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hi,
I am in a weird situation. I have a parent tarball which contains 2 sub tarballs.
The structure is such :
Parent.tar.gz ---- > child1.tar.gz and child2.tar.gz
I need to get the size of the...

Hi,
I have a ubuntu box with /etc/hostname entry like abcd-lx . However, if the machine shuts down without a proper shutdown , on reboot, the enter in /etc/hostname looks like %vserverguest%
...

It is just stored as a template (directory). Is that what you were asking?

Hello,
This might sound like a really silly question but that is why i post it in Unix for Dummies :)

I am a little confused as to how I can install software or remove software from an image (say...

I tried this. It throws an error saying unexpected end of file.
Error is thrown on line sudo vserver vservername enter ---- unexpected eof.

Bash!

Can we use a here document inside a here document?

Something like this


ssh user@remotehost << REMOTE
sudo vserver vsernamename enter << VSERVER
perform actions on vserver.
VSERVER...

Can you explain that a little more? I am sorry, just started shell scripting!! How to redirect stdin to provide input to sudo?

Well the purpose is not to echo after sudoing into the vserver. The code inside there is proprietary and so I did not want to post it here

Secondly,
If I sudo on command prompt it works fine....

Unfortunately I cannot ssh with root credentials , and I cannot change the sudoers file on servers.
So i need to sudo only after I ssh

Have a sudo statement inside of a here document. It prompts me for a password, but doesnt wait for me to enter my password. Is there a way I can use the command without sudo or anyway that I can...

Have a sudo statement inside of a here document. It prompts me for a password, but doesnt wait for me to enter my password. Is there a way I can use the command without sudo or anyway that I can...

Thank you very much! That worked :)

That doesn't work. Now instead of printing the LINE --- 3 times , it prints LINE --- just once.

Also, I am not very clear what you meant by it trying to read line from filename.

I have a...

Hi,
I am trying to read a file line by line inside of a while loop. This while loop is part of a here document.

while read line
do
ssh -t $2@$remotehost <<REMOTE

ls path/to/dir >...

Hi,
I am trying to ssh into a remote machine and then enter a vserver on the remote machine. I am using here document to carry out these commands on the remote machine. My here document looks like...

Thank you! That helped a lot :)

This creates a directory structure of the site itself. I donot want to create a directory stucture. Basically, just like index.html , i want to have another text file that contains all the URLs...

Hi,
I need to basically get a list of all the tarballs located at uri
I am currently doing a wget on urito get the index.html page

Now this index page contains the list of uris that I want to...