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| | hello, i made a routine in expect that connects via ssh to a juniper firewall, makes a backup of the configuration and saves it into a text file, so far it's working fine, and since it was working so fine i decided to add it to cron in order to … |
| | Hi, I'm trying to write a shell script that accepts wildcards as arguments. But instead of the wildcards expanding into the list of files from the current directory, I'd like to have them expand into files from another directory. For example, I have a script called test.sh in the folder … |
| | Hi all, i'm a novice in Shell Programming.. Recently im working on a sch project to create a system which allows user to login, logout, change password, save password.. Some of the requirements are: 1. Check correct userid before asking for password. 2. In unlocking, ask for password only. Userid … |
| | What I am trying to do is to scan a text file word by word and find all words of 4 character or less then output these words to a file, but the problem is I don't know a unix command that can scan the file this way. The Grep … |
| | hey everybody, I just wanted to know how I can print out with awk or others only one line and not a whole column what is made by print$1. I have a data which contains 205 lines and I want for example only the 6th line. I tried with this … |
| | Hi All, I am implementing simple SHELL similar to bash having functionality that support some BUILT-IN commands like cd, kill, bg, fg, job, wait. It should also support piping and job control. please Guide me how to start this. Thanks manoj |
| | I am trying to find out how to stream a file so that if gives me back how many times a certain field label occurred. File example: Cat black 100 home lost Dog brown 632 street lost Dog black 839 home owned Pig pink 123 mud farm Dog white 345 …  |
| | I have these two projects due tomorrow for extra credit in my Unix class and I have no idea how to write them. I really need the extra credit to bump my grade up a little. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are the descriptions: Project One: A) Create … |
| | I am attempting to write a script that would read entries from a file (one at a time) and for each entry it should cut the given word from caricature 8 till the 3rd from last character. I wrote the following more $TEMP2 | grep join | awk '{print $3}' … |
| | Hi, I am Rajesh. I am totally new to shell scripting. I have to prepare a shell script which comapres two directory tree structures ( directory contents comparision is not necessary). for example, suppose I had installed a software system long back and now I want to upgrade that software … |
| | Write a script named killdup. The script sorts all the lines in a file supplied to it as the first argument, and removes duplicate lines. The script stores the resulting output in a file whose name is given by the second argument. I know how to sort it, but how … |
| | Hi! I would like to restore my system to yesterdays, since the changes that I have made has made a bad impact on the htdocs folder, so I rpefere to make a system restore, can you help me plaese.. |
| | Hi, I want to configure my logrotate configuration file as follows we need keep all clients monthly logs to /var/log/apache2/logs folder Under this folder we have different clients directories.Each directory should contain the logfiles that is access.log and error.log files for each folder.Every month end logrotate should run and it … |
| | Anyone know how to put colored text on the screen in a bash script? |
| | Dear All, I am using CGI and bash Shell scripting programming. I want to upload a file bye Web based application in CGI and pure Shell Scripting. Not in Perl. Please help how to Upload a file using bash Shell Scripting and CGI. Thanks advance. Aashiqbhatti |
| | i have a bash script which takes a string as command line argument and synthesises it using festival.I need to invoke this script every time a user presses a keyboard key(or a particular combination of keys) with the selected text.. can someone tell me how this can be done.. |
| | I need to create a shell script that controls the users runlevel at every startup/logon of the linux system. the user should be prompted with a menu screen taht asks for their desired runlevel. The user should be presented with the following 3 choices: ¤ Single User Mode ¤ Full/Extended … |
| | Hello this is my first post on these forums. For a little back ground into this, I recently installed a Linux server with the purpose of recording matches via a program called HLTV. Now what I want to do is take the individual .dem files compress them one by one … |
| | Hi all, I am writing a script that requires the simple functionality of reading lines from a text file...and writing several of these to a new file.. The lines I want to write to the new file contain tabs and I have not been able to write these lines. Here … |
| | So I'm really new but I have written a simple bash shell script filter (using someone elses conversion utility) to insert a copyright text line into a MIDI file. The script works fine on the first file in the directory, however the whole point of writing this script for me … |
| | Hey guys, been working on a tool called getwifi for a while now. It is a tool written in shell that let's a user join wireless networks in order. You can configure it to join any of the networks and change the order in a configuration file. It supports WEP … |
| | Can anyone give me a one-liner that adds a timestamp to the output of vmstat -n 1 Perhaps using awk? |
| | Hi, I am trying to (echo ls -l $i) but it's not printing if someone can help me....I am trying to ls -l everything in the arrary....Thanks in advance [B] script: [/B] #/usr/bin/ksh typeset -i cnt=0 while read line do myarray[$cnt]=$line ((cnt = cnt + 1)) done < myfile for … |
| | hey friends i m facing one problem that on sever their is fedora core 4 and when ever temp(/tmp) is filled server go show. can any one provide me with the script that can automatically cleans up /tmp after some days or when temp is going to fill thanks  |
| | hi, I got a problem with using this 'cmdtool' command. I use cmdtool to open up a new window in a script. But I need to disable the 'close' button on the top right of this new window (the 'x' button) during the execution of a portion of my program. … |
