Questions tagged [shell]
The term 'shell' refers to a general class of text-based command interpreters most often associated with the Unix & Linux operating systems.
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Parsing and Simple Shell in C
I wrote this simple shell in C for a university assignment on operating systems
(My guess is that it's just the beginning and the next assignments will add to this code).
The program prints the prompt ...
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Bash Script for healthcheck linux
I have below bash script which i have written to check the health of different storage component and then creates an incident through service-now tool.
This is script is working fine for me but i ...
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Small bash script to quickly edit scripts in $PATH
Staying true to the mantra: "The third time you do something, you automate", I've built up a decent collection of shell scripts that live in ~/bin. Some ...
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Dirty Bash hack to run the ssh connections in the Parallel mode
A Few years back I used to opt the below method to run the shell program in a Parallel way to open multiple ssh session at a time to get a quick result.
I know there are various other good utilities ...
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Bash script for log rotation
Okay, first things first:
Yes, I am aware of the logrotate tool, which would usually be used for something like this.
However, since the logfile i want to rotate already contains a timestamp in the ...
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Bash - Automating creation of test files
I'm in the process of understanding shell scripting - this is my simple code for adding test files for python unittest
I'm looking for best practice pointers, variable naming, and of course comments ...
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Portable Build System for Virtual Machine with Editor and Unit Tests
I am automating the building and unit testing of a personal
project using shell scripts
, CMake and make on the latest version of Fedora Linux. I have also tested building on the latest version of ...
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Compare and Process Common and Uncommon files separately
I have the following files:
STUDENT_D19001.T103412_HU.txt
STUDENT_D19001.T103412_KU.txt
STUDENT_D19002.T113030_HU.txt
STUDENT_D19002.T115055_KU.txt
STUDENT_D19003.T115055_KU.txt
STUDENT_D19004....
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How to put apt and python packages in a list and check if installed or not then install
I am not an expert in shell scripting,
I need help optimizing the shell script I wrote, This shell script I wrote is run by users on the client side who connect to our vpn server from the setting ...
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Expect script that tests if a passwordless connection is setup
I have written a simple expect script to tell me if a passwordless connection is set up.
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Reading input keys from a shell
I was cleaning up some old code and came across this (it's to read input from a terminal):
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Bash Code optimization For ssh login on the remote device
I have below code which works fine as its written in bash, i am just posting it here to see if this can be better optimised as per the BASH way. I am have an ...
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Fishy password management
Problem
When it comes to security I like to don a tin foil hat.
As such I use the, off-line password manager, Keepass.
Keepass allows you to to use multi-factor authentication via; a password, a ...
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Memoizing or caching Bash function results
Update: I've implemented several of the features suggested below and packaged the improved code into a dedicated project: bash-cache.
I display a number of expensive operations in my Bash prompt (e.g....
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Project setup script
It's a pretty simple script really, i just want to know if there is a way to improve it.
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Feedback on my bash backup script
I have this little server at home, which is hosting some websites, school stuff and a minecraft server. I made this backup script and I would like some feedback since I'm not very good at scripting.
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Compressing and encrypting file systems for backups
I am currently backing up remote OS' while preserving the permissions using rsync:
rsync -aAX --numeric-ids --delete ... root@X.X.X.X:/ /backup/server/
Now I ...
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Run command with a modified PATH
When I test shell programs for portability, I often want to run them with different implementations of awk, sed, and several other tools. Of course I could make these shell programs flexible by ...
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Systemctl services start and UFW ports allow script
I made a script to start something akin to a "session" in which I start services and open tcp and udp ports in the firewall in order to work with, for example, a full stack project, and stop and close ...
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A PHP script used on my home server to download YouTube videos
I have a PHP page I used to download YouTube videos, hosted on my Pi 4.
The site is only going to be used on my home network (so a dot local address), but it allows me to download videos on my phone ...
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Check shell programs for portability
There are lots of shell programs that have /bin/sh as interpreter, yet use some features that are specific to bash or other popular shells. I have written a little ...
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Test to see if installed and if not, install it
Okay all you Linux/shell folks out there. This is my first shell script (2nd if you count "Hello World") and would appreciate some feedback.
Basically, I need to test whether ...
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Outputting a standalone shell script from arguments
I am solving an exercise. Essentially, it's a shell script that takes in file and/or directory arguments and outputs another (standalone) shell script that outputs these files, including any directory ...
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Pre-commit hook to prevent large file commits
I've written the below bash script to run as a pre-commit hook. The intention is to check the git staging area for any files larger than 1mb, and prevent the commit if any are present.
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Bash script to check available name in Github
I just wrote this script to check if the name (that has 2 characters: 1 alphabet and 1 number) in Github is available or not so I can accompany this name.
Here is my script:
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Bash script for speedreading training
I have coded a speedreading training bash script. My targed was to make some experience with bash in a funny way.
It ...
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Downsample fastqs
I'm working on a project to downsample some fastqs (files that contain sequences).
Each line of the fastq bioinformatics format comprises 4 lines chunks
(id, dna sequence, "+", quality ...
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Non-recursively replace all uppercase letters in files within current directory with lowercase letters - without looping
Let's say that I have a directory that looks like this:
dir
| File1.txt
| fILE2.md
| file3.tex
When I execute my bash script from within the dir ...
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Shell command to output all plugins that exist across multiple wordpress installations
I'm working on a server and need a complete list of plugins that are installed for all wp installations. I only need to know whether a plugin exists or not, it doesn't matter where it exists.
For ...
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NRPE script for monitoring filesystems usage
Next script returns NRPE friendly output. It checks percentage usage of all local filesystems.
Desired output if everything is ok:
OK | /=56;;;; /boot=20;;;; /opt=40;;;; /var=60;;;; (and ...
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Git delete all merged in local branches
I have written a shell script utility for deleting all merged local branches.
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Group and send all files to filetype folder
I have around ~2M of files in one folder, which I need to manage. So, I want to separate them in groups by their filetypes.
Example:
filenames
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Running a shell command when a file is added to FTP on Linux Ubuntu
I've recently set up a continuous integration pipeline to deploy a .NET Core application to my Linux machine living on the cloud.
My CI pipeline publishes my application, (specifically a .NET web ...
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All-core MediaWiki website upgrade script
I wrote the following Bash script to upgrade All-core MediaWiki websites (no added extensions/skins or images - besides logo image).
I already tested the essence of this script and it worked for me; ...
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Powershell script to stop and start services on demand
The purpose of below code is to stop/start a couple of windows services if they are running/not running, this will be called from a windows command line. The services could be either on a windows ...
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Write directory new entries to file periodically, keeping the ones that existed in the past
Some backup Bash script on my machine copies a specific directory entries filenames into a text file. Entries that no longer exist have to be kept (entries added during a previous run).
The script ...
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Inserting command output into multiline string
I'm writing a bash script to that picks up a user password from an environment variable, hashes this, and inserts the results into a postgres database.
What I have works and looks fairly readable to ...
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Shell script to set up Ant targets and properties for a new project
I've written this shell script to place Ant build.xml and build.properties into my project directory. It takes two options, one which ensures the project is set up for JUnit test compilation/running. ...
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Bash script to send notifications when low on ram
Backstory
Recently, we've changed the PCs at my workplace to un Linux Mint.
It works amazing, is blazing fast and the adjustment time was very short.
However, I noticed my PC would freeze completely,...
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Deployment Automatization for docker builds, kubernetes deploys and secret injection
I've written a small script that automates the tasks I previously did manually for deploying onto our kubernetes clusters and I am quite happy with the results I have, but I do think that what my ...
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Bookmarking directories
When working on a large codebase, I often need to switch between deeply nested directories quickly. To make my life easier, I came up with a bookmarking script.
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Script to Backup Data to Remote Location. The data to backup depends on the day of the week
I have a script that I wrote, and I'm sure that there is a better way to do it, but can't for the life of me figure it out.
Here is the problem statement:
I need to backup data to a remote location, ...
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NRPE script for monitoring load average
This script converts a server load value into percentage, compares it with non desired state ($warning and $critical) and returns all information in NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) friendly ...
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NRPE script for monitoring memory usage
This script based on previous NRPE script for monitoring load average. Same purpouse - get NRPE friendly output with minimal usage of non built in commands. In this case wasn't need to count with ...
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a wrapper for bbcp
I am writing a small bash wrapper for bbcp. This is a fast network file transfer utility. bbcp requires the destination folder to be the last argument.
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Commit the working directory to different branch and switch back
The aim of this script is to snapshot the current working directory of a git repository to another branch. Afterwards, it switches back to the original branch and restores the original state, ...
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Bulk File Rename; Improved Safety and Performance
A function that funnels all filenames into a file and opens that file in vim. The user then changes the names, saves, and quits. Finally the function renames the files in the folder with the new names ...
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Rename files by editing their names in an editor
Inspired by the a recent question to rename files by editing the list of names in an editor, I put together a similar script.
Why: if you need to perform some complex renames that are not easy to ...
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Bulk File Rename
A function that funnels all filenames into a file and opens that file in vim. The user then changes the names, saves, and quits. Finally the function renames the files in the folder with the new names ...
