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Bash is the Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix sh (shell).

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I'm managing websites and part of my workflow involves SSH and SFTP logins to the servers. Each server has a "dev" and a "prod" branch on the server. Upon interactive SSH login to ...
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The output of last appears to be corrupted in Ubuntu server 24.04. Particularly, the first character of every line is truncated. Additionally, I noticed that new logins are not being recorded. Here is ...
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We have a shared user account for administrative stuff. I want to use an env var to hold the initiant of the ssh session, so that the .bashrc can do user-dependent execution. I have tried -o SendEnv. ...
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see below details eccdbpvm02:/mnt/HANA/E1P/backup/data/DB_F1P # crontab -l 05 00 * * * /usr/sys_scripts/clear_log >> /usr/sys_scripts/log.txt 2>&1 eccdbpvm02:/mnt/HANA/E1P/backup/data/...
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I wrote a script to back up some switch configurations with expect. The script ran like this /backupSwitches.sh > /outputfile.out The backupSwitches.sh is #!/usr/bin/expect set timeout 5 set host ...
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By default, SlickStack installs MySQL locally and connects WordPress to a localhost database. I want to skip that, and connect to a remote (managed) database server instead... What is the proper way ...
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I have a comma separated line I am using awk to extract fields from. Server1,poweredOn,10.0.18.70,"Blue, Green",POC,Vsphere However, when it comes to the text in double quotes ("Blue, ...
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I am running a SAMBA server on fedora with selinux enabled. I run into problem trying to run a bash script in the smb.conf as root preexec. The script is executable chmod +x The script run well if ran ...
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I migrated all my users from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 24.04 by adding them to /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow and then executing mkhomedir_helper for each user, see my blog for details. Today I ...
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Some years ago all you had to do was make sure the matchit.vim plugin was installed to be able to match beginning/ending constructs in bash such as if/elif/else/fi but something happened and, although ...
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I'm working on a legacy platform that we're automating the deploy. It will require multiple iterations until it gets to the point that we use in production. Right now, I'm in the step of setting up ...
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This is a little funny one, at least to me. I have a file on which I am running awk and cut command in a loop being fed by head command. The command is: head -n X all.du.K.txt | while read line ; do ...
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I have some trouble with some domains. The command whois from linux shell says No match for domain but I am expecting the domain results to be registered. $ whois gnso.com From the shell whois result:...
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I have been using a script to regularly check for the cached memory and clear it out when there is not enough free memory available. To avoid being too aggressive with clearing the script first does ...
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I have a golang API that needs to run 24/7 for a nginx proxy backstream. I have a script.. #!/usr/bin/bash cd /root/api && go run . That runs fine manually. But /etc/systemd/system/api....

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