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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gzexe
GZEXE(1) General Commands Manual GZEXE(1)NAME
gzexe - compress executable files in place
SYNOPSIS
gzexe name ...
DESCRIPTION
The gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
penalty in performance). For example if you execute ``gzexe /usr/bin/gdb'' it will create the following two files:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1026675 Jun 7 13:53 /usr/bin/gdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2304524 May 30 13:02 /usr/bin/gdb~
/usr/bin/gdb~ is the original file and /usr/bin/gdb is the self-uncompressing executable file. You can remove /usr/bin/gdb~ once you are
sure that /usr/bin/gdb works properly.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
OPTIONS -d Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
SEE ALSO gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)CAVEATS
The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies on the
PATH environment variable to find gzip and some standard utilities (basename, chmod, ln, mkdir, mktemp, rm, sleep, and tail).
BUGS
gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable, but you may have to fix them manually in some cases,
using chmod or chown.
GZEXE(1)