Questions tagged [shell-scripting]
Programming in an Interpreted language executed by a running Shell
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bash script – MySQL commands and variables
I have a bash script who automate a Nextcloud server installation.
To run MySQL commands I use the mysql -e command
user@hostname:~$ mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE ‘NextcloudDataBaseName’"
I ...
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Script to reassign floating IP address to my other machine running Ubuntu
I have a floating IP(X.X.X.191) assigned to the machine (Y.Y.Y.106) currently running ubuntu. Now I want the same floating IP to be assigned to my other droplet(Z.Z.Z.252).
On digital ocean I can do ...
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How to pass multiple arguments through ssh and use those arguments in the ssh script?
I have written one script on lets say server1 and from that script I want to execute script Start_UI_AdminApp.sh on server2 through ssh. I also need to pass the arguments while executing this ssh ...
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Shell script to check resolv.conf [closed]
I need to write a shell script which checks the contents of resolv.conf
Eg
domain example.com
search abc.com abc.org abc.net
nameserver 1.1.2.2
nameserver 3.3.4.4
abc.com/abc.org/abc.net can appear ...
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When calling script from jenkins it is not working as expected
we have one react application and start it using pm2 with pm2 start manually. We have written one script to run it, it is working as expected when we run script manually on server. But when calling ...
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Shell script not reading the file as expected
Below is the script trying to be executed:
read n
for ((i=1;i<=$n;i++))
do
file=createserver"$i".json
echo $file
instanceid[$i-1]=$(jq -r '.instance.id' ./$file)
echo $instanceid
done
$...
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Variables on set-hostname and mv command in shell script
I have the below script in Shell:
read n
for ((i=1;i<=$n;i++))
do
echo "Connecting to $publicip"
ssh -i ./key.txt root@$publicip 'hostnamectl set-hostname autotest$i.domain.com && ...
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Run commands that run in a shell as a script
Running the following commands in a shell runs without issues:
ssh user@machine systemctl status my-service.service
ssh user@machine sudo systemctl stop my-service.service
scp -r ./my-service/* user@...
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Shell Script to Move a File Into Another User's Directory?
I'm running a Ubuntu 16.04 server. On my server, I have a file in directory /home/userA/dirA:
userA@myUbuntu:~$
userA@myUbuntu:~$ pwd
/home/userA
userA@myUbuntu:~$
userA@myUbuntu:~$ ls -l
total 8
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Using awk with column number in a bash script
I'm using a command like this to get some connections from nf_conntrack:
awk '($3 == "tcp") && ($6 != "TIME_WAIT") && ($10 == "dport=1234")' /proc/net/...
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How monitor open files and kill its PID by shell script?
My system gets me an error that saying 'Too many open files'. I investigated this error and turned out that /usr/bin/uwsgi created sockets(?) more than 1020. If it creates more than 1020, I guess, the ...
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Nested directories file restore
I recently took backup of one of my server's drive on AWS using one of the software and now at the time of restoring it i found out it took too long to restore as its having billions of files to ...
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Automating GDB memory dumps [closed]
I'm trying to dump memory from a process on my Linux machine using GDB, but I'm trying to automate this using a script.
So far I've been using the following commands (example):
$ gdb --pid [pid]
(gdb) ...
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Running ps command with 'Irix mode' off
I know that within the interactive 'top' screen, I can press 'Shift + i' to turn off 'Irix mode'
Is there a way to do the same thing with 'ps' command?
I am trying the below mini script to print out ...
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How to export the details of a digital certificate (.cer file) to a csv file using powershell?
I have a digital certificate that I'm using for a specific task. I need to export the details of the certificate such as the serial number and issuer to a csv file that is already on my computer using ...
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Handle exception with long paths in Powershell
I am new here and I facing issues with my powershell script whith long paths.
This script aims to get relative path and hash from files/folders and its subfolders. It works with some with others I get ...
