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I am using a bash script to toggle the touchpad on my laptop. I didn't write the script and know almost nothing about bash scripts. I have the script run when the laptop boots because I never want to use the touchpad and want it disabled. The script does the …

I need to write a shell script that will filter out all files in a directory that are more than two months old and then remove those files. Example: Suppose I am running this script on May 1st 2007. It should list out all files which are created before Mar …

Hi, please can anyone help me with the following issue? issue: todays date is 20150819 and my data contains date as 20141001. I want to read this date i.e. 20141001. please tell me how to read the previous year date??

For loop is not working with expect in pgp encyption script. ========= -bash-4.1$ more TestScriptPGP.sh #!/bin/bash #!/usr/bin/expect -f for i in `ls *.txt` do spawn /opt/PGP/pgp -e +force $i "<[email protected]>" expect "Are you sure you want to use" send "y\n" expect "$" done; -bash-4.1$ ./TestScriptPGP.sh ./TestScriptPGP.sh: line 5: spawn: command …

input.txt is a file that contains filenames that have been piped into it from an external program. for example... input.txt has the following in it filename1.txt filename2.txt filename3.txt I would like to perform an 'rm' command on the filenames contained in input.txt So instead of potential hours of work deleting …

I am trying to filter/parse HTML tags mentioned below to get the desired output (mentioned). I have tried so far with `sed` & `grep` but was only able to extract the content between the starting and closing tags. However, I want to be more specific like below I have mentioned. …

I have a mobile VPN client that I want to backup to. The problem is that it does not have a static IP to due it being L2TP/IPSec. Thats the bad news. The good news is that there wont be too many VPN clients (at most 10 if that) so …

I'm looking for the best way to back cold backups of the email on my client's PC. Starting off with PowerShell, I would run this: Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:' -Filter '*.pst' -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -Expand Directory -Unique | Select-Object -Expand FullName To search where the email file is. I …

I see most PowerShell questions being asked in Shell Scripting and its not really a scripting language per say as it is much deeper than that. I porpose it gets its own section...

Hi, I have the a file which contains information as mentioned in the below format. IP:20.20.20.50 DLBytes:0 IP:0.0.0.0/0 DLBytes:0 IP:20.20.20.52 DLBytes:0 IP:0.0.0.0/0 DLBytes:0 IP:20.20.20.53 DLBytes:187329 IP:0.0.0.0/0 DLBytes:17176 IP:0.0.0.0/0 ULBytes:0 IP:20.20.20.50 ULBytes:0 IP:0.0.0.0/0 ULBytes:0 IP:20.20.20.52 ULBytes:0 IP:0.0.0.0/0 ULBytes:187329 IP:20.20.20.53 ULBytes:17176 I am using below commands to extract entries which have proper …

I don't understand why my function is not giving similar output as the first example of powershell code PS C:\Users\shane> $x = 3 PS C:\Users\shane> $y = 6 PS C:\Users\shane> $a = $x + $y PS C:\Users\shane> Write-Host "The answer is $a" The answer is 9 My function using similar …

find /home/scott/xyz -name "*.log*" -not -name 'access.log' -not -name 'server1.log'-exec cp -i {} /home/scott/zxc/. \; I want to run this command but It doesn't seem to work for two files.How can I achieve this?

I have two text files one file contains values as Id Value 1 apple 2 orange 3 mango 4 banana 5 strawberry 6 papaya In other file i have Id Value 6 strawberry 4 banana 3 orange 1 mango 2 papaya 5 straw berry I have to match between Id's …

Hi, Below is the code i am using. On console output is fine but when i am redirecting output to file then single line is breaking in multiple lines. Please help. for dir in */; do printf "%s, " "$dir"; ls -m "$dir"; done **Output on Consloe : ** buckets/, …

I have (roughly) the following code: read -p "What is your variable: " WHATIS cat > ./test.txt <<EOF This should be a bunch of lines I want this "variable" to be imbedded it is ${WHATIS} EOF I keep getting the literal output of "${WHATIS}. I did this ages ago but …

Hello again dear Daniwebians, I am asking for some ehlp again. I wrote a littel cript as part of my assigment. My script does what it is suppose to do, but when I run it, it does not end on its own, I have to stop it by "killing" the …

Hi All, I need your valuable suggestion as how to sort the log files based on timestamp. Below is the sample log content. string May 28 22:07:48 2015 Log data string May 28 22:07:48 2015 Log data string May 28 22:07:48 2015 Log data I would like to sort based …

Team, Presently i have some 20 files which i need to copy and store in the common directory. below is the example: script name: dir.sh cp /tmp/abc /home/abc/xyz cp /tmp/def /home/abc/xyz cp /tmp/hij /home/abc/xyz The above script is run, it copies the source files on the destination directory(xyz), wanted to …

I have a question is there any possibility for maken a script that you can see if computers are on in your network when you run the script for ex. ./ping.sh 54 62 62 , a script when you give as argument the last digit of the ip adres of …

