I'm creating a snippet to be used in my Mac OS X terminal (bash) which will allow me to do the following in one step: Log in to my server via ssh Create a mysqldump backup of my Wordpress database Download the backup file to my local harddrive Replace my local Mamp Pro mysql database The idea is to create a local version of my curren...
Hi, I have found this little script in PHP that send a simple request to twitter for update your status, I have tried this: http://pratham.name/twitter-php-script-without-curl.html, and it work. Now, I want send this request with netcat, but this doesn't work, why? I send request in this way: echo -e $head | nc twitter.com 80 The $he...
Hey there ... I have lines like these, and I want to know how many lines I actually have... 09:16:39 AM all 2.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 94.00 09:16:40 AM all 5.00 0.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 91.00 09:16:41 AM all 0.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ...
Hi.. I have several line contains number like: XXXXXX.XXX (this number ended by whitespace.) How can I delete whitespace at the end of number format using sed? Thank for the help. ...
Hi all, I am trying to enforce a policy that logs an idle user out of a bash shell session, even when they are in an active process like a script-based menu, or vi session. I have tried using "export TMOUT=x" where x is the number of seconds, but this only logs a user out if they are idle at the bash shell prompt. Is there a bash scri...
Hello! I want to extract a certain part of a string, if it exists. I'm interested in the xml filename, i.e i want whats between an "_" and ".xml". This is ok, it prints "555" MYSTRING=`echo "/sdd/ee/publ/xmlfile_555.xml" | sed 's/^.*_\([0-9]*\).xml/\1/'` echo "STRING = $MYSTRING" This is not ok because it returns the whole string. I...
I have tried putting the following in my Makefile: @if [ $(DEMO) -eq 0 ]; then \ cat sys.conf | sed -e "s#^public_demo[\s=].*$#public_demo=0#" >sys.conf.temp; \ else \ cat sys.conf | sed -e "s#^public_demo[\s=].*$#public_demo=1#" >sys.conf.temp; \ fi but when I run make, I get the following error: sed: -e expression #1, char ...
I'd like to have the stdout of a command replicated to stderr as well under bash. Something like: $ echo "FooBar" (...) FooBar FooBar $ where (...) is the redirection expression. Is that possible? ...
OK I have a bash script on my desktop called highest if I run: cd ~/Desktop highest I get: Command not found But if I run: ~/Desktop/highest It executes just fine. But why do I still need to use the absolute path when my command line is in the correct directory? I am guessing this has something to do with the $PATH variable? Lik...
I have two bash scripts that are almost identical. One works and one doesn't and I can't figure out what's going on. Here are the scripts: This one works fine: #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$HOME/Documents/Development/road/Earthmoving TOL=0.05 echo -e "\nRunning Unit Tests" echo -e "------------------\n" for infile in $CURDIR/utest/*.csv do ...
So I have a bit of an issue. I work for a small startup (about 8 developers) and my boss recently decided that we need to put the owner of each file in the documentation. So I have been try to write something using svn blame and file to loop through every php file and see which files have my username on more that 15 lines, but I haven't ...
Background: I grew up on using Perl/Python/Ruby for sysadmin-type tasks and shell scripting. I always avoided Bash scripting whenever I needed anything programmer-ish, like functions, looping or control structures. Back then, I could pick my favorite tool for whatever the job. Problem: Now I am working in a situation where the preferr...
May you convert this tiny code to Bash code : user/bin/perl sleep(300); system("killall -9 perl &"); sleep(5) Thanks in Advance . ...
Hi! I would like to call this shell script: #!/bin/sh exiftool -a -u -g1 -j videos/$filename > metadata/$filename1.json; From a program in java. I try this: File dir = new File("videos"); String[] children = dir.list(); if (children == null) { // Either dir does not exist or is not a directory System.o...
We used to have two entries in our /etc/inittab: ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS ttyS0::respawn:-/bin/sh rcS is a shell script which normally starts our application, but in a special case we called "return" to terminate it which apparently lets the /bin/sh take over the tty as we got a shell prompt where we could do some maintenance. Now t...
I wrote this piece of code to scan a directory for files newer than a reference file while excluding specific subdirectories. #!/bin/bash dateMarker="date.marker" fileDate=$(date +%Y%m%d) excludedDirs=('./foo/bar' './foo/baz' './bar/baz') excludedDirsNum=${#excludedDirs[@]} for (( i=0; i < $excludedDirsNum; i++)); do myExcludes=${...
I have a list of files with numeric file names (e.g. #.php, ##.php or ###.php) that I'd like to copy/move in one fell swoop. Does anyone know of an ls or grep combo command to accomplish this objective? I do have this much: ls -al | grep "[0-9].php" ...
I'm trying to write a shell script that will make several targets into several different paths. I'll pass in a space-separated list of paths and a space-separated list of targets, and the script will make DESTDIR=$path $target for each pair of paths and targets. In Python, my script would look something like this: for path, target in zi...
Why does the following work from the prompt but fail when stuck inside a bash script? The bash script produces one empty line leading me to believe the variable isn't being set: echo "red sox" | read my_var echo $my_var UPDATE: Since I guess my example isn't working, what I'm really trying to do is take I/O and pipe it into a variabl...
I am running a PHP script that gets me the absolute paths of files I want to tar up. This is the syntax I have: tar -cf tarname.tar -C /www/path/path/file1.txt /www/path/path2/path3/file2.xls when I untar it create the absolute path to the files. I do I get just /path with everything under it to show? ...