Why does this attempt to read/write to arrays not work?

!#/bin/bash

declare -a testarray
count=0
testvariable0=dog ; testvariable1=cat

while $count -lt 2
do
testarray$count+="$testvariable$count"
((count++))
done

echo ${testarray0}
echo -e
echo ${testarray1}

I'm going to write a function that i'm going to reuse a lot. The function will be pointed at an arbitary position in an array, so I thought that I could replace the specifying number with the contents of a variable.

To test this, I made this short looping noscript.

Expected output:

dog

cat

actual output:

0

1

What gives?

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What is your best tool/command to look into log files?

Probably `less` with something like:

bat --style=plain --color=always {FILE_NAME} | less -R

but still wanted to know more if there are any better tools/commands/tricks to do that.

The tools I can think of now:

* `less` \- can provide a very powerful [advanced search](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html#COMMANDS) e.g. using `&` pattern to filter the lines
* `bat` \- colored with the ability to search in the window (probably similar to `less` if uses it as the default pager)
* `cat` and `grep` - I will have to repeat the command more than once and takes more time
* `vim -R` (or `view`) - in read-only mode

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I noscript I use to find files broke mysteriously and started adding newlines where spaces in directory name exist.

I have a noscript that searches through a large filesystem, matches file names against search criteria, makes a list of them, hashes them all and eliminates duplicates, and then copies all the files to a directory.

It's breaking now for some odd reason and it seems to be messing up where directory names have spaces, treating the space as a newline. I figure I'm missing a flag or a basic concept, any ideas? Here's the beginning of it:

#!/bin/bash

declare -a FILENAMES
declare -A HASHES

read -p "What are you searching for? " varname

echo Searching for "$varname"

if -d "/mnt/me/output/$varname" ; then
echo "Directory already exists, quitting."
exit
fi

printf "\n"

FILENAMES=( $(find /mnt/archive /mnt/dad -type f -size +512k -iname """$varname""") )

MATCHES=${#FILENAMES@}

echo "Found $MATCHES matches:"

for i in "${FILENAMES@}"
do
echo "$i"
done

I omitted the rest of the code since it is irrelevant. Is find failing me?

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Quoting strings more resiliently

I wish there were some simple syntax, where we could easily quote strings, and ' and " would not throw it off. It's way too common to use ' and " when typing sentences, accidentally messing up the quoted parameter.

The alternatives, like heredocs, going back and assigning a variable, etc., are not convenient for fast interactive use as you're just quickly trying to get things done. Some syntax like ${this is a string} would be great (I know that one won't work). Possibly one where the delimiting char were selectable, like in perl q/str/, where you set the first char, like q|str| -- this also handles paired char types, e.g. q{str} and q(str). You can even do q\\str\\. (q for single-quote functionality, qq for double-quote functionality) (And, of course, the same provision is available for matches with m// and regex replacements, s/foo/bar/ => s#foo#bar# => s{foo}{bar})


​

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Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/BourneShellObscureErrorRoots
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/BourneShellObscureErrorRoots?showcomments#comments

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Question on subshell

Hi everyone ,

I'm currently reading a book "Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible" and when I was studying about the concept on how to extract the value from the output and send it to a variable (which I completely understood) , Author calls this method "Command Substitution" .

After that there was this "Warning" section . In which the highlighted part I wasn't able to really understand .

I did refer this stackoverflow question over here > https://serverfault.com/questions/723391/subshell-is-not-created-if-run-commands-without-a-path

but I wasn't able to get it still .

If someone can please take out there time to help me understand this concept I would highly appreciate it thanks !

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What's this X$1 Thing?

I've run across "X$1" recently and I'm at a loss. Anyone have any ideas what it could be? If you could illustrate your explanation with a simple example, that would be fantastic, as I usually get things better this way.

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Pipelight - Tiny automation pipelines. -> v0.6.17

Hi! Some updates from the latest version of your friendly neighborhood automation tool.

You've always been able to increase pipeline log verbosity with the -v flag.

But now you can also see what happens inside the software when running a pipeline with the internal verbosity flag (-u) .

pipelight run --attach -uuuu

more in the documentation at https://pipelight.dev

Pipelight is now compatible with every linux distros.

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Help with Syntax

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can spot any glaring issues with my syntax here for this function. I am running into \[: missing \`\]' and \[: too many arguments errors.

​

push_dependencies(){
for env in ${environments}
do
while read line; do
if [ $line = "" ]; then
break
elif [[ $line != "DEPENDENCIES" && $($line | cut -b -4) != " " ]] && [ $line != *"sircon"* ]; then
berks upload $(echo $line | xargs) --except test --force --config ~/.berkshelf/config-${env}.json
fi
done < Berksfile.lock
done
}

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Something You Have Done


Hey! I'm curious to know about some of the nifty bash noscripting you've done, especially related to automation or some challenges. No need for anything complex, just something simple that you're proud of. Mine was some facts gathering , like an agent type stuff.

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processing exit 1 in next step

So I am trying to write bash that will check if software is installed and if not return 1

I am having issue getting exit 1 passed down for some reason

else
  echo "The Software $software_package is not installed. Flagging for installation"
  exit 1
fi

exit 1 is not being passed to this line :

if [[ $? -ne 0  \]\]; then
   echo "noscript exited with 1"
   exit 1
fi

What I

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Hoping For help spotting an error

Hey Guys i have a project i am working on for uni where we gotta answer a bunch questions around learning bash commands my issue is just with the submission cause my uni is stupid.


we have to convert our notebook to HTML which is easy to do but we are getting automatic 0 grades even if one error.

jupyter nbconvert --execute --allow-errors --to html

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what is happening when i convert is cant write it in meaning there is an error somewhere but when i run each cell im getting no errors what should be i looking for or feel free to DM me i cna give you my notebook if need

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Have xargs release the shell after gui app is launched

Hello,

I have this Alias

alias fzfg='fd --type f |fzf-tmux -p --height=75% --reverse | xargs -o gimp '

This Alias works as is but it does not release the shell until gimp is closed.

