Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

2013-02-07 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Alex and linux-Fan, this worked for me :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMnbgxHar3OzNrE=piqDCfbCTZr3=jhl43regwepnoe...@mail.gmail.com

Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

2013-02-07 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 02/07/2013 03:54 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for the hint i have been going through couple of howtos but it > is still not working same error i put this line at the bottom of the > VISUDO still no luck > > %ykhan ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/myscript > btw %ykhan -means members of g

Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

2013-02-07 Thread Linux-Fan
On 02/07/2013 03:54 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for the hint i have been going through couple of howtos but it > is still not working same error i put this line at the bottom of the > VISUDO still no luck > > %ykhan ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/myscript > > when i run the script with use

Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

2013-02-07 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 02/07/2013 03:54 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for the hint i have been going through couple of howtos but it > is still not working same error i put this line at the bottom of the > VISUDO still no luck > > %ykhan ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/myscript > > when i run the script with user

Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

2013-02-07 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for the hint i have been going through couple of howtos but it is still not working same error i put this line at the bottom of the VISUDO still no luck %ykhan ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/myscript when i run the script with user ykhan still give me the same error. would you please be kind en

Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

2013-02-07 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 02/07/2013 02:10 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have got a /data folder where no one has rights accept user "root". > and for some reasons or reducing my dependency i have created a script > which include > "mkdir" command > > like this > > mkdir /data/example > > the script own by the u

Re: Scripting question

2012-04-17 Thread Daniel Landau
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 17 Abr 2012, Chris wrote: >> I would like have the Smtp: replaced with To:  leaving all that follows in >> each line untouched and piped into a new file. > > man sed > Read that too, but try also searching online for "sed tuto

Re: Scripting question

2012-04-17 Thread emmanuel segura
perl -e 'while(<>){chomp; s/root/Root/g; print "$_\n"; }' /etc/passwd Il giorno 17 aprile 2012 15:52, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> ha scritto: > On Ter, 17 Abr 2012, Chris wrote: > >> Firstly I petty much suck at scripting so I need help. >> >> I have a file where each lin

Re: Scripting question

2012-04-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 17 Abr 2012, Chris wrote: Firstly I petty much suck at scripting so I need help. I have a file where each line begins with Smtp: I would like have the Smtp: replaced with To: leaving all that follows in each line untouched and piped into a new file. man sed -- The majority of hu

Re: scripting question: to parse data with varname=value pattern the easiest way?

2010-11-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
On 11/02/2010 05:04 AM, Karl Vogel wrote: >On the other hand, if someone sneaks something like >result_04: dc="3" rm /something/valuable Thank you! very informative, and, kinda fun to read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: scripting question: to parse data with varname=value pattern the easiest way?

2010-11-01 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:49:01 +0800, >> Zhang Weiwu said: Z> A program output is like this: Z> result_01: a="23" b="288" c="A_string" ac="34" Z> result_02: a="23" b="28" c="A_string_too" dc="3" Z> Z> I am writing a script to output values of b if b is in the result set. If your

Re: Scripting gnome-panels

2010-05-20 Thread Mickey Fox
2010/5/19 Eric Persson : > I have a small bashscript which prepares a dual-monitor setup for my laptop, > since i'm moving in and out of the office and meetings, I tend to attach and > disconnect the monitor a few times a day. > > That works fine with xrandr, but the issue is that I would like some

Re: scripting question

2009-07-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:28:23AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: for i in *zzz;do mv "$i" $(echo "$i"|sed 's/^...//'); done But I'd recommend one of these: mrename, krename, gprename, renameutils and more (all apt-gettable, of course). Oh, and I think prename (or just renam

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread gcrimp
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am sure that this is an easy question for those people who do any > reasonable amount of scripting. I'm just not one of them. > > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name being > the old name stripped of

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Marc Shapiro writes: > I am sure that this is an easy question for those people who do any > reasonable amount of scripting. I'm just not one of them. > > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name > being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters. If all > of