I found that the following shell code worked for producing a list of all files in the directory and subdirectories of a program I am working on. The basic lesson I learned is not to try shelling out of VB6 to invoke a batch file containing a list of DOS …

Write a script which accepts some number of arguments and outputs those arguments sorted into alphanumerical order, with each argument on its own line. im usin linus

Hi guys , i have found command to extract the output of a command and save it in a file. But I want whenever I extract the data from a command , it should start from a particular line ? I am using this command below to extract data of …

I want to write a shell script which finds main() in the given folder files and sub folder files

We have QA automation jobs that invoke user interface tests in Firefox running on a virtual Linux host. My tests perform regression, but I'm held up because of the Firefox This Connection is Untrusted warning. My current requirement is to ignore this connection untrusted warning, which comes up when accessing …

Hi....below is my .csh file. In this foreach n, i have runned my algorithm 10 times. But now i want it to run(iterate) 1000 times. i.e. foreach seed(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12......1000). I tried using awk'BEGIN{for(....);}'.But still its not working...please help. foreach n( …

write a Bash script file that implement the RSA algorithm. The user has to enter on the command line some parameters and options, which will determine the behaviors of the script. The syntax of the shell command is $ your-shell-file-name –p<file> –q<file> –e|-d [-i <filename>] [-o <filename>] OR $ your-shell-file-name …

Hi all, Excuse me if i am posting this question in a wrong forum. I have YTD video downloader in my pc. But it doesn't have a download complete message box. Instead, it will display the download status in it's own listview. But if YTD is minimized, then we never …

I'm looking to make an exe or batch file that will delete a folder, however the folder location changes based on the User, so I'd like it to determine this based on what user is currently logged in, or by asking the person running the exe/batch to type in the …

Is it possible to run to run photorec such a way not to recover all photos on a drive just those with specific EXIF data? If photorec cannot solve this request itself, is it possible to do this with a script which can filter the results online?

I have a C++ program with a main routine which reads arguments from command line: int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) In my system I have defined some aliases in my bash environment which abbreviates directory names. Example: alias dst='home/username/Documents/test' alias src='home/username/Download/test' My program is called "dircopy" and I want …

Hello, I have written the basic shell script "myscript.sh", which prints Hello World. I want to call this script using PL/SQL. Please let me know the procedure(steps) for the same. Thank you.

Hello everybody. How can i get "ls" from shell scripting? I tried this but it doesn't work, i saved it in a file: #!/bin/bash $ls I know the second line is not correct, so what should i type? Getting "ls" is just an example, i infact want to import this …

i have created my plsql script but i need to run it with shell script but i can get to it please help

Grabs the location and name of the script file itself.

Is it possible to make a bot that would be able to go to a website and vote for said website multipule times?

Hi everybody. I've created a .py file with a simple function in it. Now i want to call that function from linux shell scripting. How should i do that? please help me, thank you.

Hey guys, I have this script that does count one year of files, 2014, but when it comes to this year, everything messes up. How could I count properly for each year in the same script ? In the attached screenshot it's obvious that I would only need 2014 - …

i am using vi editor but when i open file through vi and press i(insert mode),i am unable to type #,$,@...and it is displaying E348 no string under cursor.what do i do,please help me.

and how would it be if i would like the work with a variable and set the date of the variable 7 days back? mynewdate=(date -j -f "%d %b %Y %T" "mydatevariable 7 days ago" +"%F %H:%M:%S") see also:https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/shell-scripting/threads/50041/how-to-format-this-date-under-freebsd

Hi, The meaing of ^[0-9] is to exclude the characters specified in the [..], but what is the meaning of ^[0-9][0-9]*$. The expression is used to get the process information from /proc , it lists all the PIDs of all running processes with some appended text. but could not understand …

I'm writing a bash script that redirects the output of a command to a file. The next thing the script should do is read the contents of the file, into the tenth line of a python script. It's tricky, because the line of text in the python script should read: …

Is there an easy way to delete all symlinks in a directory using a script (bash with awk or similar..) ? I have a directory containing both ordinary files and symlinks. Now I want to remove all the symlinks. (And no, to do it manually is no option...) I must …

I am working on a shell script that takes a single command line parameter, a file path (might be relative or absolute). The script should examine that file and print a single line consisting of the phrase: Windows ASCII if the files is an ASCII text file with CR/LF line …

I very new to C Shell. I am trying to do is read from Command line. Find the if the file is zip, .txt, symbloic link,pipe, unknow (if file is not zip, txt, sy....) here is what I what got so far. I am very stuck atm Please help me …

G'day, I'm currently trying to get a input box with a submit button that puts the command into a string and executes it on a detached screen. Currently I have the following: **index.html** <form id="commandForm" method="post" action="command.php"> <input type="text" name="command" /> <input name="sendCommand" id="sendCommand" type="submit" value="Send" /> </form> **command.php** <?php …

In real time applications where we use shell scripting and how it differ from other scripting languages?