This is coming up because you are trying to pass the entirety of the base64’d content on the command line. curl has the ability to load in data to POST from a file, which I’d recommend doing. More information can be found in the man page, but the basic format is this: curl -X POST … Read more
The first line, #!/bin/bash, tells Linux where to find the interpreter. The script should also be executable with chmod +x script.sh, which it appears you did. It is highly likely that you created this file with a windows editor, which will place a <cr><lf> at the end of each line. This is the standard under … Read more
This works: $ winhome=”/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/” $ cd “$winhome” $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings
update-client 2>&1 | tee my.log 2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output, and tee sends its standard input to standard output and the file.
Why complicate things? file=exists_and_writeable if ! [ -e “$file” ] ; then touch “$file” fi if ! [ -w “$file” ] ; then printf ‘cannot write to %s\n’ “$file” exit 1 fi Or, more concisely, { [ -e “$file” ] || touch “$file”; } && \ ! [ -w “$file” ] && printf ‘cannot write … Read more
I’d just use file -bi myfile.txt to determine the character encoding of a particular file. A solution with an external dependency but I suspect file is very common nowadays among all semi-modern distro’s. EDIT: As a response to Laurence Gonsalves’ comment: b is the option to be ‘brief’ (not include the filename) and i is … Read more
For reference sake, if you do not have control over the generation of the numeric values, you can do padding with: % value=314 % echo ${(l:10::0:)value} 0000000314 % echo $value 314
You could try using the –create-dirs argument which was added in curl 7.10.3: Here is an example that will create the directory hierarchy, (if it doesn’t already exist), and will name the subdirectory you require renamed with the output of the datecommand: curl -o /db-bkups/$(date +”%b-%d-%Y”)/timestamp-db.dump –create-dirs http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml The result is a file stored in … Read more
There are two approaches you can try to filter out lines: awk ‘NF’ data.txt and awk ‘length’ data.txt Just put these at the start of your command, i.e., awk -v variable=$bashvariable ‘NF { print variable … }’ myinfile or awk -v variable=$bashvariable ‘length { print variable … }’ myinfile Both of these act as gatekeepers/if-statements. … Read more