bash noscript help

Hello everyone,

I am trying to do this bash noscript that allows me to choose between .conf files in /etc/wireguard and at the end of it will execute wg-quick ... it is giving me configuration not found, the files exist...can someone tell me where I am failing please..much appreciated. Thank you.

#!/bin/bash

# Directory where WireGuard configuration files are stored
CONFIG_DIR="/etc/wireguard"

# List all files in the configuration directory
config_files=("gb-mnc-wg-007.conf" "pt-lis-wg-102.conf")

# Prompt user to choose a configuration file
echo "Available WireGuard configuration files:"
for ((i=0; i<${#config_files[@]}; i++)); do
echo "[$i] $(basename "${config_files[i]}")"
done

read -p "Enter the number of the configuration file you want to execute: " choice

# Validate user input
if [[ ! "$choice" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || ((choice < 0)) || ((choice >= ${#config_files[@]})); then
echo "Invalid choice. Please enter a valid number."
exit 1
fi

# Get the chosen configuration file
selected_config="${config_files[choice]}"

# Execute WireGuard with the chosen configuration
if [[ -f "$selected_config" ]]; then
sudo wg-quick up "$CONFIG_DIR/$selected_config"
echo "WireGuard configuration '$selected_config' has been activated."
else
echo "Configuration file not found."
exit 1
fi

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How did you made this incredible banners.... in your noscripts

Hello guys I was thinking how the hell is possible to make incredible banners like this and what would you recommend me to be a pro in noscripting(bash) ? I like to learn by books and videos.



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overthinking it to noscript exporting keys from /etc/apt/trusted.gpg to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d

I like to automate the installation of programs as much as I can. In my stable of shell noscripts I have ones like i-ghostnoscript-from-source.sh, i-github-cli.sh, and i-apache2.sh that build or install the program and set up basic configuration.

As it happens, I needed to install google-chrome-stable, so I followed some instructions I found online, and one of the first steps is to obtain Google's signing keys so I can add the Chrome repo as an apt source. While adding Google's keys using apt-key, I got this warning:

Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.

So I modified my install noscript to export the keys from trusted.gpg to trusted.gpg.d to avoid the warning. My question for /r/bash has to do with the way I went about this. Basically I saved a copy of my keys before adding the Google keys, and then I saved a copy of my keys after. Then I diffed the two key listings to extract Google's keys and put them in a bash array for exporting. Did I totally overengineer/overthink this? Or this is a semi-legit strategy for this situation? Script below, and all critique or suggestions welcome.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# debugging switches
# set -o errexit # abort on nonzero exit status; same as set -e
# set -o nounset # abort on unbound variable; same as set -u
# set -o pipefail # don't hide errors within pipes
# set -o xtrace # show commands being executed; same as set -x
# set -o verbose # verbose mode; same as set -v

source ./functions.sh # for die-if-not-root

die-if-not-root

TMP=$(mktemp -d)

# save a copy of my keys before downloading Google's keys
apt-key list > "$TMP/before.txt"

# get the Google keys and add them using apt-key
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linuxsigningkey.pub | apt-key add -

# save a copy of the keys, including Google's
apt-key list > "$TMP/after.txt"

# populate an array with the last 8 digits of the new keys that were added
readarray -t newkeysuffixes < <(diff "$TMP/before.txt" "$TMP/after.txt" | grep -o -E "0-9A-F{4}\ +0-9A-F{4}$" | awk '{print $1 $2}')

# iterate those key suffixes and put them in trusted.gpg.d
for eachkeysuffix in "${newkeysuffixes@}"; do
apt-key export "${eachkeysuffix}" | gpg --dearmour -o "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/google-${eachkeysuffix}.gpg"
done

# add Google's repo
bash -c 'echo "deb arch=amd64 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'

# finally, install google-chrome-stable
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable

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Help making my loop faster

I have a text file with about 600k lines, each one a full path to a file. I need to move each of the files to a different location. I created the following loop to grep through each line. If the filename has "_string" in it, I need to move it to a certain directory, otherwise move it to a different certain directory.

