If your script ALWAYS needs to have a zip file, why not just pass the name of that file to your script as an operand:
and change the contents of script to:
Otherwise, assuming that you are using bash as your shell, why not look at the man page for bash on your system and see if the read or select built-ins would help you do what you want (as RudiC suggested)? If you are not using bash as your shell, look at the man page for the shell you are using for the description of the read built-in in whatever shell you are using.
Hi guys,
I'm working on a large set of scripts to move files around several servers and manipulate them for our staff. Basically we're shooting things, the videos hit a server and then need organised due to the language they've been shot in. Our XML (designed for Apple's Final Cut Pro) is right... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to write a bash script that will query the current system time (OS X 10.6.6) and then convert the output from HH:MM:SS into time in seconds. The output of the system time command (systemsetup -gettime) is returned as:
Time: HH:MM:SS
so I wanted to use awk -F: to grab... (5 Replies)
we have more then 10 jobs scheduled in cronjob.. but we can see some of the script has been changed without any notification.. can we write any script which captures any changes inside the scripts with time of change and user name like .. or any other option apart from this ??
Plz help .. (4 Replies)
Dear All,
I have many sub-folders but each of them have a file with same name but different data.
I want to either move or copy them into a new folder but they need to have the path of where they are coming as part of their name...
I have managed to find the files but dont know how to change... (2 Replies)
hi,
i want to send an email from unix using mailx command.
mailx -s "subject" "email@abc.com" < email.txt
Email.txt contains some file names that are transferred successfully and some that failed. so the files that got failed to tranfer, should be displayed in red color in the mail. is it... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a bash script to run many system commands on CentOS machine, but I am puzzled by some commands had no effect on parent environment.
For example, I want to refresh the desktop xdg menu when some processes added or deleted items from desktop xdg menu. If I run "killall gnome-panel"... (4 Replies)
I am trying to execute expect command inside by small bash script to login into servers using key authentication method. My script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
HOST=$1
/usr/bin/expect -c "
spawn ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa root@$HOST
expect -exact "Enter... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to run following code in bash inside a zsh script. (In this case is output unfortunately very different if you run it in zsh).
I tried to put "bash" in front of the code but I obtained following error message "bash: do: No such file or directory
" eve though I merged the whole... (7 Replies)
i have defined a function ln_s() for customizing the ln command in script1.sh.
more script1.sh
echo "Starting Execution"
./script2.sh
echo "End of Execution"
ln_s(){
] && return
ln -s "$1" "$2"
}
My script1.sh executes another script2.sh which has the following entry
more script2.sh... (12 Replies)
Hello,
I have text data that looks like this,
Mrv16a3102061815532D
6 6 0 0 0 0 999 V2000
-0.4018 1.9634 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-1.1163 1.5509 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-1.1163 0.7259 ... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pct-scanner-script
PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1) General Commands Manual PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)NAME
pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving
SYNOPSIS
pct-scanner-script [--help]
DESCRIPTION
pct-scanner-script is a bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu
PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different configurations can be defined,
making it easy to switch between configurations.
Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples.
Features:
- auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files
- auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails
- cascading configuration system, for easy customizing
- easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options
- archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners
- built for productivity and daily use
- uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools
- multilanguage commandline output
OPTIONS -h, --help, -?
Show summary of options, help, and examples.
DEBUGGING
This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this
script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools.
SEE ALSO scanadf(1),
AUTHOR
pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by:
Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>.
March 31, 2009 PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)