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| | i write a following shell script to mount attached usb drives. when i run it it runs only su - command. it ask for type password. but didn't run the other commands.what can i do to run other commands? please help me su- mkdir /mnt/Usb mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/Usb |
 | Hello, I have one tar.Z file. I have to run shell script **daily** as it is required to update the database. customer_yyyymmdd_hhmi.tar.Z sales_ yyyymmdd_hhmi.csv (5 MB - 20 MB) purchase_ yyyymmdd_hhmi.xml (650 MB - 950 MB) I have made small part of XML file. There are 4 parts. There is … |
| | I'm currently pulling out information from column B in an Excel worksheet + the worksheet name. How would I go about pulling information from column J (which has the same start row/end row as the information pulled out from column B) in the same worksheet and assigning it to the … |
| | Hi Guys: I am trying to add password to my bash script file. So, it should ask for password when anyone try to open that file. (for eg. anyone perform cat or vi command on that file it should ask for password). Thanks Sonu |
| | hello, I created a awk program to work witha data file to output a table and subtotal the rows and total up the collums and average I got it to work but when i added a presentation header before my totals go away. working code so far ------ can be … |
| | hi all, i have written a shell-script which logs onto a mail-server using telnet and then tries to send the HELO command. The code for the same looks something like this: [code] exec telnet 150.236.18.66 25; echo "HELO"; [/code] The problem is that though the telnet connection is established the … |
| | I need a script that connects to a device on my network and export a list of data... #!/usr/local/bin/expect -f spawn telnet hostname expect -exact "Username:" send -- "username\r" expect -exact "Password:" send -- "password\r" expect "#" send -- "command\r" interact expect "#" send -- "logout\r"` I get some desired … |
| | Hi, I need to filter and remove files which are older than a month from a Unix folder. I got the below command from Daniweb. find /path/to/directory -type f -mtime +31 -exec ls -ltr {} \; Can I use this command in ksh script? Does the file name need to … |
| | Hi, Im working on a PHP script in which I have to run shell script, I have 2 option , 1. If im able to send php veriable value to shell 2. Or i can write shell directly in PHP I used shell_exec(dirname(__FILE__) ."/shl.sh"); for execute shell .... Now the …  |
| | Hi All, I need to access cmd of a remote server from local machine using batch scripting or shell scripting. Can anyone help me out in this. I need this very urgently. Regards Mukul |
 | Hello, I am trying to create a script that will compare one word at a time from one file to every word in a second file. I know how to design nested for loops to read the first entry in file1 and compare it to every entry in file2, so … |
| | sed - need to replace only the chars or symbol after 1st and 2nd dot(.) with "int1" and "int2" respectively. Here is what I have tried but it replaces the strings in other lines. End result should look like - A.**int1**.**int2**.any.string.here sed -e 's/*/int1/' -e 's/*/int2/' -e 's/ABCD/int1/' filename A.*.*.ABCD.DEFG.HIJK … |
 | Hello, am having some trouble with Windows batch variable expansion. Am trying to make a script that will make a list of all currently plugged in drives. I want to omit the system drive, since that one shows up as a blank letter. The following script can be copy+paisted directly … |
| | Hi, I need to fetch mail body from the local stored mailbox file. I'm using fetchmail and procmail to download emails from IMAP server and filterout unwanted one. From the list of emails, I want to process one by one and get their body and store it. the format of … |
| | I am currently trying to use the "find" command with symbollic links created by a tcl script that are pointing at another file in another directory (RH5). My script is written in bash, however: find /home/directory/subdirectory -name *.gz -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -n 1 … |
| | Hi I have a linux server with mysql installed.There is some data in mysql tables. Also.I have a .csv file (not from the aforementioned database) I need to compare the data in the database nad the .csv and print out the difference. I tried writing a shell script for that … |
| | I have an associative array named table declare -A table table["apple"]="fruit" table["tomato"]="veggie" table["highway"]="GT" table["artist"]="eminem" Now say I have a variable returning the value highway How do I find corresponding value GT ?? (this value that I find (GT in this case) is supposed to be the name of a mysql … |
| | i've just given a script to update and maintain by my manager, but its bash and i dont know that much about it.. i currently have a script that looks through .txt files for given serials that then reports to a php webpage. within this script we have around 20 … |
 | I am a pythoneer, guess List is called hash in shell script , I want to know how to do this for arg in "$@"; do echo `pwd`'/'$arg; done how do i pass the collected this list of items in $args to a different applications that takes these items as …  |
| | I'm not sure exactly which forum to ask this,so I'm starting here, I have a cron job I want to execute every 72 minutes. I've researched how to schedule the job for an interval of 60 min or less, but is there a way to specify a minutes interval when … |
| | the output of both is the same .. could anyone please explain the working dynamcis ? Thanks |
| | we know perl gives us the facility to use hashes %ages = ('Martin' => 28, 'Sharon' => 35, 'Rikke' => 29); what if I want to do the same thing in shell script ?? thanks |
| | Hi, The below link provides a solution to access snipping tool using shell script, but the same is not working against windows-8 http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/497620-shell-snipping-tool-returns-run-time-error-53-file-not-found.html Please suggest us to use snipping tool against shell scripting in Windows-8 |
 | In our college we practice python on ssh. This command prints all the computers ( processes ) logged in. ps -A | grep bash I was wondering how to obtain my process ID for that session. |