For example, here are two lines I might find in the 600k file:

1. /path/to/file/foo/bar/blah/filename12345.txt
2. /path/to/file/bar/foo/blah/file_string12345.txt

The first file does not have "_string" in its name (or path, technically) so it would move to dest1 below (/new/location/foo/bar/filename12345.txt)

The second file does have "_string" in its name (or path) so it would move to dest2 below (/new/location/bar/foo/file_string12345.txt)

while read -r line; do
var1=$(echo "$line" | cut -d/ -f5)
var2=$(echo "$line" | cut -d/ -f6)
dest1="/new/location1/$var1/$var2/"
dest2="/new/location2/$var1/$var2/"
if LCALL=C grep -F -q "string" <<< "$line"; then
echo -e "mkdir -p '$dest1'\nmv '$line' '$dest1'\nln --relative --symbolic '$dest1/$(basename $line)' '$line'" >> stringFiles.txt
else
echo -e "mkdir -p '$dest2'\nmv '$line' '$dest2'\nln --relative --symbolic '$dest2/$(basename $line)' '$line'" >> nostringFiles.txt
fi
done < /path/to/600kFile

I've tried to improve the speed by adding LC_ALL=C and the -F to the grep command, but running this loop takes over an hour. If it's not obvious, I'm not actually moving the files at this point, I am just creating a file with a mkdir command, a mv command, and a symlink command (all to be executed later).

So, my question is: Is this loop taking so long because its looping through 600k times, or because it's writing out to a file 600k times? Or both?

Either way, is there any way to make it faster?

\--Edit--

The noscript works, ignore any typos I may have made transcribing it into this post.

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fastest way to temporary corrupt a video file

Hello everyone, I'm thing to back up my videos files from my laptop HDD into portable SSD,
my concerns it could be opened by someone else intentionally or by accident
I know that most of the video file information are stored in it header (the beginning)
So I was thinking about adding any garbage data into it, so the video player won't recognize it format ..

I'm thinking using dd command in a Bach noscript, but I don't want to wipe out any of my partition by accident

I want this command to reversible so I can reopen these files again .

BTW I don't to encrypt the files, just add extra data to it header so video play won't recognize it, that enough for me

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Why can't OpenVPN take pass input in a bash cript?

So I have would like to have a noscript like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

sudo openvpn --config path/to/my/conf --auth-user-pass "$(pass show openvpn/passwd)"


Doesn't work though:


$ bash my-openvpn-noscript.sh
2023-09-22 13:54:41 Cannot pre-load keyfile (the-key-file-here)
2023-09-22 13:54:41 Exiting due to fatal error

In my mind it should work since the output is the same as a file would be:


$ cat filewithpasswd.txt
username
the-passwd

$ pass show openvpn/passwd
username
the-passwd

It only works if I feed the filewithpasswd.txt instead of with pass-command. Somehow a file and output displayed in pass is different somehow? How can pass be used with openvpn in a bash noscript?

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optParse: an options-parsing tool that makes parsing options easy, efficient, and fast to implement

The [CODE](https://github.com/jkool702/forkrun/blob/main/optParse.bash) and a [USAGE EXAMPLE + SPEEDTEST](https://github.com/jkool702/forkrun/blob/main/optParse_test.bash) is hosted on github.

This is a follow-up/continuation to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/16lpgps/rparse_an_easytouse_shell_noscriptfunction_option/) post about [rparse](https://github.com/jkool702/forkrun/blob/main/rparse.bash), which does regex-based option parsing.

`optParse` is a tool that takes a simple "option parsing definition table" that you define and expands it into a full option parsing function that uses a robust and very efficient "loop over options and run each through a `case` statement" approach. Options are defined using `case` statement syntax (either standard or ext-glob-based).

The "option parsing definition table" is a table containing a lines of the following syntax (1 line per option you want to parse):

<CASE_MATCHES> :: <VAR_TO_ASSIGN> <CMDS_TO_RUN>

NOTES:

* For options without arguments, set `<VAR_TO_ASSIGN>` to `-`
* For options with arguments, they may be passed via with a (space), with an `=`, or with nothing seperating the option and the argument. i.e., `-o $arg` or `--opt $arg` or '-o=$arg' or `--opt=$arg` or `-o$arg` or `--opt$arg` all work.
* Options must begin with a `-` or `+`, but are otherwise matched without restriction.
* when passing options to the function/noscript you are developing, options must be given before any non-option arguments, and passing `--` will stop further inputs from being treated as options.
* Any non-option arguments are saved in a bash array `inFun`

***

EXAMPLE:

source <(genOptParse<<'EOF'
-a --apple :: - flag_a=true
-b --bananna :: var_b
-c --coconut :: var_c flag_c=true
EOF
)
optParse "$@"

