Category "bash"

How to post multiple images to mastodon using api with bash curl

I'm starting to learn to use rest api via bash curl by writing a simple mastodon bot. I can attach multiple images using curl https://example.com/api/v1/statuse

Append lines separated by comma while preserving the existing new line

Bash script used: #!/bin/bash set -xv IS=$'\n' list=$(cat exlist_sample | xargs -n1) for i in $list; do echo "$i" | rev > slist echo "$i" >> z

Checking user info with multiple parameters

I have to print information about the user with the name given as a parameter. For example let's say ./script1.sh John should give me John Doe (username) -last

Generate github personal access token (PAT) by command line or SDK

I am looking for the command or SDK, such as python, to generate new personal access token (PAT) in Github, but I didn't see any API for it. https://docs.github

How to generate date in this format (2022-04-29T06:07:28.158Z) in linux

Looking for solution to generate date in the below format: 2022-04-29T06:07:28.158Z Have to use in bash script.

Rundeck inline bash spinner output

Have some bash test code that have a spinner. Code seems like this #!/bin/bash sleep 5 & pid=$! frames="/ | \\ -" while kill -0 $pid 2&>1 > /dev/n

a bash script that remove duplicates

This works wrong script should delete only copies, but this script deletes all files #!/bin/bash DIR=$1 if [[ -z "$DIR" ]]; then echo "Error: files dir is

Create a batch of 10 files with increasing numbers starting with the last or max number that already exists

I am trying to write a script so that each time you execute it, it creates a batch of 10 files with increasing numbers starting with the last or max number that

Append text in front of variable within the same line - bash

I have this example.text > cat example.text 10.10.44.11 10.10.44.20 xa1-Y xa2-Y xb1-Y xb2-Y xc1-Y xc2-Y xd1-Y xd2-Y and I have this command: srxa_host_list

MacOS BASH, Get output from networkQuality command running in background

I am trying to launch networkQuality command in the background and live fetch the first part of the output to the bash script launching it. First part I want to

How do I run 1 instance of rsync / rclone script using flock as a cron job?

I'm trying to run only one instance of my back up script as a cron job. I know I can do it with a function that checks if the process is running: if pgrep -x rc

Linux find xargs command grep showing path and filename

find /folder/202205??/ -type f | xargs head -50| grep '^Starting' There are 20220501 20220502 20220503 and so on folders... This command searches all first 50 l

running multiple processes, each with a different set of values for the environment variable

I have a number of jobs. Typically I start the jobs manually by opening a number of terminal windows, and in each terminal window setting certain environment va

Bash - How to rename files inside a directory based on names.txt

I'm sorry I can't provide the actual filenames for privacy reasons. names.txt contains several groups of lines separated by a single empty line. Each group pert

Multiple processes running bash on a ssh server

When I run the "ps" command, I can see all the processes I'm running, but for some reason, there are two identical processes(except for the PID ofc) running bas

How do I extract two different keywords from two different lines in a file in bash shell?

I have a file called data.txt. when I read the file, the content looks like the below. $ cat data.txt name: linuxVol id: 6 type: Linux dir excludes: .snapshot*

Why does xtrace show piped commands executing out of order?

Here's a simple reproducer: cat >sample_pipeline.sh << EOF set -x head

Write a backlink in regular terms to determine the equality of two numbers

Please tell, how it is possible to execute it For example the person entered 24 and 24 appeared on the screen "ok", on the contrary when entered 24 and 23 perso

Keeping quotes from std out for passing to bash

Okay, this is a bit convoluted but I've got a python script that digests a json file and prints a string representation of that file like so for id in pwds.keys

how to perform string operation in an input string and get the desired output

I have to write a shell script to accept the product order details as string input and display the total order amount and number of order under each category.