I have a filesystem structured like this: Parent Directory orchestrator init.sh Subdir1 install.sh Subdir2 install.sh Subdir3 install.sh Within the init.sh, I have: This works for the most part, but it is fragile. If one of the install.sh scripts encounters a problem, the init.sh script stops. I’d like …
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How to save the text from a link in bash file?
I am trying to write a script that automatically makes a new website on my server. one of the steps is to go to this link and copy the salts into my wp-config.php file: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ I’m new to bash script and hoping this would be easy to do. I’m not sure if I need…
How does the neofetch ascii logo determine which color to use?
I am making custom ascii text-images for a cli app, and was curious how these custom colors are designed. Any ideas? Thank you, Answer If you look at neofetch script on it github page, and search for any distro to see the ascii logo, you will see some codes between some letters, this codes are interpreted by …
Why does ansible throws error while encrypting the string?
When I run commands on my ansible 2.9 version on red hat 7 distro – The first command succeeds while second one fails. Is it related to special characters. My program automatically generates passwords, so just one time escape won’t help! NB: The BaSh shell also would throw some errors, if you try …
Bash – format .txt file into pover pivot form
txt file called without_Commas.txt. The content looks like this: I need to format this data to look like this: Is there a way to do this? Kind Regards Elias Answer On each line, this loops over all the field numbers starting with the third field. Then it prints the first field ($1) followed by the current fie…
delete all files except a pattern list file
I need to delete all the files in the current directory except a list of patterns that are described in a whitelist file (delete_whitelist.txt) like this: How can I perform this in one bash line? Answer Any bash script can fit on one line: Check the output and then, if it’s OK:
Find and replace match after string in different file from bash script – not working
I have a string stored in a variable called newOccupation in file2.sh. When I run file2.sh, I would like it to replace whatever is after the word “occupation=” with the string stored in newOccupation. So in this case, after running the script, occupation=”Cashier” should be changed to …
How to fix The terminal process “/usr/sbin/nologin” failed to launch (exit code: 1) error in VSCode [closed]
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Failure of bash script called via command substitution does not stop parent script
I have a bash script (exp1.sh) which invokes another bash script exp2.sh. I want the first script to fail fast when second script exits with error. (The second script actually reads rows from database to stdout, in case of database connectivity error it returns nonzero exit code.) I expect the set -e option c…
Docker run with arguments from a configuration file
I’ve built a docker image in order to publish a jupyter notebook to my team. The jupyter notebook runs inside a docker container by running a docker run command containing numerous arguments (such as mounts and environment variables for AWS credentials). The current instructions I published for running …