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• watch with bash colors preserved

  - by Pawel Goscicki

  From man watch: Non-printing characters are stripped from program output. Use "cat -v" as part of the command pipeline if you want to see them. So how do I use cat -v if I want to see the colored output from: watch ls -al --color

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• None of my bash commands work

  - by Kevin

  I have an Ubuntu 9.10 netbook. I has always run great. Two days ago, I was running as root for a while (~30), and when I moved back to my user account (only other account one this machine), all the commands in ~/bin stopped working. If I try ls, it comes up with "cannot execute binary file". Same with ln, mv, mkdir, clear, cp, etc. They all run as…

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• None of my bash commands work

  - by Kevin

  I have an Ubuntu 9.10 netbook. I has always run great. Two days ago, I was running as root for a while (~30), and when I moved back to my user account (only other account one this machine), all the commands in ~/bin stopped working. If I try ls, it comes up with "cannot execute binary file". Same with ln, mv, mkdir, clear, cp, etc. They all run as…

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• compare file timestamp in bash

  - by endroix

  How do I compare the timestamp of two files? I tried this but it doesn't work: file1time=`stat -c %Y fil1.txt` file2time=`stat -c %Y file2.txt` if[$file1time -gt $file2time]; then doSomething fi Thanks

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• How to get both PIPESTATUS and output in bash script

  - by Mustafa Serdar Sanli

  I'm trying to get last modification date of a file with this command TM_LOCAL=`ls -l --time-style=long-iso ~/.vimrc | awk '{ print $6" "$7 }'` TM_LOCAL has value like "2012-05-16 23:18" after execution of this line I'd also like to check PIPESTATUS to see if there was an error. For example if file does not exists, ls returns 2. But $? has value…

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• Bash command substitution not working as expected

  - by Joe Fruchey

  I'd like to view the last few lines of a file, but I want the columns aligned. Basically, I want to disable wordwrap. This is straightforward with: tail $FILE | cut -c -80 But I'm trying to generalize my script for other users, and I'd like to cut to the actual terminal width, which I can get with: stty size | cut -d" " -f2 So I would…

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• bash script - spawn, send, interact - commands not found error

  - by Sandeepan Nath

  I my shell script, I am trying to remove password prompt for scp command (as given in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/459182/using-expect-to-pass-a-password-to-ssh/459225#459225) and this is what I have so far :- #!/usr/bin/expect spawn scp $DESTINATION_PATH/exam.tar $SSH_CREDENTIALS':/'$PROJECT_INSTALLATION_PATH expect "password:" send…

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• Network Storage Bash

  - by NickTFried

  I was wondering how to connect to a network storage through the command line on my MacOSX computer, any tips?

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• Bash Auto-complete Adds Trailing Slash After Filename

  - by AJ

  I recently upgraded my system from Etch to Lenny. Now when I use auto-complete, file names (not directories) appear with a trailing slash on the command line. How do I fix this?

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• rsync bash script to backup specific directories nightly to remote server

  - by Janice Young

  Hello, I am looking for a rsync script that will backup specific directories from my home machine to a remote server nightly. So say: /home/me/Pictures to ssh -p 6587 me@remoteserver.com/Pictures. It would be nice if it can look for changes but im not worried so much about the changes aspect is having a script that runs at a certain time of…

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• Creating new bash command for Sublime Text 2

  - by Gavin

  I'm trying to get Sublime Text 2's command line alias working. The instructions make perfect sense: Run ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl So, in ~/bin, subl exists. However, even when I restart terminal, the command 'subl' is not found. The path specified to the application's subl file…

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• invalid argument in bash script when port is bad

  - by user273689

  When I do this command I get an error when there is something wrong with the eth3. RESC="1234" RESD="1234" RESO="1234" RESC=$(ssh -q vmx@$1 cat /sys/class/net/$2/carrier) RESO=$(ssh -q vmx@$1 cat /sys/class/net/$2/operstate) RESD=$(ssh -q vmx@$1 cat /sys/class/net/$2/dormant) cat: /sys/class/net/eth3/carrier: Invalid argument cat:…

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• Make a Phone ring from BASH through a HUAWEI e220

