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How to extract the directory from full file path

I have the following script which prints various file stats, which was kindly supplied by another user (choroba) (link). Is there a way that this can be amended to report just the directory name of each file and not the full file path with the file name? I have tried changing filepath with dirname and I get a…

Wrapper script that write logs of arguments, stdin and stdout

I want to create a wrapper script which writes logs of arguments, stdin and stdout. I have written the following script wrapper.sh, which works almost fine. I expect that ./wrapper.sh arg1 arg2 gives the same result as /path/to/command arg1 arg2 with logs in /tmp/stdio-log/. But it gives a slightly different …

How to include comments from Nmap script in the output file

There might be a better way to do this, but what I have is an input file called “list.txt” of IP addresses for my Nmap scan like so: Then I scan with Nmap using and output to a file using: Additionally I have used sed to make the “output.txt” look like this: I would like to include the…

CLPPLUS login failing

I am trying to login to remote DB2 using clpplus but can’t login as password contains @. clpplus -nw user/p@sswd@145.xx.xx.212:60000/Dbname but it fails saying: Is there any work around of it? Answer With the bash shell, enclose the password with ‘ and additionally escape the @ with @ (and the sam…