The above will generate the following code, which is generates and sources the following optParse function which will parse options for you (run `optParse "$@"`). Note that instead of wrapping things in a `source <(...)` statement, it is more efficient to generate the `optParse` function and copy/paste it directly into the code. However, if the code is in development and options are changing frequently using `source <(...)` is easier to maintain.

declare -a inFun
inFun=()
shopt -s extglob
unset optParse

optParse() {

local continueFlag

continueFlag=true
while ${continueFlag} && (( $# > 0 )) && [[ "$1" == [\-\+]* ]]; do
case "${1}" in
-a|--apple)
shift 1
flag_a=true
;;
-b|--bananna)
var_b="${2}"
shift 2

;;
-b?(=)+([[:graph:]])|--bananna?(=)+([[:graph:]]))
var_b="${1##@(-b?(=)|--bananna?(=))}"
shift 1

;;
-c|--coconut)
var_c="${2}"
shift 2
flag_c=true
;;
-c?(=)+([[:graph:]])|--coconut?(=)+([[:graph:]]))
var_c="${1##@(-c?(=)|--coconut?(=))}"
shift 1
flag_c=true
;;
'--')
shift 1
continueFlag=false
break
;;
@([\-\+])*)
printf '\nWARNING: FLAG "%s" NOT RECOGNIZED. IGNORING.\n\n' "$1"
shift 1
;;
*)
continueFlag=false
break
;;
esac
[[ $# == 0 ]] && continueFlag=false
done
inFun=("${@}")
}

***

There is additionally an optional pre-parser function that will find any option definitions that

1. have no argument, and
2. only serve so set 1+ "flag" variables to

`true`

and will automatically generate+add an analogous `+option` to the option parsing definition table that sets these variable(s) to false instead. in the above example, had we used

source <({ genOptParse_pre | genOptParse; }<<'EOF'

The pre-parser would have added

+a ++apple :: - flag_a=false

to the option parsing definition table; which in turn would have added

+a|++apple)
shift 1
flag_a=false
;;

as an additional `case` match in the `optParse` function.

Comments? Suggestions? Bugs? Let me know. Hope some of you find this useful.

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Yo Dawg! I heard you like arrays, so we put some arrays in your arrays...

No but seriously...


In JSON you can nest an array inside an element of an array.


Is this even possible in BASH?


Let's say I have a 2D array.


My2DArray[0,0\] - My2DArray[8,8\]


Can I place an array inside one location of that matrix? Say: My2DArray[4,3\]=(5 7 8 9)?


I am asking for a friend, but before I try it, and the fabric of the universe implodes on itself and reality ceases to follow the laws of Quantum Dynamics.


PS: I am a coder with high levels of anxiety. So I have no friends. Therefore I am asking for myself.

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POLL: You're on a strangers computer, typing into terminal. You don't know what terminal/settings/OS but it's probably defaults. You see a b that should be a p. You click your mouse on the b and nothing happens. What's your next moves? (Please don't say "backspace x 19")
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New operator idea: inline loop operator

virsh start {{foo,bar,baz}}

expands to:

for x in foo bar baz; do
    virsh start $x;
done

I often decide I want to run a command with multiple inputs after I've already started typing it.. So yeah I can go back and add the for loop wrapper, but the more concise and immediate "loop operator" would be very convenient.

Also some nested loops are even more fun/concise:

$ echo {{foo,bar}} {{baz,boz}}
foo baz
foo boz
bar baz
bar boz

instead of

$ for x in foo bar; do
> for y in baz boz; do
> echo $x $y
> done
> done
foo baz
foo boz
bar baz
bar boz

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Oh, dear! TIL
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Download Firewall Denied IP List using bash?

Hello Guys,

I want to save my firewall IP Denied list from my firewall to a local text file. I figured how to login and save the output of the first screen but got stuck.

I am hoping someone can help me I want to use a .sh noscript file to login to my firewall send several commands such as cli then show security match-policies denied. Which will result in a list that would normally require me to hit the Enter key over 100 times then save the results of the IPs that were denied access to a text file on my local server

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Introduction to bash

Hello Bash community, I come from a hellish landscape that is Windows 11 + Batch. I am going to be taking a Unix/Linux class at my CC as part of my IT Sysadmin degree, and I am curious to know if there are any good YouTube playlists or free courses that offer a "ground zero" introduction to bash and bash noscripting? When I see bash noscripts, they look quite unfamiliar, and I am sure that there are also oddities in the language as there are in CMD. I have never found myself able to understand regexes much, though I hear this is commonly used in Bash.

