Creating a new variable from using grep on another variable

I am writing a noscript which enters a task into the taskwarrior app. The app response is "Created task number 114" (or any other number for that matter). I can catch that in a variable.

Now I want to use only the number (114) to use a a variable later (I can create a new task which is declared as dependent on task 114). According to what I have found already, this should work, but unfortunately does not:

Tasknumber=$(echo "$Response" | grep '[0-9\] {1,4}$')

when I echo $Tasknumber, it is empty.

Any tipps? Thank you

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Are fractional seconds in HISTTIMEFORMAT possible?

As the noscript says I'm interested whether or not it's possible to specify fractional seconds.

I already tried:

HISTTIMEFORMAT='%.3s '
HISTTIMEFORMAT='%s.%N '
HISTTIMEFORMAT='%s.%f '

It appears that it's not possible.

And I find that odd and dissatisfying, because I don't get "the issue" as why not.

That man page only says it must be in strftime format. GNU date accepts %N and bash's HISTTIMEFORMAT doesn't.

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How do i create a large text file crawler which crawls and finds keywords and condition quicker than usual grep awk considering the log file size as 10-20gb .gz file of text. Is there a way?



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Is there a way to remove the background of dialog command? Currently its blue but I want it as terminal default or like black.



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Is there a way to use grep with wildcards?

Example

$file ./-* | grep "ASCII text" -w

./-file07: ASCII text
./-file09: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with no line terminators

I just want ./-file07. In a sql query it would look like

Select file from files where name like “ASCII%”

This would only return the files that names began with ASCII

Im assuming there is a way to accomplish this right?? Thanks

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For overthewire bandit level 14 nc is used to send password to localhost, if its correct it sends back “Correct!” with the next levels password. I am trying to replicate this but cant.

Solution is here: https://mayadevbe.me/posts/overthewire/bandit/level15/

This is how I tried to replicate it… I opened 2 terminals. In one terminal I started listening for inputs on port 1234. If the input matches “password” I wanted to send back “Success” but I cannot figure out how to send the response back and display it on the client terminal

Server

nc -l -p 1234 | grep "password" | xargs -I {} echo "Success”

Client

nc localhost 1234
> password

this is able to recognize when password is sent but the message is printed out server side. How can I get it to print out on the client side???

Thank you.

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Remove Text Outside margins?

So basically I have a decent collection of PDF/ePub files that I’d like to strip out the header and footer info, like page number, chapter etc etc. so I can pass it through a text to speech generator, is there a reasonable way to accomplish this in a bash noscript? Maybe parameters so I can define the area to keep ?

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Need help use AWK if then in a noscript

Good evening (EDT)

I am trying to write a short noscript that returns the last word of a file. This is pretty easy:

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt update &>/home/user/.config/polybar/modules/apt &&
cat /home/user/.config/polybar/modules/apt | awk 'END{print $1}'

(The word at the end of the file is how many APT packages need updating)

However, when everything is up to date, the noscript returns "All" as that is the first word of the last line of the temp file created in line 2 of the noscript.

What is a good way to return the first word of the last line UNLESS that word is "All" in which case "0" (or some other phrase) is returned?

Thank you!

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What happens if I do kill -TERM 0

I know sending TERM to 0 will send TERM to ALL the process in current process group but will the following cause infinite loop?

trap "kill -TERM 0" TERM

./ child_process


I am trying to figure out the behaviour of current process after sending kill -TERM 0

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Is it true that bash/sh (or shell languages in general) were first designed to be used by end users and not programmers?

I don't know where I heard or read this first but I can't find any good source on it, is it true that shell languages were first designed to be used by Unix end users in the 70s-90s who didn't know much about programming?

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How to close all previously running gnome terminals, and start up new ones? pkill doestn work.

Hi, i would really appreciate some help with a simple noscript. I have an autonomous robot running on ROS (robot operating system).


My task right now is this:
1. I have 6-7 terminals running at all times. At a certain point of an automated process (robot coming to dock), I want to close all running terminals
2. Run specific commands to launch robot processes

I have tried using pkill to close all terminals but when I try to run commands after that, it doesnt work. Could you point me in the right direction?

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Thanks

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Help with referencing a variable and dealing with quotes, escapes, and braces?

These are the source folders in an rsync command. It works as-is but I can't figure out how to put this in a variable and then refer to the variable instead. All on one line, it's:

>/Users/$USER/Library/./Mobile\\ Documents/com\~apple\~{Pages,Numbers,Keynote}/ /Users/$USER/./Documents/Folder\\ name

I tried putting it in a variable as

>SOURCE= "/Users/$USER/Library/./Mobile Documents/com\~apple\~{Pages,Numbers,Keynote}/ /Users/$USER/./Documents/Developer/Folder name"

And then referring to

>"${SOURCE}"

I also tried the variable reference without curly braces and without quotes, and adding an escape before the spaces in the variable. Nothing I've tried works. I get an error message that the folder can't be found. The error quotes both folder references together. I think my issue is properly handling spaces when inside a quote that defines a variable, and maybe the braces when in a variable.

My underlying goal is to have a variable that includes all the source folders, and then just refer to the variable in the rsync command.

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Amazing ssh banner for full node

https://github.com/st3b1t/Satoshi.motd

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Fish-like dirhistory (prevd/nextd) for Bash

Hello Bash users,

I while ago I came across this video extolling the virtue of Fish's Alt-Left and Alt-Right key-bindings.

Those binding provide a cd - experience on steroids, instead of being limited to just one level (back and forward between the current and last directory), Alt-Left (prevd) and Alt-Right (nextd) instead navigate the full directory stack of the current session.

Zsh via Oh My Zsh provides the Dirhistory plugin to mimic that functionality.

But what about Bash?

I could not find a solution, maybe someone has implemented it, but I could not find it, so I implemented my own solution which is this:

cd() {
local target="$@"
if [ -z "$target" ]; then
# Handle 'cd' without arguments; change to the $HOME directory.
target="$HOME"
fi

# Note, if the target directory is the same as the current directory
# do nothing since we don't want to needlessly populate the directory stack
# with repeat entries.
if [ "$target" != "$PWD" ]; then
\builtin pushd "$target" 1>/dev/null
fi
}

# Alt-Left: rotate back in the directory stack.
bind -x '"\C-x\C-p": "pushd +1 &>/dev/null"'
bind '"\e1;3D":"\C-x\C-p\n"'
# Alt-Right rotate forward in the directory stack.
bind -x '"\C-x\C-n": "pushd -0 &>/dev/null"'
bind '"\e[1;3C":"\C-x\C-n\n"'

We override `cd` to pushd and we then use `pushd` to rotate the directory rather than use `popd` which will eliminate item from the stack. We don't want to eliminate items since we may wish to go forward again, we want rotation.

The binding looks a bit ugly I agree, according to [this StackExchange thread it is the way to silently execute a binding; aka do not print out pushd +1 &>/dev/null in the command line. I use Control-p and Control-n intermediaries since I don't use those bindings in the command line. If there is a nicer way to do this, please pass it on.

But overall, not a lot of code to obtain Fish-like directory stack navigation.

If there are any issues let me know, otherwise enjoy.

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Is there a difference in execution between executing a command and using an alias for the exact same command ?

I want to use a command semi often, so I put an alias for this command in my .bashrc but when I execute it, it throws an error that doesn't happen when I execute the command it is aliased directly.

I want to execute yt-dlp with a specific url in different directories, so I save the url in a "url.txt" file and execute the command

yt-dlp $(cat url.txt)

which works perfectly, but when I use the alias to the same command it can't read the url, is it the use of a subshell that isn't available in an alias ? would it be possible in a function ?

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Also, unrelated, but to get the second to last line of a file, is there a better way than using

tail -n 2 foo | head -n 1

?

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Kube-dialog update

Hi, kube-dialog got an update! Edit cmd added to cronjobs. And filtering updated, you can filter by status info using a template like this '#...'! Extremely handy!


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Can anyone explain in English what these lines do?

I'm completely new to bash or Linux in general but have been using other languages many years ago so know the basics of strings etc.
I'm failing to understand these lines other than they are extracting something from one file and creating some variables. I can't find anything on -t or -p and I think "${1} might be an argument passed into this noscript. Other than that, I'm stumped.

`5 PREDICTION_START=\`/usr/bin/predict -t /home/bob/weather/predict/weather.tle -p "${1}" | head -1\``
`6 PREDICTION_END=\`/usr/bin/predict -t /home/bob/weather/predict/weather.tle -p "${1}" | tail -1\``
`7 MAXELEV=\`/usr/bin/predict -t /home/bob/weather/predict/weather.tle -p "${1}" | awk -v max=0 '{if($5>max){max=$5}}END{print max}'\``

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Bash noscript to send email from your terminal
https://owlhowto.com/bash-noscript-to-send-email-from-your-terminal/

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Text string is not working for me.

Mint+MATE-21.1: Hi, fairly new to Bash, but not programming as such. I want to insert a string into anther string so I only need to change the variable for a list of strings within a bunch of similar noscripts. e.g.

aname = "willow"
"cp -a /home/"$aname"/bakall/ /home/open/backups/all
"cp -a /home/"$aname"/baknew/ /home/open/backups/new
"cp -a /home/"$aname"/baklast/ /home/open/backups/last

As a test, I first created a basic noscript and set it as executable

#!/bin/bash
aname="willow"
echo $aname

When I run that, nothing shows up other than the CLI prompt again, so I tried

echo ${aname}

same again, just the CLI prompt, no errors -- nothing.


If I type those directly into the CL in 2-lines it works as expected and shows "willow"

What am I doing wrong in the noscript?

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I wrote a classic snake implementation in pure BASH v5.1+
https://github.com/wick3dr0se/snake

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My first bash noscript, probably a disaster but apparently usable

https://github.com/Vdevelasco/quickCommand

I want to know what you guys think about this. Probably the style is going to be a mess, it works, but it's a mess. Any suggestions are welcome :)

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