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-07-01 18:20 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote: > find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c 'for file in "$@"; > do dir=$(dirname -- "$file") && base=$(basename -- "$file") && > (cd "$dir" && echo mv -- "$base" "${base#???}"); done' ignore Let's simplify it a bit: find -type f

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-07-01 07:22 (-0700), Marc Shapiro wrote: > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name > being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters. If all > of the files are off the format: > > xxxy.zzz > > I want the new names to be of th

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a4b7129.7010...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote: >I am sure that this is an easy question for those people who do any >reasonable amount of scripting. I'm just not one of them. > >How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name being >the old name stripped of its leftmost thr

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Scott Gifford
Marc Shapiro writes: [...] > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name > being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters. My favorite way to do this is with sed and xargs. First have sed print the current name, then use an regexp to change it to the new

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:28:23AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name > > being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters. If > > all of the files are off the

Re: scripting question

2009-07-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name > being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters. If > all of the files are off the format: > > xxxy.zzz > > I want the new na

Re: Scripting Question - tar

2008-07-11 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:04:38 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> tar -cvzf - --one-file-system /home | split -b 2000m - Side note since the problem has been solved. You might want to look into dar, which will do splitting for you automatically, as well as many other desired features for backup (incremen

Re: Scripting Question - tar

2008-07-10 Thread Kent West
Owen Townend wrote: Kent West wrote: Am I just not seeing a typo somewhere? Why is my script failing? Hey, You're missing the '-' for stdin tar -czvf - --one-file-system $sourceDir | split -b 2000m - $targetFile Ah, thank you! -- Kent West <")))>< West

Re: Scripting Question - tar

2008-07-10 Thread Owen Townend
> > tar -cvzf - --one-file-system /home | split -b 2000m - > /TERASTATIONBACKUP/GOSHEN/2008/2008-Jul-10.tgz vs > > tar -czvf - --one-file-system $sourceDir | split -b 2000m $targetFile > Am I just not seeing a typo somewhere? Why is my script failing? > > Thanks! Hey, You're missing the '-' fo

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

2008-04-26 Thread Bob Proulx
michael wrote: > echo Usage\: $0 [string file] > echo To loop until \$string found in \$file Better to quote the entire line. Because [...] is special to the shell the [string file] will try to file glob match against files in the local directory. It is unlikely to match in this case but

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

2008-04-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 25/04/2008, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > while [[ `grep -e ${STRING} ${FILE} |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do This should fix it: while [[ `grep -e "${STRING}" "${FILE}" |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do The shell still replaces variable within "" quotes, but not within ''. e.g. this: $ TEST="Testing

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

2008-04-24 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:02 +, Mark Clarkson wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:52:14 +0100, michael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but > > can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice > > welcome! ie w

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

2008-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 10:52, michael wrote: > Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but > can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice > welcome! ie what is it I need to do for env var STRING and the grep >

Re: scripting question

2008-01-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.09.07 08:18, Michael Martinell wrote: > My script is as follows: > #!/bin/sh > > TERM=vt100 > export TERM forcing TERM in script is very bad idea, and in this script also useless. > date && echo " Spam Count" && /bin/more /var/log/syslog | /bin/grep -c > 'identified spam' && echo " " && ec

Re: scripting question

2007-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
One possible approach would be to use a few files and use paste on those files where: dfile holds date, mfile holds good messages, sfile holds spam messages tfile is temporary file paste dfile mfile >tfile paste tfile sfile >dfile rm mfile rm sfile rm tfile cat dfile hth. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 21-sep-2007, at 15:51, Michael Martinell wrote: Thanks - that was exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need to find a good scripting tutorial. :) Try http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html That's where I learned my scripting basics. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRI

RE: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Martinell
Thanks - that was exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need to find a good scripting tutorial. :) -Original Message- From: Michael Marsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 8:38 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: scripting question On 9/21/07

