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I need to learn shell scripting before programming so I bought some used books. Are these any good? Most from early 2000's but i doubt much has changed. Mastering Unix Shell Scripting Beginning Shell Scripting Beginning Portable Shell Scripting Shell Scripting Recipes I bought a C book...

Hi, I'm a student and I have to create a script, but I want to show a progress bar when the script is making a backup. For example, I'm making a full backup of the FreeBSD system and while the script is making the job, I want to show a progress or a bar percent completed, is that possible on...

Hello, when calling the gpg command I want gpg2 to be executed instead of gpg1. Both programs are installed. In Linux I used update-alternatives for that. What would be the equivalent in FreeBSD? Thank you.

On pfSense 2.2.4 (FreeBSD 10.1), my custom init script filebeat_wrapper won't start at boot. According to rcorder it should start right after boot: # rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* (snip) /etc/rc.d/SERVERS /etc/rc.d/DAEMON /etc/rc.d/LOGIN /usr/local/etc/rc.d/filebeat_wrapper (snip)...

I am on FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 #0: Wed Mar 16 20:46:12 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Installed vim through pkg install vim. My Current shell is: $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash My .profile file is edited...

hi I'm dabbling with shell scripting a little and trying to get a backup script running on FreeBSD. #!/bin/csh NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M") FILE="example.com.$NOW.tar" BACKUP_DIR="/usr/home/andy/backups" WWW_DIR="/var/www/" DB_USER="user" DB_PASS="pass" DB_NAME="dbname"...

Hi, I'm an intermediate-level user of FreeBSD. I recently ran into a problem that I have been unable to solve. Basically, most (but not all) commands now return 'Command not found', even if I use the full path, which makes no sense to me whatsoever. The only thing I can think of that...

What shell do you think that is the better shell or what is your favourite shell? I think that the better shell is the Bourne Again Shell (bash), because his scripting language is most powerful than the tcsh, csh and sh, but I think that the Korn Shell is good too. So, my favourite shell...

I decieded to start this thread after reading the thread 'Which shell do you use?'. I'll start, mine is below. # .cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell # # # -- Set up command aliases alias searchports 'find /usr/ports -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs...

I'm planning on switching the shell I'm currently using(tcsh) to Bash but I've read that changing the root shell to bash might be a bad idea. The main problem I have is tcsh doesn't update the directory list automatically, so that's why I'm wondering which shell do you guys use?