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My goal was to do it the way I thought it should be done.

I found a solution, text2pcap is a application that comes with wireshark, allows for generation of pcap file from a ASCII hexdump i.e....

Hi, wondering if anyone can suggest a tool to me that will let me either cut & paste hex or type it in for packet decoding.
I want to be able to decode a packet as done with tcpdump or wireshark,...

I was missing the "&", that made it work. Thanks!

any takers?

I am trying to write a script that runs another script consecutively and records the PID of the called script each time it runs in an array.
I put in an echo statement to check the PID, when the...

!/bin/bash -x

returns:

+ '[' -f filename -a 1 -eq 1 ']'
++ cut -d: -f3
++ sort -r
++ head -n1

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Looking for a little help parsing some command line arguments in a bash script I am working on, this is probably fairly basic to most, but I do not have much experience with it.

At the command...

Thank you, you have proven that you are internet-awesome.

Good job.

I am working on a script that lists files in a directory with a few file attributes depending on what option the user specifies at the command prompt. The script uses Getopt::Std and takes two...

I am working on this script, but hit a bump. Looking for a little help figuring out the last part:


open(MY_FILE, $ARGV[0]) or die

$COUNTER = 1;
$LINE = <FILE>;
while ($LINE, <FILE>) {
#...

Thanks guys, I am re-writing the script using your suggestions. My original problem was a syntax error, I was [ -f filename ] the wrong variable and thats why I got the errors.
I am glad I posted...

Thanks, I will try it with the awk statement and see what I get.

Something I left out the first time, the script returns the error
"[: ash: unexpected operator/operand" when I try to use the...

I am working on a script that checks two arguments at the command line. The first argument is a search pattern, the second can be a file or a directory, if it is a file a second script is called that...

Hmmm, I thought '>' was the same a '-gt', but I made the change and it worked. I am still learning the in & outs of all of this, thanks.

The output keeps running into negative integers forever, shouldn't the loop terminate once the condition of the variable becomes -le 0?

Simple script, takes an cmd line argument and counts down to 1.

NUMBER=$1
# One argument must be provided, otherwise don't execute
if [ $# != 1 ]
then
echo "Error. Enter one argument "
...

What is the '2' doing in that command? is it switch for the wc command?

I think this is what I need I think, but written as a bash script or perl. The end result is that I need to be able to feed it a directory, and have it output the file with the most lines.
I was...

Thanks!

That almost does what I need, but since the first line of the sorted list is a total line count, it displays 'Total XXX' instead of the actual file.

Is there any command I can use to...

Hey I am relatively new to Linux and shell scripting, looking for a spot of help with a script I am working on.

I am writing a script that counts the number of lines in all the files in a...