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Redirect to a filename that will be a variable and contain a command substitution
I'm using nmap to scan a network and then create an XML file that contains the scanned information. I want that XML file to contain the date of the scan so that each file is unique and I can see the ...
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Bash script via .desktop save to variable external filename with fullpath
ok i try to make the most resumed the points i want to do. Sorry for the repetions i don't know how make this question more objectively The first i am making a script for launch "mupen64plus"...
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move recently created files matching a pattern from one folder to a different one
I am looking for a bash script example which does the following: I have files being written under /tmp folder I do at the xterm prompt, ls -ltr which gives me a list of recent files such as: ...
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ranger chain commands in config
I am using ranger as my terminal file manager and now that I understand the basics, I wanted to get a bit deeper into customizing the rc for my purposes. One thing I like to do is to map a command to ...
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Only perform sed operations on lines starting with a particular string [closed]
I have the following file format Received from +11231231234 at 2021-10-10T19:56:50-07:00: This is a message that contains words like from, at, etc. Sent to +11231231234 at 2021-10-11T06:50:57+00:00: ...
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I want to count empty and non empty files in a directory with use of loop, without using find command
#!/bin/bash for i in manu; do if [ -f $i ] && [ -s $i ]; then echo " $(ls $i | wc -l) non-empty files" elif [ -f $i ] && [ ! -s $i ]; then echo " $(ls $i | ...
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How to store .txt file data in different columns of a CSV file using BASH?
I have a .txt file with the following data structure: Scan Times: 33.3 seconds 77.4 seconds 33.3 seconds 77.4 seconds Check Times: 110.30 seconds 72.99 seconds 72.16 seconds 110.30 seconds ...
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Reading newly created .txt file via bash script
I'm a beginner in bash scripting, and what I'm trying to is to build a script that is doing an API call to my enterprise system and returns the result to TXT file. In the end, I would like to read the ...
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Ext4 and Linux - very large number of files in one directory - operations
I have a problem with a very large number of files in one directory. The file system is ext4. I reached the 2**32 file limit and couldn't even write any file on this partition. The problem is very big....
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How to rename nested folders?
So I have a bunch of folders in the format of: .../course/year/... and I often reorganize them so that the format then changes to this: .../year/course/.... I've been meaning to learn how to write ...
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Execute a while loop in bash constructed from variables
I am trying to write a shell script which reads a file line by line, does some operations on each line, and write output to a new file. The file name is passed as an argument. Since the file is ...
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Comparing 2 base filenames in separate directories in bash script
I am trying to write a bash script that takes 2 file directories as arguments. It then loops through all the files in the first directory to see if there is a corresponding file in the second ...
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Script with zip command doesn't work with wildcards
I created a bash shell script to zip all files that match a pattern as follows: #!/bin/bash zip $1 $2 When I run the above script using ./myScript.sh myzip test*, only one file that starts with the ...
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Shell script to Unzip files to folders in destination with same name minus the .zip, also move every none zip to same location
I definitely need to practice my scripting... So far I have the script below which works when one .zip and one flat file are put into the source location. If multiple files are put in it does not ...
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Finding a file by alphabetical order
Using bash, I need to be able to find a file in a specific position when listed alphabetically. For example, if I had the files a, b, c, d, e in a directory, and I wanted to find the third file, I ...
