I'm trying to understand what's happening here out of curiosity, even though I can just copy and paste the output of the terminal to do what I need to do. The following command does not print anything.
ls /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portfiles -1 | sed 's/-.*//g' | sort -u | parallel "sudo port -N install" {} 2>&1 | grep -Po "Use '\K.*(?=')" | parallel "{}"
The directory I call ls on contains a bunch of filenames starting with the string I want to extract that ends at the first dash (so stringexample-4.2009 pipes stringexample into parallel (like xargs but to run each line separately). After running the command sudo port install <stringexample>, I get error outputs like so:
Unable to activate port <stringexample>. Use 'port -f activate <stringexample>' to force the activation.
Now, I wish to run port -f activate <stringexample>. However, I cannot seem to do anything with the output port -f activate gettext that I get to the terminal.
I cannot even do ... | grep -Po "Use '\K.*(?=')" | xargs echo or ... | grep -Po "Use '\K.*(?=')" >> commands_to_run.txt (the output stream to file only creates an empty file), despite the shorter part of the command:
ls /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portfiles -1 | sed 's/-.*//g' | sort -u | parallel "sudo port -N install {}" 2>&1 | grep -Po "Use '\K.*(?=')"
printing the commands to the terminal. Why does the pipe operator not work here? If the commands I wish to run are outputting to the terminal, surely there's got to be a way to capture them.
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I want to preface that I am a newbie that picked up shell scripting 2 weeks ago.
Hey guys I need help with something, hope someone can point me in the right direction. I have a script that works when I run it from the command line but every time I run it with a crontab, the output is a few empty files. Does anyone know why?
That's the code down there
#!/bin/bash
#Provide an IP address as an argument to use nmap
#make sure to add the full range with (0-225 or 0/24) at the end
IPADDRESS=$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')
network-scan(){
if [ $1 ]
then
sudo nmap -sn $1
else
sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0-255
fi
}
#Scan the whole network and only prints the IP addresses minus your own
#Sends the IP addresses to a file
network-scan | grep -i 'Nmap scan report' | \
sed 's/\ /\n/g'|sed 's/(//g'|sed 's/)//g' | \
grep '[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*' | grep -v ${IPADDRESS} > ip_addresses
#Scan the whole network and only prints the MAC addresses
#Sends the MAC addresses to a file
network-scan | grep -i 'MAC Address:' | \
awk '{print $3}' > mac_addresses
#Put the IP and MAC addresses in the same file
paste ip_addresses mac_addresses | \
column -s $'\t' -t > "scan_$(date +%d-%m-%Y_%H:%M:%S)"
#Notify that a file with the IP and MAC addresses has been created on the Desktop
echo "A file containing the results of the scan has been created on the Desktop"
exit 0
You are using
network-scan | grep
without passing any parameter.
Hence network-scan function always using
sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0-255
when you run it from command line are you passing any parameter ?
echo $IPADDRESS inside the script when executing at cron and at command line for debugging.
network-scan | grep -i 'Nmap scan report' | \
sed 's/\ /\n/g'|sed 's/(//g'|sed 's/)//g' | \
grep '[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*' | grep -v ${IPADDRESS}
Since you are obtaining empty output, validate each command and append(test) each OR operators to know where it is removing required output.
Running a nx affected:apps command gives me this output:
> NX NOTE Affected criteria defaulted to --base=master --head=HEAD
> NX Affected apps:
- app-backend
- app-frontend
- app-something
- app-anything
I need to get all the application names and use them again for a command call.
So I started with that
output=$(nx affected:apps)
echo "$output" | grep -E "^\W+app-(\w+)"
This gives me
- app-backend
- app-frontend
- app-something
- app-anything
But I need to get the names only instead to run foo --name={appname} four times.
Also not quite sure how to use it in a loop. Quite new to bash scripting :-(
You may use -o (show matches only) with -P (perl regex moode) in gnu-grep:
nx affected:apps |
grep -oP "^\W+app-\K\w+" |
xargs -I {} docker build -t {} .
If gnu-grep isn't available then use this awk command:
nx affected:apps |
awk -F- '/app-/{print $3}' |
xargs -I {} docker build -t {} .
I don't have nx command here but you can try using xargs:
nx affected:apps | grep '^ -' | cut -d' ' -f4 | xargs -I{} echo docker build -t {} ./dist/{}
Remove echo to actually run the command.