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Ansible blockinfile module - insert insert lines of code
I try to insert lines of code (shell script) with Ansible blockinfile module.
name: Customized prompt
blockinfile:
path: /etc/profile.d/customized_prompt.sh
create: yes
block: |
#!/bin/bash
# ...
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Ansible playbook rebooting the server , wait till reboot complete
I'm facing a issue while executing shell script with ansible playbook.
Issue: I'm losing a connection with remote server because shell script is rebooting the server.
My Ansible playbook
- name: ...
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whats the diffrence between "command.sh > /dev/null 2>&1" vs "command.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null"
I have many shell and python scripts on my crontab that ending either with:
command.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
or
command.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null
I know that:
> is for redirect
/dev/...
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finding docker images with tag and name
when I do docker images I have below docker images as list where there are images with multiple tag and also image with latest tag value.
REPOSITORY TAG ...
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how to programatically set nginx configuration directives to nginx.conf?
I am trying to make a shell script to auto install a web app and the script needs to set client_max_body_size to a bigger size, at some point.
Of course, it's possible to set this directive using nano ...
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Why does `ps -x | grep foo` include the grep command?
I know that it does (often) include the grep process and I know adding | grep -v grep or grepping on [f]oo instead will prevent it, but my question is more about order of operations I guess.
For ...
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cURL POST bash script adds single quotes to variables with spaces
The first 3 variables will always have no spaces. The fourth "slacksitename" has spaces
ip=“x.x.x.x"
record_name=“demo.xyz"
slackuri:”WEBHOOK"
slacksitename:”123 Main St"
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How to create a script to check logfile
I want to create a script where i check the logfile every 5 or 10 minutes to know if the service is up and running, and also, to know if the logfile is receiving and sending these files that are being ...
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Shell Scripting - Multiple Process ID's instead of one
I'm writing a simple bash script to shutdown tomcat, and if it doesn't stop gracefully then check if the tomcat's PID still exists and kill it.
I pass the tomcat name as a variable to the script as ...
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How to delete the grepped iptables
I have iptables starting from cali-
root@Ubuntu-18-VM:~# iptables -S | grep -oP '(?<!^:)cali-[^ ]+'
cali-FORWARD
cali-INPUT
cali-OUTPUT
cali-cidr-block
cali-from-hep-forward
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Bash: improper function/usage of command basename
What I want in the following command is to find particular files and move them to the other directories while appending ".log" to the destination filename.
find /src/dir/ -type f -mtime +3 -...
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Kubernetes limit number of simultaneous pod restarts over whole cluster
We have a 6 node Kubernetes cluster running around 20 large replica set workloads (Java services). Each workload pod (1 pod per workload) takes about 30 seconds on average to start and use a lot of ...
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Expecting a password in the middle of script in RHEL [closed]
I want to copy files from another server it's expecting a password to copy... Where as sshpass is working in Ubuntu, but in RHEL is there a way to pass the password in the script.
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Howto start and detach screen with user environment on startup?
I want to start screen and put a couple of programs running inside on startup. I've seen many similar posts but none answered my question.
so I put in rc.local following 2 lines:
screen -dmS scr ...
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strings are over-writing variables when using echo
I've currently got an IP address in a variable and I'm trying to echo that variable with some string at the end:
echo $INTERFACE_IP
echo ":0.0"
echo "${INTERFACE_IP}:0.0"
And what ...
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Command works from bash prompt; does not work from within shell script
I'm trying to use IPMITOOL to query a bunch of OOB NICs to get their MAC addresses.
When I run:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U USER -P PASS lan print
I get:
MAC Address : aa:bb:cc:dd:...
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Download with Wget only if new version
Good morning,
I have a custom software that updates with a custom script.sh.
Part of the file goes something like this:
if [[ $software == A ]]
then
echo "downloading package..."
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Taking input on remote vm
below is my use case , I have to take a input from a user for a specific command which need to run on a remote machine.But my problem is I am not able to access that machine directly so what I am ...
