I have a bash script as below in a file nepleaks_upd.sh, that I want to run as ./nepleaks_upd.sh bootstrap --branch off. Couldn’t make it to take --branch , but what it works with is ./nepleaks_upd.sh bootstrap -b off.
I need to iterate through every file inside a directory. One common way I saw was using the for loop that begins with for file in *; do. However, I realized that it does not include hidden files (files that begin with a “.”). The other obvious way is then do something like for file … Read more
I want to run a bash script in a detached screen. The script calls a program a few times, each of which takes too long to wait. My first thought was to simply open a screen and then call the script, but it appears that I can’t detach (by ctrl-a d) while the script is running. So I did some research and found this instruction to replace the shebang with following:
Will it be possible to use diff on a specific columns in a file?
The main way I know to debug scripts is adding -x to the shabang (#!/bin/bash -x).
I have a directory with multiple img files and some of them are identical but they all have different names. I need to remove duplicates but with no external tools only with a bash script. I’m a beginner in Linux. I tried nested for loop to compare md5 sums and depending on the result remove but something is wrong with the syntax and it doesn’t work. any help?
In /etc/profile I see this:
I’ve been trying to write a simple bash script which I’ll be using to install an application and update it’s config file. I’m having hard time to have get it’s config file modified.
Using one command to both start and enable systemctl managed software would be useful to spare a few lines in a few scripts, making them a bit more aesthetic (not really a problem but a nice thing to have).
I have this folder structure: