coproc help - a new feature in bash

2010-05-10 0 min read bash Fedora Linux

Bash Sub Shells

2010-03-02 1 min read bash

Taken from <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-sub-shells" target="_blank">here. #!/bin/bash server_cmd=server pid_file=$(basename $server_cmd .sh).pid log_file=$(basename $server_cmd .sh).log ( echo "Starting server" echo "Doing some init work" $server_cmd # server becomes a daemon while true do if [[ -f $pid_file ]]; then sleep 15 else break fi done mail -s "Server exitted" joe@blow. Continue reading

Splitting strings with IFS

2010-02-04 2 min read bash Linux

Today I want to discuss splitting strings into tokens or “words”. I previously discussed how to do this with the <a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/reading-a-file-line-by-line.html">IFS variable and promised a more in depth discussion. Today, I will make the case on WHY to use IFS to split strings as opposed to using a subshell combined with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or cut. I wrote this script which reads the /etc/password file line-by-line and prints the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user" title="User (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

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