Questions tagged [scripting]
A script is a sequence of commands or instructions that are executed by an interpreter program rather than compiled into a standalone executable program.
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Creating in Linux files in GB or MB range by various random size by read a file [closed]
In Linux in Bash i have this script (thanks to Ed Morton) . $ cat ./tst.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash while read -r idx sfx size; do echo fallocate "file${idx}.${sfx}" "$size" done &...
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Creating in Linux files in GB or MB range by various size by read a file [closed]
In Linux with Bash, there is the File numbers_in_one_line. In this file there is only one line with several numbers, all separated by spaces. These numbers are the value in bytes for creating files ...
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How to create splittet random files and join them with dmsetup
In Linux in Bash, there is a script, a part of the script is this while true ; do echo awk -v x=$(<"$TEMPDIR"size_container_in_byte) -v n=$(<"$TEMPDIR"parts) 'BEGIN{...
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Running a script based on raw events from a specific HID?
bit of a strange issue for you. I have an old 2-in-1 laptop tablet thing that works well enough, except the driver for the touchscreen occasionally crashes, leaving it unusable. I have a simple script ...
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How can I pick random items from a list, but some more often than others, in a Bash config file? [closed]
In Linux, using Bash, I have two scripts: script.sh is the main script, and script_config.sh is the configuration for script.sh. In script.sh, I do source script_config.sh to load all the config ...
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How can a bash script determine how it was started? [duplicate]
I am running various scripts on Debian 12.X currently with the following bash: GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) I have the following methods/options to execute the script. ...
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Bash script, execute while command isnt outputting value
I'm trying to write a bash script (very new to writing them btw) on a Linux system, and I basically want it to execute a command every say 5 seconds while another command isn't outputting a value. So ...
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Rename files, remove the first four signs [duplicate]
There are many files in this format: IMG_20240717_191421.jpg IMG_20240620_165358_BURST001_COVER.jpg IMG_20240624_173513_2.jpg how can they renamed in Linux in Bash to: 20240717_191421.jpg ...
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Move/mark files and the associated-part too
There is a folder with many files in it: 112.mkv 123.md5 123.mkv 221.mkv 467.mkv aa1.mkv abc.md5 abc.mkv bbc.mkv dde.md5 dde.mkv ggh.mkv .... xxy.md5 xxy.mkv xxz.mkv How can I move .md5 files and the ...
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How automatically open a URL after rebooting in a Debian desktop?
How automatically open a URL after rebooting on a Debian desktop? 1- Running the command by terminal: xdg-open http://homeassistant.local:8123 OK it works and opens the URL above 2- creating any ...
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get chain of users created by chaining su calls
While administrating a linux server (a Debian server, for instance), I often switch users. Sometimes, I will chain multiple user switches together: aluriak$ sudo -s root$ […] root$ su aluriak aluriak$ ...
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HTPC: Xbox Controller binding home button to Script and original function
Situation: I have a HTPC running Nobara linux (flavor of Fedora) and I have an Xbox controller that is connected to it and will wake it from sleep. Problem: HDMI-CEC is not supported by my hardware. ...
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Best tool to convert xlsx to csv
I need to install something that allow me through a script bash or if I can do it without install any external tool it would be great. The thing is I read about csvkit but is a tool of python and i ...
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set output into variable from grep from input variable
whats wrong with this bash script: acme2=$(dig txt @$1 _acme-challenge.$1.de) acme3=$(echo $acme2 | grep "^_acme") ...
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Patch line receives error
I have a script and patch that I took somewhere to compile an image (linux build root) and I added some lines and now I got one error during patch, the error is like that: diff --git a/package/base-...
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