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Help with formatting multi line commands

Can someone kindly confirm if this is formatted correctly. I did hit the Format option on VSCode after installing shell-format extension but I am not sure

psql \
--tuples-only \
--command="SELECT 1 FROM pg_user WHERE usename = '${TARGET_POSTGRES_USERNAME}'" \
"""
dbname=${TARGET_POSTGRES_ROOT_DATABASE_NAME}
host=${TARGET_POSTGRES_HOST}
password=${TARGET_POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
port=${TARGET_POSTGRES_PORT}
sslmode=verify-full
sslrootcert=${POSTGRES_SSL_ROOT_CERT_PATH}
user=${TARGET_POSTGRES_ROOT_USERNAME}
""" | \
grep -q 1 ||
psql \
--command="CREATE USER ${TARGET_POSTGRES_USERNAME} WITH LOGIN NOSUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION PASSWORD '${TARGET_POSTGRES_PASSWORD}'" \
"""
dbname=${TARGET_POSTGRES_ROOT_DATABASE_NAME}
host=${TARGET_POSTGRES_HOST}
password=${TARGET_POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
port=${TARGET_POSTGRES_PORT}
sslmode=verify-full
sslrootcert=${POSTGRES_SSL_ROOT_CERT_PATH}
user=${TARGET_POSTGRES_ROOT_USERNAME}
"""

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Linux terminal practice similar to w3 schools

Linux terminal practice similiar to w3 schools style

Hopefully this is the best subreddit for some good ideas/discussions.

I have a number of first line support members in my team where this is their first IT role and they come from a more customer/adminiatration style background.

Our product runs off Linux but the nature of their role means they wont need to interact with it themselves.

Due to the nature of the company i'm not able to provide them access to any Linux servers or even VMs to play with.

I'm looking for something similar to w3 schools where they can become familiar with basic Linux terminal commands e.g. ls, pwd,cd but within a web browser form.

We have a fair bit of down time on the job and so I want to pique their curiosity, get them in the habbit of self learning and also give them some exposure of what the 2nd line team does...Any ideas?

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Help with a noscript

Hi all, I've decided to write a noscript for a lengthy process at work. I have a main box which I store driver packs for multiple devices, I'd like to copy the content of this directory into other servers.

My plan is to add the new driver files when we get a new model, then run this noscript to copy to the other servers. I'd also like for this to work for when I update existing driver packs. I do not want to copy content that already exists. How can I do this with the following noscript I have started? Hope this makes sense.

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#!/bin/bash
#source directory
sourcedirectory="/images/drivers"

#remote username
remoteuser="username"

#array of remote server IPs
remoteservers=("10.xx.xx.xxx" "10.xx.xx.xxx")

#Destination directory on remote servers
destinationdirectory="/images/drivers"

#specify the user and group ownership for the copied directories
ownership="name:name

#Loop through each remote server and copy the contents
for server in "${remoteservers[@]}"; do
rsync -avs --ignore-existing --chown="$ownership" "$sourcedirectory/" "$remoteuser@$server:$destinationdirectory/"
done

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Video Stripe Preview Generator

# Hello Everyone,

I just finished making a noscript to generate a striped preview image of a video (mp4, mkv, etc.) or image-sequence (gif, etc.) (with the help of FFmpeg), I'll definitely make it better going forward. For now, I'm just trying to debug and hunt down exceptions states and anomalies.

So here's the **REPO** for my Script, have at it and let me know how it performed, and if you find any odd behavior do let me know so that I can patch it up. And I'm also up for a good suggestion.(I know the Script looks bad and a bit UnOptimized and has a lot of sanity checks, but right now my priority is to find all exception/error states and handle it)

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# Some Preview:

Command : video-stripe-preview -vf "WING IT - Blender Open Movie.mp4"

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Default parameters

Command : video-stripe-preview -r 2 -c 4 -l 960 -vf "WING IT - Blender Open Movie.mp4"

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Row = 2 | Column = 4 | Width = 960

Command : video-stripe-preview -r 5 -c 2 -vf "WING IT - Blender Open Movie.mp4"

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Row = 5 | Column = 2

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# Credits :

**WING IT !!** — An Open Film from *blender Studio* was used to generate previews.

# Note:

I'm kinda new to the whole Linux, git, CLI, FFmpeg, etc. so feel free to be informal with the discussion, we'll probably need to have many back and forth before I come to a conclusion.

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