I am trying to test if certain files, called up in a list of textfiles, are in a certain directory. Every once in a while (and I am quite certain I use the same statements every time) I get an error, complaining that the echo command cannot be found.
The textfiles I have in my directory /audio/playlists/ are named according to their date on which they are supposed to be used: 20130715.txt for example for today:
me#computer:/some/dir# ls /audio/playlists/
20130715.txt 20130802.txt 20130820.txt 20130907.txt 20130925.txt
20130716.txt 20130803.txt 20130821.txt 20130908.txt 20130926.txt
(...)
me#computer:/some/dir# cat /audio/playlists/20130715.txt
#A Comment line goes here
00:00:00 141-751.mp3
00:03:35 141-704.mp3
00:06:42 140-417.mp3
00:10:46 139-808.mp3
00:15:13 136-126.mp3
00:20:26 071-007.mp3
(...)
23:42:22 136-088.mp3
23:46:15 128-466.mp3
23:50:15 129-592.mp3
23:54:29 129-397.mp3
So much for the facts. The following statement, which lets me test if all files called upon in all of the textfiles in the given directory are actually a file in the directory /audio/mp3/, produces an error:
me#computer:/some/dir# for i in $(cat /audio/playlists/*.txt|cut -c 10-16|sort|uniq); do [ -f "/audio/mp3s/$i.mp3" ] || echo $i; done
echo: command not found
me#computer:/some/dir#
I would guess bash wants to complain about the "A Comment"-line (actually " line ") not being a file, but why would that cause echo not to be found? Again, mostly this works, but every so often I get this error. Any help is greatly appreciated.
That space before echo isn't U+0020, it's U+00A0. And indeed, the command " echo" doesn't exist.
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I've been working with Terraform, v0.15.4, for a few weeks now, and have gotten to grips with most of the lingo. I'm currently trying to create a cluster of RHEL 7 instances dynamically on GCP, and have, for the most part, got it to run okay.
I'm at the point of deploying an instance with certain metadata passed along to it for use in scripts built into the machine image for configuration thereafter. This metadata is typically just passed via an echo into a text file, which the scripts then pickup as required.
It's... very simple. Echo "STUFF" > file... Alas, I am hitting the same issue OVER AND OVER and it's driving me INSANE. I've Google'd around for ages, but all I can find is examples of the exact thing that I'm doing, the only difference is that theirs works, mine doesn't... So hopefully I can get some help here.
My 'makes it half-way' code is as follows:
resource "google_compute_instance" "GP_Master_Node" {
...
metadata_startup_script = <<-EOF
echo "hello
you" > /test.txt
echo "help
me" > /test2.txt
EOF
Now the instance with this does create successfully, although when I look onto the instance, I get one file called ' /test.txt? ' (or if I 'ls' the file, it shows as ' /test.txt^M ') and no second file.. I can run any command instead of echo, and whilst the first finishes, the second+ does not. Why?? What on earth is causing that??
The following code I found also, but it doesn't work for me at all, with the error, 'Blocks of type "metadata" are not expected here.'
resource "google_compute_instance" "GP_Master_Node" {
...
metadata {
startup-script = "echo test > /test.txt"
}
Okaaaaay! Simple answer for a, in hindsight, silly question (sort of). The file was somehow formmated in DOS, meaning the script required a line continuation character to run correctly (specifically \ at the end of each individual command). Code as follows:
resource "google_compute_instance" "GP_Master_Node" {
...
metadata_startup_script = <<-EOF
echo "hello
you" > /test.txt \
echo "help
me" > /test2.txt \
echo "example1" > /test3.txt \
echo "and so on..." > /final.txt
EOF
However, what also fixed my issue was just 'refreshing' the file (probably a word for this, I don't know). I created a brand new file using touch, 'more'd the original file contents to screen, and then copy pasted them into the new one. On save, it is no longer DOS, as expected, and then when I run terraform the code runs as expected without requiring the line continuation characters at the end of commands.
Thank you to commentors for the help :)
I was running AutoPhrase and after running it's auto_phrase.sh shell script, I am getting the following error:
After backtracing it's source, I found this line (line 32) which is causing the above mentioned error.
All I know is it is doing something like:
file < FILE > FILE.extension
However, I failed to understand what is happening in this line.
Can someone could explain it to me ? And how may I resolve this issue ?
The problem here seems to be that ./bin/tree-tagger does not exist. Note that ./bin is not the same as /bin.
That being said, the answer to your question of what file < FILE > FILE.extension does is unrelated, but these are redirects in bash. FILE is piped < into the $STDIN of file and the output is directed > to the file FILE.extension.
Locate ./bin/tree-tagger by installing it or redirecting its path appropriately to resolve the error.
As for the actual question in the title, the command means
./cmd/tree-tagger-english run this command ...
< ... with standard input from ...
$f ... an (incorrectly unquoted) variable which should contain a file name ...
> ... with standard output redirected to ...
$f.tagged ... a file named by the (still incorrectly unquoted) value of $f with the string .tagged appended at the end ...
& ... as a background job.
Apparently ./cmd/tree-tagger-english in turn attempts to execute a command which doesn't exist, many times.