| | Hi folks, I'm prepared to write a simple script to execute 20+ commands and could not figure out how to make use of "loop" subject to certain conditions. If without conditions[code]#!/bin/bash cmd1="code1" #the exact/full command cmd2="code2" #the exact/full command cmd3="code3" #the exact/full command etc. cmd1 || exit 1 cmd2 || … |
| | Hello, How can i find the execution time of a script. help me . |
| | mail -s "subject" [email]chris.collins@fuse.net[/email] < email What can I add to this line and where to automatically create a blind carbon copy? Also if possible what can I add to this line and where if possible to add the address from? Thanks |
| | I need to find a way to use a bash script to take a line like this " <!-- STANDARD FTP :: DELETE THIS BLOCK FOR SECURE FTP AND UNCOMMENT THE SECURE BLOCK BELOW --> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" height="35"> <a href="http://!domain!/uftp/">Click here to login to your FTP site.</a> </td> … |
| | Suppose I had a directory name of company.domain.com where company was diff everytime. How could I read the company part of the name in as one of the variables in my bash script? |
| | Hello, I have a data file that has names of varying lengths that are listed in columns. ie: [CODE] Ranjit Singh Dean Johnson Ken Whillans Karen Thompson Peter Robertson Rich Gardener Sandeep Jain Ken Whillans John Thompson Cher Cher Karen Patel John Jacobs Davinder Singh Dean Johnson Sandeep Jain Karen … |
| | i have a problem :rolleyes: i have write this script ************************************** #!/bin/bash #use command mail for send a mail present in a directory # i repeat this for how many e-mail are stored in my directory # count number of file in directory nummail= ls | wc -l while [$nummail … |
| | Hello , Im trying to dump the content from a url in bash shell script but was unable to get. im using the following code URL="[I]'some url[/I]=$var'"; > temp system "-dump -nolist $URL > temp"; Plz let me know how can i dump the content of the url |
| | Hey all, Im new to shell scripting. Plz suggest me some good websites. I searched google but i dont know which one to follow. Thanx in advance Cheers, Naveen. :) |
| | I have been writting several .sh shell scripts on my home machine to do various automated tasks. Some deal with regard to backing up remote servers to my home machine. On my home machine, I do not run a mail server for I am connected to the internet via an … |
| | Hi, i have need to send mail using a script in bash shell...but i don't know how i can do...so can some one help me... :sad: . Thanks a lot bye bye |
| | Here's what I'm trying to do... I want to connect to a command line application and send it instructions from inside a script. I need to do a loop as there are multiple things I want to do. I was able to accomplish this by connecting and disconnecting inside the … |
| | I am trying to use Simpson's Law to find the area in some profiles i have and i'd like to do this in a in a shell script as this how the data has been created. an example of the file ( without the brackets): (1) (2) (a) 12.146 -0.65 … |
| | I have a script that I'm working on to pad files with spaces. The spaces need will vary. This is what I have so far but it isn't working. Any suggestions? #!/bin/bash echo -n "Enter filename " read filename echo -n "Enter start size " read start echo -n "Enter … |
| | It there a way to validate a string that >> Does not use characters like #$@ in the password. >> It must contain 1 upper case letter, 1 lower case letter, 1 number & must end in a letter. >> It must be 6-11 characters using Regular Exp ? Any … |
| | I made a little script that searches and substitutes parameters in a configuration file but I've a problem: Configuration file: conf.tmp [code] parametro1=mario parametro2=ugo parametro3=elena parametro4=sara [/code] Script: [code] #!/bin/bash -x TMP_FILE=./test.tmp CONF_FILE=./conf.tmp TOT_PARAMETERS=$#; scratch="" if test $[TOT_PARAMETERS%2] -ne 0 then echo "Usage: $0 desc" exit 1 fi if test … |
| | Does anybody know of any way to mix something like tail up with something like wc and get a scrolling "new lines per second" number? Or maybe there's a util that specifically does this? |
| | I am new to bash shell writing and I need some help. I need to ask a user a name to search for. From the value the user has entered the information is pulled from a file called phonebook which displays the users name,address and telephone number. Then I have … |
| | [CODE]#!bin/bash mysql -u user --password=password << eof use mydatabase; SELECT version FROM versions WHERE versionid = 'LIST'; eof[/CODE] I'd like to get the value from the query into a variable. Any ideas how I could do that? |
| | hi... I am trying to put the following command in shell script... but am not able to do it... can anyone help: $ pppd pty "pptp --debug --nolaunchpppd 192.168.3.67" updetach user tunnel debug noauth require-mppe-128 thanks |
| | Hi, Maybe I should just make a break and go through this again by myself, but there is no more coffee, so there is no break for me ;) I want to check for a given dir, exit with a message if it exists, or create the given dir otherwise. … |
| | I need to write a script that will be able to go down the MIB tree of a device and output the values to either the screen or a .txt file. Any ideas what that would look like, or where I can search for a script to use as a … |
| | I have been tasked to write this shell script in Linux and I dont know how to begin. Can anyone help me out with this please.:cry: [font=Courier New]Create a shell script file called “lookup |
| | I have very little experience that’s why I need some help to get started I have been given a task to write a shell script in Linux and I don’t know from where to begin. Can anyone help me out with this please. 1. Move files from Windows 98 machine …  |
| | Hi, I want to switch users using a shell script, i.e. su username However, i can't figure out how to enter the password in via a shell script. Anyone know how to do this, it's definately out of the scope of my shell scriptin knowledge. Thanks -peter |
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