Developed over time, these are frameworks which allows me to concentrate on the purpose of the script, the “boilerplate” code is already written and handles the boring stuff such as parsing input, reporting errors and writing log files.

Generic script framework for non-interactive scripts

Generic script framework for interactive scripts

tab=$(echo -en “\t”)

bash-3.00$ tab=$(echo -en "\t")
bash-3.00$ echo "test $tab test"
test     test
bash-3.00$ echo "test${tab}test"
test    test
bash-3.00$ echo "test${tab}${tab}test"
test            test
bash-3.00$

value too great for base probably refers to an arithmetic operation on a single 8 or 9 with a leading 0, ie. 08 or 09. Bash assumes this is an octal number from the leading 0 but 8 & 9 are not legal octal characters. You can specify the base of a number using base#number, usage is:-

RTTMP7=$((10#$RTTMP6 + 10#$RTTMP4))

ACTION=${1}
if [ "${ACTION}" = "start" ]; then
        echo "Starting Apache instances"

elif  [ "${ACTION}" = "stop" ]; then
        echo "Stopping Apache instances"

else
        echo "No parameter passed, Useage:- startstopapache.sh start|stop"
        exit 2
fi

#!/bin/bash

FABRIC=$1
if [ "${FABRIC}" = "" ]
 then
   echo "You need to provide a Fabric number, either 1 or 2"
   exit 1
fi

AND
if [ "${FABRIC}" != "1" ] && [ "${FABRIC}" != "2" ]
 then
   echo "Fabric values can only be 1 or 2"
fi

OR
if [ ${CPRESULT} != 0 ] || [ ${CPUSERRESULT} != 0 ]
        then
        THRESHOLD=1
fi

Specify a range of variables to work with

for i in {1..5}

for VARIABLE in bar boyl gm ppy   or for VARIABLE in `cat FILENAME`
do
      echo "WebSite is ${VARIABLE}, acton is ${ACTION}"
done

# use for loop read all GC servers
for (( gc=0; gc<${GCLENGTH}; gc++ ));
do
        echo "Using >${GLOBALCATALOG[$gc]}<"
        echo "==============================="
        echo ""

        ldapsearch -x -L -h ${GLOBALCATALOG[$gc]} -D "${CN}" -W -b "${SEARCHBASE=}" -s sub proxyAddresses
        LDAPSEARCHRESULT=$?

        if [ ${LDAPSEARCHRESULT} = 0 ]
          then
          break
        fi
done

while ($line = <SERIAL>) 
{
    print "$line\n";
}

DURATION=$(time (tar -xvzf ${TARLOCATION}/ww-wiki-backup-${DAY}.tar.gz > /dev/null 2>&1) 2>&1)
TARRESULT=$?

echo "untar result is >${TARRESULT}<, " >> ${TMPLOG} 
echo -n "Explode return code is >${TARRESULT}<, it took" >> ${TMPLOG}
echo "${DURATION}" >> ${TMPLOG}
echo ""  >> ${TMPLOG}

Use # for start of variable or % for the end of the variable.

[ scripts]$ FILE=admin.log.bz2

[ scripts]$ echo $FILE
admin.log.bz2

[ scripts]$ FILE=${FILE%.bz2}

[ scripts]$ echo $FILE
admin.log

Basic use:-

$ wget --user='user' --password='pw' 'http://www.yoursite.com/index.html'

wget with login page and cookie is a two stage process. First, login and retreive cookie, secondly use this cookie to download resource:-

$ wget --save-cookies tmpcookies.txt --post-data 'user=user&password=pw' http://www.yoursite.com/login.html
 
$ wget --load-cookies tmpcookies.txt -p http://www.yoursite.com/protectedcontent.html

curl is somewhat similar:-

$ curl -u 'user:pw' 'http://www.yoursite.com'

#/bin/bash
# written Andrew Stringer 26/07/2013
#Aimlessly spins round waiting for something
 
function spinner() {
    local delay=0.75
    local spinstr='/-\|'
    printf "...\n"  
    while [ true ]; do
        local temp=${spinstr#?}
        printf "[%c]" "$spinstr"  
        local spinstr=$temp${spinstr%"$temp"}
        sleep $delay
        printf "\b\b\b" 
    done
}
 
echo "Waiting for 10s."
echo "================"
 
spinner &
LAST_SPINNER_PID=$!
 
sleep 10
 
kill ${LAST_SPINNER_PID}
 
echo ""
echo "Finished!"
echo ""

$ ./spinner.sh 
Waiting for 10s.
================
...
[-]
Finished!

#!/bin/bash
 
DIR=H
 
if [ -d $DIR ]; then
	echo "Dir $DIR exists"
else 
	mkdir H
fi