I’m working on a bash script to compare two similar text files line by line and find the eventual differences between each line of the files, i should point the difference and tell in which line the difference is, but i should ignore the numerical values in this comparison. Example : in the example above, the script shouldn’t find any
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How can this bash script be made shorter and better? Is there a way to combine multiple curl statements and if statements in bash?
The main script is scheduled and runs everyday and prints the success message everytime. If the status code is anything other than 200, $Status_code_1 or $Status_code_2, whichever is down prints the error code. The code is working fine but I want to know how can it be made shorter. Can the curl command from first 2 lines be combined because
Chain SSH script
Let’s say I have 3 linux servers. I need a script that will login from s1 to s2 via ssh, then from s2 to s3 via ssh, then check, if there is already exists string in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys from s1 then do nothing otherwise do s1 and s2 are constant, s3 can be variable. ssh from s1 to s2 already settled
run a command with a file pattern
I have this file patterns.txt And I want to run a specific command for every pattern like this: I tried to used for loop like this: but i didn’t work Answer The 2 typical approaches are: and Note that I would expect both of those to fail, since scp expects at least 2 arguments. How you want that 2nd argument
Script to merge all image files from a folder inside a pdf
I frequently have to merge a lot of images inside a pdf. Naturally, I’d like to automate this a bit. Here are the things I need: lossless merge into a pdf merge of most common image formats natural sorting of numbers (1.jpg, 2.jpg, and 10.jpg would be merged in this order, not as 1.jpg 10.jpg 2.jpg) can deal with white-spaces
Find the closest match between two files in unix
As a beginner i’m looking for a solution in shell scripting, I have file1 with content as below lines: And file2 with filenames and their modified timestamp. I’m looking shell script solution where it can tell the closest match in timestamp in the between both files. Like timestamp_x and timestamp_y comes in between timestamp_1 and timestamp_2. Thanks Answer If your
Wait Until Previous Command Completes
I have written a bash script on my MacMini to execute anytime a file has completed downloading. After the file download is complete, the mac mounts my NAS, renames the file, and then copies the file from the mac to the NAS, deletes the file from the mac and then unmounts the NAS. My issue is, sometimes, the NAS takes