I often need to run different commands that would need to be re-run immediately after if the output contains a given string (status code is not enough).

I wrote a shell script, and I’m trying to automate it’s installation. For that, I have a script that 1.) downloads the script to ~/.local/bin 2.) adds a line to .bashrc (or config.fish, etc.). The line for .bashrc looks like eval "$(myscript init bash)".

I am trying to search a particular pattern “JOB” in all the files in the mentioned directories, and the checking if the next word after JOB has atleast 5 characters and if the 5th character is “H” or “I” in the next word, and then trying to print the file name, pattern and the next word in a file. but it is only printing the directory name in the output file.

Consider the following simple bash script

I’m trying to start a process on multiple VMs using GitHub Actions. However, the command doesn’t complete (as it needs to continue running) so my for loop just kind of hangs.

I am trying to create a Variable from value of another variable and trying to store value into the created variable in Shell Script. For Example:
Let there is a existing variable i=1

I am having an issue with missing files while copying and moving them. To give a bit of background,

Write a bash script that changes the owner of the file hello to betty only if it is owned by the user guillaume.

Getting the following error : syntax error: unexpected end of file

I want to print the file names from a directory that are 1 hour old from current time using AWK command, file name starts with ‘file’.
i have a command like this already . i want to use AWK command to print the file names .

$find /tmp/test/ -mmin +60

i have files like below,

-rw-r–r– 1 TENT Tinstall 0 Jun 3 10:20 file1.txt
-rw-r–r– 1 TENT Tinstall 0 Jun 3 10:20 file2.txt
-rw-r–r– 1 TENT Tinstall 0 Jun 3 10:23 file3.txt