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Q&A How to give password in shell script?

That's my bash script. Actually, no, it isn't. Assuming for a second that the shebang line is #!/bin/sh (not #!bin/sh as you have it in the question), it's a sh shell script, not a bash shell ...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Which Linux system to use?

Beginners should always start with a Linux that people around them are using. If they have friends using Red Hat, they should use Red Hat. If they have a local users' group with lots of Ubuntu user...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Run a command *later*

The traditional way on a *nix system to run a one-time command at some specified future time is at. $ at 'now + 10 minutes' at Wed Aug 23 19:00:00 2023 at> date >> ~/current-time at&gt...

posted 1mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How to get number of files in directory

There are several ways that I can think of, depending on how correct you need the answer to be, particularly in exotic situations, and exactly what you want to count. If you know that you don't ha...

posted 1y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A In a bash shell script, how to filter the command line argument list to unique entries only, for processing each?

I have a handful of shell scripts that accept any number of command line arguments, then do some relatively expensive processing based on each command line argument in turn. The general format for ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Run a command *later*

Using systemd timers is too much work? Not with systemd-run! systemd-run --user --on-active=10min some_cmd

posted 1mo ago by r~~‭

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Meta Welcome to Linux Systems!

Welcome to the Codidact community for Linux Systems! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A from...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Documentation for double asterisk glob expansion

The ** pattern is an extension to, not a part of, the POSIX glob syntax. While it has emerged as an informal standard, AFAIK there is no single standard to reference to describe what it does. This...

posted 28d ago by r~~‭

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Q&A A shell script that can run under different shells

I'm not familiar with zsh, but it seems to me that your problem here is that the syntax for for loops is different in bash and zsh, which throws bash off as it tries to interpret your script, finds...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A What are phased updates, and why does Ubuntu use them?

So I ran into that weird "packages being held back" problem while updating my system using apt. After some research, it appears to be the result of "phased updates". What are phased updates, any...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Firstly, as an official Ubuntu Member who frequents the tech support IRC channels, I think I can help with getting more activity here. One of the most recent "whoa what happened here" events in th...

posted 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭

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Q&A Adding Python 3.11 to `$PATH`

There are two possible issues that I can see. First, as already brought up in a comment thread, it appears that the export command you added in your .bashrc is missing a final ". This should cause...

posted 11mo ago by Canina‭

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Meta Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

Although my reputation would shrink substantially if that change were implemented ;) , I think it is the right choice to prevent votes on meta from affecting the reputation. The reason is that the...

posted 3mo ago by AdminBee‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by AdminBee‭

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Q&A Are there any legitimate uses for newlines in filenames?

Unix is very permissive with filenames, and this can sometimes lead to a bunch of annoying corner cases when printing files. A well known example is when you put a newline in a filename, and it bre...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by terdon‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

TL;DR: The problem is not with stuff on the platform that needs fixing. The problem is that the platform appears dead. I'm still at the "old" platform, and a moderator on a tiny site (Arts & C...

posted 7mo ago by fixer1234‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by fixer1234‭

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Q&A How do I view fonts?

In GNOME, gnome-font-viewer does this.

posted 4mo ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Recursively remove files with the same name as the ones that end in `.part`

It is incorrect for two reasons. 1. File names containing glob characters This is an edge case scenario. Consider this structure: . ├── abc ├── abc.part ├── cde └── c*e.part The outermos...

posted 9mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Ergonomic way to search man pages

Unix systems are made out of many small tools that focus on specific tasks but are general enough that the investment made in learning their specific switches and hotkeys pays off over many applica...

posted 1mo ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Do shells have anything to do with port forwarding or port triggering?

Port forwarding is something a router does. Port triggering is basically port forwarding that's enabled when a connection attempt is detected and then automatically disabled. That's also handled ...

posted 2y ago by LawrenceC‭

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Q&A What partition type should be used for cross-platform FAT partitions?

Question What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive? Notes I am partitioning the drive with fdisk and making the filesystem ...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Ullallulloo‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

Especially considering the limited apparent interest thus far, I'll throw my hat into the ring and see what happens. Canina I have previous moderator experience from elsewhere (am currently a mod...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Make Less use a normal view instead of hexdump view

As I noted in a comment thread, I don't get the same behavior as you do (nor do I recall ever seeing it on any system), which points toward something about your setup. Apparently in response to the...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A What does a minimal /etc/hosts need to contain?

I run an environment that, until recently, did all local name resolution by putting names in /etc/hosts. I'm in the process of replacing that with local DNS. The DNS part works fine, and now I'm tr...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A In a bash shell script, how to filter the command line argument list to unique entries only, for processing each?

Bash Here Bash's associative arrays come handy. The idea is to put every argument as a key in a separate array, and then only process arguments that are not keys to that array. #!/bin/bash decla...

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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