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I want to run a command for ever in the Linux bash. Also I want to put 60 seconds between command execution.

Hello everyone! I want to use bash from python, however the os.system([I]command[/I]) seems to act only on one command at a time. I want to use complete commands, also containing control flow statements, like If and While, and to call them from python. something like this code in bash: T1="foo" …

For programmers who do not like to use IDEs, it may not be convenient to find specific strings in files of a specified type. Using standard grep is an option, but specifying file types can be quite cumbersome. We can solve this with a small script. First, use find to …

First, it has been a LONG time since Ive been here. Good memories from when I was young. Anyways In a monitoring system I have, I had a plugin that remotely checked a SMB share and if the file hasnt been modified in 1 day, it should return a warning. …

I have a script in my system. I want to run this script on the remote system which has SSH connection.

I want to create a batch file in windows to do specific commands on redhat linux server When user click on batch file 1- login to server using root user 2- restart some service 3- logout from server Am able to do cron job to do these commands but I …

Hi, Can anyone advise on why the following code does not replace an XML value? It seems the code does not bring up any known errors as such and when the code completes the settings.XML file is blank. Still learning this stuff so please be gentle : ) Thanks in …

how can i convert xml based script; which is created by SqlYog software. I want to convert this xml based script to batch file (full coding from xml to batch file script; not only batch(.bat) format.) So i can run the synchronization / backup directly clicking with batch file. give …

I have 2 share folders \\testing\test1 which contain sub folders sub1,sub2,sub3,sub4,sub5 and \\testing\test2 which contain sub folders sub2,sub3 Need to know how to create a batch file on notepad to verify existance of sub folders from test1 and create them on test2 only if they do not exist in test …

Can anyone suggest a script that will rename a file with the existing filename appended with date stamp? Something that can be used in a .bat file?

Write a shell script to create a directory called “page1” and ask the user if he/she wants to copy a file to TESTING directory. You should find out that the file has read, write and execute permission. If the file has write permission then copy the file to the directory; …

I need some help with the below please! After installation of **[Fedora]** is completed, write a script called your LastName_StudentID.sh to obtain following options information: * Get information about your operating system, * Get information about hosts * Network interface and routing information * Display a list of users currently …

What I like to know is if network programs still use this file? I can comment out http port 80 without any effects on firefox: ># http 80/tcp ># http 80/udp Then I can delete out /etc/services without no serious effects on the system: >sudo rm -v /etc/services The best …

Hello, I'm trying to create an environment variable by parsing a very ugly XML file returned by a curl command. Contained in the XML is a MAC address that I'm trying to use FINDSTR to find and then SET it as an environment variable for the local user. Here is …

Hello everybody, I have the following records in a file. > 15:00:00.870;334 > 15:00:00.872;1314 > 15:00:00.889;334 > 15:00:00.890;334 > 15:00:00.891;334 > 15:00:00.892;334 > 15:00:00.909;212 > 15:00:00.910;334 > 15:00:00.929;334 > 15:00:00.948;334 > 15:00:00.950;334 > 15:00:00.969;334 > 15:00:00.970;334 > 15:00:00.990;334 > 15:00:01.010;295 > 15:00:01.011;334 > 15:00:01.012;334 > 15:00:01.029;334 > 15:00:01.030;334 > 15:00:01.048;334 …

Hello, my name is John McPherson. I work for the DOL, in the Uneployment Insurance office, and I am working on an application that uses bash scripts as the controller running the application. I am trying to add a capability to email the output files to the users, which are …

#!/bin/bash v="test" result=`grep 'Dir=' /home/xtend/Videos/file.ini | cut -d'=' -f 2`; foo="$result" foo+="$v" echo $foo answer expecting(/home/file/test) answer getting(teste/file) (In "/home/xtend/Videos/file.ini" "Dir=/home/file/") ... how it is outputing like this?

##vbScript - Run an External Program and Capture the Output Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. When you want to execute an external program for a particular result (such as resizing an image, as shown in a previous snippet) you can simply use …

This is the first in (hopefully) a series of posts about vbScript. Please see my post [vbScript - The Basics](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/516400/vbscript-the-basics) for more details on vbScript. My wife and I take a lot of pictures. Naturally, we end up sending pictures to friends through email. I find it is unnecessary, and …

I have wriiten a script to switch on buzzer and given the path of that script in '/etc/rc.local'. So after booting my script works and it make the buzzer to switch on... my question is i want to switch the buzzer off when my device is shutdown.(for startup we use …

Anyone have a shell script to remove controlM character from all the files in a directory

I have a script that uses grep to extract data from a file. It works but I am now trying to modify the script for pipeline use. If I use the commands: `cat file | myScript.sh` there is an error because the data reaches myScript.sh as it was collected by …

The Code was made in notepad++ and made intoa .batch file. I want to add more questions but find it difficult. can some help @echo off title game :menu echo 1) start echo 2) intro echo 3) exit set /p menu= if %menu% == 1 goto game if %menu% == …

Hello everyone, I'm a linux beginer and just got GNURoot Debian in my tablet. There are two commands necessary to make it run which is export DISPLAY=:0 PULSE_SERVER=tcp:127.0.0.1:4712 startlxde & Then the guide recommends putting them in a shell script to easily restart lxde and that's where I'm lost. Found …

Hi all, i want to write a shell script to unblock sendmail user whose mailbox exceed 100MB

Hi, I was wondering if anybody could help me with this. I have two .csv file that I need to put it in an excel file in two different tabs using Shell Script. Thanks in advance.

(Ubuntu Server) I have a folder full of files in pairs (one is a log, another is a DB backup) They are basically create/modified at the same time. I need a shell script that detects if the folder has more than 28 or 30 files (always will be a pair), …

hello brothers, I have this VBScript program: Set WSHShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set FSO = Wscript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set EnvVar = wshShell.Environment("Process") tBestand= EnvVar("USERPROFILE") & "\Desktop\Items Numbers.txt" Set Bestand = fso.createtextfile(tBestand,2) For x = 1048639472 To 1048640474 Bestand.WriteLine("Item Number is=" & (x)) Next Bestand.close WScript.quit The Output is: (about 1002 lines). Item Number …

Hi all I am trying to write a batch file which would recursively delete folders with a specific name inside a tree. i am just not able to do that. Please help me. thanks for your help in advance

Hi All Anyway of resolving this issue. I have created a script which works properly only issue is occasionaly when the tar.Z file is emailed to me i get this message this only happens sometimes?? begin 644 /var/tmp/aimtl-20080626.txt.tar.Z M'YV08=*TH=.&#9LP+63 @($#A@T9-ES0P4,'@,6+&#-JW,BQH\>/( $L7&B# M!@V1,&+ H $1)0R%-6"@E!$CQ@T;,6C,D &@)HP9,60HC%'#!DJB,&KPE!FR MJ=.G4*-JK#.'3A@Y*.O@4)B4I]2,;\CDF3.G3)ZO&4>FE%'#Y4BC:./*G4NW M;MTI5*9\H2(G#)DR7Y(022#DS9LU@0</J2-'3ADW8_)\&1*V3 *^?@%3R0/' M\I,[;LK(^3(%BI,$GT./9E($-6C17YY426 E#)LZ8>BD>>-F+V?+4^@X#M,F …

Hi, i want to truncate the log file which is already in use ( log is getting appended) . After that i want to make sure log is still getting appeneded after performing truncate. I have been using below command for the same but don't see it is happening. truncate …

How i can `sed` save pattern matches to variables and do something with it? eg $ echo "string_4.3.2" | sed 's/^string_\([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\)$/\1 \2 \3/' output "4 3 2" but I want to pass variables to function eg do_something() { echo $1 echo $2 echo $3 # ..... # ..... } string="string_4.3.2" …

`grep -v "#EXTINF:" All.m3u | sed 's#../##'g` I'm using the line above to try and make the playlists that I export from Banshee compatible with my digital music player. When I run the sed portion of this script I'm trying to remove the portion of the path up to where …

I need to write a batch script. I have a folder on my desktop name "folder". inside it has many sub folders. there is no way of telling how much sub folder there are. Insidde some of sub folder there is a file. folder - sub folder 1 - sub …

Hi, i want to delete a column from a file. the file is like : 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0 if i want to remove any column the outout should be like ( suppose 4): 1|2|3|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|5|6|7|8|9|0 1|2|3|5|6|7|8|9|0 i have used swk command, but its not …

Hello everyone. I realize that this may be an elementary question, but all of my searches for answers have not given me a satisfactory result. In my ubuntu server machine, I typed in [after examining my stty settings] `werase='^I'` as I was configuring the terminal to my likings. All was …

Hi all, I would like to replace new lines with "<BR>" in a text file. I'm executing the following line in Powershell: `[regex]::Replace((Get-Content "testfile.txt"), "\.``n", ".<BR>", "Singleline")` The contents of testfile.txt: Some text here for paragraph one. More text for paragraph two.

Hello DaniWeb Users, I need some help how I can change a file name but not the file extension. Doing it one by one is pain. mv file1.gr2 test1.gr2 doing this will need a lot of time. I been searching for an hour find . -name "*.gappedPeak" -exec sh -c …

Hello everyone, I am trying to merge large number of CSV files into one, using the following "awk" command, but if I increase the number of files more than 10,000, it then gives me "argument too long" error. Can someone suggest how I can manage to go beyond the limit? …

Hi i have a shell script named script .sh that create maven project having parent pom and multiple modules under it as follows: #!/bin/bash mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId="com.low.co" -DartifactId="tool-release" -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=pom-root -DarchetypeVersion=RELEASE cd yeti-release mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId="com.low.cp" -DartifactId="tool-api" -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=RELEASE mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId="com.low.cp" -DartifactId="tool-impl" -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=RELEASE mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId="com.low.cp" …

Hello, I'm trying to get this piece of script working, but I'm having an issue on my script. The if [ $DEV_ORA -eq 0 ] is not get run when I run my script. I do not know what I'm doing wrong here. Basically I trying to run the second …

Hi all, Can you please tell me if there is a bash command in UNIX that is similar in functionality to XCOPY in Windows? XCOPY can copy who directory trees from a source folder to a destination folder, but from what I saw about the cp command in bash, it …

trying to use sed command unsuccessfully c:\dct\ is what I want to have replaced with *raw sed -i 's/\c:\dct\/*/raw/g' adm2014.do i think the espace characters are throwing me off.

Hi Friends, automated script for ssh trust setup?

Hello Everybody, I am trying to run a simple script to monitor a log file, where I need to send an alarm every time specific line is being written into this log file, currently my script is working fine, the problem is with the miltiple lines that is being written …

i never used VBScript. how can i use win32 functions?

I am trying to build a program for transferring files to an arduino project with an attached sd card. I have some code, it does some interesting stuff, but it's not quite what I want it to do. What I need it to do is to be able to transfer …

I am very new to powershell and I am attempting to import multiple csv files into a SQL database. I have it working if I specify the file but I want to have it import multiple files from a specific folder. The way it's working right now, it will import …

garrett@mint-desktop /var/www/html/udemy/php-oop/gallery/backups $ tar --exclude-tag-all=backups -cf lesson20.tar ../* tar: Removing leading `../' from member names I have an empty file called backups in my backups directory to keep the tar file from trying to backup itself. Does anyone know why I'm getting this output? -> `tar: Removing leading ../' from …

Hi, I have built a shell extension handler, using this as a template: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/CppShellExtContextMenuHandl-410a709a In this instance, it registers with a ".ts" extension: hr = RegisterShellExtContextMenuHandler(L".ts", CLSID_LNtoALL, L"CppShellExtContextMenuHandler.LNtoALL"); The project compiles fine, and the registration works also. But on one PC, it fails to load (the context menu for .ts …