Hi All, I have written a script that relies on other server responses (uses wget to pull data), and I want it to always be run in the background unquestionably. I know one solution is to just write a wrapper script that will call my script with an '&' appended, but I want to avoid that clutter. Is there a way for a bash (or zsh) script...
Hi, I'm struggling trying to debug a cron job which isn't working correctly. The cron job calls a shell script which should unrar a rar file - this works correctly when i run the script manually, but for some reason it's not working via cron. I am using the absolute file path and have verified that the path is correct. Has anyone got an...
Hello, I am writing a simple Bash script to detect when a folder has been modified. It is something very close to: ls -lR $dir > a ls -lR $dir > b DIFF=$(diff a b) if [ $DIFF -ne 0 ] then echo "The directory was modified" Unfortunately, the if statement prints an error: [: -ne: unary operator expected I am not sure what is w...
Hello, I have a simple Bash question which I do not seem to be able to get right. I want to look for the oldest directory (inside a directory), and delete it. I am using the following: rm -R $(ls -1t | tail -1) ls -1t | tail -1 does indeed gives me the oldest directory, the The problem is that it is not deleting the directory, and t...
Hi All, I am trying to create a text file that contains a listing of all log files that contain a certain string in the first line. More specifically, SAS log files. Currently I have a simple script that will search the entire system for "*.log" files and output the entire list to a text file. Is there a way to only output the log ...
Can anyone give me a bash script or one line command i can run on linux to recursively go through each folder from a root folder and delete all files or directories starting with '._'? Thanks, Dane. ...
Hi, I'm trying to write a bash script in which I connect to a samba server, by getting the username and password, then saying $username:$password@SERVERNAME. However, this will fail if the password has an @ in it. Is there a way to escape the @ out of the password in bash? Thanks in advance Update: I'm setting up this network printer...
I have 3 csv files I'd like to combine. Each file has 3 comma delimited columns. File 1 has columns a,b,c File 2 has columns d,e,f File 3 has columns g,h,i I'd like to combine the 3 files into a single file of: a,b,c,e,f,h Can I use sed to do that? I could write a console app or script easily enough but I'm attempting to get some...
How do I write a bash shell script (under Mac OS X) to convert the names of various files with special characters such as ä, ö, ü? Using sed doesn't work: echo * | sed s/ü/ue/ Can I do it some other way? EDIT Here is the full script. It basically zips up iPhone app packages and then (should) convert any special characters in the zip...
Hello, Can I see somewhere an example post-commit hook to run a script on each commited file? eg. git add file1 git add file2 git commit -am "my commit" and the hook executes: myscript -myparams "file1" myscript -myparams "file2" The best would be to have parameter to commit command to run this hook or not, eg. git commit -X… e...
Hey guys, I'm writing a simple script to autocomplete when I press TAB. The php script contains a simple "echo". In this case, the autocomplete works but a "tab" is appended to the output making it useless Code from the script scriptPath='/home/hassen/workspace/scripts/bin/test.php' _dda() { local cur COMPREPLY=() u...
NOTE: I thought I was using bash, but /bin/sh is linked to /bin/dash, which has this weird exec problem. I have a simple bash shell script on Linux which is used to launch a server process (which I did not write or control) and would like to have the bash shell script output the launched process's PID to a pidfile. The problem is that ...
I'm pretty much a novice to shell scripting. I'm trying to send the output of some piped commands to an open command in bash in OSX. My ultimate goal is to compile a Flex/Actionscript application from TextWrangler by calling a bash script with a little Applescript and have the result played directly in a Flash Player. The Applescript is...
Is there any way, in bash, to pipe stderr through a filter before unifying it with stdout? That is, I want stdout ----------------\ |-----> terminal/file/whatever stderr -- [ filter ] --/ rather than stdout ----\ |----[ filter ]---> terminal/file/whatever stderr ----/ ...
Currently this is what I need to type to execute my task execute 'mytask' I want an alias so that I need to type e mytask This is what I did which is not working alias e="execute '$1'" ...
My shell script: #!/bin/bash if [ $# -lt 2 ] then echo "$0 : Not enough argument supplied. 2 Arguments needed." echo "Argument 1: -d for debug (lists files it will remove) or -e for execution." echo "Followed by some path to remove files from. (path of where to look) " exit 1 fi if test $1 == '-d' then find $2 -mmi...
Hey all, I'm trying to create a short bash script someone could run in cygwin to execute all nunit tests in a .NET project using nunit-console. Currently i have the system version of nunit aliased to "nunit" so if i run "nunit" it will execute nunit-console. My first step was to try and find all the test assemblies recursively. This ...
I'm using RVM to manage my Ruby environment on OSX, and currently it's interpreting '1.9.2' as ruby-1.9.2-rc2 instead of the final release. How can I update this to make it behave as expected? ...
Is there a way in zsh or bash to have a status line? e.g. in VI it will let you know that you are in insert mode with -- INSERT -- Is there an eqivalent for the command line? ...
Hi, I've made a bash script executing a PHP file: #!/bin/bash php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance 2010-10-01 2010-11-01 php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance 2010-09-01 2010-10-01 php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance 2010-08-01 2010-09-01 php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance ...