linux/unix cheat sheet

# File:NixCheatSheet.sh v.1.4.0 docs at the end 

# how-to get a nice prompt on HP-UX

clear;export PS1=$USER'@'`hostname`:$PWD:`echo ``date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S`` `:`echo  "\n" $ " "`; clear;

# who , where and when

uname -a ;

id;

date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S;

# all env vars starting with _

env | grep -e "^_"

ls -lt --time-style=long-iso 

ls -alt --time-style=long-iso

# http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html

# The ultimate "find in files"

find /etc/httpd/ -type f -print0 | xargs --null grep -nHP 'StartServers\s+\d' | less

find / -name '*bash*' -exec grep -nHP '*APerlRegex*' {} \;

#  or even faster , be aware of funny file names xargs -0

find / -name '*bak' -print0 | xargs --null grep -nPH 'curl'

# find and replace recursively

find . -name '*.html' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g'

# find all the files greather than 100 MB , sort them by the size and print their sizes 

find / -type f -size +100M -exec du -B M {} \; | sort -r | less 

# disk usage of users under the /home directory in MB

clear;du -all -m --max-depth=3 /home | sort -n -r | less

# where I have been lately ?

history | grep cd

# what I have opening recently 

history | grep vi

#send my history 

history | mailx -s "my history" $MyEmail

tcpdump dst 10.168.28.22 and tcp port 22

tcpdump dst 172.21.212.212 

# record the current session via script

mkdir ~/scriptlogs

script -a ~/scriptlogs/`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`_script.log

#/usr/bin is for normal user executables, /usr/sbin is for superuser executables, /usr/sfw is for external software (like gnu one), but provided with bundle of OS, /usr/ccs is for development utilities, usually not need for daily tasks like make, lex, yacc, sccs

# take the last 5 commands for faster execution to the temp execution script

tail -n 5 /root/.bash_history >> /var/run.sh

# I saw the command cd /to/some/suching/dir/which/was/very/long/to/type

echo so I redid it and saved my fingers

!345

history | mail -s "test file sending" -c mail1@com yordan.georgiev(boom)gmail.com

# remove all trealing spaces from the history file works for TextPad

^([ ]*)([0-9]*)(.*)$

\3 --- replace with the pure commands

history | gawk -F1 'BEGIN {FS=" "};{print $2 , $3}' | less

# display the history oldest commands first withouth the line numbers ...

history | sort -nr | perl -i -pe 's/^([ ]*)([0-9]*)(.*)$/$3/gi'

vi fileName anotherFile

# how to deal with command outputs

command | filtercommand > command_output.txt 2>errors_from_command.txt

# Hint after the less filter pressing s will prompt you for saving the

output to a file ...

#  find the files having os somewhere in their names and only those having linux

find . -name '*os*' | grep linux | less

# find all xml type of files and display only the rows having wordToFindInRow

find . -name '*.xml' -exec cat {} \;| grep wordToFindInRow | less

# putty , bash shortcuts 

Ctrl + A --- Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on

Ctrl + E --- Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on

# how-to mount an usb stick

# remember to change the path other wise you will get the device is busy errror

mkdir /mnt/usbflash

mount /dev/sdb1 -t vfat /mnt/usbflash

umount /mnt/usbflash

head -n 20 tooLongFile -- display the first 20 lines of the file

# get a nice prompt 

PS1="\u@\h \t \w\n\\$ "

# how to restart a process initiated at startup

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start | stop | status | restart

# see all the rules associated with the firewall

iptables -L -v

gunzip *file.zip

To access the server download winscp.exe:

# start winscp with a stored session from Win box 

cmd /c start /max winscp oracle@192.168.255.12

# To start remote session click on the putty screen , configure putty

settings to pull full screen with alt + Enter

# right click on the title bar , settings , change the font , copy

paste from and to the terminal window text

# how to ensure the sshd daemon is running

ps -ef | grep sshd

# User and group management

useradd -p winscppass -r winscp -d /home/winscp --- to add a user with

specifig home directory name and pass

luserdel winscp --- delete the user

gpasswd: administer the /etc/group file

groupadd: Create a new group

groupmod: Modify a group

groupdel: Delete a new group

#useradd: Create a new user or update default new user information

#usermod: Modify a user account

#userdel: Delete a user account and related files

# how to kill process interactively

killall -v -i sshd

# the most efficent way to search your history is to hit Ctrl R and

type the start of the command. It will autocomplete as soon as there’s

a match to a history entry, then you just hit enter. If you want to

complete the command (add to it ) use the right arrow to

escape from the quick search box ...

#How to install Perl modules

gzip -dc yourmodule.tar.gz | tar -xof -

# create the make file

perl Makefile.PL

# test

make test

# install 

make install

#How to see better which file were opened , which directories were visited

type always the fullpath after the vi - use the $PWD env variable to

open files in the current directory , thus after opening the file

after:

vi /$PWD , press tab to complete the name of the current directory ,

type the name of the file

thus after

history | grep vi

the full list of opened files is viwed .

of course the same could be seen from the /home/username/.viinfo file /files

#where to set the colors for the terminal (if you are lucky to have one

with colors ; )

/etc/DIR_COLORS

open a file containing "sh" in its name bellow the "/usr/lib" directory

:r !find /usr/lib -name *sh*

go over the file and gf

uname -a --- which version of Linux I am using

rmp -dev --- show all installed packages

passwd [username] --- change the password for the specified user (own password)

How to copy paste text in the putty window from client to server -

click the right button of your pointing device

How to copy paste text from the putty window from server to client -

right-click the window title and select copy all to Clipboard.

#To restart a service

service sshd restart

#  

service --status-all --- show the status of all services

# change the owneership of the directory

chown -R userName:GroupName DirPath

# perform action recursively on a set of files

find . -name '*.pl' -exec perl -wc {} \;

for file in `find . -type f`;do echo cp $file ../backups/; done;

# make Bash append rather than overwrite the history on disk:

shopt -s histappend

# henever displaying the prompt, write the previous line to disk:

PROMPT_COMMMOR='history -a'

gpm -- general "cut and paste" server

sh ScriptWithALotOfErrorMessages.sh | tee -a whereToSaveIt.log

# run first the following command

script -a The_Log_File_To_Append_as_well_as_display_diagnostig_messages.log

# than run the script

sh ScriptWithALotOfErrorMessages.sh

#how-to replace single char in file

tr '\t' ',' < FileWithTabs > fileWithCommas

df -k --- disk usage

# Allow access to the box from only one ip address

IPTables=/sbin/iptables

$ IPTables -A INPUT -s <Insert other Origin ip here> -p tcp

--source-port xxx -j ACCEPT

$ IPTables -A OUTPUT -d < Insert other Origin ip here > -p tcp

--destination-port xxx-j ACCEPT

# has the root logged in over an unencrypted network ?

# next_line_is_templatized

#  last | grep “^root “ | egrep –v “reboot|console” | morphus

# start command in the background

command1 &

# start another one

command2 &

# bring the command in the foreground

fg %1

# create a backup file based on the timestamp on bash

cp fileName.ext fileName.ext.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.bak

Unix commands:

FIX broken lines:

$ cat output.txt

a:b:c:1:2:3:2.3:henry

s:d:e:2:1:4:

54:user5

d:q:w:5:6:

3:5.2:alex

y:m:n:3:4:1:5.6:eiam

Output Required:

----------------

a:b:c:1:2:3:2.3:henry

s:d:e:2:1:4:54:user5

d:q:w:5:6:3:5.2:alex

y:m:n:3:4:1:5.6:eiam

$ awk '

BEGIN {

FS=":";

maxFLD=8;

}

{

while (NF < maxFLD || $0 ~ /\:$/ ) {

getline record;

$0 = $0 record

}

print $0

}

' file_name

Live example: 

2009-07-10 13:51:31.939439|2009-07-10|2|1.1.6401.0.614513|0570817|1|-3||production|2.0.0|Series60|V 11.0.021|11.0.021.01.01|11.0.021.C01.01|244|05|862e-d2ac-4f03-9cbb|xmldatabinding 5.0|Xmldatabinding 5.0 for N-Gage

|x-epoc/x-sisx-app|0|4|1|3|0x101f978e|1.0.6|Company|N97|Country_variants_of_UK_Ireland

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$ awk 'BEGIN {FS="|";maxFLD=30;}{while (NF < maxFLD || $0 ~ /\:$/ ) {getline record;$0 = $0 record} print $0}' file_name

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Display lines which starts with “|”:

- $ Grep ‘^|’ file_name

Paste = shift + insert

Copy = ctrl + insert

df  -h ***

id -u

ls –lrt

ps -ef

#unpack a file 

tar xvf “filename”

#on hp-ux

gzip -cd FileName.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

fg  (can be used to return to stopped window/process)

w (logged in users, idle or not?)

who (logged on users, from where)

who -r (show runlevel)

wc filename (lines, words, characters)

# print line number 52

sed -n '52p' # method 1

sed '52!d' # method 2

sed '52q;d' # method 3, efficient on large files

Remove/replace hex values from a file:

perl -i.bak -pe 's/(\xEF)(\xBF)(\xBD)/???/g' music_player_track.txt

Add user: useradd –u uid (esim. 2600)  –c ‘description’ –d /homedir/ -g group –m –s /bin/bash username

Change passwd: passwd username

Example:

useradd -u 10302011 -c "FirstName LastName, DeparmentName, firstname.lastname@company.com" -m -d /export/home/firstlast -s /bin/bash firstlast

passwd -f login = forces to change password when logging in for the first time

#Ei saa näyttää yhtään vastausta:

passwd -s -a | grep NP (=No Password)

#/var/adm/loginlog sisältää kaikki epäonnistuneet loginyritykset…

#Alustus:

#!/bin/sh

log=/var/adm/loginlog

test -f "$log" && {

        # "Good, $log exists already."

        exit 0

}

touch $log || exit 1

chown root $log || exit 1

chgrp sys $log || exit 1

chmod 600 $log || exit 1

# "Initialized $log."

Use SVCCFG:

bash-3.00# svccfg

svc:> select cde-login

svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login>

svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login> setprop dtlogin/args=astring: "-udpPort 0"

svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login> quit

bash-3.00# svcadm cde-login restart

Display lines that contain A or B

/usr/bin/egrep - i “A|B”

Ex. # ps -ef | /usr/bin/egrep - i “PID1|PID2”

START/ STOP scripts ( /etc/init.d/rc.script)

-    create symbolic links from /etc/rc(0,1,2).d/K99sas --> /etc/init.d/rc.script

-    create symbolic link from /etc/rc3.d/S99sas --> /etc/init.d/rc.script

Startscripts are executed in order where smallest number is executed first on each runlevel

ln –s source target

Normal Case

Put SXX in rc3.d

Put KXX in rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rcS.d

cd /etc/rc3.d

ln –s /etc/init.d/rc.script S99rcscript

cd /etc/rc0.d

ln -s /etc/init.d/rc.script K99rcscript

cd /etc/rc1.d

ln -s /etc/init.d/rc.script K99rcscript

cd /etc/rc2.d

ln -s /etc/init.d/rc.script K99rcscript

cd /etc/rcS.d

ln -s /etc/init.d/rc.script K99rcscript

RC scripts & Run Levels 

Rc scripts performs the following functions : 

a) They check and mount the file systems 

b) Start and stop the various processes like network , nfs etc.

c) Perform some of the house keeping jobs.

System goes in to one of the following run level after booting depending on default run level and the commands issued for changing the run level to some other one.

0 Boot prom level ok> or > prompt in Sun.

1 Administrative run level . Single user mode 

2 Multiuser mode with no resource sharing .

3 Multiuser level with nfs resource sharing

4 Not used

5 Shutdown & power off (Sun 4m and 4u architecture )

6 Reboot to default run level

S s Single user mode user logins are disabled.

Broadly speaking the running system can be in any of the folloing state

Single user – Minimum processes running , user logins disabled and root password is required to gain access to the shell . 

Multiuser - All system processes are running and user logins are permitted 

Run level of a desired state is achieved by a number of scripts executed by the rc program the rc scripts are located in /etc/rc0.d , /etc/rc1.d , /etc/rc2.d , /etc/rc3.d & /etc/rcS.d directories . All the files of a particular run level are executed in the alphanumeric order .Those files beginning with letter S starts the processes and those beginning with K stops the processes.

These files are hard linked to the files in /etc/init.d in order to provide a central location for all these files and eliminating the need to change the run level in case these scripts needs to be run separately . The files in /etc/init.d directory are without any S , K and numeric prefix instead a stop / start argument has to be supplied whenever these scripts are to be executed .

By default system has a number of rc scripts needed for run level transition but sometimes it becomes necessary to start some custom scripts at the booting time and turn them off at the shutdown . Custom scripts can be put in any of the required rc directory but following major considerations has to be kept in mind :

•    The sequence number of the file should not conflict with other files.

•    The sevices needed should be available by previously executed scripts. 

•    File should be hard linked to the /etc/init.d directory .

•    The system looks for only those files beginning with letter K & S , any thing else is ignored , therefore, to make a file inactive simply changing uppercase K or S to lower case will cause system to ignore it . 

The scripts that begin with a K are used to kill processes when exiting a specific runlevel. In the listing above, the K scripts would be used when terminating runlevel 3. The scripts that start with an S are used when starting runlevel 3. None of the items in rc3.d, however, is really a startup script. They are logical links to the real scripts, which are located in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. For example, S80sendmail is linked to init.d/sendmail. This raises the question of why the scripts are executed from the directory rc3.d instead of directly from init.d where they actually reside. The reasons are simple. The same scripts are needed for several different runlevels. Using logical links, the scripts can be stored in one place and still be accessed by every runlevel from the directory used by that runlevel. 

Scripts are executed in alphabetical order. Thus S10network is executed before S80sendmail. This allows the system to control the order in which scripts are executed through simple naming conventions. Different runlevels can execute the scripts in different orders while still allowing the real scripts in init.d to have simple, descriptive names. A listing of the init.d directory shows these descriptive names: 

VI COMMMORS 

Move with cursor: h,j,k,l

Beginning of line: 0

Corrections during INSERT:

-    CTRL+H delete last character

Append after cursor: a

Append at the end of line: A

Yanked: y

Put: p – puts back yanked or deletet text after cursor

#Undo last change: 

u

#Restore curren line: 

U

#Repeat last change:

.

#Repeat last command

: n

#Replace (sed):    

:%s/old value/new value/

#Copy: CTRL+INSERT

#PASTe: SHIFT+INSERT

#EXTRACT *.tar.gz on HP-UX:

gzip -dc some.tar.gz | tar xvf –

Single file:

gzip -dc fileName.tar.gz | tar -xvf - filename

find . -name '*.log' -print | zip cipdq`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` -@

find / -type f | xargs grep -nH 'curl'

find . -type f -name '*.sh' -print -exec grep -n gpg {} \;

#where am I

uname -a ; 

#who am I 

id ; 

# when this is happening 

date "+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S" ; 

useradd -u 12202211 -c "First Name , LastName, Teamp , firstName.LastName@company.com" -m -d /export/home/userName -s /bin/bash userName

#obsolete

skill -STOP -u userToKick

pkill -STOP -u userToKick

# reboot ... !!! BOOM BOOM BOOM !!!

shutdown -r now 

# check all available commands on my system

 echo -n $PATH | xargs -d : -I {} find {} -maxdepth 1  -type f -printf '%P\n' | sort -u | less

 #how-to kill a process 

ps aux | grep omniture

pidof omniture

kill -9 omniture

#what cpu am a running

less /proc/cpuinfo

# which processes are listening on my system

netstat --tcp --listening --programs

netstat --tcp

netstat --route

#source: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialSysAdmin.html#MONITOR

#monitoring commands 

# show the top processes

top

# running processes status 

ps -auxw | less 

ps -ef | less 

#List all currently loaded kernel modules

lsmod | less 

#Displays the system's current runlevel.

/sbin/runlevel

# get the Processes attached to open files or open network ports:

lsoff | less 

# monitor the virtual memory 

vmstat 

#Display/examine memory map and libraries (so). Usage: pmap pid

ps -aux | grep <<MyProcToPMap>>

pmap      <<MyprocToPMapPID>>

history | gawk -F1 'BEGIN {FS=" "};{print $2 , $3}'

pmap -x 4041 | gawk -F1 'BEGIN {FS=" "};{print $2  ,"\t" , $5 , "\t" , $6 , "\t", $7 , $8}' | sort -nr

#how-to sort output by a delimited by single delimiter column 

# in this example the - char is used for delimiter , the output is 

# by their sending sequence , use proper file naming convention files 

# ls -1 gives us:

# fileBeginningTillFirstDelimiter-TheColumnToSortBy-TheRestFromTheFileNameDelimiter

ls -1 | awk -F1 'BEGIN {FS="-"};{print $2 "¤" $1 "-" $2 "-" $3 }' | sort -nr | cut -d ¤ -f 2,5 

# the same approach with perl

ls -1 | perl -p -i -e 's/^([^\-]*)(\-)([^\-]*)(\-)([^\-]*)/$3¤$1$2$3$4$5/g' | sort -nr | cut -d ¤ -f 2,5  

# how-to use sftp with remoteUserName having publicIdentity of PublicIdentityUserName

sftp -v -o "IdentityFile /var/www/.ssh-id/PublicIdentityUserName" -o "UserKnownHostsFile /var/www/.ssh-id/known_hosts" remoteUserName@ServerHostNameOrIpd

# ==================================================================

# START Jobs control 

# start some very long lasting command 

find / -name '*.crt' | less 

# now press Ctrl + Z 

# the terminal says "Jobs stopped"

# now check the open jobs 

jobs

# you should see something like 

# [1]+  Stopped                 find / -name '*.crt' | less

# now put the job in the background and start working on something else by Ctrl + Z 

bg 1

# run the next command 

# how-to copy file via scp by using specificy identity

scp -v -o "IdentityFile /home/userName/.ssh/id_rsa" /data/path/dir/* userName@ServerHostName.Domain.com:/Server/Target/Dir/

# now again stop the job first by Ctrl + Z 

# check again the running jobs 

jobs 

# use should see the both of the jobs started 

# now put the first on in the forground 

fg 1

# Repeat that several times untill you get it ; ) !!!

# END Jobs control 

# ==================================================================

nicedate=`date +%Z-%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

# kill a process by name 

ProcNameToKill=sftp

# ps -ef | grep wget | perl -ne 'split /\s+/;print "kill $_[7] with PID $_[1] \n";`kill -9 $_[1];`'

ps -ef | grep $ProcNameToKill | perl -ne 'split /\s+/;print "kill $_[7] with PID $_[1] \n";`kill -9 $_[1];`'

# how-to display human readable file sizes on systems with stupid du

# of course you would have to have perl next_line_is_templatized

find `pwd` -type f -exec du -k {} \; | perl -ne 'split /\s+/;my $SizesInMegs=$_[0]/1024;printf ( "%10d %10s \n" , "$SizesInMegs" , "MB $_[1]")' | sort -nr | morphus

export dir=/opt/path/to/dir

echo sizes in MB

find $dir -type f -exec du -k {} \; | perl -ne 'split /\s+/;my $SizesInMegs=$_[0]/1024;printf ( "%10d %-100s \n" , "$SizesInMegs" , "$_[1]")' | sort -nr | more

#who has been accessing via ssh 

for file in `find /var/log/secure* | sort -rn` ; do grep -nHP 'mfe' $file ; done; | less

#print files recursively 

dir=/opt/path/to/dir

clear;find $dir -type f -exec ls -alt --time-style=long-iso --color=tty {} \; | perl -ne 'split(/\s+/);printf ( "%10s %2s %-20s \n" , "$_[5]", "$_[6]", "$_[7]") ; ' | sort -nr

#how-to print relative file paths to /some/DirName with perl one liner 

find /some/DirName -type f | perl -ne 'split/DirName\//;print "$_[1]"  '

# see nice dir recursively listing newest first

dir=/tmp

find $dir -name '*.tmp' -exec ls -alt --time-style=long-iso --color=tty {} \; | perl -ne 'split/\s+/;print "$_[5] $_[6] $_[7] \n" ;' | sort -nr | less

# how-to sort files based on a number sequence in their file names

# list dir files , grap a number from their names , print with NumberFileName, sort , print finally the names without the Number but sorted 

 ls -1 | perl -ne 'm/(\d{8})/; print $1 . $_ ;' | sort -nr | perl -ne 's/(\d{8})//;print $_'

#how-to create relative file paths tar package recursively fromm a dir

cd <<RootDirToStartRelativePathsFrom>>

tar -cvzpf <<PackageToCreate>>.tar <<DirToPackRecursively>>

# exctract tar file into cd  

tar -xvf <<PackageToExctractInCurrentDir>>.tar

#source:http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/002

# get the STDERR and STDOUTPUT 

output=$(command 2>&1)

# create pub priv keys on server

ssh-keygen -t rsa 

# add pub key from client to authorized_keys files on server

cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

# VersionHistory

# 1.5.0 --- Added tar and ssh-keygen

# 1.4.0 --- Added kill proc by name and du -BM for HP-UX

# 1.3.0 --- Added jobs control 

# 1.2.0 --- Added system monitoring commands 

# 1.1.6 --- refined du , replaced echo's with #'s

# 1.0.0 --- Initial creation  

basic sh bash script starter stub

#!/bin/bash

umask 000 ; 

# print the commands 

# set -x

# exit the script if any statement returns a non-true return value

set -e 

setVars(){

        export PATH=/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/:$PATH

        MyDir=`dirname $(readlink -f $0)`

        Tmp="$MyDir/tmp.$$"

        mkdir -p $Tmp                #create the tmp dir if it does not exist 

        ( set -o posix ; set ) >$Tmp/variables.before 

        MyName=`basename $0`

        IniFile="$MyDir/$MyName.`hostname`.conf"

        IniSection=MainSection

        LogFile="$MyDir/$MyName.log"

        # get the machine / host specific configuration 

        parseIniFile

        #source $0

        ( set -o posix ; set ) >$Tmp/variables.after

        wlog " Using the following vars :"

        cmd="comm -3 $Tmp/variables.before $Tmp/variables.after"

        runCmdAndLog $cmd

        rm -f $Tmp/variables.before $Tmp/variables.after

        rm -f $Tmp/variables.before $Tmp/variables.before    

}

#eof function setVars

parseIniFile(){

    eval `sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*\=[[:space:]]*/=/g' \

        -e 's/;.*$//' \

        -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' \

        -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' \

        -e "s/^\(.*\)=\([^\"']*\)$/\1=\"\2\"/" \

       < $IniFile \

        | sed -n -e "/^\[$IniSection\]/,/^\s*\[/{/^[^;].*\=.*/p;}"`

}

#eof function parseIniFile

# call by runCmdAndLog $cmd

runCmdAndLog(){

                cmd="$*" ; 

                Msg=$($cmd 2>&1)

                [ $? -eq 0 ]  || wlog "ERROR : Failed to run the $cmd command with $Msg output!!!"

                wlog " DEBUG : $Msg"

}

#eof function runCmdAndLog

#call by runCmdOrExit $cmd

runCmdOrExit(){

                cmd="$*" ; 

                Msg=$($cmd 2>&1)

                [ $? -eq 0 ] || Exit "ERROR : FATAL : Failed to run the $cmd command with $Msg output!!!"

                wlog " DEBUG : $Msg"

}

#eof function runCmdOrExit

# echo passed params and print them to a log file

wlog(){

        # check terminal if exists echo 

        test -t 1 && echo "`date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S` [$$] $*"

        # check LogFile and 

        test -z $LogFile || {

          echo "`date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S` [$$] $*" >> $LogFile

        } #eof test

 } 

# eof function wlog 

# exit with passed status and message

Exit(){

        ExitStatus=0

        case $1 in

            [0-9]) ExitStatus="$1"; shift 1;;

    esac

        Msg="$*"

        test "$ExitStatus" = "0" || Msg="ERROR: $Msg"

        wlog "$Msg"

        exit $ExitStatus

}

#eof function Exit

# the main function called 

main(){

    setVars

}

#eof function main

# Action !!!

main

# Purpose:

# To provide an easy starting template for writing bash and sh scripts

# having the following features: 

# - prints the set in the script variables

# - separation of host specific vars into $0.`hostname`.conf file

# - wlog function for both xterm and log file printing

# - 

# EOF File:ShStub.sh

basic principles for writing bash scripts

• Use main func calling other functions
• Use functions - several commands performing an logical entity should form a function
• Try to separate the machine / host  dependant settings into a SetVars function
• Use logging , capture the commads output and log them 
• For any operation on file , string etc test first that it exists 
• have a cheat sheet open all the time from which to copy basic constructs - bash syntax is quite tricky and could bring you surprises 

bash : how-to build cmd dynamically , get both STDOUT and STDERR output of it , log it and exit if fatal

# build the command

    cmd="chown -Rv $RunUser:$RunUserGroup $ProductDir"

# get the command output both STDERR and STDOUTPUT into a var

    Msg=$($cmd 2>&1)

    [ $? -eq 0 ] || Exit "ERROR : FATAL : Failed to run the $cmd command with $Msg output!!!"

wlog(){

        # check terminal if exists echo 

        test -t 1 && echo "`date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S` [$$] $*"

        # check LogFile and 

        test -z $LogFile || {

          echo "`date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S` [$$] $*" >> $LogFile

        } #eof test

 } 

# eof function wlog 

Exit(){

    ExitStatus=0

    case $1 in

        [0-9]) ExitStatus="$1"; shift 1;;

    esac

    Msg="$*"

    test "$ExitStatus" = "0" || Msg="ERROR: $Msg"

    wlog "$Msg"

    exit $ExitStatus

}

#eof function Exit

how-to create relative file paths tar package recursively fromm a dir and extract it later

#how-to create relative file paths tar package recursively fromm a dir

cd <<RootDirToStartRelativePathsFrom>>

tar -cvzpf <<PackageToCreate>>.tar <<DirToPackRecursively>>

# exctract tar file into cd  

tar -xvf <<PackageToExctractInCurrentDir>>.tar

Perl Special Vars quick reference

source: Perl Monks
Special Vars Quick Reference
$_ The default or implicit variable.
@_ Subroutine parameters.
$a
$b sort comparison routine variables.
@ARGV The command-line args.
Regular Expressions
$<digit> Regexp parenthetical capture holders.
$& Last successful match (degrades performance).
${^MATCH} Similar to $& without performance penalty. Requires /p modifier.
$` Prematch for last successful match string (degrades performance).
${^PREMATCH} Similar to $` without performance penalty. Requires /p modifier.
$' Postmatch for last successful match string (degrades performance).
${^POSTMATCH} Similar to $' without performance penalty. Requires /p modifier.
$+ Last paren match.
$^N Last closed paren match (last submatch).
@+ Offsets of ends of successful submatches in scope.
@- Offsets of starts of successful submatches in scope.
%+ Like @+, but for named submatches.
%- Like @-, but for named submatches.
$^R Last regexp (?{code}) result.
${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS} Current value of regexp debugging flags. See use re 'debug';
${^RE_TRIE_MAXBUF} Control memory allocations for RE optimizations for large alternations.
Encoding
${^ENCODING} The object reference to the Encode object, used to convert the source code to Unicode.
${^OPEN} Internal use: \0 separated Input / Output layer information.
${^UNICODE} Read-only Unicode settings.
${^UTF8CACHE} State of the internal UTF-8 offset caching code.
${^UTF8LOCALE} Indicates whether UTF8 locale was detected at startup.
IO and Separators
$. Current line number (or record number) of most recent filehandle.
$/ Input record separator.
$| Output autoflush. 1=autoflush, 0=default. Applies to currently selected handle.
$, Output field separator (lists)
$\ Output record separator.
$" Output list separator. (interpolated lists)
$; Subscript separator. (Use a real multidimensional array instead.)
Formats

