I'm trying to make this bash script but get this: Error reading *.docx. The file doesn’t exist
Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
textutil -convert txt *.docx
cat *.txt | wc -w
I'm currently running it from the folder but I'd like to make it a global script I can just call from any current folder.
If you want to make it available on your whole system you need to move it to a bin location like so
chmod a+rx yourscript.sh && sudo mv yourscript.sh /usr/local/bin/yourscript
then you can use it like a normal script in any folder
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Hello awesome community i am using git bash to run this command: cp -r thisfolder thatfolder to copy the contents of a folder in another one
now i want to make a script out of this to create a scheduler to run that script and my script looks like this
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t
cp -r thisfolder thatfolder && echo done > debug.txt
#the debug.txt is just to know if the script copied stuff
its a .bat script and all folders and script are on the same directory but for some reason it doesnt copy the files as git bash does
any thoughts??
Description
I want to copy all files ending on .jpg from my local machine to the remote machine with scp.
For this i have a small "script". It looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
xfce4-terminal -e "scp -r -v /path/to/local/folder/*.jpg <user>#<IP>:/var/path/to/remote/folder/" --hold
Problem
When i open a terminal and enter scp -r -v /path/to/local/folder/*.jpg <user>#<IP>:/var/path/to/remote/directory/ it works.
So SSH is working correct.
When i start the script it doesnt.
The script works, when i copy the whole local folder. It then looks like this (simply the *.jpg is removed):
#!/bin/bash
xfce4-terminal -e "scp -r -v /path/to/local/folder/ <user>#<IP>:/var/path/to/remote/folder/" --hold
But then i have the local folder inside the remote folder, where i only want to have the files.
I dont know, if it is important but currently i use a computer with Linux Mint 19.3, xfce terminal and zshell.
Question
So how do i run a script correctly that copys files from a local folder to remote folder?
It's the shell who expands the wildcard, but when you run -e in xfce4-terminal, it runs the command without letting the shell parse it. You can run a shell to run the command, though:
xfce4-terminal -e "bash -c 'scp -r -v /path/to/local/folder/*.jpg user#ip:/var/path/to/remote'" --hold
Are you sure you need the -r? Directories are usually not named .jpg.
I use "MacOS X Yosemite (10.10.4)"
I've converted video mts files to mov files using QuickTime, but the new file created doesn't preserve original Creation Date.
fileA.mts --> Creation Date: 07/02/2010 10:51
fileA_converted.mov --> Creation Date: Today 8:35
I'd like to change the Creation Date attribute of several files, using the date of the original files. I know I can do this by using Terminal "Touch" command in order to this:
touch -r fileA.mts fileA_converted.mov
touch -r fileB.mts fileB_converted.mov
As I have more than 200 files to change Creation Date, is it possible to automate this using automator Script Shell action, or any other way?
Like this in the bash shell - which is what you get in Terminal (untested):
#!/bin/bash
for orig in *.mts; do
# Generate new name from old one
new="${orig/.mts/_converted.mov}"
echo touch -r "$orig" "$new"
done
Save the above in a file called doDates and then type this in the Terminal
chmod +x doDates # make the script executable
./doDates # run the script
Sample output
touch -r Freddy Frog.mts Freddy Frog_converted.mov
touch -r fileA.mts fileA_converted.mov
At the moment it does nothing, but run it, see if you like what it says, and then remove the word echo and run it again if all looks ok.
Execute below command when we have all original and converted files in same folder
ls | grep ".mts" | awk -F. '{print $0" "$1"_converted.mov"}' | xargs touch -r
when we have different folder run below command on path where .mts files are present and add absolute path before $1 just like I have added /home/convertedfiles/
ls | grep ".mts" | awk -F. '{print $0" /home/convertedfiles/"$1"_converted.mov"}' | xargs touch -r
I have a file named syscheck.sh in /system/0211/ and I want to rename it to checkone.sh.
How can I do it?
To do a rename in a bash script, you simply need to use the mv (move) command.
mv /system/0211/syscheck.sh /system/0211/checkone.sh
You can put this command inside a shell script myrenamescript.sh file like so:
#!/bin/bash
mv /system/0211/syscheck.sh /system/0211/checkone.sh
Now set the script as executable
chmod a+x myrenamescript.sh
Now you can run it:
./myrenamescript.sh
I have a simple code which is:
#!/bin/bash
#LaTex code generator for figures.
ls *.pdf > pdfs.file
ls *.ps > ps.file
pwd=$(pwd)
for i in {1..2}
do
# var=$(awk 'NR==$i' 'pdfs.file')
echo $pwd
echo $pwd > testfile
done
Why aren't the commands in the for loop working?
The $pwd isnt echoed neither is the testfile created.
I tried these commands without the for loop in a terminal and they work fine.
My bash file is made executable by chmod +x bashfile.sh
What I am trying to do is this:
Find pdfs or eps files and populate pdfs.file and eps.file with their file names.
Step through row by row and grab these file names and append to $pwd.
Then append $pwd$var to the include graphics command in latex.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but this works fine for me:
for i in {1..2}; do
echo $PWD
echo $PWD > /tmp/testfile
done
echo "File contents: $(cat /tmp/testfile)"
This successfully returns the following:
/tmp
/tmp
File contents: /tmp
Did you write the bash file using a Windows editor? Maybe you have a problem with line terminators. Try dos2unix bashfile.sh.