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/21/07, Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a simple script that counts up the number of spam messages each day > and prints the total number into a text field. This is fine as far as it > goes, however I would like to also include the date and the number of > non-spam messag

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
Man echo reveals that the -n switch prevents echo from appending a new line. Also, you do not need to use more (or less) with grep. Grep can take a file agrument. Refer to grep's man page for more information. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6 days ht

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-07-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-06-24 22:24:56, schrieb s. keeling: > L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > --=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > > > T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbC

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/24/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbCBQYXJyb25kby

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread s. keeling
L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbCBQYXJyb25kbyA8Zy5wYXJyb25kb0BnbWFpbC5jb20+IHdyb3Rl > Ogo+Cj4gR

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/24/07, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23.06.07 14:23, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Subject: scripting - cat breaking line > I have a file temp1 as below > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ cat temp1 > ABB,ABB LTD., 4730.00, 4779.00, 4700.00, 4726.45 ,59655 > ACC,A

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/23/07, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: El sáb, 23-06-2007 a las 18:43 -0700, L.V.Gandhi escribió: > On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within > double > quotes, word splitting and pathna

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.06.07 14:23, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Subject: scripting - cat breaking line > I have a file temp1 as below > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ cat temp1 > ABB,ABB LTD., 4730.00, 4779.00, 4700.00, 4726.45,59655 > ACC,ACC LIMITED, 860.00, 864.90, 844.30, 852.25

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 23-06-2007 a las 18:43 -0700, L.V.Gandhi escribió: > On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within > double > quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not > performed on the > r

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/23/07, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wu-Kung Sun, have solve the line breaking problem. Now something else. On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:23:34 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ for line in $(cat temp1);do echo > "20070622,$line">>temp2 ;done FYI, the best approach fo

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the results." So try "$(cat temp1)" - Thanks for the reply. However result was [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for line i

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread - Tong -
Wu-Kung Sun, have solve the line breaking problem. Now something else. On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:23:34 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ for line in $(cat temp1);do echo > "20070622,$line">>temp2 ;done FYI, the best approach for your above is to use sed, which can still mainta

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the results." So try "$(cat temp1)" -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:23:32AM -0400, Michael Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there's an easy way, when using > `apt-get upgrade`, to get around the pop-up configuration screens that occur > with some updates. One example of this is wit

Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

2007-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install whatever In addition to this to be truly batch mode you may want to set DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" too. # DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -q -y whatever That will prevent email from b

Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

2007-06-22 Thread Michael Matthews
Awesome, I changed that but I had to select "Noninteractive," and "Ignore questions with priority lower than ," and this worked to keep the kernel boot screen off. Thank you! On 6/22/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:23:32AM -0400, Michael Matthews wro

Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

2007-06-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:23:32AM -0400, Michael Matthews wrote: > All, > > I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there's an easy way, when using > `apt-get upgrade`, to get around the pop-up configuration screens that occur > with some updates. One example of this is with a kernel update. It

Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

2007-06-22 Thread Michael Matthews
Slightly more information. From reading man dpkg, does anyone thing that the following would be useful? I don't really know what it means by "shell escape," but does that mean when it pops up the reboot screen for kernels? ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES DPKG_NO_TSTP Define this to som

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (the comments often indicate the way), but the finer points are obscure. I'v

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:48PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Nigel, I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. Is there is typo here or is there some other repository t

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:07:28AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > It's in non-free; you have to add non-free in your sources.list. I just checked out the license (included below), in /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/copyright . It definitely suggests that the author is not riding the cluetrain. Steve This pack

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 15:07, Celejar a écrit : > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:14:48 -0700 > Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Nigel, > > > > I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several > > different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is >

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:14:48 -0700 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Nigel, > > I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several > different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. > > Is there is typo here or is there some other reposito

Re: scripting

2007-03-16 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 17:36, john gennard a écrit : > I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and > follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial > on scripting? > > For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand > what is happening (the comments often indicate the wa

