I would like to monitor a log file using a shell script and as soon as a line with a certain string in it appears I would like to run a program. I have been playing around with doing this using tail -f, but cannot get it to work. I found something similar here:... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I know this is somewhat strange, but please let me know if possible. I want to execute a program file in the remote machine with command on the local machine. Let me make things more clear.
Suppose I have a cc on my local system and do not have that on the remote system. I want to use... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to assign a command name to a file.e.g.
suppose I have a .sh file "xyz.sh". I want to execute the file by typing in "abc".
The desired output is:
$ abc
should execute the "xyz.sh" file.
Kind Regards,
Qasim (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which in turn contains 20 file names as column 1.
Now I want to run a command "ct co -nc" / "cp" / "mv" on each of these $1 column content i.e. on each of the 20 file names.
How can do this using a script so that I need not run the same command 20 times... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to verify that a file exists within an alternate directory. If the file exists, it will execute a copy command...if it does not, it should exit the script.
I tried the <test> command and the but keep coming up with syntax errors.
I am coding in C Shell and the file... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Is it possible to execute a command assigned in a variable?
So if I declare the following;
TIME=`date +%H%M`
it will assign the output of the command run at the time the variable is read in.
But I want to be able to execute the command via the variable at multiple times throughout a... (2 Replies)
Hi,
As a newbie, I'm desperate ro make my shell script work. I'd like a script which checks all the files in a directory, check the file name, if the file name ends with "extracted", store it in a variable, if it has a suffix of ".roi" stores in another variable. I'm going to use these two... (3 Replies)
I need to develop a process/daemon which will constantly monitor a file for new entry and execute a command.
for eg, there is a file /var/log/inotify.log
When a new entry like below gets appeneded to this file, execute the command as follows.
/home/user/public_html/bad.php|CREATE
... (2 Replies)
I have written the following shell script
#!/bin/bash
file="/home/CSV/data.csv"
badfile="/home/CSV/bad/"
while IFS= read -r line
do
num_fields=`echo "$line" | awk -F'|' '{print NF}'`
field1=`echo "$line" | awk -F'|' '{print $1}'`
echo $num_fields
echo $field1
done <"$file"
the code is... (3 Replies)
We have a process where we store the database password in a config file like below from where the password is picked up and used in Database Scripts
ID, Password
But we now have a Audit Requirement not to have the passwords in Config Files directly. We have a command which could fetch the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: infernalhell
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)