Passing named arguments to shell scripts
Is there any easy way to pass (receive) named parameters to a shell script?
shell-script
Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created
I need a shell script which finds files which are created 1 hour before or 1 hour after a particular file (test.txt) was created.
Multiline shell script comments – how does this work?
Recently, I stumbled upon a multiline comment type I have never seen before – here is a script example:
Find records present in file 1 also in both file 2 and file 3
I have three files file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and they are of same format.
Unix-portable way to get script’s absolute path in zsh?
What is a portable1 way for a (zsh) script to determine its absolute path?
Quoting / escaping / expansion issue in “command in a variable”
I want to run a command such as this in a bash script:
cd into all directories, execute command on files in that directory, and return to previous current directory
I’m attempting to write a script that will be run in a given directory with many single level sub directories. The script will cd into each of the sub directories, execute a command on the files in the directory, and cd out to continue onto the next directory. What is the best way to do this?
How to test whether SSH has passwordless access without prompting for password?
I’m writing an unattended shell script that sets up a new server. Since I may run it multiple times, I want to check whether passwordless SSH access has already been set up. A command like
How to continue a script after it reboots the machine?
I’m writing a shell script in bash. At some point in the script, it detects that the machine needs to be rebooted before continuing. It issues:
Piping data to a process’s stdin without causing EOF afterward
I have an executable that starts a user-interactive shell. I would like to, upon launch of the shell, inject a few commands first, then allow the user to have their interactive session. I can do this easily using echo: