Commands using read

Schematics:

command [options] [paste your variable here] parameter

command [options] [paste entire column of variables here] parameter

...

(hard-code command "c" and parameter "e" according to your wishes: in example shown command = "cp -a" and parameter = "~")

Features:

- Quick exchange only variable part of a long command line

- Make variable part to be an entire column of data (i.e. file list)

- Full control while processing every single item

Hints:

Paste column of data from anywhere. I.e. utilize the Block Select Mode to drag, select and copy columns (In KDE Konsole with Ctrl+Alt pressed, or only Ctrl pressed in GNOME Terminal respectively).

Disadvantages:

You can paste only one single variable in a row. If there are more space separated variables in a row only first one will be processed, but you can arrange your variables in a column instead. To transpose rows to columns or vice versa look at Linux manual pages for 'cut' and 'paste'.

TODO:

- add edit mode to vary command "c" and parameter "e" on the fly

- add one edit mode more to handle every list item different

- add y/n/a (=All) instead of only y(=default)/n to allowed answers

Disclaimer:

The code is not optimized, only the basic idea is presented here. It's up to you to shorten code or extend the functionality.

Do not use JPEG, GIF, or any other 'lossy' image encoding with Encryption

Why remember? Generate!

Up to 48 chars, works on any unix-like system (NB: BSD use md5 instead of md5sum)

Exit with empty line

Handle any bad named file which contains ",',\n,\b,\t,` etc

Store the file name as null character separated list

and retrieve it using

Eg:

Consider the following simple situation [ reading something using while and read ]

[See script 1 in sample output]

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The variable var is assigned with "nullll" at first. Inside the while loop [piped while] it is assigned with "whillleeee". [Onlly 2 assignments stmts]. Outside the loop the last assigned value for "var" [and no variable] inside the while can't be accessed [Due to pipe, var is executed in a sub shell].

In these type of situation variables can be accessed by modifying as follows.

[See script 2 in sample output]

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Vary helpful when reading a set of items, say file names, stored on a file [or variable] to an array an use it later.

Is there any other way 2 access variables inside and outside the loop ??

I find it useless but definitely simpler than #9230

Can be used for command line parameters too.

If you have a more complicated way of entering values (validation, GUI, ...), then write a function i.e. EnterValue() that echoes the value and then you can write:

WIDTHL=10 and WIDTHR=60 are setting the widths of the left and the right column/bar. BAR="12345678" etc. is used to create a 80 char long string of "="s. I didn't know any shorter way.

If you want to pipe results into it, wrap the whole thing in ( ... )

I know that printing bar graphs can be done rather easily by other means. Here, I was looking for a Bash only variant.

If you make a mess (like I did) and you removed all the executable permissions of a directory (or you set executable permissions to everything) this can help.

It supports spaces and other special characters in the file paths, but it will work only in bash, GNU find and GNU egrep.

You can complement it with these two commands:

1. add executable permission to directories:

2. and remove to files:

Or, in the same loop:

Ideas stolen from Greg's wiki: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020

attempts to delete all local branches. git will fail on any branches not fully merged into local master, so don't worry about losing work. git will return the names of any successfully deleted branches. Find those in the output with grep, then push null repositories to the corresponding names to your target remote.

assumes:

- your local and remote branches are identically named, and there's nothing extra in the remote branch that you still want

- EDIT: you want to keep your local master branch

find broken symbolic links

No command substitution but subshell redirection

This version uses read instead of eval.

You can ask repeatedly for a non-blank password using this function:

function read_password() {

while [ ! -n "$USER_PASSWORD" ]; do

read -s -p"Password: " USER_PASSWORD

if [ ! -n "$USER_PASSWORD" ]; then

echo "ERROR: You must specify a valid password, please try again"

fi

echo

done

}

Also you can set a time out (in seconds) to write the password

read -t 10 -s -p"Password: " USER_PASSWORD_VARIABLE

if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then

echo "Time out!"

fi

It willl popup a message for each new entry in /var/log/messages

found on the notify-send howto page on ubuntuforums.org.

Posted here only because it is one of the favourites of mine.

Replaces space in a file with a underline

works best in a shell script run at startup. It will ping localhost once and output to null, after it does that, acpi is called for temperature in fahrenheit and piped through to another loop that feeds notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.