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Shell script that prompts user for arguments and inserts them as parameters into a python script
I am trying to write a shell script that prompts the user for 3 case-sensitive arguments username password url and then take those parameters and calls a python script i.e.: "python streamcount....
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Running python script many times in a bash file
I want to run a python script many times with various arguments. To do that, I've written the following bash script: requests=(25 50 75 100) factors=(3 6) graphsizes=(25 50 75) for request in "${...
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Run a Bash Script from Python and import the exported environment variables into Python
I have the following Bash script called Test_Vars.sh #!/bin/bash #----------------------------------------------------# # Environment Variables being used in the process # #------------------------...
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Redirecting input from a file to a Python script fails but works with pipe
I have this python script: postpycess.py to draw data from a mesh file airfoil.p3d. This script was designed to work with input not using arguments, so I created an input file commands.txt and ...
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Specify which version of python duplicity should use
I've got a backup script that utilizes duplicity to upload to Dropbox. It's erroring out because the dropbox-python-sdk version required, 6.9.0, uses the keyword async which is now reserved in python3....
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Get environment variable from python script
I have bash script config.sh in which several variables are exported , and I need those variable in my python script. config.sh export VAR="YES" My approach is to source the config.sh from the ...
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How to run a python cmd inside a bash cmd over ssh
When I run the following in my bash terminal, it works fine. $ bash -c "python -c \"print 'helloworld'\"" ---> helloworld However when I try to do this over ssh, it give me nothing, can someone help ...
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Using Python in a Bash Script [duplicate]
If I try to start python in a bash script, the script will stop running and no commands will execute after "Python" is called. In this simple example, "TESTPRINT" will not be printed. It seems like ...
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Create several copies of file with one line in each copy changed
I have to automate simulations and to do so I need to create input files for each simulation. The majority of my simulations are almost identical, with one line of text changed from one file to the ...
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Can I script recreation of files such their inodes/mtimes increase in filename order? Across subdirectories?
Long story short, I have a buggy Makefile that is missing a few prerequisite definitions and consequently accidentally relies on the "order" of files on disk (checked out from an SVN repo) as given by ...
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Scripting in Bash at an entry level job? [closed]
So, my question is how important is the ability to script in Bash or Python, etc., at an entry level position as a Linux Sys Admin? I'm sort of hedging that I will have time to develop those skill ...
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Script or Program to discover hosts on network
Explanation: I need a script or program to discover devices on my network. I was thinking maybe doing the scan with nmap and I need to display just the name of device, what it is, and also the ip ...
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Where can I practice my Python and Bash scripting? [closed]
I wanted to practice my bash scripting skills and python skills and wanted a good book or a site where I can practice and get excellent skills please. Any recommendations please.
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Wait until gnome-terminal ends
I'm trying to implement a script who runs four terminal window in parallel using this function gnome-terminal -e sh -c "python scraper.py". I would like to know if there's a way to wait until each ...
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How can I run this python script on all html files under a directory? [duplicate]
I have a python script $ cat ~/script.py import sys from lxml import etree from lxml.html import parse doc = parse(sys.argv[1]) title = doc.find('//title') title.text = span2.text.strip() print etree....
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