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How can I have more than one possibility in a script's shebang line?
I'm in a bit of an interesting situation where I have a Python script that can theoretically be run by a variety of users with a variety of environments (and PATHs) and on a variety of Linux systems. ...
1vote
1answer
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Simulating Keystrokes to a Telnet process
On my Linux system I have opened a Telnet session. On the other tab I am running a Python script and giving commands to the Telnet session using mkfifo file redirection. But I am not able to simulate ...
11votes
4answers
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Hybrid code in shell scripts. Sharing variables
This answer discusses how to run a multi-line Python snippet from the command line in a terminal. I noticed that the answer works great within shell scripts, even with nested indentation, which is ...
6votes
1answer
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How to run multiple scripts one after another but only after previous one got completed?
I have to run several python scripts one after another but want to make sure previous one got completed. How can I do that in Linux? Can it be done by simply using && or ; or | ?
5votes
4answers
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piping python variable value to bash script (inside python script)
After years of bash scripting I've been given the task of modifying a python script to have it call a shell script when certain conditions are met. That part wasn't too bad, but now I'm trying to ...
5votes
1answer
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View script output over ssh in real time
I am trying to run a local script on a remote machine with ssh. Let's say this is the python script (printdelay.py) which I am trying to run: from time import sleep print("The first line") sleep(...
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2answers
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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 "${...