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| If you want to help with the BashFaq, you could try to answer one of the following questions. Just answer it, copy it to the BashFaq page, and remove the question here. | If you want to help with the BashFAQ, you could try to answer one of the following questions. Just answer it, copy it to a new subpage of the BashFAQ page (e.g. [:BashFAQ/101:]), and remove the question here. |
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| * It's also BashFaq #45 now. | * It's also [:BashFAQ#faq45:Bash FAQ #45] now. * It's also covered in ProcessManagement. |
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| * Answer: {{{eval}}} * If {{{othervar}}} is an integer, use an array instead. |
* Answer: {{{eval}}} -- see also [:BashFAQ#faq6:Bash FAQ #6] and the warnings in [:BashFAQ#faq48:#48]. * If {{{othervar}}} is an integer, use an [:BashFAQ#faq5:array] instead. |
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| * This can't be done in any straightforward manner because there's no hook in Bash to execute arbitrary code after a user presses Enter but before a command is executed. The DEBUG trap is triggered after each command, and the PS1 variable is triggered when a prompt is displayed, which is also after the command, rather than before. | |
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| * date -d'yesterday' # requires GNU date | * date -d'yesterday' # GNU date * date -r $(( $(date +%s) - 86400 )) # OpenBSD date |
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| * gdate -d "1970-01-01 UTC + $time seconds" * something involving awk and strftime() * perl -e "print scalar localtime $time, \"\n\"" * How to redirect stderr to a pipeline? Now BashFaq #47 |
* [:BashFAQ#faq70:FAQ #70] * How to redirect stderr to a pipeline? Now [:BashFAQ#faq47:Bash FAQ #47] |
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| Commands in a process substitution ( >(cmd) or <(cmd) ) are definitely run in a subshell. I'm not sure I understand what this question is really asking. Maybe it's related to [:BashFAQ#faq84:FAQ 84]. |
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- How can I redirect the output of the script to both standard output and a log file?
- Duplicating fds is not sufficient, because it duplicates the file descriptor number, not the data.
But you can still use tee: exec > >(tee log)
- Somewhere the content of variables in my script lose whitespace.
echo "$var" - quoting. See BashPitfalls for more.
- How can I ensure that only once instance of my script is running at a time?
Answer: e.g. lockfile. This should be answered in the UnixFaq
- It's also [:BashFAQ#faq45:Bash FAQ #45] now.
It's also covered in ProcessManagement.
- How can I handle command line arguments in a shell script?
getopts, or a while/shift loop (see [:BashFAQ#faq35:Bash FAQ #35])
- How can I have variable variables, e.g. myvar=prefix$othervar?
Answer: eval -- see also [:BashFAQ#faq6:Bash FAQ #6] and the warnings in [:BashFAQ#faq48:#48].
If othervar is an integer, use an [:BashFAQ#faq5:array] instead.
- How can I make bash set the xterm title to the command it is currently executing?
- This can't be done in any straightforward manner because there's no hook in Bash to execute arbitrary code after a user presses Enter but before a command is executed. The DEBUG trap is triggered after each command, and the PS1 variable is triggered when a prompt is displayed, which is also after the command, rather than before.
- How to determine Yesterday's date?
- date -d'yesterday' # GNU date
- date -r $(( $(date +%s) - 86400 )) # OpenBSD date
- How to convert Unix time stamps to a date (and vice versa)?
- [:BashFAQ#faq70:FAQ #70]
- How to redirect stderr to a pipeline? Now [:BashFAQ#faq47:Bash FAQ #47]
command 2>&1 | command
To discard stdout entirely: command 2>&1 >/dev/null | command
- How can I redirect file names using sequential numbers to avoid overwriting existing ones?
- mv --backup=numbered # requires GNU mv
- How can I set the output of a command to a variable without executing a subshell (i.e. $() ) or writing to a file and reading it back?
i think this does the job, have not had time to test: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html
Commands in a process substitution ( >(cmd) or <(cmd) ) are definitely run in a subshell. I'm not sure I understand what this question is really asking. Maybe it's related to [:BashFAQ#faq84:FAQ 84].