1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All. im a noob to scripting. could somone help me with a script please. what i want to do is. 1. run a cmd in the script - qmqtool -s this will give me an output similar to this. Messages in local queue: 790 Messages in remote queue: 306 Messages in todo queue: 23 i then want... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello. Complete newbie over here, and I'm hoping you can help me out with this problem. The script copies a file to a directory within my home dir. Permissions are ok and the source file exists. If I execute the cp command from the command line or hardcode the path/file name, it works. ... (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I'm trying to create the shell script that: copy (or transfer) the directory from the unix server to my external hard drive (or hard drive) I've been serching this kind of thread here, but no luck so far. anyone can help me? Thank you. (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Writing a bash script for use with Geektool, pulls the battery info, and shuffles images around so that an Image geeklet can display the correct expression as the desktop background. (Eventually I intend to make it more intricate, based on more variables, and add more expressions) I'm extremely... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone I am completely new to shell scripting in linux. I wan to write a script to search for a certain string from a .txt file and copy the string which apears just after tat searched string. Eg: in a file- try.txt , we have a line saying: "roses are red, so what do i do" I... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm new to this forum and like to first of all say hello to everyone. I've got a really annoying problem at the moment. I'm trying to rsync some files (about 200MB with one file of 120MB) from a Raspberry PI with raspbian to a debian server via rsync. This procedure is stored in a... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, I have a situation where I want to copy some files of type .txt. These files are o/p from one program. Some of the files are named as fileName .txt instead of fileName.txt after fileName by mistake I have specified "space". Now I want to move these files as follows. mv fileName*... (13 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm trying to write a script in Dialog for configuring a router. I basically need the user to select from a list of say 4 options, confirm the option and then copy the configuration files, depending on the choice to the HDD and then reboot (I'm hoping to boot from a USB stick). The... (0 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I have a file of ip addresses called activeips.txt What I'm trying to do is run a simple bash script that has a loop in it. The loop is a cat of the IP addresses in the file. The goal is to run 2 nmap commands to give me outputs where each address in the list has an OS... (11 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

The bash stores each uniqueid in an array and then passes them to %q to get the unique path. That seems to work what I am having trouble with is renaming each .png with the unique value in %q. I thought it was working but upon closer inspection, a .png file is being sent to scp.... but only 1 and... (21 Replies)