$% Page number for currently selected output channel.
$= Current page length.
$- Number of lines left on page.
$~ Format name.
$^ Name of top-of-page format.
$: Format line break characters
$^L Form feed (default "\f").
$^A Format Accumulator
Status Reporting
$? Child error. Status code of most recent system call or pipe.
$! Operating System Error. (What just went 'bang'?)
%! Error number hash
$^E Extended Operating System Error (Extra error explanation).
$@ Eval error.
${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE} Native status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (`` ) command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator.
ID's and Process Information
$$ Process ID
$< Real user id of process.
$> Effective user id of process.
$( Real group id of process.
$) Effective group id of process.
$0 Program name.
$^O Operating System name.
Perl Status Info
$] Old: Version and patch number of perl interpreter. Deprecated.
$^C Current value of flag associated with -c switch.
$^D Current value of debugging flags

$^F Maximum system file descriptor.
$^I Value of the -i (inplace edit) switch.
$^M Emergency Memory pool.
$^P Internal variable for debugging support.
$^R Last regexp (?{code}) result.
$^S Exceptions being caught. (eval)
$^T Base time of program start.
$^V Perl version.
$^W Status of -w switch
${^WARNING_BITS} Current set of warning checks enabled by use warnings;
$^X Perl executable name.
${^GLOBAL_PHASE} Current phase of the Perl interpreter.
$^H Internal use only: Hook into Lexical Scoping.
%^H Internaluse only: Useful to implement scoped pragmas.
${^TAINT} Taint mode read-only flag.
${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT} If true on Windows stat() won't try to open the file.
Command Line Args
ARGV Filehandle iterates over files from command line (see also <>).
$ARGV Name of current file when reading <>
@ARGV List of command line args.
ARGVOUT Output filehandle for -i switch
Miscellaneous
@F Autosplit (-a mode) recipient.
@INC List of library paths.
%INC Keys are filenames, values are paths to modules included via use, require, or do.
%ENV Hash containing current environment variables
%SIG Signal handlers.
$[ Array and substr first element (Deprecated!).



 See perlvar for detailed descriptions of each of these (and a few more) special variables.

 When modifiying special variables, it is often a good practice to localize the effects of the change. ie,
my @array = ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );
print "@array\n";
{
    local $" = "\t";
    print "@array\n";
}
print "@array\n";
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 And the output.....
1 2 3 4 5
1       2       3       4       5      
1 2 3 4 5
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 The purpose of this node is to provide a super-concise categorized quick crossreference to Perl's special variables. perlvar provides a list in asciibetical order but doesn't really put the variables into easy to find categories.

one reason more to dislike svn

Before shooting me for all the rational reasons to have your code under source control .... Listen:

- Any developer should have 100% control over the source code of the instance of the project he is working on
- Any binary messing with that control is EVIL. Perioid

I have seen it with Microsoft Visual Studio. I saw it today with svn  - it messes the permissions of the projects so that you will not be able copy , move or edit FULLY from your source root dir and bellow.

And because of this EVIL I do have the templatize feature in the morphus project, which might introduce rare nasty bugs from time to time but provides me with independance without hiding and EVIL.