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread jeffd
Bob McGowan wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (th

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread FuziOK
On 3/16/07, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-4.2.tar.bz2 http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegre

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:48PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Nigel, > > I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several > different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. > > Is there is typo here or is there some other repository to add to > sou

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (the comments often ind

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: > I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and > follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial > on scripting? > > For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand > what is happening (the comments often indicate the w

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Zane Dodson
Hello Anil, On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:36:49PM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: | OK, I figured out the problem, but not the solution. The output is | actually from a SQL query. The output looks like this (when echoed): | | Serial_Number | TLO03 | | It is getting the field name and the field valu

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anil Gupte wrote: > OK, I figured out the problem, but not the solution. The output > is actually from a SQL query. The output looks like this (when > echoed): > > Serial_Number TLO03 > > It is getting the field name and the field value as two

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
- > From: "Hal Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:00 PM > Subject: Re: Scripting question > > > > On Monday 19 June 2006 13:00, Anil Gupte wrote: > >> Why does > >> > >> echo /l3dat/${Serial_Nuum

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Anil Gupte
www.icinema.com - Original Message - From: "Hal Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:00 PM Subject: Re: Scripting question On Monday 19 June 2006 13:00, Anil Gupte wrote: Why does echo /l3dat/${Serial_Nuumber}.tar.gz give me /l3dat/ TLO3.

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 June 2006 13:00, Anil Gupte wrote: > Why does > > echo /l3dat/${Serial_Nuumber}.tar.gz > > give me > > /l3dat/ TLO3.tar.gz > > In other words, why is it putting an etra space in there (after the > second /) and how can I get rid of it? > > And yes, there is no space there. I check

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anil Gupte wrote: > Why does > > echo /l3dat/${Serial_Nuumber}.tar.gz > > give me > > /l3dat/ TLO3.tar.gz > > In other words, why is it putting an etra space in there (after > the second /) and how can I get rid of it? > > And yes, there is no

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-19 Thread Zane Dodson
Hello Anil, On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:30:16PM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: | Why does | | echo /l3dat/${Serial_Nuumber}.tar.gz ^^ Is this a typo? | | give me | | /l3dat/ TLO3.tar.gz | | Serial_Number=${Serial_Number##" "} | | and the variable prints the same before an

Re: Scripting again...

2006-01-17 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:37:05 +0100 Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > > Personally, I'd use perl for this kind of thing: > > $ perl -p0e 's/text:\n someothertext/te

Re: Scripting again...

2006-01-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > how do you change (from the command line) with (sed/awk/... > anything that's available in the installation environment) > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > The trick is in the new

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-27 Thread John Smith
Thanks guys, learned a lot from this thread, especially from Almut's reaction! What I tried to do is copy the encrypted password from /etc/shadow to newly installed system and kept running into trouble because of the $'s in the string. Finally I thought about use

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread d
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:08:58PM +0100, John Smith wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >cat t5.sh > #!/bin/sh > > export INPUT='$1$iW95z/HB$GFcYFxMKK6x8EUPglVkux.' > > echo "1 ==="$INPUT"===" > > export MD5PW=$(echo -n "$INPUT" | hexdump -v -e '" " 1/1 "%02d"') > > echo "2 ==="${MD5P

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:16:31PM +0100, John Smith wrote: > does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the > third resulting string? > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >cat t4.sh > #!/bin/sh > > export INPUT='

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread Alfredo Finelli
On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:16, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the > third resulting string? > > Sincerely, Two ways in which it works: 1) $ cat t4.sh #!/bin/sh export INPUT='$1$iW95z/HB$GFcYFxMKK6x8EUPglVkux.' echo

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:31:24 -0500 Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/05, Jan de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do > > > > awk \ > > > > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ;

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On 11/26/05, Jan de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do awk > > > \ > > > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ; done ; echo "===" [EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp > > > > Try to replace "awk"

