Iterate a Text File in Bash
This is how you iterate thru a text file outputting a line at a time in Bash shell scripting.
IFS='\n'; for i in(cat FILE.TXT); do echo "$i"; done
25
May
Tag Archives: text
11
Aug
Send One Line From a Text File as as SMS Every 10 Mins
This command will send a line from a given text file one every 10 mins as an SMS to a given number.
i=1; while [ 1 ]; do sms INSERT_PHONE_NUMBER "(cat "/home/binnyva/sms.txt"|head -ni|tail -n1)"; sleep 10m; i=(expri + 1); done
Script calls the command ‘sms’ – you can define that command however you want. In my case, its a variation of this script.
11
Aug
Send Text Once Every 15 Mins
Command to send a text to any phone once every 15 mins.
while [ 1 ]; do sms NUMBER_GOES_HERE "$(date '+%I:%M %p') Hey Anju. Still awake?"; sleep 15m; done
Script calls the command ‘sms’ – you can define that command however you want. In my case, its a variation of this script.
06
Jul
Install Package List
Install a list of packages from a text file.
cat packages.txt | xargs apt-get install
25
Jun
Replacing in Found Files
Replace one string by another in all file found by find.
find . -name *whatyouwant* -exec perl -pi.bak -e 's/TEXT_TO_REPLACE/TEXT_TO_REPLACE_IT_WITH/g' {} \;
11
Jan
Spell Check a Text File using Aspell
You can use Aspell to spell check of a text document using this command. It must be executed in a termial – as it has an console interface.
aspell check test.txt
23
Oct
Optimized Grep Searching
Grep that searches recursively, ignores binary files, and doesn’t look inside Subversion hidden folders.
grep -Ir --exclude="*\.svn*" "pattern" *
01
Sep
Delete all \n chars in a file…
Delete all \n chars in a file…
tr -d "\n"
21
Jun
Text type convert
Convert a text file format from MSDOS to UNIX
dos2unix input_file output_file
02
Jun
Get the Plain Text Version of a Web Page
This command fetches a web page, converts it to text and shows it.
lynx -dump http://www.example.com/