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I'm trying to write a not found handle in Bash that does the following: If $1 exists and it's a directory, cd into it. If $1 exists inside a user defined directory $DEV_DIR , `cd into it. If the previous conditions don't apply, fail. Right now I have something like this: export DEV_DIR=/Users/federico/programacion/ function command_not_found_handle () { if [ -d $1 ]; then # the dir exists in '.' cd $1 else to=$DEV_DIR$1 if [ -d $to ]; then cd $to echo `pwd` else echo "${1}: command not found" fi fi } And although it seems to be working (the echo pwd command prints the expected dir), the

This question already has answers here : Bash script with graphical menus (2 answers) Are there some more Text User Interface (TUI) frameworks for bash (other than this)? : http://code.google.com/p/bashsimplecurses/ I want to take user input (data entry) process the entry If all you need to do is prompt the user for information, take a look at dialog . http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html Agi Hammerthief bashsimplecurses is pretty capable (from the little I've seen), but you might want to try GTK Server . (Have a look at the docs page for tutorial and manual links). It can work with

How can I get qstat to give me full job names? I know qstat -r gives detailed information about the task, but it's too much and the resource requirements are included. The qstat -r output is like: 131806 0.25001 tumor_foca ajalali qw 09/29/2014 15:49:41 1 2-100:1 Full jobname: tumor_focality-TCGA-THCA-ratboost_linear_svc Hard Resources: distribution=wheezy (0.000000) h_rt=72000 (0.000000) mem_free=15G (0.000000) h_vmem=15G (0.000000) h_stack=256M (0.000000) Soft Resources: 131807 0.25001 vital_stat ajalali qw 09/29/2014 15:49:41 1 2-100:1 Full jobname: vital_status-TCGA-LGG-ratboost_linear_svc

My same BASH script is working in Fedora/CentOS. But I am testing one Android eee pad transformer . Where i have terminal access and i wrote a small test script. But its not working, how can i fix it? what am i doing wrong? /data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home $ cat test.sh #!/bin/bash var=`ifconfig -a`; echo $var; /data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home $ chmod +x test.sh /data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home $ ./test.sh sh: ./test.sh: not found /data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.36.3-00004-g069b8b5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed

while read p; do echo $p done < file.txt this code can read all lines in the file.txt except the last line any ideas why. Thanks if youre in doubt about the last \n in the file, you can try: while read p; do echo $p done < <(grep '' file.txt) grep is not picky about the line endings ;) you can use grep . file.txt for skipping empty lines... Well last line does not contain the newline character, as the other answers have pointed out. But the read command actually sets the p variable, and then instead of returning a success, returns an end of file error. So this error stops the loop from getting