Category "shell"

How to stop auto-generation of log files by cron?

I have a bot on Marathi language wikipedia. The bot runs from Wikimedi's toolforge server. I have set up a cron job which generates two files: one .err and anot

To replace a immediate text after pattern match in Linux shell using sed

Content of a json file "iso_checksum": "md5:32fdf4fef4ef" I have stored value of new checksum in a variable v = "4dfv45ffdf" I want to replace the value after

Process swap usage with use ID

I've been trying to get a one liner working updated to add the user name for the processes consuming swap on the system but having a hard time getting it to wor

How to properly pass filenames with spaces with $* from xargs to sed via sh?

Disclaimer: this happens on macOS (Big Sur); more info about the context below. I have to write (almost did) a script which will replace images URLs in big text

Git diff command from shell script

I have a script: #!/bin/bash git log -1 | grep -w '^commit' | cut -d ' ' -f2 | git show | grep -w '^index' | cut -d ' ' -f2 > tmp_out while read -r arg do

asdf errors when starting Linux shell

Sorry it's hard to be specific here but I'm struggling to pin down the source of various error messages in my Linux shell with asdf. I've got Fish shell 3.4.0 r

How to configure neovim with update-alternatives for ex view and vimdiff behaviours?

Of course, we could create aliases, but then we loose the Debian integration. For instance, the 3 first works, as they are just aliases, but the 3 last fails: N

Find patterns from one file in another file

I'm trying to find patterns from one file in another file. The pattern in file one looks something like this: ENSG00000203875.13 ENSG00000262691.1 ENSG000002549

Cross-platform method to detect whether /dev/tty is available & functional

I have a bash script from which I want to access /dev/tty, but only when it's available. When it's not available (in my case: when running my script in GitHub A

Getting an error "cd: '/Users/x/Downloads/' is a rotten symlink" in Fish shell

Today I logged onto my machine and tried to cd ~/Downloads, but my shell (Fish) just returns the error cd: '/Users/x/Downloads/' is a rotten symlink without any

Case shell command not working in terminal

Trying to figure out operating system to run a command in my package. Found this : case "$OSTYPE" in solaris*) echo "SOLARIS" ;; darwin*) echo "OSX" ;;

generate random number and fill them in array

i want to generate 10 random number between 1 and 100 and store them in an array #!/bin/bash for ((i=0; i<10; i++)) do done

Unmask data from matrix linux shell

i have 2 file. analizeddata.txt: A001->A002->A003->A004 A001->A005->A007 A022->A033 [...] and matrix.txt: A001|Scott A002|Bob A003|Mark A004|

Shell script in Gradle build: java.io.IOException

I have the following lines in my build.gradle file of my Android project: "./prebuild.sh".execute() But during the build I get this error: java.io.IOException:

Docker bash shell script does not catch SIGINT or SIGTERM

I have the following two files in a directory: Dockerfile FROM debian WORKDIR /app COPY start.sh /app/ CMD ["/app/start.sh"] start.sh (with permissions 755 u

changes in java code do not appear, program runs from a shell script

I cloned a GitHub repository (https://github.com/tomergreenwald/tac-adx) and did some changes in the code. But if i run the application with the runServer scrip

How to pick words, start and end with specific words using shell script in a log file

I am tring to pick words start with "Approved by" and end with before the "=" sign. here is log file. Test worker] INFO cyyom.bghhht.gsghhj.dijjkkgital.dggcf.ap

Running multiple remote commands via a single ssh command

sshpass -p Password ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no a.user@IP "Command1 ; Command2" When i try to run multiple commands after ssh it only runs the 1st command

export a string from poweshell 1 to powershell 2

I have a shell script file. ./1.ps1 ./2.ps1 I generate a string such as env-0 in 1.ps1 and need to export it to 2.ps1.UPDATE: 1.ps1 generate many string and I

export a string from poweshell 1 to powershell 2

I have a shell script file. ./1.ps1 ./2.ps1 I generate a string such as env-0 in 1.ps1 and need to export it to 2.ps1.UPDATE: 1.ps1 generate many string and I