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread Jan de Haan
David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do awk \ > > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ; done ; echo "===" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp > > Try to replace "awk" with "echo $char | awk". > > I know that doesn't answer your question

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:16 am, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the > third resulting string? > > Sincerely, > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do awk \ > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ; done ; ec

Re: Scripting

2004-11-07 Thread Silvan
Thank you very much! Everything works fine now :-). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:10 +, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Silvan Villiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've started to learn scripting in linux. But I have some troubles > > understandig the redirection of the streams. I tried to test whether a > > directory already exists using the ls c

Re: Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:46:04PM +0100, Silvan Villiger wrote: > Hi, > > I've started to learn scripting in linux. But I have some troubles > understandig the redirection of the streams. I tried to test whether > a directory already exists using t

Re: Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Silvan Villiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've started to learn scripting in linux. But I have some troubles > understandig the redirection of the streams. I tried to test whether a > directory already exists using the ls command (didn't find a bether > solution) and whenever ls doesn'

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:56:01AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Z Maze wrote: > > > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > The '||' operator does this, like: > > #!/bin/sh > gnuclient "$@" || xemacs -noma

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Lucas Bergman
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze wrote: > > > See earlier commentary about XEmacs; gnuclient(1) is the XEmacs > > equivalent to emacsclient, and it does claim to support a -nw > > option. I could see things being unhappy if you set $EDITOR to > > that, but it's easy enough to

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:29:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can't make it > > work for me: > > > > #!

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can't make it > work for me: > > #! /bin/bash > if [ 'gnuclient -q $*' ]; then That's definitely wrong: 'gnu

Re: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-19 Thread Anil Gupte
Thank you all for excellent suggestions and links. Now, off to dabble. :-) Anil Gupte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Anil Gupte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Scripting Manuals > > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach > me (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? > > Thanx

Re: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread csj
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:15:30 -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me > (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? http://www.shelldorado.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:47:39 -0800 shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > > to write bash shell scripts? > the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no pr

Re: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:47:39PM -0800, shawn wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > > to write bash shell scripts? > the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous >

Re: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread shawn
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > to write bash shell scripts? the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous scripting experience). http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/h

Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-28 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:11:18AM +0200, Erik Ljungstr?m wrote: > Just curious, how can you script bash from windows? Or do you reboot > and send you emails from Microsoft outlook express just for fun? I can't answer the original question, but the answer to this question is "cygwin". It gives o

Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-27 Thread louie miranda
uot;louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")" > > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:06:20 +0800 > "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-27 Thread Ljungström
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:06:20 +0800 "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/sh > S_CATXT1=`grep "Jun\ 28" /var/log/local1.1 |grep "READ: \^B20"|grep > 21:777 > |wc -` > S_CATXT2=`grep "Jun\ 28" /var/log/local1 |grep "READ: \^B20"|grep > 21:777 > |wc -l` > S_CATXT_T=$(( $S_CATXT1 + $S_

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.17.0500 +0200]: > I see no one has commented on your example, which I take as proof > positive that this entire thread belongs in a museum somewhere, perhaps > next to the 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin' scholastic > debates.

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 13:41, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl hello.pl > hello, world! > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>cat hello.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Inline C => q{ > void hello () { > printf("hello, world!\n"); > } > }; > hello(); Programmable script! Um...

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: > > > > I'm confused by the above statement. Canceling out the double > > negative, I get > > > > "that is the definition most people mean when they know enough to > > call non-scripting 'programming'". > >

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or what of this example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl hello.pl > hello, world! > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>cat hello.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Inline C => q{ > void hello () { > printf("hello, world!\n"); > } > }; > hello(); That

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See the followup email. It ain't my scheme, and I don't agree with it; > I was presenting what my experience shows is usually meant by people who > don't know better than the split "scripting" and "programming". Ah, I see -- we're mostly agreeing at th

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