So I want to download multiple files from rapidshare. This what I currently have. I created a cookie by running- wget \ --save-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare \ --post-data "login=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD" \ --no-check-certificate \ -O - \ https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi \ > /dev/null and now...
Using a Linux shell, how do I start a program with a different working directory from the current working directory? For example, I have a binary file helloworld that creates the file hello-world.txt in the current directory. This file is inside of directory /a. Currently I am in directory /b. I want to start my program running ../a/hel...
I've run into a really silly problem with a Linux shell script. I want to delete all files with the extension ".bz2" in a directory. In the script I call rm "$archivedir/*.bz2" where $archivedir is a directory path. Should be pretty simple, shouldn't it? Somehow, it manages to fail with this error: rm: cannot remove `/var/archives/mo...
Hi, I'm getting totally lost in shell programming, mainly because every site I use offers different tool to do pattern matching. So my question is what tool to use to do simple pattern matching in piped stream. context: I have named.conf file, and i need all zones names in a simple file for further processing. So I do ~$ cat named.loca...
I am writing a script to run under the korn shell on AIX. I'd like to use the mkdir command to create a directory. But the directory may already exist, in which case I don't want to do anything. So I want to either test to see that the directory doesn't exist, or suppress the "File exists" error that mkdir throws when it tries to create ...
Hi all, I am writing a very simple bash script that tars a given directory, encrypts the output of that, and then splits the resultant file into multiple smaller files since the backup media don't support huge files. I don't have a lot of experience with bash scripting; I'm believe having issues with quoting my variables properly to al...
I tried to learn shell(bash) scripting few times but was driven away by the syntax. Then I found Python and was able to do most of the things a shell script can do in Python. I am now not sure whether I should invest my time in learning shell scripting anymore. So I want to ask What are strengths of shell scripting that make it an indis...
I would like telnet://blah to open putty and not the native windows telnet client. I don't even know what this 'feature' is called under windows so I'm having no luck find any information about it. Thanks in advance, Jan ...
I wish to copy the top 1000 lines in a text file containing more than 50 million entries, to another new file, and also delete these lines from the original file. Is there some way to do the same with a single shell command in Unix? ...
Hi, I am using a mac mini with a dynamic ip to store an SVN repository. As an unexpected change of the ip makes it difficult to consistently use the repository, I am interested in creating a cron to log the ip on another server every time it changes. What would be the best way to do this? ...
I run the following code zgrep -c compinit /usr/share/man/man{1..9}/zsh* I get zsh: no matches found: /usr/share/man/man2/zsh* This is strange, since the following works echo Masi{1..9}/masi This suggests me that the problem may be a bug in Zsh. Is the above a bug in Zsh for {1..9}? ...
Hi all, I am on Mac Os X 10.5 (but I reproduced the issue on 10.4) I am trying to use iconv to convert an UTF-8 file to ASCII the utf-8 file contains characters like 'éàç' I want the accented characters to be turned into their closest ascii equivalent so my command is this : iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE myutf8file.t...
I am running a shell script to execute a c++ application, which measures the performance of an api. i can capture the latency (time taken to return a value for a given set of parameters) of the api, but i also wish to capture the cpu and memory usage alongside at intervals of say 5-10 seconds. is there a way to do this without effecting...
I just can't figure out how do I make sure an argument passed to my script is a number or not. All I want to do is something like this: test *isnumber* $1 && VAR=$1 || echo "need a number" Any help? UPDATE: I managed (whit Charles' help) to do it, but I'm not yet sure it's the best way to do that (even though it worked on my tests)....
Hi all, This is a very simple bash script i wrote: #!/bin/bash ITEM_LIST=items.txt LOG_FILE=log.log TOTAL_ITEMS=$(wc -l ${ITEM_LIST} | awk '{ print $1 }') let NOT_FOUND=0 cat ${ITEM_LIST} | while read item; do grep "${item}" ${LOG_FILE} > /dev/null FOUND=${?} if [ ${FOUND} -ne 0 ]; then let NOT_FOUND=NOT_FOUND+1 ...
I would like to give IronPython and Mono a try. Specifically doing sysadmin tasks. Which often means running OS commands. In CPython I use the subprocess module for such tasks. But in IronPython (v2.0.1, Mono 2.4, Linux) there is no subprocess module. It seems there is not even an 'os' module. So I can't use os.system(). What would be th...
Hey guys, I got some files, after an egrep command, like egrep -l -r '(this|that|those)' * this will list like, 20 files. I don't want to open each one manually, theres any way that I can redirect the result from grep, directly to an editor? So the editor will open those files to me Thanks ...
I am making a sort of a science lab in Python, in which the user can create, modify and analyze all sorts of objects. I would like to put a Python shell inside the program, so the user could manipulate the objects through the shell. (Note: He could also manipulate the objects through the usual GUI.) A mockup that illustrates this: How...
I run the following code unsuccessfully sudo killall %4 where %4 is my Vim session. How can you terminate a job without foregrounding it? ...
I wanted to use one of the Git-completion.bash features but I can't customize the look I'd like to have. Here is relevant part of my .bash_profile: source ~/.git-completion.bash function prompt { local WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]" local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]" local CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]" local GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]" local BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"...