This is my first Bash script so forgive me if this question is trivial. I need to count the number of files within a specified directory $HOME/.junk. I thought this would be simple and assumed the following would work: numfiles= find $HOME/.junk -type f | wc -l echo "There are $numfiles files in the .junk directory." Typing find $HOME...
I am trying to do something like this ruby test.rb | source /dev/stdin where test.rb just prints out cd /. There are no errors, but it doesn't do anything either. If I use this: ruby test.rb > /tmp/eraseme2352; source /tmp/eraseme2352 it works fine, but I want to avoid the intermediate file. Edit: The whole point of this is that...
In a bash script, I want to get the cursor column in a variable. It looks like using the ANSI escape code {ESC}[6n is the only way to get it, for example the following way: # Query the cursor position echo -en '\033[6n' # Read it to a variable read -d R CURCOL # Extract the column from the variable CURCOL="${CURCOL##*;}" # We have th...
I want to know if new files/directories have been created in a specific directory A since a fixed date time. Is there a bash command to do this? ...
i want to make a script (to) that makes it easier for me to enter folders. so eg. if i type "to apache" i want it to change the current directory to /etc/apache2. however, when i use the "cd" command inside the script, it seems like it changes the path WITHIN the script, so the path in the shell has not changed. how could i make this ...
Hello everyone, I am trying to assign a regular expression result to an array inside of a bash script but I am unsure whether that's possible, or if I'm doing it entirely wrong. The below is what I want to happen, however I know my syntax is incorrect: indexes[4]=$(echo b5f1e7bfc2439c621353d1ce0629fb8b | grep -o '[a-f0-9]\{8\}') suc...
I am using cat *.txt to merge multiple txt files into one, but I need each file to be on a separate line. What is the best way to merge files with each file appearing on a new line? ...
I have a shell script like this: cat file | while read line do # run some commands using $line done Now I need to check if the line contains any non-whitespace character ([\n\t ]), and if not, skip it. How can I do this? ...
I have a homework assignment where I need to take input from a file and continuously remove the first word in a line and append it to the end of the line until all combinations have been done. I really don't know where to begin and would be thankful for any sort of direction. The part that has me confused is that this is suppose to be pe...
#!/bin/bash # Script to output the total size of requested filetype recursively # Error out if no file types were provided if [ $# -lt 1 ] then echo "Syntax Error, Please provide at least one type, ex: sizeofTypes {filetype1} {filetype2}" exit 0 fi #set first filetype types="-name *."$1 #loop through additional filetypes and appe...
i have created folder on my server (ie finesse)- 'home' in which i have several perl(.pl) files as tt.pl, re.pl etc. now i have created new folder in 'home' folder called 'perl' and want to move tt.pl and re.pl in perl folder is there any command to do so (like cut-paste in windows)? note: i am using putty 0.60 on windows xp ...
I want to search for the occurrence of string1 OR string2 OR string3, etc. in a file, and print only those lines (to stdout or a file, either one). How can I easily do this in bash? ...
Hello! I have created a small program in c languge.This program creates some child procceses in with the fork() function.The amount of the procceses that are created is given as the first argument of the console. I would like someone to help me convert this program from c to bash script. /* The first argument is the amount of the procce...
I am using sed in a script to do a replace and I want to have the replaced file overwrite the file. Normally I think that you would use this: % sed -i 's/cat/dog/' manipulate sed: illegal option -- i However as you can see my sed does not have that command. I tried this: % sed 's/cat/dog/' manipulate > manipulate But this just ...
Given the following code sample: uint8_t i, in, ni; i = in = 2; ni = 1; while (2 == i > ni) in++; How can I replace i, in, and ni, respectively with either in, ni, and i or inni, inin, and nini using emacs, vi, *nix commands, or anything else? ...
Hi all: Here is a "challenge question" I've got from Linux system programming lecture. Any of the following strings will give you a Coke if you kick: L = { aaaa, aab, aba, baa, bb, aaaa"a", aaaa"b", aab"a", … ab"b"a, ba"b"a, ab"bbbbbb"a, ... } The letters shown in wrapped double quotes indicate coins that would have fallen through (...
I am creating a bash script for generating certificates. The openssl command that creates a certificate asks for keyboard input. This is every time the same sequence of keys: seven times [ENTER] followed by two times ['y' + ENTER]. How can I do this programmatically? ...
I have a path that is stored in a variable $FULLPATH="/this/is/the/path/to/my/file.txt" I also have another variable containing a partial path $PARTIAL="/this/is/the/" I want to remove the partial path from the full path so that I am left with: path/to/my/file.txt What's the best way to do this? ...
There was a situation when somebody moved the whole rootdir into a subdir on a remote system, thus all the system tools like cp, mv, etc didn't work anymore. We had an active session though but couldn't find a way to copy/move the files back using only bash built-ins. Do somebody know of a way to achieve this? I even thought about copy...
I have A Script that has a Select statement to go to multiple sub select statements however once there I can not seem to figure out how to get it to go back to the main script. also if possible i would like it to re-list the options #!/bin/bash PS3='Option = ' MAINOPTIONS="Apache Postfix Dovecot All Quit" ...