Guys, which platform would you recommend me to learn bash noscripting?



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Convert JSON array to bash array

Hi guys,

I am a linux noob and am trying to write a noscript to extract info from a mkv file using mkvmerge but am not able to convert the target json noscript to a bash array. I have tried a number of solutions from stack overflow but with no success.

here are some of my attempts

dir="/mnt/Anime/Series/KonoSuba/Season 2/[Nep_Blanc] KonoSuba II 10 .mkv"
*********************************************************************************
ARRAY_SIZE=$(mkvmerge -J "$dir" | jq '.tracks | length')
count=0
arr=()

while [ $count -lt $ARRAY_SIZE ];
do
arr+=($(mkvmerge -J "$dir" | jq '.tracks'[$count]))
((count++))
done
*********************************************************************************
readarray -t test_array < <(mkvmerge -J "$dir" | jq '.tracks')
for element in "${test_array[@]}";
do
echo "$element"
done

*********************************************************************************
array=($(mkvmerge -J "$dir" | jq '.tracks' | sed -e 's/^\[/(/' -e 's/\]$/)/'))

but the echo prints out lines instead of the specific objects.

Though now it is helpling me with my python, originally the project was to help me learn bash noscripting. I would really like to have a bash implementation so any help overcoming this roadblock would be appreciated.

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Tools to edit modified/createdAt infos about a file based on its name?

I have a bunch of files, and more or less their name can be categorized into these categories:

.trashed-1737661897-video20241213152336.mp4
.trashed-1737661969-IMG20241217205925.jpg
1675865719503..jpg
20190207063809.jpg
20200830202505.jpg
FBIMG1574447155845.jpg
IMG-20190622-WA0006.jpg
IMG20200724114950442.jpg
VID20240623230607.mp4
ReactNative-snapshot-image8923079110072067694.png
Screenshot20241212082715Chrome.jpg
originalbadf21d1-5c56-43a1-b19a-82f5d43de9beIMG20220707155608.jpg
video20240720102400.mp4

The problem is that their "created at" or "modified at" date are set to today. Do you know any tools that might help me change their dates based on their name?

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how to exit noscript gracefully

**how to handle these exception in the bash noscript :**

* when pressing `ctrl + c` to exit the noscript it just exit the current running process in the noscript and move to next process. instead of exiting the entire noscript. how to handle it ??

* How should a noscript handle the situation when its terminal is closed while it is still running ??

* what is the best common code / function which should be present in every noscript to handle exception and graceful exiting of the noscripting ??

if you wish you can also dump your exception handling code here
**feel free for any inside**
i would really appreciate your answer ; **thanks :-)**

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Tuifoop, a terminal game in Bash
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Time bucket

Hello,

I am building a small noscript to analyse the log of my online app and find IP's with a bad pattern to exclude them through a reverse-proxy or firewall rule. I have been successfull that far to identify the "bad IP's" but I would like to manage what I would call "time buckets" (apologies if this is not correct, English is not my mother tongue, neither is bash) before I exclude them. For instance, if an IP address appears 5 times in 1 minute, I exclude it.

This is what I started to write, but I meet problems I don't understand and can't get any further.

#!/bin/bash

CONTAINER='my_app'

TEMP_FILE='/home/eric/monitoring/temp'

LOG_FILE=$(docker inspect "$CONTAINER" | grep 'LogPath' | cut -d '"' -f4)

declare -A OCCUR
declare -A HOUR

tail -F "$LOG_FILE" | while read LINE; do
IP=$(echo "$LINE" | grep -Po "([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}" | head -n 1 | grepcidr -v '10.0.0.0/8' | grepcidr -v '127.0.0.0/8' | grepcidr -v '172.16.0.0/12' | grepcidr -v '192.168.0.0/16')
if [ -n "$IP" ]
then
if [ -z $OCCUR["$IP"] ]
then
OCCUR["$IP"]=0
fi
OCCUR["$IP"]=$(OCCUR["$IP"])+1
HOUR["$IP"]=$(date)
echo "$OCCUR[$IP]" " ; " "$HOUR[$IP]" >> "$TEMP_FILE"
fi
done

I get this "log" in return

./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable

And this temp file (my check)

[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]

Any clue how I should go about that ?

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Manage buckets

Hello,

I am building a small noscript to analyse the log of my online app and find IP's with a bad pattern to exclude them through a reverse-proxy or firewall rule. I have been successfull that far to identify the "bad IP's" but I would like to manage what I would call "time buckets" (apologies if this is not correct, English is not my mother tongue, neither is bash) before I exclude them. For instance, if an IP address appears 5 times in 1 minute, I exclude it.

This is what I started to write, but I meet problems I don't understand and can't get any further.

#!/bin/bash

CONTAINER='my_app'

TEMP_FILE='/home/eric/monitoring/temp'

LOG_FILE=$(docker inspect "$CONTAINER" | grep 'LogPath' | cut -d '"' -f4)

declare -A OCCUR
declare -A HOUR

tail -F "$LOG_FILE" | while read LINE; do
IP=$(echo "$LINE" | grep -Po "([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}" | head -n 1 | grepcidr -v '10.0.0.0/8' | grepcidr -v '127.0.0.0/8' | grepcidr -v '172.16.0.0/12' | grepcidr -v '192.168.0.0/16')
if [ -n "$IP" ]
then
if [ -z $OCCUR["$IP"] ]
then
OCCUR["$IP"]=0
fi
OCCUR["$IP"]=$(OCCUR["$IP"])+1
HOUR["$IP"]=$(date)
echo "$OCCUR[$IP]" " ; " "$HOUR[$IP]" >> "$TEMP_FILE"
fi
done

I get this "log" in return

./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable
./surveillance.sh: ligne 20: OCCUR[<suspect-ip-address>] : commande introuvable

And this temp file (my check)

[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]
[<suspect-ip-address>] ; [<suspect-ip-address>]

Any clue how I should go about that ?

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Do you prefer most of your bash functions to just do a thing, and then not mess with retuning something to a caller?

It seems like the easiest thing to do is to simply just not mess with trying to set some return value to be captured by the caller. yes, I see stuff like this. However, it appears that bash leans more toward getting something done instead of checking that it was in fact done. And seems like very few, in bash, create a bunch of functions that have an interdependency on each other. I.e. seems like it’s just easier to just do logging in functions and manually check that for execution correctness, if desired, for debug etc.

Anybody else feel this way? Am I off my rocker?

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Color non-printing escape sequence in Bash prompt

Hello,

Rewriting my bash prompt and I realize I completely forgotten the minutae of how to handle ANSI escape sequences for colors within variables within functions within PS1. Here's what I have to start with (it doesn't work):

RED='\e[38;5;203m'
GREEN='\e[38;5;41m'
RESET='\e[0m'

function prompt_status() {
 # Set prompt color
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  PROMPT_COLOR=$RED
 else
  PROMPT_COLOR=$GREEN
 fi
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_status

PS1="$PROMPT_COLOR$ $RESET"

I've been going over the Bash manual again to review expansions, etc. But I'm stuck. I've tried curly-braces, the dollar sign infront of the single-quoted escape sequence, the \[ \] trick. None work. Does anyone have a good resource for learning about why this chunk of noscript doesn't work? And what is the recommended way to go about noscripting colors for prompts? I really want to set my colors in environment variables for readability and so that I can use matching colors across Bash, Zsh, Fish and Tmux.

Thanks

NOTE: (I'm running Bash version 5.2.37 on Terminal.app with xterm-256 enabled. Colors show up fine when I use printf or echo, but not for my PS1 variable)

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I'm making bash fishing game and echos dont work correctly because of backslashes

echo " "
echo " |\ o"
echo " | \/|\"
echo "~~~|~~/\"
echo " | "
echo " ⤿ "

so how can i fix it
i just want to make backslashes display in echo


(btw sorry for my terrible english)

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I made a shell ai copilot
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new to bash ,made a doom scrolling breaker over 4 days

https://preview.redd.it/fr7utt9flt9e1.png?width=949&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce7f0319961978574f41db669313e8da81a48e8e

https://preview.redd.it/sk6f4dwklt9e1.png?width=982&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc6952c112245898edf1104fe27ea867e2f9c76a



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-t 0 for testing terminal not working as expected

In window manager (Sway) I bind the following:

bindsym $mod+5 exec -t 0 && notify-send "run from terminal"

and it reports it runs from terminal even though it's running from a keybinding executing the command.

I'm also using this check and it's not working as expected when running the noscript from status bar calling the command to the noscript.

Why might this be the case? My attempt is to determine whether to run fzf (cli) or dmenu (gui-equivalent) depending on whether it's run from the terminal. Can this be done reliably?

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Happy 2025, everyone!

bash$ for i in {1..9}; do ((t+=i*i*i)); done ; echo $t     
2025

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Is this a good .bashrc file? (Using android termux)

```#!/bin/bash
# Setup
ulimit -u 100 2>/dev/null || echo "Unable to set ulimit."

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return 2>/dev/null

# Vars
PROMPT_COMMAND='now=$(date +%s)'

# Make custom programms folder
mkdir -p $HOME/bin
[[ ":$PATH:" != *":$HOME/bin:"* ]] && export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"

## Aliases
# Remapping
alias clear="clear; source $HOME/.bashrc"
alias bashrc="source $HOME/.bashrc"

# Quick access
alias la="ls -A"

# Permission management
alias enable="chmod +x"
alias disable="chmod -x"

# Full commands
alias cmdlist='printf "\033[7mBuilt-in Commands:\033[0m\n%s\n\n\033[7mExternal Commands:\033[0m\n%s\n" "$(compgen -b)" "$(echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n" | xargs -I {} ls -1 {} 2>/dev/null | sort -u)"'
alias termShare="( set; export; alias ) | sed 's/$/ 2>\/dev\/null/' | tee /dev/tty | termux-clipboard-set 2>/dev/null || printf '\n\033[7mPlease copy the text above.\n'; printf '\n\033[7mNow paste the copied text into the terminal to clone this one into.\033[0m\n'"


# ANSI color codes
reset="\033[0m" #reset
bold="\033[1m" #bold
rev="\033[7m" #invert
r="\033[31m" #red
g="\033[32m" #green
y="\033[33m" #yellow
b="\033[34m" #blue
m="\033[35m" #magenta
c="\033[36m" #cyan
w="\033[37m" #white

# Inital message
printf "${reset}${rev}

,-.
\ \
\ \
/ /,----.
/ / '----'
\`-'
${reset}\n"
printf "Welcome %s\n" "$(whoami 2>/dev/null || echo "?") (${HOSTNAME:-${HOST:-"unknown"}})"

unset reset bold rev r g y b m c w

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Looking for a corpus of Bash noscripts

I'm looking for a large corpus of open source Bash noscripts; preferably longer noscripts, but that doesn't really matter.

At the moment, I've found:

The `tests` directory in the [Bash repository](https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bash). This is quite large, but it contains a lot of funky stuff for teasing out edge cases:

$ find tests -name "*.tests" -o -name "*.sub" -exec wc -lc --total=only {} \+
19364 467878

[This repository](https://github.com/bensuperpc/noscripts), which was mentioned on this subreddit [about three years ago](https://old.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/ox3sry/collection_of_bash_noscripts/) and contains a lot of quite short, but more "normal" noscripts:

$ find . -name "*.sh" -exec wc -lc --total=only {} \+
12074 400232

The purpose of this is to stress-test formatting engines and to get an idea of throughput.

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Noob to Bash—Having Trouble Restarting RMM Service via Script, Need Help"

Although I have a workaround, it's not ideal. The workaround is to force the computer to restart once the service stops, but it doesn't always work, and it’s not a reliable solution.

I’m running the bash noscript via an RMM tool where the noscript executes as root. The issue arises when using sudo through the terminal, as the noscript works fine there.

Here’s the command that works when run manually:

sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cenra.cag.plist
sudo launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cenra.cag.plist


The challenging part is that the service I'm trying to restart is actually the RMM itself (yes, the RMM is broken, haha).

What I’ve tried so far is running a cron job and saving the noscript in the logged-in user's profile under /Library, then executing it. The noscript is able to bootout the service, but it fails to bootstrap it.

I’ve even attempted to pass temporary admin credentials through the noscript itself.

I know I might be overthinking this, as this is only my second bash noscript. Any help would be greatly appreciated!



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What is X11 related to Bash CLI?

Hi and happy new year there is a new tool github for put the keybindings of trydactyl and similars of vim for linux GUI tools browser, terminal etc but requires x11... I don't know about it....
I have bash in terminal....
what is x11?

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Happy New Year!
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Useful and fun Bash commands

Hi All,
I have created some fun BASH commands including alias

**🚀 Supercharge Your Terminal with These Bash Snippets!**

👋 Hey Reddit! I've packed this GitHub repo with **time-saving noscripts** and **fun terminal hacks** to level up your workflow! 🌟

🔗 **Check it out**: [BashSnippets on GitHub](https://github.com/ParasKoundal/BashSnippets)

# 💻 Highlights:

# 🔥 Git Tools:

* **Beautiful Git History**: Visualize your commits like a pro.
* **Quick Git Commit & Push**: Commit changes in seconds.
* **Auto-pull on** `cd`: Stay synced without thinking.
* **Git Repo Dashboard**: Summarize repo statuses in one command.

# 🎉 Fun Extras:

* **ASCII Art Greetings**: Start your terminal sessions in style!
* **Dynamic Emojis in Prompt**: Add a dash of randomness to your terminal.
* **Deadline Tracker**: Stay on top of projects with real-time updates.

# ⭐️ Show Some Love!

If you enjoy these tools:

1. **Star this repo** ⭐️ to keep me motivated.
2. **Follow me on GitHub** for updates and more cool stuff!

🛠️ **I'm adding new noscripts regularly**, so stay tuned!

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Continuous deployment on LAN/local server upon 'git push' - using webhook & ngrok

Just finished a new bash noscript pforret/landeploy


It helps me setup a local webhook, make it public with ngrok and use it in Github/BitBucket to trigger a redeployment whenever I push a new version. I need this because we have a server at the office with a custom Windows software on it (that we can't run in the cloud), and I need the project to auto-update when we push changes to GitHub. The redeploy noscript runs under WSL.


It is a bash noscript based on the bashew micro framework.

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