Tag: bash

Find all files with specific name and move it two levels up from its location

I want to find all files with specific name “stdout.1.0”, move it two/three levels up from its location. While moving it two/three levels up, I also want to rename it to “testjob.out”. All “stdout.1.0” files are located six levels down from parent directory. I used: and it …

create multiple file with content in linux with user input

bash linux scripting

I’m new in bash scripting and I’m trying to create a bash script which can create multiple file with content (around 10000 lines [no matters what text]) but with user input. I made a script which create files (see below) but how can I fill each file with 10000 lines? Thank you in advance! Answer R…

Writing multiple lines to columns instead

bash linux

I have an error report that contains lots of phone numbers, I need to see if any of this data exists in our database. Data required – Telephone number – Routing Code – Customer ID I’m using APIs that gather data from various sources. The first request is to use the telephone number we …

Removing leading 0 from third column

bash debian linux

I’m trying to remove the first 0 from the third column in my CSV file tel.csv – I have been trying to use the following with no luck – Answer Something like: Or awk

Convert nth column of CSV from EPOCH to human readable in bash

awk bash epoch linux

I’ve tried to create a single line command to convert a particular column in a CSV from EPOCH to human readable. The file contains various columns, depending on the particular file. E.g. in this file EPOCH is in column 3 of 3, in another file it is in column 5 of 9. The basic conversion works when done …

How can capture args with xargs across multiple pipe in bash

awk bash linux xargs

I have this command Suppose that argument from first xargs is $1 and it gets subsituted in like helm list –short -n {$1} and $2 is the argument of second Xargs and its gets substituted like but i also want $1 to use like this in last comand is this possible ? output of first xargs second xargs Answer I

Create a symbolic link named long_file pointing to the largest file in the current directory

bash linux macos terminal

I know how to create a symbolic link but I don’t kow how to get largetst file in current directory. Please, help me! Answer You can do it with the following command: which breaks down as follows: find /path/to/dir-with-big-file/ -type f -printf “%st%pn” – find files and print %s files …

Process “aws ecs list-tasks” JSON output with “aws ecs execute-command”?

amazon-ecs amazon-web-services bash linux shell

For example do this command. then it returns below then do next command using the ae340032378f4155bd2d0eb4ee60b5c7 of return sentence. I want to do this thing in one sentence, or shell script. Is it possible? I googled around the regular expression, but still unclear. Could you give some help? Answer Manipula…

How to monitor all network traffic from a specific process in linux?

bash linux networking shell strace

I want to monitor and log all traffic that a specific process produces. I know about tcpdump, but it seems it doesn’t support filtering by process (pid/path, or at least user). It there any other way to log all traffic from a process? Ideally I should be able to filter ports as well. Thanks! Answer You …

Execute a command on all the files within a directory

bash linux scripting shell

I am trying to write a bash script that could automate a programme on all the files present in a directory. The files that are in my directory are in the .nii or .nii.gz format. The command that I have to write is InputFile is the name of the file that has to be processed by the programme, and OutputFile