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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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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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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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Accessing a variable defined inside a sudo shell from outside
I'm trying to create a shell script with below requirement:
ssh to a RHEL server
sudo to an app user
delete the contents of a directory (/tmp/logs)
Copy the application logs from one directory (/app/...
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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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Are Shell Script --long-options POSIX compatible?
In almost all POSIX specifications (e.g. ls), there are only short options (e.g. -A , -a , etc). In common shells like Bash, long options (e.g. --all , --almost-all , etc) are very common. And it is ...
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zip every month files and delete them [closed]
I have log patterns every day for artemis
I want to zip them and delete the files and save one month files in one zip
the files like this
artemis.log.2024-11-22
artemis.log.2024-11-23
artemis.log.2024-...
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Clean up bash script
Can someone clean up this part of bin bash script for me? I feel like i can write this so much cleaner.
Basically, what i want to do is:
If $pluginexcl2 is defined that 2 different grep -v will be ...
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Shell Script to Normalize the data
We have requirement to normalize the data ... Item field is comma delimited and irregular and it may have any items from 0 to max (lets say 100)
Input:
key1|desc field|item1,item2,item3,item4|extra ...
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select in a script
In Linux in Bash in a Script i use this:
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
while true; do
read -r -p 'enter number [4-999]: ' num
if [[ $num =~ ^([4-9]|[1-9][0-9]{1,2})$ ]]; then
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How to write in Linux in Bash in shellscript a part that can do something like this
How to write in Linux in Bash in shellscript a part that can do something like this
enter a number
must be in a range from 4-999
if not, ask again to enter
enterednumber * 5 * randomnumber [1-9] (...
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How to only suppress warning outputs from cryptsetup?
In Linux in Bash i run a script with some cryptsetup calls like
--luks2-metadata-size=16k --luks2-keyslots-size=256k .... luksFormat ....
that brings Warning outputs.
I know and understand, but i ...
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How to detect if headphones are plugged in for a shell script?
I'm writing my own custom status for i3/Sway that shows a volume indicator, and I've run into a snag.
I'd like to know if there is a standard way, using standard Linux tools--maybe ALSA or sysfs--to ...
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removing first and last character and empty spaces from a json file [closed]
I have given sets of different input files as shown sample below
cat out.txt
[
{
"regional_unit": "node",
"source_name": "1753250187_SPS",
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