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How to properly format the command argument for sudo? [duplicate]
I have a command that is similar to this minimal example: $ sh -c 'echo "1=$1"' _ foo 1=foo $ When I want to run it through sudo, it stops working: $ sudo -i -u user -- sh -c 'echo "1=...
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Monitoring file change sequenes with Inotifywait
Currently I am monitoring the files by using above code, it works as expected. Basically I am monitoring the opened text files and executing commands. inotifywait -m -q /home/TestDirectory | while ...
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Find row containing string, then return that row and all following rows of text file with awk
Apologies for any duplication, but most questions I've come across relate to getting a specific value from a field in a row, or using tail to get n tailing lines from a file, where n is known a priori....
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How can I display the largest common part of two files?
I know how to use comm, diff or grep to display every common line of two files. But how can I display only the largest common part, i. e. the most common lines in succession? (If there are equally ...
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how to add additional command-line usage scenarios to script?
how can one make this script work with both input usage scenarios below? #1 ./script.sh #2 ./script.sh input.file contents of script.sh for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$i" "${i%.*}.mp4 scenario ...
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Concatenate the Content of Files from Various Directories with a Blank Line in Between
I have the file dir1.txt that contains the names of the following directories: 2 3 4 Directory 2 contains files 2_1.txt and 2_2.txt Directory 3 contains files 3_1.txt and 3_2.txt Directory 4 contains ...
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How to modify these bash functions into one?
Normally these would go in one's .bashrc file to be used as a stopwatch, but they are sort of inconvienent to use and recall with the several different commands for the different units of time. ...
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Pass arguments from previous commands (pipes) to awk/printf function and format output
I'm trying to filter the most used commands and print that out in a certain way. So far, I've managed to put the desired "filters": $ history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | ...
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Opening an application and inputting a command in one line
I have developed an application in C that is a command line. The app has special keywords to output information. Currently I need to run a command to log into my application, than run a command to get ...
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How to create a short cut for the app to my desktop, instead of using terminal?
How do I access the game file in program files (x86) in script editor to create the shortcut? I enter this cmd in the terminal: cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/ubisoft/prince\ of\ persia/...
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How to pass Command to program open in shell?
I am writing a shell script to auto-deploy a program with Jboss-cli, in linux ubuntu. I need to open the jboss cli interface and execute some commands but I want to do this automatically. what it ...
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How can I implement a circular flow of data among interconnected commands?
I know of two types how commands can be connected with each other: by using a Pipe (putting std-output into std-input of the next command). by using a Tee (splice the output into many outputs). ...
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Print a string including single quotes and other special characters
How can I write this with an AIX script correctly? My requirement is to write this command in test.txt: clock=$(prtconf -s | awk '{print $4,$5}') I tried this command: print 'clock=$(prtconf -s | ...
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How to compact a chmod UNIX command
Is there anyway to compact the follow UNIX command: chmod 755 scriptA.ksh | chmod 755 scriptB.ksh | chmod 755 scriptC.ksh | chmod 755 scriptD.ksh The above command makes every KornShell (ksh) script ...
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Rerunning the same command with a different parameter
I know that I can run the following command ls Some{File,Folder} And it is equivalent to running this: ls SomeFile SomeFolder (I also use it a lot for things like mv place_{a,b}) However, I was ...
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