  - by microspino

  Hello, I have a Debian Linux system with a HUAWEI e220 on /dev/ttyUSB0. I'd like to make It ring a generic GSM phone for just one time. I'm doing this because I'd like to build an embedded system that fires some special behavior by a single GSM phone ring. How can I do It? I've tried wvdial but I receive always a "NO CARRIER" answer…

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• Difference between sending data via UDP in Bash and with a Python script

  - by Kevin Burke

  I'm on a Centos box, trying to send a UDP packet to port 8125 on localhost. When I run this Python script: import socket sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) sock.sendto('blah', ("127.0.0.1", 8125)) The data appears where it should on port 8125. However when I send the data like this: echo "blah" | nc -4u -w1…

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• What does export do in BASH?

  - by Chas. Owens

  It is hard to admit, but I have never really understood what exactly export does to an environment variable. I know that if I don't export a variable I sometimes can't see it in child processes, but sometimes it seems like I can. What is really going on when I say export foo=5 and when should I not export a variable?

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• Ubuntu bash command find -exec

  - by pedro

  Hi...i wanna list every file end at conf, and i wanna to copy to a file the results(with command find -exec) I try this: find -name *conf -exec /home/ubuntu/myfile is this wrong?

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• How do I test complex expressions with bash?

  - by router

  I can only do simply expressions like 1=1 and 0=1 test 1 = 1 -a 0 = 1 But how to do complex expressions like 1=1 and (0=1 or 1=1) ?

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• Reverse bash console text flow

  - by radman

  Hi, This is a bit of a weird question and I'm not sure that there is any easy answer to it but I am very interested in finding a solution. So when I work on a linux machine via a console I find that I am constantly staring at the bottom of the screen, as once you have executed a bunch of commands text fills toward the bottom. Now…

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• Placement of command line options in bash

  - by Nathan Rambeck

  I just starting using a Mac and have been frustrated that command line options are required immediately following the command so that this works: ls -la /usr but this doesn't: ls /usr -la ls: -la: No such file or directory Is there any way to change this? Or can someone tell me why the placement of options is agnostic on…

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• Prefix time to each line of bash command output

  - by neildeadman

  I am running the top command to see details about specific processes. The output is piped to grep like so: top -n 1 | grep jre The output is usually around 4 lines, and I would like to prefix the current time to each line so it would be something like: Before: 2772 deleteme 20 0 2832 1156 872 R 2.0 0.1 0:00.01 top …

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• Log Files from bash script output

  - by neildeadman

  I have a script that runs (this works fine). I'd like to produce logfiles from its output and still show it on screen. I have this command that creates three files from this blog: ((./fk.sh 2>&1 1>&3 | tee errors.log) 3>&1 1>&2 | tee output.log) 2>&1 | tee final.log This does exactly what I…

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• Conditional blocks of code in linux bash

  - by Arek

  Nearly everybody knows very useful && and || operators, for example: rm myf && echo "File is removed successfully" || echo "File is not removed" I've got a question: how to put a block of commands after && or || operators without using the function? For example I want to do: rm myf && \ …

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• Bash loop to move directories on a remote host via ssh

  - by I Forgot

  I'm trying to figure out a way to perform the following loop on a remote host via ssh. Basically it renames a series of directories to create a rotating backup. But it's local. I want it to work against directories on a remote host. while [ $n -gt 0 ]; do { src=$(($n-1)) dst=$n if [ -d /backup/$src ]; …

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• bash pipe construct to prepend something to the stdoutput of previous command

  - by AndreasT

  I want to use sendmail to send me stuff and want to do it in a oneliner. echo "mail content" | sendmail emailataddres.com Sends it without subject. The subject line must come before the Mail content, so I am looking for something along the lines of: echo "mail content" | prepend "Subject: All that matters" | sendmail…

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• weird problem with bash

  - by Arcath

  I recently changed my .bashrc and tweaked how my PS1 looks, but now it has a very wierd problem, before the end of the line in terminal (about 2 3rds of the way in) it jumps back to the begining of the line like so: e before itarcath@Highgate][~/.gconf/apps/gedit-2/preferences] how long can a command b My first though…

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