Cross-platform getopt for a shell script
I've just found out that getopt is not cross-platform (in particular for FreeBSD and Linux). What is the best workaround for this issue? ...
shell-scripting
Bourne Script: Redirect success messages but NOT error messages
This command: keytool -import -file "$serverPath/$serverCer" -alias "$clientTrustedCerAlias" -keystore "$clientPath/$clientKeystore" -storepass "$serverPassword" -noprompt Will when it runs successfully outputs: Certificate was added to keystore I tried redirecting the stdard out with: keytool ... > /dev/null But it is still prin...
Bash: How to invoke command and store the result in a variable?
Basically I want to be able to invoke a given command, in this case mysql -uanon -ppwd -db mydb -e "select count(*) from table1". And then take this commands result (the count on that table) and place it in a variable in bash script. What is the simplest way to achieve this? ...
how to replace a set of lines in a file with another set of lines in unix ?
how to replace a set of lines in a file with another set of lines in unix ? #!/usr/bin/ksh export text1='log_file=$LOG_PATH${UNISON_JOB}".log"' export text2='\. \$\{env_path\}set_test_log_file\.ksh' export text3='log_file\=\$LOG_PATH\$\{UNISON_JOB\}\"\.log\"' echo $text1 echo $text2 echo $text3 for file in `grep -il ${text1} SANDEEP` ...
Can Ruby access output from shell commands as it appears?
My Ruby script is running a shell command and parsing the output from it. However, it seems the command is first executed and output saved in an array. I would like to be able to access the output lines in real time just as they are printed. I've played around with threads, but haven't got it to work. Any suggestions? ...
shell script fun! how to perform an action on each subdirectory from a given path??
I am writing a shell script (which I suck at) and I need some help. Its a script that is moving things from git to CVS (not important). The thing is, i a file path: controllers/listbuilder/setup/SubmissionRolesListbuilderHandler.inc.php and I need to be able to do: cvs add controllers; cvs add controllers/listbuilder; cvs add cont...
mkdir error in bash script
Hi, The following is a fragment of a bash script that I'm running under cygwin on Windows: deployDir=/cygdrive/c/Temp/deploy timestamp=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S` deployDir=${deployDir}/$timestamp if [ ! -d "$deployDir" ]; then echo "making dir $deployDir" mkdir -p $deployDir fi This produces output such as: making dir /cygd...
run program multiple times using one line shell command
I have the following gifs on my linux system: $ find . -name *.gif ./gifs/02.gif17.gif ./gifs/fit_logo_en.gif ./gifs/halloween_eyes_63.gif ./gifs/importing-pcs.gif ./gifs/portal.gif ./gifs/Sunflower_as_gif_small.gif ./gifs/weird.gif ./gifs2/00p5dr69.gif ./gifs2/iss013e48788.gif ...and so on What I have written is a program that conver...
OptionParser python module - multiple entries of same variable?
I'm writing a little python script to get stats from several servers or a single server, and I'm using OptionParser to parse the command line input. #!/usr/bin/python import sys from optparse import OptionParser ... parser.add_option("-s", "--server", dest="server", metavar="SERVER", type="string", help="server(s) to...
Exit SSH from the script
I Want to exit ssh: How does the below line work: ssh -f -T ${USAGE_2_USER}@${USAGE_2_HOST} Or do i need to write it some other way . Please tell should I use exit with ssh an how? I am using ssh in my script . I want to exit from it after the execution of it, with out showing them up in the proccess. ...
Git Status Across Multiple Repositories on a Mac
I have been searching for a solution to this for a while and have not found quite what I need. I have several Git Repositories in a folder on my Mac (OSX 10.6) and would like a script or tool that will loop through all the repositories and let me know if any of them needs "commit"-ing. This is my structure Sites /project1 /pro...
How to compare two floating-point values in shell script
I had to do a division in shell script and the best way was: result1=`echo "scale=3; ($var1 / $total) * 100"| bc -l` result2=`echo "scale=3; ($var2 / $total) * 100"| bc -l` but I want to compare the values of $result1 and $result2 Using if test $result1 -lt $result2 or if [ $result1 -gt $result2 ] didn't work :( Any idea how to do t...
continously add picture to video
Every x minutes I grab an image from a network-cam. Now i want to add this picture to an existing video file - on the fly. I don't want to keep numerous image files and then encode them once in a while with e.g. mencoder mf://@${LIST} -mf type=jpg:fps=${FPS} ... The video format/codec doesn't really matter, as long as standard tools ...
Create database in Shell Script - convert from PHP
I have the following PHP code that i use to create a database, a user, and grant permissions to the user: $con = mysql_connect("IP.ADDRESS","user","pass"); mysql_query("CREATE DATABASE ".$dbuser."",$con)or die(mysql_error()); mysql_query("grant all on ".$dbuser.".* to ".$dbname." identified by '".$dbpass."'",$con) or die(mysql_error()...
Shell script variable problem
Hi all, I'm trying to write a shell script to automate a job for me. But i'm currently stuck. Here's the problem : I have a variable named var1 (a decreasing number from 25 to 0 and another variable named var${var1} and this equals to some string. then when i try to call var${var1} in anywhere in script via echo it fails. I have tried...
How to bundle C/C++ code with C-shell-script?
I have a C shell script that calls two C programs - one after the another with some file handling before, in-between and afterwards. Now, as such I have three different files - one C shell script and 2 .c files. I need to give this script to other users. The problem is that I have to distribute three files - which the users m...
Accessing variable from ARGV
I'm writing a cPanel postwwwact script, if you're not familiar with the script its run after a new account is created. it relies on the user account variable being passed to the script which i then use for various things (creating databases etc). However, I can't seem to find the right way to access the variable i want. I'm not that good...
Random password variable disappears
Hi, I'm using the following to generate a random password in a shell script: DBPASS=</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9| (head -c $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || head -c 8) When i run this in a file on its own like this: #!/bin/sh DBPASS=</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9| (head -c $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || head -c 8) echo $DBPASS A password is echoed...
UNIX script to parse Zone file (is this the best code?)
Hi, FOund the following on: http://mike.murraynet.net/2009/08/23/parsing-the-verisign-zone-file-with-os-x/ Can unix-masters have a look at it and see if its the best possible way to gather the unique domainsnames in a zone file? For .NET domains: grep “^[a-zA-Z0-9-]+ NS .” net.zone|sed “s/NS .//”|uniq >> netdomains.txt For .COM domai...
Posting a download to bitbucket from a shell script
I'd like to be able to fully-automate the process of packaging the release of an application (in Xcode) via shell script and I'd like the zip archive that is released to be a download on bitbucket. Is there a way to programmatically make a (zip) file available as a download on bitbucket? ...