shell script

Greetings, I'm working on a script that will perform a transcode using FFMpeg, and I'm encountering some strange behavior. Location $ pwd /tmp/test The script.sh $ cat script.sh #!/bin/sh WORKDIR='/tmp/test' cd "${WORKDIR}" || exit 1 # Bucle while read -r FILENAME; do if [ -e...

I was reading the man page for beep, and I discovered that you can beep at a set frequency and duration. Then I thought it could be possible to make a shell script to beep "music", and came across the idea that you could also even use mixer to play the beeps at different volumes! I'm no good at...

Considering the following excerpt: 1 #!/bin/sh 2 3 check() 4 { 5 echo $1 - \ 6 $( 7 [ $2 -eq $3 ] \ 8 && echo OK \ 9 || echo FAIL "($2 != $3)" 10 ) 11 } 12 13 main() 14 { 15 check 2 $LINENO 3 16 17 inner() 18 { 19...

I have tried two separate shells ( sh and tcsh ) to see if there is any change to this behaviour but there is no change. I have checked man pages of each command and shell to see if there is something that i have missed or misunderstood. I have also tried searching online, but so far i have been...

I have a machine running FreeBSD 12.3 and I am looking for a way to monitor network changes through a shell script, specifically related to the network interfaces. Some examples of things that I would like to detect are: When a network interface changes status (e.g. from active to no carrier)...

Recently I decided to extend the functionality of my home server, so I could change my FreeBSD password through the web interface I put together. A little research led me to the manual page of pw, and I found exactly what I needed. pw usermod -n johnsmith -h fd However, I have trouble...

I am having an issue backing up our moodle server. This is with FreeNAS11. For some reason it seems like the TAR never stops despite it finishing and creating an actual file. Or, for whatever reason, the Hard Drive is continually accessed at a rate of 20 to 30 MBs until I reset the jail with...