It seems parantheses ( ) doesn't have the issue with spaces as I managed to use $((count+1)) without any issues.
So, [ character being misinterpreted as a command is not applicable for ( )
BTW ..What is ++ operator as in (( ++count )) called ?
Hello, Im writing a script that works by recursively going into directories with find. But I have some directories that have spaces in them.. so I need to parse the variables to add a backslash before the spaces.
Im not exactly sure how how to do this in bash, and honestly I dont think I know... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to run a Linux virus scan on a list of files/folders I have ported to list.txt in a format:
some file with spaces
some other file
but I need to feed my scanning script in the format:
some\ file\ with\ spaces/
some\ other\ file/
so I would like to read in list.txt and output... (6 Replies)
Hello dear community!
I've recently written a BASH function for auto completion of options. It works like following: if a user types a command and then an argument to this command which starts with "^-" and then presses TAB, then 'user_command --help (or -h)' is invoked and possible options are... (0 Replies)
Hey all,
I have a very simple regular expression that I use when I want to allow only letters with spaces. (I know this regex has a lot of shortcomings, but I'm still trying to learn them)
isAlpha='^*$'However, when I bring this over to BASH it doesn't allow me to enter spaces.
I use the... (3 Replies)
Hello!
I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one character at the time, so I use read -s -n 1 var but it doesn't work for whitespaces apparently.
... (3 Replies)
There's a JavaScript file that I call from command line (there's a framework) like so:
./RunDiag.js param1:'string one here' param2:'string two here'
I have a shell script where I invoke the above command. I can run it in a script as simple as this
#!/bin/bash
stuff="./RunDiag.js... (4 Replies)
Hi guys, I'm new here and new to shell scripting so don't be hard on me
I'm trying to create a bash script to restart a process by name in Mac OSX.
I have no problem killing the application, the problem comes when launching it again.
I managed to store the path in a variable lets say
... (8 Replies)
I'm trying to search for all files in directory with particular GID then change the GID to match the UID of each file:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(find /dump -gid 200 | sed 's/\ /\\\ /g' | sed 's/\&/\\\&/g'); do
chgrp $(ls -ln ${i} | awk '{print $3}') ${i}
done
I'm using sed to deal with... (7 Replies)
For the record, I already tried telling mgmt and the users to disallow spaces in filenames for this script, but it isn't happening for a number of ID10T-error-based reasons.
I have simple list of 3 files in a directory that are named like this:
bash-3.2$ ls -1 file*
file1
file1 part2... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to write my first ever shell script, the OS is Raspbian. The code I have written must be executed whenever a certain database has been modified. The database resides on a Windows server to which I have a mount point, and I have no control over the Windows server at all so... (2 Replies)
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flockfile(3S)flockfile(3S)NAME
flockfile(), ftrylockfile(), funlockfile() - explicit locking of streams within a multithread application
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
The and functions provide for explicit application-level locking of streams. These functions can be used by a thread to delineate a
sequence of I/O statements that are to be executed as a unit.
The function is used by a thread to acquire ownership of a object.
The function is used by a thread to acquire ownership of a object if the object is available; is a non-blocking version of
The function is used to relinquish the ownership granted to the thread. The behavior is undefined if a thread other than the current owner
calls the function.
Logically, there is a count associated with each stream. This count is implicitly initialized to zero when the stream is created. The
stream is unlocked when the count is zero. When the count is positive, a single thread owns the stream. When the function is called, if
the count is zero or if the count is positive and the caller owns the stream, the count is incremented. Otherwise, the calling thread is
suspended, waiting for the count to return to zero. Each call to decrements the count. This allows matching calls to (or successful calls
to and to be nested.
All POSIX.1 and C standard functions that reference objects behave as if they use and internally to obtain ownership of these objects.
RETURN VALUE
None for and The function returns zero for success and nonzero to indicate that the lock cannot be acquired.
flockfile(3S)