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How return to prompt after execution of script that spawns a daemon?
$ cat appleclue.sh
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
source ~/.venv/appleclue/bin/activate
cd ~/applications/appleclue/appleclue-web/
git pull
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3.9 manage.py migrate --...
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FreeBSD: Cant stop program started by rc.d ("is not running")
I've created a rc script to start gunicorn as a daemon on boot.
#!/bin/sh
# PROVIDE: gunicorn_appleclue
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
. /etc/rc.subr
name=gunicorn_appleclue
rcvar=gunicorn_appleclue_enable
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On CentOS 8 in profile.d do I need to add my script related to environment variables to both an .sh and .csh file?
I need to add environmental variables related to proxy servers to allow my node.js app to communicate with reCAPTCHA Enterprise on Google Cloud.
When I run the scripts from Accessing Google Cloud APIs ...
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Issues with Bash Script to SSH and Copy String Variables from a CSV to a remote file
Here is my script
#!/bin/bash
clear
PSQLSTART="INSERT INTO TABLE (Name, Description, Field3, Field4, Field5, Field6, Field7, Field8, Field9, Field10, Field11, Field12, Field13, Field14, Field15,...
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Using setuid in a Shell Script on Ubuntu 20.04
So I have a Laravel PHP app on Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04. I have a simple deploy.sh script that will:
Put Laravel into maintenance mode, so it returns a 503 error if anyone visits the site
Pulls down the ...
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Jenkins vs shell scripts
why would Jenkins get a different result from shell scripts(redhat 7) alone? I have shell scripts that run fine if I execute them from a terminal, however when I run the scripts from Jenkins they get ...
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Best and simple way to prevent automatic backups filling all disk space in Linux, before it actually happens
Which do you think is the best and most simple way to prevent automatic backups filling all disk space in Linux, before it actually happens?
I would like to automatically recycle the oldest ones when ...
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Bash script - check if a variable is located between 2 others variables?
In a Bash script I want to check if var1 is located between var2 and var3.
But I can't find how to do it.
Something like this.
var1=15
var2=10
var3=20
if [ "$var1" is located beetween "...
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Monitor Docker Container for No Output
I have a long running process in a docker container that is setup like this:
Dockerfile
...
ENTRYPOINT ["./invoke.sh"]
invoke.sh
#!/bin/bash
./long-running-command
If long-running-command ...
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Diff says file does not exists – why?
I transfer a file from a remote server to my local server. If this is done I do a diff to check if both files are identical to check if the transfer was successful. So I do this:
ssh -o ...
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Can't access instance after setting up iptables rules
I'm trying to setup some rules to block all ports except 21 and 22 on TCP (SSH and FTP). But when I try to run this script I get locked out of my instance and can't access it. This is the script:
# ...
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Run xterm script from /etc/profile leads to "cannot load font"
I want to auto-start a shell script and therefore I added this line to my /etc/profile:
/bin/su -c "/path/to/my/script" user -
the script itself starts a xterm shell command and output ...
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COMMAND TO DISPLAY SPECIFIC LINES IN A SCRIPT [closed]
I have a script containing 5 lines in it. what is the command to view only 1st and last line in the script in one single expression.
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How do I get the Current time in milliSeconds in a Shell script in buildroot environment?
MYENV=$(date +"%s%N")
printf "Time:: %s\n" "$MYENV"
or
MYENV1=$(date +"%T%N")
printf "Time:: %s\n" "$MYENV1"
I tried above methods, they ...
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Bash script to create variables from and run commands on each item in an external list
On my local machine I have a text file containing a list of IP addresses and directory names.
list.txt
# Comment for Server 1
XXX.XX.XXX.X
DIRECTORY-NAME
# Comment for Server 2
XXX.XX.XXX.X
DIRECTORY-...
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Using if else statement inside shell module in ansible playbook
I am trying to run if else statement inside shell module in ansible playbook but looks like my else statement is not executing in any case.
- name: verify application/database processes are not ...
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