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Interesting...something like IPC..eh? but how? any ideas?

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darn,...I just hoped there's a way...like adoption or something... :(

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I want to do something that might sound strange.

I have a code that in written in C and is executed at startup (it's a custom process). It occasionally calls some bash scripts.

The...

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I have a document and in this document I have several occurrence of "VAR == xxxxxxx" and xxxxx can be anything. I don't know what it is. I want to replace the 'xxxxx's with something I...

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I installed NFS server and everything started out fine but I don't have /proc/fs/nfsd entry and so I can't mount nfsd. Therefore I can't start my nfs service.

Why don't I have...

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I want to do pattern matching with awk or sed but I don't know how. here's what I want:

I have a line number for a pattern that I have already found using grep, and I know a pattern...

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I want to do a very simple thing with sed. I want to print out the line number of a disk I have defined in /etc/exports, so I do:



It's all good, but here's the problem. When I...

Thanks Carl, it works fine! Well, I didn't want to use expect because it was only one interaction and expect would have over-complicated things.

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I'm trying to write a small script that sets up RAID using MDADM without asking user for any input.
Here's what I'm doing:

start=`mdadm --create $2 --level=$3 --raid-devices=$4 $5 $6...

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I want to extract the start and end cylinders of each partition from output of "fdisk -l". I tried to dump the info in an array and then extract from there. Here's the code I have written...

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I want to write a script to automate partitioning for some project that I'm working on. I tried using fdisk but it was too painful... so, turned to sfdisk but now I'm getting strange...

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I know using system() we can run unix commands but the problem is, I can't get any returns with the system(). I am returning stuff from my shell scripts that I need to be able to read...

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Can anybody tell me how can I dump the results of execution of a command into array form? For example, I want to execute:


and put each part of the result in an array element:


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great! Thanks!

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I am very new to BASH shell programming. I need to return an integer from a function to the caller function. I did this:




but it keeps giving me wrong return:



Can someone...

thanks! yeah apparently it is the * ... any way to fix this flaw?

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I am writing script that returns the size of each disk or partition when called. I am using FDISK -l and parsing the results to get the result I want. When I execute fdisk -l it shows...

thanks alot! It worked!

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I want to automate a few tasks. For one of them, I need to get the output of a command and parse it to extract information I need: drbdadm create-md drbd0

The output is:

md_offset...

Alright! Thanks alot! it worked!

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When for example, I want to get the size of a partition, I have done the following:

# result=`fdisk -l | grep /dev/sda1`
# echo $result
/dev/sda1 1 15000 120487468+ 83 Linux

and...

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I want to find whether the argument passed to my script ends in a number or not. Like, I want to find out if the argument is of the form: xyzwpq123 or just of the form xyzwpq.

Can someone...