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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, maybe someone could help me optimizing this little script.
It works so far, but when running, reboot does not work. If kill inotifywait reboot from shell works. I think some optimization is required here.
This script starts at the end of the boot process, from an external device and... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: lowmaster
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
I've followed several bash-completion threads, usualy none were answered, because of obvious reasons. (of which i'm just aware since a day or a few)
Non-the-less, because i was writing scripts, i never considered it to be possible to add this functionality.
Also, because i though that... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: sea
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to improve a script that I have running on a Ubuntu desktop that basically runs a powerpoint presentaions with announcements to TV's in diffrent parts of our building. My current script uses WINE to execute powerpoint viewer.
The scripts that I currently use relies on inotifywait's... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: binary-ninja
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to monitor any new file to be created in some of the directory using inotifywait tool but this is not available in Redhat 5.6.
Could you please let me know how to achieve (monitoring of file) without using inotifywait too? Because i dnt want to install this tool due to some reason.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Pawan Kumar
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a way to get my script to only trigger when a .ppt is created?
#!/bin/bash
while inotifywait -e create /ticker/powerpointshare;
do
sleep 30;
sudo chmod -R 777 /ticker/powerpointshare/*.*;
sleep 15;
sudo reboot;
done
I'm not sure if this is even possible... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: binary-ninja
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am facing a strange issue,
when i call a script from my while loop in background it doesnt go in background, despite the wait i put below the whil loop it goes forward even before the process put in background is completed.
cat abc.txt | while read -u4 line
do
#if line contains #... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mihirvora16
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
I have been trying for a couple days to figure this out to no avail. I am converting some csh code to bash. I have converted everything except the completion code.
#bashrc (I set this alias in my bashrc)
alias test='source ${PATH}/test.sh'
#${PATH}/test.sh (returns some aliases and... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: platypuus
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Did not use 'wait' yet.
How I understand by now the wait works only for child processes, started background.
Is there any other way to watch completion of any, not related process (at least, a process, owned by the same user?)
I need to start a background process, witch will be waiting... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: alex_5161
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
:cool:
I need to execute a shell script to do the following:
cat a file
run two back ground processes using the first two values from the file
wait till those background processes finish
run two more background processes using the next two values from the file
wait till those background... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: halo98
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'ld like to enable file name completion in ksh88 on AIX 5.2. My terminal is set to xterm. I've set the shell editor to emacs and ampped the arrow keys. Is there a way to map the tab key to a command like ESC= or any other file name completion command in emacvs that I may be not aware of since I'm... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rein
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