Questions tagged [bash]
BASH is the GNU Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix Bourne sh (shell). It's the default shell for various GNU systems.
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Bash script for manually cleaning up the Traefik access log file and limiting it to a maximum of 50 MB
I have written a short bash (or POSIX-compliant) script to clean up the Traefik access log file and limit it to a maximum of 50 MB. I would like to know what you think of it. Any suggestions are ...
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Bash tool for automating Telnet/SSH commands with live interactive session takeover
I made this executable because I used to play on a MUD, which was essentially a server to which you connect to through telnet to play in a multiplayer world. What annoyed me was how difficult it was ...
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Does an indentation style which uniquely identifies a column position to its role in the construct it belongs to make Bash code more readable?
What I'm asking here is whether do you think the facts
there is no type enforcing;
there is no indentation enforcing
consoles do not syntax highlight
consoles do not emphasize multi-line input a-la ...
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Linux file encryption using GPG key
In the below script I am using some arrays, and other Bash stuff, but I have made a minimal working example for you, where you cannot see those things.
Anyway, I am interested in a review of the ...
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Disabling local accounts on Azure Linux virtual machines
We’re enforcing Azure Entra authentication across all Linux VMs, so we’ll disable all local accounts via a custom script. The script will also create a single “break-glass” user with a randomly ...
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Custom hash function as Bash script
I'm looking for a (possibly cryptographic strong) hash function in Bash with the following properties:
The input is only a string with 4 lower-case characters: aaaa to zzzz
The output should be a ...
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Simple Node.js version manager
On Arch Linux, there are 2 packages that provide the Rust toolchain: rust itself and rustup. When users try to install a package ...
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Script to fix filenames in the wrong encoding
If you have files with Cyrillic filenames (e.g. день) and pack them as a ZIP archive on Windows, and then unpack on Mac using the standard archive utility, the ...
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lndir shell function - hardlink two directories
The code works, but I could use help testing it more comprehensively and double-checking that everything I'm doing makes sense, and that all the options can coexist with each other. I'm running into ...
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Bash Script for Docker Image Cleanup
I’ve been working on a bash script to clean up old Docker images while keeping the latest tag for each repository and skipping images currently in use. I’m sharing the script below and would ...
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Start screen lock for user from systemd
This is a script to start a screen lock in Ubuntu, with user customizable background image(s).
The script will eventually be run on sleep by systemd, so by root. This made it complicated to let the ...
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Automating Arch Linux Installation with Custom Partitioning and Disk Setup
I'm trying to automate my Arch Linux installation using a bash script. The script would allow me to choose between installing Arch on a single SSD or using a combination of SSD (for root and home) and ...
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Bash script to automate post install process on Fedora
The script runs fine, and it seems to be working correctly. I'm looking for some criticism of the structure of the code, errors, bad practices, beginner's pitfalls, and bad code in general.
I'm ...
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Ask interactive user to respond yes or no
I've written a Bash function that can ask a simple yes/no question.
The "yes/no" prompt is translated to the user's language (the question must be localised by the caller).
Input is ...
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