You can use the --plain option:
nx affected:apps --plain
the command should return all the affected apps with space as a divider. You can then store those to a bash array and cycle through them in a for loop, running the command you need:
#!/bin/bash
AFFECTED=($(./node_modules/.bin/nx affected:apps --plain))
for t in ${AFFECTED[#]}; do
echo $t
done
I am trying to execute a command based on extracting it from README file.
I was able to extract it using grep and sed:
cat README.md | grep -i "docker build" | grep -vi "dockerfile.debug" | sed 's/.*\(d[a-z]\).*/\1/'
This script would give a result something like 'docker build .'
I want to execute that command.
But I am not sure how to execute the extracted text. I thought 'exec' would work but I couldn't apply it. Please help me find a way to execute the text extracted through the above script.
Set your command in
$(CommandToExecute)
or back-ticks
`CommandToExecute`
As Example:
$(cat README.md | grep -i "docker build" | grep -vi "dockerfile.debug" | sed 's/.*\(d[a-z]\).*/\1/'
);
try:
$(grep -i "docker build" README.md | grep -vi "dockerfile.debug" | sed 's/.*\(d[a-z]\).*/\1/')
When I want to run Wireshark locally to display a packet capture running on another machine, this works on bash, using input redirection from the output of a subshell:
wireshark -k -i <(ssh user#machine "sudo dumpcap -P -w - -f '<filter>' -i eth0")
From what I could find, the syntax for similar behavior on the fish shell is the same but when I run that command on fish, I get the Wireshark output on the terminal but can't see the Wireshark window.
Is there something I'm missing?
What you're using there in bash is process substitution (the <() syntax). It is a bash specific syntax (although zsh adopted this same syntax along with its own =()).
fish does have process substitution under a different syntax ((process | psub)). For example:
wireshark -k -i (ssh user#machine "sudo dumpcap -P -w - -f '<filter>' -i eth0" | psub)
bash | equivalent in fish
----------- | ------------------
cat <(ls) | cat (ls|psub)
ls > >(cat) | N/A (need to find a way to use a pipe, e.g. ls|cat)
The fish equivalent of <() isn't well suited to this use case. Is there some reason you can't use this simpler and more portable formulation?
ssh user#machine "sudo dumpcap -P -w - -f '<filter>' -i eth0" | wireshark -k -i -
I'm trying to create script to be run by cron to create multiple folders with subfolders.
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
IP_ADDR=`ifconfig | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | sed -n 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9.]\+\)\s.*/\1/p'`
/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/db-backup/12/$DATE/$IP_ADDR/
If i run this script manually everything is created as expected. When script is ran by cron subdirectory $IP_ADDR is not created and there is no errors.
I suspect that /sbin is not part of the PATH for the environment that the cron job runs under. You should specify the full path for the ifconfig command:
IP_ADDR=$(/sbin/ifconfig | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | sed -n 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9.]\+\)\s.*/\1/p')
It's also better practice (in general) to use $() for command substitution.
Try to use debug mode :
set -x
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
IP_ADDR=`ifconfig | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | sed -n 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9.]\+\)\s.*/\1/p'`
/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/db-backup/12/$DATE/$IP_ADDR/
set +x
Then, redirect the output of your cron to a file and have a look, you should find useful information in it.
You are not far off, but there are several ordering caveats that could cause problems. Many systems have different formats for the ifconfig output line. Some with inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, others with inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. (those are the two most common). You may also need to handle the case where there are multiple wired inet interfaces (2+ NICs in the box). However, if you have only 1 NIC, you could try the following to handle the common ifconfig formats:
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
IP_ADDR=$(ifconfig |
grep -v '127.0.0.1' |
grep -E 'inet[ ](addr:)*[0-9]{1,3}([.][0-9]{1,3}){3}' |
sed -e 's/^.*inet \(addr:\)*//' -e 's/ .*$//')
/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/db-backup/12/$DATE/$IP_ADDR/
or with IP_ADDR written as one line:
IP_ADDR=$(ifconfig | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | grep -E 'inet[ ](addr:)*[0-9]{1,3}([.][0-9]{1,3}){3}' | sed -e 's/^.*inet \(addr:\)*//' -e 's/ .*$//')