Linux bash script: Execution results: * is expanded to the list of files, which is actually script itself. How can I prevent this and see actual variable value? In general case, var can be more complicated than *, for example: home/alex/mydir/*. Answer you need to escape your variables, too: And in your function:
Tag: scripting
Check the open FD limit for a given process in Linux
I recently had a Linux process which “leaked” file descriptors: It opened them and didn’t properly close some of them. If I had monitored this, I could tell – in advance – that the process was reaching its limit. Is there a nice, Bash or Python way to check the FD usage ratio for a given process in a Ubuntu
Bash script to create symbolic links to shared libraries
I think this question is rather easy for you shell scripting monsters. I am looking for the most elegant and shortest way to create symbolic links to shared libraries for Unix by means of a bash shell script. What I need is starting out with a list of shared library files such as “libmythings.so.1.1, libotherthings.so.5.11”, get the symbolic links created
Execute several programs at the same time in an initialisation/bash script
Hello I am working with a simulator that uses rcS scripts to boot, this is my script What I want is run all the test at the same time and that the exit command is executed only when all the previous test have finished. And not only when test 4 has finished, is this possible?. Thank you. Answer You can