[fgmlug] Re: Bash scripting question
- From: chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: fgmlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:27:18 -0400
Thanks Goose, Yeah when I finish with kismet, I am also done with gpsd
and I am usually on the kismet screen when I terminate it so having
basically both end at the same time is acceptable for me.
I will try this out and report back.
Chuq
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 16:03 -0700, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
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> Comments inline...
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> Richard "Goose" Zimmerman, ke4rit
> Mishawaka, IN
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> From: chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: fgmlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 3:27:10 PM
> Subject: [fgmlug] Bash scripting question
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> As I am still new to programming and writing bash scripts I have a
> question for you guys to see if you can give me a hand with this..
> What I would like to accomplish is this (if any part of this is not do
> able that is fine I can make do with what won't work)
> I want to type a command such as ./start
> from there I would like for it to run a command (gpsd)
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> <start>
> #!/bin/bash
> /location/to/gpsd
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> Then have it open another console tab and run a different program
> (kismet)
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> Within <start>
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> ./location/to/kismet
> *or*
> ./location/to/script2
> # spawns kismet
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> That is the biggest part of what I want, here is the parts that may
> get tricky
> I would like to have the script stop (ctrl-c is fine) when I stop the
> second program (kismet)
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> When you exit kismet the original start script will end
> automatically... Are you really wanting to end gpsd instead????
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> And then if this is still yet possible have it run a different script
> (./done) when both of those are done.
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> in ./done use the killall command to kill all instances of gpsd or
> leave killall in ./start
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> Any help on this would be appreciated..
> I have managed to write a few small scripts that help me out with
> running the programs with different variable or arguments in them, but
> I am stumped on this. The one thing that I have not been able to
> figure out is how to have bash initialize another console window.
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> If you want another console just ./bin/bash
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> Thanks very much
> Chuq
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> Hopes this helps...
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> Richard
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