I am using simple script to print the arguments. But not able to do so.
i am using cat command to add content to a file.
[root#cen06gst ~]# cat<<EOF>pass.sh
echo " you have passed me" $#
> EOF
But when i am seeing the file content again using cat , this is showing
[root#cen06gst ~]# cat pass.sh
echo " you have passed me"
Cat only is a command line tool to concatenate and print to the screen, it doesn't modify the file. Read
man cat
If you want to run your script, run
./pass.sh argument
It is also good practice to start your script with a shebang:
#!/bin/bash
Without it the system doesn't know what language to use to process the script.
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I have a simple Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
read X
echo "X=$X"
When I execute it with ./myscript.sh it works. But when I execute it with cat myscript.sh | bash it actually puts echo "X=$X" into $X.
So this script prints Hello World executed with cat myscript.sh | bash:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
read X
hello world
echo "$X"
What's the benefit of executing a script with cat myscript.sh | bash? Why doesn't do it the same things as if I execute it with ./myscript.sh?
How can I avoid Bash to execute line by line but execute all lines after the STDIN reached the end?
Instead of just running
read X
...instead replace it with...
read X </dev/tty || {
X="some default because we can't read from the TTY here"
}
...if you want to read from the console. Of course, this only works if you have a /dev/tty, but if you wanted to do something robust, you wouldn't be piping from curl into a shell. :)
Another alternative, of course, is to pass in your value of X on the command line.
curl https://some.place/with-untrusted-code-only-idiots-will-run-without-reading \
| bash -s "value of X here"
...and refer to "$1" in your script when you want X.
(By the way, I sure hope you're at least using SSL for this, rather than advising people to run code they download over plain HTTP with no out-of-band validation step. Lots of people do it, sure, but that's making sites they download from -- like rvm.io -- big targets. Big, easy-to-man-in-the-middle-or-DNS-hijack targets).
When you cat a script to bash the code to execute is coming from standard input.
Where does read read from? That's right also standard input. This is why you can cat input to programs that take standard input (like sed, awk, etc.).
So you are not running "a script" per-se when you do this. You are running a series of input lines.
Where would you like read to read data from in this setup?
You can manually do that (if you can define such a place). Alternatively you can stop running your script like this.
I am trying to build shell script. One of the commands used in this script is supposedly using read command demanding param to complete its execution. Now i want to pass same argument everytime for this. Can i automate this ?
In short, how to automate read command by shell script ?
Because of some reasons i can not share actual script.
If read is reading from standard input, you can just redirect from a file containing the necessary data:
$ cat foo.txt
a
b
$ someScript.sh < foo.txt
or pipe the data from another command:
$ printf 'a\nb\n' | someScript.sh
I have a simple Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
read X
echo "X=$X"
When I execute it with ./myscript.sh it works. But when I execute it with cat myscript.sh | bash it actually puts echo "X=$X" into $X.
So this script prints Hello World executed with cat myscript.sh | bash:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
read X
hello world
echo "$X"
What's the benefit of executing a script with cat myscript.sh | bash? Why doesn't do it the same things as if I execute it with ./myscript.sh?
How can I avoid Bash to execute line by line but execute all lines after the STDIN reached the end?
Instead of just running
read X
...instead replace it with...
read X </dev/tty || {
X="some default because we can't read from the TTY here"
}
...if you want to read from the console. Of course, this only works if you have a /dev/tty, but if you wanted to do something robust, you wouldn't be piping from curl into a shell. :)
Another alternative, of course, is to pass in your value of X on the command line.
curl https://some.place/with-untrusted-code-only-idiots-will-run-without-reading \
| bash -s "value of X here"
...and refer to "$1" in your script when you want X.
(By the way, I sure hope you're at least using SSL for this, rather than advising people to run code they download over plain HTTP with no out-of-band validation step. Lots of people do it, sure, but that's making sites they download from -- like rvm.io -- big targets. Big, easy-to-man-in-the-middle-or-DNS-hijack targets).
When you cat a script to bash the code to execute is coming from standard input.
Where does read read from? That's right also standard input. This is why you can cat input to programs that take standard input (like sed, awk, etc.).
So you are not running "a script" per-se when you do this. You are running a series of input lines.
Where would you like read to read data from in this setup?
You can manually do that (if you can define such a place). Alternatively you can stop running your script like this.
I am trying to get the entire output of a bash script to save to a file. I currently have one argument (ip address) at the beginning of the code looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
USAGE="Usage: $0 [<IP address>]"
if [ "$#" == "0" ]; then
echo "$USAGE"
exit 1
fi
ip_addr=$1
What I'd like to do is add another argument called "output", that the entire output of the script will save to. I'm aware I could just run myscript.sh | tee textfile.txt, but I'd like to make the script a little easier to run for others.
Thanks in advance,
hcaw
After the usage message, add the following line:
exec > "$2"
This will redirect standard output for the rest of the script to the file named in the 2nd argument.
Then run using
myscript 192.0.2.42 output.txt
As part of a system build script I have a script that creates various files and configurations.
However one part of the build script creates a new script that contains variables that I don't want resolved when the build script runs. Code snippet example
cat - > /etc/profile.d/mymotd.sh <<EOF
hostname=`uname -n`
echo -e "Hostname is $hostname"
EOF
I have tried all sorts of combinations of ' and " and ( and [ but I cannot get the script to send the content without substituting the values and placing the substitutes in the new script rather than the original text.
Ideas?
The easiest method, assuming you don't want anything to be substituted in the here doc, is to put the EOF marker in quotes, like this:
cat - > /etc/profile.d/mymotd.sh <<'EOF'
hostname=`uname -n`
echo -e "Hostname is $hostname"
EOF
Easiest is to escape the $
echo -e "Hostname is \$hostname"