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Programming in an Interpreted language executed by a running Shell

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see below details eccdbpvm02:/mnt/HANA/E1P/backup/data/DB_F1P # crontab -l 05 00 * * * /usr/sys_scripts/clear_log >> /usr/sys_scripts/log.txt 2>&1 eccdbpvm02:/mnt/HANA/E1P/backup/data/...
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I have a couple of custom scripts to help me with more or less regular tasks; and recently decided to move them from /usr/bin to ~/bin to have a better overview. I also added home/myusername/bin to $...
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I have an HTTP server (source code not accessible and cannot be substituted at this time) running on my Linux machine, which can be configured to execute any commands on requested. However, the HTTP ...
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I have a containerised command I'd like to run: docker run my_docker_image. Rather than install the command's dependencies into the main computer, I'm packaging them all into an image, that then users ...
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I a bash script, I want to obtain the global IPv6 address of my machine for a given network adapter (on my case 'ens18'). To get started, I issued the following command: ip -6 addr This gives me the ...
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I'm trying to write a script that will read search strings from an input file and then execute a command with $string in the middle of the command line. This is an example of the working command line:...
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When I run command bellow in bash shell : if [[ $(readonly | cut -d= -f1 | grep -qo HISTFILE && echo $?) == 0 ]]; then sudo grep -iwo "readonly HISTFILE" /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/*...
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code : subject="mail subject" body="Hello World" from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" echo -e "Subject:${subject}\n${body}" | sendmail -f "...
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I have monit utility on production for monitoring several daemons (our micro-services). I'm trying to figure the best way to unmonitor/monitor my daemons while updating them. So, basically I need ...
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From a.pdf, I would like pages 2 and 5 b.pdf, pages 3 and 4 c.pdf, pages 7, 8, and 9 copied into a new PDF file. All input pdf files are ten pages long. I'm using bash, and plan to make many ...
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Hi I am new to shell scripting ,I am trying to see how many times an accounts were logged in the log file. If an account was logged in more than 20 time I need the name of those accounts to be printed....
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Objective: I want to trigger a webhook on a private linux-machine (its a local system not connected to internet), which can delete the spool data generated by CUPS server in /var/tmp folder. To ...
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I need to measure the time that Firefox takes to build itself from the source code. Here's what I do normaly: nohup ./mach build > my_log.log & I then prepended time to it: time nohup ./mach ...
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I have a file that looks like the following: /path/to/a/very/long/path 0 0 0 0 0 0 I need to move the line starting with a number (this can be any value not necessarily 0) to the end of the ...
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In the case of a simple web-server with a MySQL database, the script has to dump the database, copy the web-server files and tar everything together. Then a NAS server Rsync the tar file via a "...

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