I would like gimp to launch and free up the terminal for other work. I have tried background the gimp with & but can't get the correct syntax.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Joe

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Kickstart RHEL Redhat Enterprise Linux with bash noscripts

Does anyone use the Kickstart method to automate the build of their RHEL machines?

I've put together a process to create the kickstart ISO's using bash noscripts.

https://www.attuneautomation.com/Automate-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-RHEL-Installation/

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Align columns altered by sed with each respective values

Hi guys, hope everybody is well, i have translated free -h output to portuguese using sed with the following code

free -h | grep -v ""Swap:"" | sed -e 's/Mem:/ /g; s/total/Total/g; s/used/Em Uso/g; s/free/Livre/g; s/shared/Compartilhada/g; s/buff\\/cache/Em Cache/g; s/available/Disponível/g' | sed 's/\^ *//g';

the duplicated double quotes are there because it is coming from a powershell noscript that ssh into a linux machine.

the output from the code is:

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After first column the rest are unaligned

There is any way to align them all as Total?

Thanks in Advance!

PS: I can use awk print {$1...} because ssh does not recognized the variables.

PS2: list view formatting would be a better solution

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Convert this noscript where I can input the day

LC_ALL=C awk -v beg=10:00:00 -v end=13:00:00 '
match($0, /[0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]/) {
t = substr($0, RSTART, 8)
if (t >= end) selected = 0
else if (t >= beg) selected = 1
}
selected'


I didn't write this noscript but I vaguely understand it in gist and what it does..
The date format in our logs is like this (first and second column then rest are stuffs like INFO/DEBUG name of class bla bla...


2023-09-13 20:21:28


What I want
I want to be able to input the beginning day as well i.e I want logs of 2023-09-12 from 05:30:00 to 13:30:00.
How'd I do it?
I vaguely know it requires some regex and regex I bad at it.

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How to Make a GUI Prompt to Input Sudo Password?

Hi all! I was wondering i anyone had any ideas on how to create a pop-up to input the sudo password.

For right now, I'm just trying to do something as simple as make an executable noscript to run sudo apt update and apt upgrade, mainly just to try to get the prompt to work.

Tried using Zenity and ran a command to display "hi":

`echo $(zenity --password --noscript="Enter sudo password") | sudo -S echo "hi"`

Seems to work, but when i run it again, it prints the text again and completes the noscript and still brings up the prompt.

Also tried askpass, but when i try running `sudo -A apt update`, i get the message:

"sudo: no askpass program specified, try setting SUDO_ASKPASS"

When I run `echo $SUDO_ASKPASS`, it just displays a blank newline.

I'm not sure what to try next.

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Bash Customization

Hey guys! Just started using bash. How have you guys customized your terminal and how have you gone about doing so? I added export PS1="$ " to my .bash_profile but that made me lose all colors that were previously in the text. Any help is appreciated! Just want to make it easier for me to read the terminal.

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Shell noscript to enable or disable AVB/EAV mode possible?

Is it possible to enable or disable AVB/EAV mode by terminal?

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How to conditionally remove names across parallel lines or immediately after each other?

How could every repeated actor but only if it repeats right into the next line - or multiple parallel lines (like DEVON and RICKEN here) there name gets deleted and replaced with spaces also empty line gets removed.

input:

RICKEN: This is so fun. Shall I, you know, tiptoe up and sneak to the door?

DEVON: He’s at work, baby. It doesn’t matter.

RICKEN: How do you know?

DEVON: Because his car’s not here.

RICKEN: Maybe he played hooky.

DEVON: Can you go do it?

DEVON: Cause I gotta pee.

DEVON: Realy fast.

RICKEN: Yes.

RICKEN: Against the door, or to the side?

DEVON: I think either’s really good.

RICKEN: Do you think he’ll be surprised?

DEVON: I do.

RICKEN: My babe, I’m gonna put it off to the side.

DEVON: Awesome.


output:

RICKEN: This is so fun. Shall I, you know, tiptoe up and sneak to the door?

DEVON: He’s at work, baby. It doesn’t matter.

RICKEN: How do you know?

DEVON: Because his car’s not here.

RICKEN: Maybe he played hooky.

DEVON: Can you go do it?
Cause I gotta pee.
Realy fast.

RICKEN: Yes.
Against the door, or to the side?

DEVON: I think either’s really good.

RICKEN: Do you think he’ll be surprised?

DEVON: I do.

RICKEN: My babe, I’m gonna put it off to the side.

DEVON: Awesome.

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Accidentally broke something in a loop, noscript now complex enough to give me a headache

Not posting noscript directly here due to hugeness.

Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/WUUczzuD

Basically, I have this function "playlistscreenprinter".

It's intended job is to read a bunch of arrays, then print out the last n items in each array as columns in a numbered table. (n would be the number of rows in the terminal who aren't used for anything yet. It checks term size)

If the number of items in the array is less than n, then it should print what there is, and then some "echo -e" to pad out the end.

I had everything working until I started adding the conditional checks for if there is less in the array than n. Now it is broken, it prints out blank values instead.

Worse, this function has gotten complex enough that I actually can't hold all of it's workings inside my own head. I have literally no idea how these checks work, even though I have just written them. I get a headache and can't concentrate. (this might also have a medical component, but mostly interested in keeping to the noscript)

Could someone please check this code and tell me what it's actually doing? I feel like I've got a head wound.

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