| | I hope this is the correct area for this post, I'm not to sure where it would fall into, regarding SSH ? Onto my question, is there a method to access Vi or Nano to find the exact path where a directory lies in the <root> directory ?  |
| | Hi, How should i store "hex" or "oct" values in C-Shell and display them. Thanks Srikanth M |
| | How to call webpage from unix script? |
 | Hi all, I was wondering if anybody can enlighten me on when it is best to separate javascript code in different script. Let me give you a practical example. I have a script that I would like to run everytime the page is resized, so I am thinking to use … |
| | Hi, I want to write a batch file which will 1.Open windbg debugger 2.Perform "attach to process" to my program. 3.Will create and then will save the dump file. 4. Perform Detach to the process. 5. Close windbg debugger Can anybody help me with it? thanks Popa. |
| | I dont know what caused such a filenames and i am not able to remove these files. $ ls A????cd new????cat> >> A A????cd new????cat ????A Desktop Downloads file.sh menu.sh new new1.sh new.sh Pictures rename Videos A????cd new????cat |A A?echo A Documents even.sh filetest.sh Music new1.lst new.lst palindrome.sh Public Templates … |
| | Hi I want to check wether user exist in server or not uisng shell script? can any one help me regarding this  |
| | How can an array be accessed from within another function? Here is an example of some code. editarray can not seem to access values of the array from outside of the writetofile function. Is there any way to change the scope of the array? #!/bin/sh writetofile() { templine=`cat /dev/stdin` export … |
| | I am trying to modify my shell sort algorithm to use Hibbard's increments rather than n/2. I know that Hibbard's increments are 2k - 1, but I can't figure out how to incorporate that into my algorithm. Any suggestions to help me move forward with this? I feel like I … |
| | How to find the difference of two files and get a 3rd file with the newer information alone. for example: There are two files file1 and file2 **file1** apple mango pear **file2** apple mango pear cat and dog I need a file with **fileout** cat and dog how to achieve … |
| | Why is it that no matter how long I put the sleep command or loop, cat is unable to read the file, even though the file already exsists? Is there any way of reliably waiting for the whois to finish, write to file and then read that the file exsists?? … |
| | Hi all I want to login a machine remotely and doing some operation on the remote machine and then exit the remote machine by a unix shell script. I can login these two machines without passward. How can I do that? For example, my script is on machine1. that script …  |
| | I am new to the awk scripts. I am confused about the delimiter concept in the awk script. say delimiter is , or | or anything, then a new line is treated as a next line ? like e.g. 00|01|05|05|03|13|12|04|06|80| 03|01|01|00|52|10|12|11|05|12| So there are 10 fields in each row, and … |
 | I was wondering how could I solve this problem, I have a php project in which I have tables, but I didn't use `<thead>` and `<tbody>`, but now I am using DataTable jquery plugin, and it needs that the tables have them, so I need to modify all of my … |
| | hi all only the weirdest thing happened with me just now. I was debugging a shell script and I found that a step that was supposed to execute later ws getting executed prior to another step for no reason. You know any ? i mean have a look at the … |
| | When using the Grep command to find a search string in a set of files, is there a way to dump the results to a text file? Also is there a switch for the Grep command that provides cleaner results for better readability, such as a line feed between each … |
| | occasionally I run a backup of my phpbb forum files from the Shell command line: zip -r forum_backup ~/public_html/forum/* I'd like to add date elements to the file name, so that the zip file created is automatically formed as forum_backup_05182013.zip or something similar Thanks |
| | Hi I am trying to run a python script which has this code snippet: process = subprocess.Popen('./start_ws.pl') process.wait() os.system('make') The perl script started changes environmental variables and enters into new subshell. After entering into new subshell, the commands below script os.system('make') goes unnoticed.They get executed only if i exit from …  |
| | i have an awk script and in the end section i create my table data with printf and i want to sort it so i used pipe then sort i am calling it like this awk -f awkscript file in bash i can get it to work the way i … |
 | I'm no pro when it comes to BASH, but I have been known to shell-script my way out of a problem here and there. One of the useful things you can do is a for-loop, whether it be used on file names, script arguments, or just a string of words. … |
| | I'm no pro when it comes to BASH, but I have been known to shell-script my way out of a problem here and there. One of the useful things you can do is a for-loop, whether it be used on file names, script arguments, or just a string of words. … |
| | This is another useful script I came across. It prints a color-code chart in your terminal. It can help you find the color-code you are looking for, or view the current color-scheme you are using (people use it on reddit/r/unixporn to show off their system's theme, I use it to … |
| | I didn't write this, the credits are in the code. It's a code-golf version, and I'm sorry about that. I am trying to 'decode' it but I don't have the skills, so the 'decoded' version doesn't have the right colors. This is an example of what you can do with … |
| | hi,a question .. why does my script work as sh script.sh and not as ./script.sh ?? also,i was trying to write a script that would filter out a pattern in a .txt file and display the count of the same. Say my pattern is king, and there are 4 "king"s … |
 | Hello everyone. I am trying to compile this simple code using gcc under Cygwin terminal. //A function that just returns a value// int my_function() { return 0xbaba; } I saved the code as basic.c I issue the command $gcc basic.c in the Cygwin terminal And I get the error: gcc: … |
| | hi New to shell scripting. While trying hands at it I came across the operators -z -o in the if block. Any relevant info would be appreciated **if [ -z "$xa_" -o "$va_" == "yes" ]** cheers guys |
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