What I need to have happen: PHP needs to launch an server app which has root permissions running in the background. All of this should be silent. -Sudo is needed to allow php to perform an op that requires root permissions. -Screen is required to allow the app to run outside the scope of the webpage which started the process. -Expect ...
I'm trying to read commands from a text file and execute each line from a bash script. #!/bin/bash while read line; do $line done < "commands.txt" In some cases, if $line contains commands that are meant to run in background, eg command 2>&1 & they will not start in background, and will run in the current script context. Any...
I have an init.d script that looks like: #!/bin/bash # chkconfig 345 85 60 # description: startup script for swapi # processname: swapi LDIR=/var/www/html/private/daemon EXEC=swapi.php PIDF=/var/run/swapi.pid IEXE=/etc/init.d/swapi ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: swapi # Required-Start: $local_fs # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 4 ...
for git I use this bash completion file http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash you know a good bash ssh completion file? // or other goods bash completion files ? ...
Possible Duplicate: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags Excerpt From Input File <TD class="clsTDLabelWeb" width="28%">Municipality: </TD> <TD style="WIDTH: 394px" class="clsTDLabelSm" colSpan="5"> <span id="DInfo1_Municipality">JUPITER</span></TD> My Regular Expression (?<=<span id="DInfo1_Municipal...
I have collected vmstat data in a file . It gives details about free, buffer and cache . SInce i'm interested in finding the memory usage , I should do the following computation for each line of vmstat output -- USED=TOTAL - (FREE+BUFFER+CACHE) where TOTAL is the total RAM memory and USED is the instantaneous memory value. TOTAL memory ...
Here's what I want to do: I have thousand of split rar archives on folder name Archives. Name of the files 0001.part1.rar 0002.part2.rar 0003.part3.rar etc. read 0001.part1.rar create a directory based on prefix of the file above e.g. 0001 move all files with the same prefix on the directory created above. Extract the files within ...
My linux powered laptop still has a dail-up modem. Is it possible to interface with the phone line through my modem. Using bash or ruby, ( or something else, if I really have to) I would like to record and maybe even and make and receive calls. Can this be done? and if so where do I start? ...
I am making a bash script where I want to find files that are equal to a variable. The equals will then be used. I want to use "mogrify" to shrink a couple of image files that have the same name as the ones i gather from a list (similar to "dpkg -l"). It is not "dpkg -l" I am using but it is similar. My problem is that it prints all the...
Hi I used a shell script to run a Java class. My script contains #!/bin/sh java -jar jobs/job.jar These are my failed attempts to run it. [root@]#sh testapp.sh Unable to access jarfile jobs/job.jar if I just do this at the command line it works fine [root@]#java -jar jobs/job.jar thanks. ...
I have two files I want to cat together. However, the last line of the first file and the first line of the last file should be omitted. I am sure this can be done in a UNIX shell (or rather, Cygwin). But how? ...
Hi, i'm trying to spawn a daemon-like process from php on a unix environment, keep the pid for reference and keep it completely independent from httpd processes. This is useful for controlling middleware applications from administrative backoffices. I want to keep it generalized to reuse for any command, i don't want to write a .sh for ...
I normally work these things out reasonably quickly, but this one is a headache. I have a shell script that loads some info about where to connect to and how from a text file, this is done using the read command. This works. It stores the arguments to be sent onto RSync in a variable call $rsyncargs. I want to use the RSync arg -e whic...
How do I know if a variable is set in bash? For example, how to check if the user gave the 1st parameter to a function? function a { ?? if $1 is set } ...
Hi Guys. I am trying to create a script that will run wget to a few sites and check if we receive a 200 OK from the site. My problem is that the result of wget application is shown in the stdout. Is there a way I can hide this. My current script is: RESULT=`wget -O wget.tmp http://mysite.com 2>&1` Later I will use regex to look for...
Is there a jdoc/pydoc/rdoc style inline documentation system for bash? I have a library of bash functions that could really use some nice inline docs that I can convert to HTML for easy reading. ...
As a bash script rookie, detailed answers would be appreciated. :) I am trying to write a bash script that parses JPEG EXIF time stamps output from the exiv2 commmandline utility, which gives me typical output like: Image timestamp : 2010:07:27 17:38:52 Is there a way to parse the time stamp so that its components, like year, mont...
How to write a bash command that finds all files in the current directory that contain the word “foo”, regardless of case? ...
Hi. I'm looking a simple command, like $ less -{view_from_bottom_of_the_file_option} filename or $ vi -{start_viewer_from_the_bottom} filename viewer, editor - what ever. Thanks. ...
Basically I would love to say: echo `grep ^foo /usr/share/dict/words | popup_menu` ...and have some type of keyboard navigable menu popup or selection tool, very similar to how vim's ":Explore" mechanism works. Extreme bonus points for "easy and works pretty much everywhere with standard tools" Also acceptable is "needs some sort ...