Probably the instructions tell you to run the thing in a different directory than where you are actually running this; but this is obviously merely a speculation. Another fairly common scenario is that something failed during installation, but you failed to notice (and so some files which should exist in these locations do not actually exist ... disk full? Wrong permissions?)
The fact that the code contains quoting bugs suggests that it's also quite possible that the code is simply buggy.
Im trying to execute shell commands using ruby, but i cant change directory to PATH with blank spaces.
variable = %x[cd #{ENV["HOME"]}/Virtual\\ VMs/]
This is not working.
Thank you
To be absolutely safe:
path = File.join [ENV["HOME"], 'Virtual VMs']
variable = %x[cd '#{path}']
Please note, that cd has empty output, so to make sure it works one probably wants to do smth like:
path = File.join [ENV["HOME"], 'Virtual VMs']
variable = %x[cd '#{path}' && ls -la]
#⇒ "total 32\ndrwxr-xr-x ....."
What is ist supposed to do? You try to chdir into a directory, but then don't do anything in it. Your variable will be empty in any case. Aside from the fact that it is pointless to do, you can not reliably execute a cd by itself in this way, because it is not an executable file. You can see this if you just execute %x[cd]. You will get an Errno::ENOENT exception.
Maybe you should first describe in a broader context, what you want to achieve with your code. Where would you like to change the working directory? Within the Ruby process - in which case you have to use Dir.chdir - or in the child process - in which case you have to execute some command after the cd.
I have been trying to run a shell script at boot time of freebsd. I have read all simmilar questions in stackoverflow and tried. But nothing is worked. This is the sample code that i tried is dummy.
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.subr
name="dummy"
start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd=":"
dummy_start()
{
echo "Nothing started."
}
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
Saved with name of dummy.
Permissions are -r-xr-xr-x.
in rc.conf file made dummy_enable="YES".
The problem is, when i rebooted my system to test, dummy file is not there. So script is not executing. what else need to do run my dummy script.
SRC:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/article.html#rc-flags
You need to add rcvar="dummy_enable" to your script. At least for FreeBSD 9.1.
Call your script with parameter rcvar to get the enabled status:
# /etc/rc.d/dummy rcvar
# dummy
#
dummy_enable="YES"
# (default: "")
And finally start it with parameter start - this won't start the service/script unless dummy_enable is set in /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.local, or /etc/defaults/rc.conf)
# /etc/rc.d/dummy start
Nothing started.
One possible explanation is that rcorder(8) says:
Within each file, a block containing a series of "REQUIRE", "PROVIDE",
"BEFORE" and "KEYWORD" lines must appear.
Though elsewhere I recall that if a file doesn't have "REQUIRE", "PROVIDE" or "BEFORE", then it will be arbitrarily placed in the dependency ordering. And, it could be that the arbitrary placement differs between the first run up to $early_late_divider and in the second run of those after $early_late_divider.
OTOH, is this a stock FreeBSD, or some variant? I recall reading that FreeNAS saves its configuration somewhere else and recreates its system files on every boot. And, quite possibly that /etc is actually on a ramdisk.
Also, /usr/local/etc/rc.d doesn't come into existence until the first port installing an rc file is installed.
I'm trying to work out the best way to set some environment variables with puppet.
I could use exec and just do export VAR=blah. However, that would only last for the current session. I also thought about just adding it onto the end of a file such as bashrc. However then I don't think there is a reliable method to check if it is all ready there; so it would end up getting added with every run of puppet.
I would take a look at this related question.
*.sh scripts in /etc/profile.d are read at user-login time (as the post says, at the same time /etc/profile is sourced)
Variables export-ed in any script placed in /etc/profile.d will therefore be available to your users.
You can then use a file resource to ensure this action is idempotent. For example:
file { "/etc/profile.d/my_test.sh":
content => 'export MYVAR="123"'
}
Or an alternate means to an indempotent result:
Example
if [[ ! grep PINTO_HOME /root/.bashrc | wc -l > 0 ]] ; then
echo "export PINTO_HOME=/opt/local/pinto" >> /root/.bashrc ;
fi
This option permits this environmental variable to be set when the presence of the
pinto application makes it warrented rather than having to compose a user's
.bash_profile regardless of what applications may wind up on the box.
If you add it to your bashrc you can check that it's in the ENV hash by doing
ENV[VAR]
Which will return => "blah"
If you take a look at Github's Boxen they source a script (/opt/boxen/env.sh) from ~/.profile. This script runs a bunch of stuff including:
for f in $BOXEN_HOME/env.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -f $f ] ; then
source $f
fi
done
These scripts, in turn, set environment variables for their respective modules.
If you want the variables to affect all users /etc/profile.d is the way to go.
However, if you want them for a specific user, something like .bashrc makes more sense.
In response to "I don't think there is a reliable method to check if it is all ready there; so it would end up getting added with every run of puppet," there is now a file_line resource available from the puppetlabs stdlib module:
"Ensures that a given line is contained within a file. The implementation matches the full line, including whitespace at the beginning and end. If the line is not contained in the given file, Puppet appends the line to the end of the file to ensure the desired state. Multiple resources can be declared to manage multiple lines in the same file."
Example:
file_line { 'sudo_rule':
path => '/etc/sudoers',
line => '%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL',
}
file_line { 'sudo_rule_nopw':
path => '/etc/sudoers',
line => '%sudonopw ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL',
}