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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Can anyone give me a one-liner that adds a timestamp to the output of vmstat -n 1 Perhaps using awk?

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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 …

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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

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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. …

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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 || …

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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

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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> …

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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?

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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 …

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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 …

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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

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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. :)

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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?

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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 …

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[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?

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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

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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. …

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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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ticket_name ticket_example.txt ticket_example.txt ticket_example.txt ticket_example.txt this is the file which i have to read i create this my using mysql connectivity i have to ignore first line and have to process rest of file this is just the sample file i got two problem i could not able to read …

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I have two files containing users, but the lists differ. My goal is to take all the users in file1 and remove them from file2. What would be a simple method for completing this? -moktod

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Hi there, I'm new to this forum and to bash scripting. I am required to write a bash shell script that processes statistical information for a website. Each web page has a "hits" file associated with it, eg. index.hits. Each line of a hits file records a single access of …

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when i read linux boot scripts, i often meet this expression: ${1:-}. i can't understand it. what's more, i don't understand this condition: [ -z "${1:-}" ] too. anyone can help me ? thanks!!!

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I have been given the task of writing a small shell script which does the following: It takes two arguments: the first argument is the name of the original file and the second argument is the new name for the file. If a user does not provide two arguments, a …

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Hey guys, i am a noobie and i am after some very much anticipated help. I currently attend uni and working on a project for a subject called unix based engineering. The basic problem is; I have an input file and this input file contains a series of MOSFET parameters …

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The folloing question is my assaignment i never did network programming before after creating html page to access username and password how to read that information and can any one help me in writing cgi program for this assaignment Write an Java applet or Java application that can be used …

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Hello, I'm new to shell scripting, but really like it's potential. I just recently installed a local server and would like to write a script that I can chose which colo server I want to and download the latest version of that website via rsync. Here are my directives: #1 …

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I have a client that chooses to run exchange. I have a fedora core box that is also on the network. On the box is a cron script that checks for a website and/or file server being up and then emails out a warning to whoever. (script was written by …

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I'm trying to monitor the traffic on a particular switch for a continuous hour. Could anybody please suggest me how to make it possible? For example if I wanna use snmpget command, what would I do in order to do that for an hour? _ _ _ _ _ _ …

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trying to write a shell script that will take any number of numerical parameters passed to it on the command line and perform addition on them...must be done in a "while" loop...have it so that it will add 2 numbers, also have it where it will print the correct sum …

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Hello every body, I'm a student working on a project to test an anti-spam.....where I have to bomb one mailbox with many emails, I tried to use a mailbomber tool but the problem with this one is that it send one e-mail to many recipient ....what I want to do …

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Hi I am trying to write a pipeline which updates the content of a file by replacing all the mathches of the word 'and' with the symbol '&' and replaces the end of each line with my name. I have tried using sed and can replace the and's but can't …

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Hi Everyone, I've read some threads on this forum and found some good hints already :) I'm having trouble writing a script and would appreciate all input, advice, info, or tips. I'd like to write a script that does the following; - identifies current recognized partitions - flags those with …

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as somone know i have a url graber script, and i want to get commands from standard inn how do i do that?

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hello im trying to make a shell script that "downloads" links and topic that is to the link but i cant make it work. It is supposed to get the urls from a txt file or a file. [code] IFS=`echo -e "\n\r"` for I in `cut -f1 $1` do source=$(echo …

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