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I stumbled across this script containing:
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
What does this line do?
command-line bash
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I stumbled across this script containing:
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
What does this line do?
command-line bash
asked 7 hours ago
WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix
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Close enough IMO, heemayl’s answer explains thoroughly what the pattern with and without:does. If you don’t think the explanation suffices, maybe edit the answer over there? With 13 UVs on the question and 19 on the answer I think it’s save to say that this is our generic post for this particular parameter expansion, and we don’t really need to split things up even more – one post covering parameter expansion in general would be nice.
– dessert
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I stumbled across this script containing:
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
What does this line do?
command-line bash
asked 7 hours ago
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I stumbled across this script containing:
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
What does this line do?
command-line bash
command-line bash
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Close enough IMO, heemayl’s answer explains thoroughly what the pattern with and without:does. If you don’t think the explanation suffices, maybe edit the answer over there? With 13 UVs on the question and 19 on the answer I think it’s save to say that this is our generic post for this particular parameter expansion, and we don’t really need to split things up even more – one post covering parameter expansion in general would be nice.
– dessert
7 hours ago
add a comment |
Close enough IMO, heemayl’s answer explains thoroughly what the pattern with and without:does. If you don’t think the explanation suffices, maybe edit the answer over there? With 13 UVs on the question and 19 on the answer I think it’s save to say that this is our generic post for this particular parameter expansion, and we don’t really need to split things up even more – one post covering parameter expansion in general would be nice.
– dessert
7 hours ago
Close enough IMO, heemayl’s answer explains thoroughly what the pattern with and without
: does. If you don’t think the explanation suffices, maybe edit the answer over there? With 13 UVs on the question and 19 on the answer I think it’s save to say that this is our generic post for this particular parameter expansion, and we don’t really need to split things up even more – one post covering parameter expansion in general would be nice.– dessert
7 hours ago
Close enough IMO, heemayl’s answer explains thoroughly what the pattern with and without
: does. If you don’t think the explanation suffices, maybe edit the answer over there? With 13 UVs on the question and 19 on the answer I think it’s save to say that this is our generic post for this particular parameter expansion, and we don’t really need to split things up even more – one post covering parameter expansion in general would be nice.– dessert
7 hours ago
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The command: LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog is shorthand for:
if [[ "$1" == "" ]] # if parameter 1 is blank
then
LOGFILE="/var/log/syslog" # LOGFILE set to /var/log/syslog
else
LOGFILE="$1" # LOGFILE set to parameter 1
fi
If parameter 1 is not passed you see:
If you pass paraemeter 1:
journalctl -b > /tmp/messages
yad-logfile /tmp/messages
you see:
The original code in question link was modified:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: yad-logfile
# DATE: May 19, 2019.
# From: https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/wiki/LogViewer/
# This script demonstrates new features of list dialog. Script displays content
# of specified log file and mark some special strings: with word "kernel" by
# setting italic font, with word "error" by light yellow background and with
# word "warn" by pink background
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
PARSER='font=""; color="#FFFFFF";
/CRON/ font="italic";
/smartd/ color="#FFF4B8";
/upower/ color="#FFD0D8";
OFS="n" print $1 " " $2, $3, $4, substr($5,0,index($5,":")-1),
substr($0,index($0,$6)), font, color; fflush()'
cat $LOGFILE | awk "$PARSER" |
yad --title="Log viewer" --window-icon=logviewer
--button=gtk-close --geometry 600x350
--list --text="Content of $LOGFILE"
--column Date --column Time --column Host
--column Tag --column Message:TIP
--column @font@ --column @back@
exit $?
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The command: LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog is shorthand for:
if [[ "$1" == "" ]] # if parameter 1 is blank
then
LOGFILE="/var/log/syslog" # LOGFILE set to /var/log/syslog
else
LOGFILE="$1" # LOGFILE set to parameter 1
fi
If parameter 1 is not passed you see:
If you pass paraemeter 1:
journalctl -b > /tmp/messages
yad-logfile /tmp/messages
you see:
The original code in question link was modified:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: yad-logfile
# DATE: May 19, 2019.
# From: https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/wiki/LogViewer/
# This script demonstrates new features of list dialog. Script displays content
# of specified log file and mark some special strings: with word "kernel" by
# setting italic font, with word "error" by light yellow background and with
# word "warn" by pink background
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
PARSER='font=""; color="#FFFFFF";
/CRON/ font="italic";
/smartd/ color="#FFF4B8";
/upower/ color="#FFD0D8";
OFS="n" print $1 " " $2, $3, $4, substr($5,0,index($5,":")-1),
substr($0,index($0,$6)), font, color; fflush()'
cat $LOGFILE | awk "$PARSER" |
yad --title="Log viewer" --window-icon=logviewer
--button=gtk-close --geometry 600x350
--list --text="Content of $LOGFILE"
--column Date --column Time --column Host
--column Tag --column Message:TIP
--column @font@ --column @back@
exit $?
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The command: LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog is shorthand for:
if [[ "$1" == "" ]] # if parameter 1 is blank
then
LOGFILE="/var/log/syslog" # LOGFILE set to /var/log/syslog
else
LOGFILE="$1" # LOGFILE set to parameter 1
fi
If parameter 1 is not passed you see:
If you pass paraemeter 1:
journalctl -b > /tmp/messages
yad-logfile /tmp/messages
you see:
The original code in question link was modified:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: yad-logfile
# DATE: May 19, 2019.
# From: https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/wiki/LogViewer/
# This script demonstrates new features of list dialog. Script displays content
# of specified log file and mark some special strings: with word "kernel" by
# setting italic font, with word "error" by light yellow background and with
# word "warn" by pink background
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
PARSER='font=""; color="#FFFFFF";
/CRON/ font="italic";
/smartd/ color="#FFF4B8";
/upower/ color="#FFD0D8";
OFS="n" print $1 " " $2, $3, $4, substr($5,0,index($5,":")-1),
substr($0,index($0,$6)), font, color; fflush()'
cat $LOGFILE | awk "$PARSER" |
yad --title="Log viewer" --window-icon=logviewer
--button=gtk-close --geometry 600x350
--list --text="Content of $LOGFILE"
--column Date --column Time --column Host
--column Tag --column Message:TIP
--column @font@ --column @back@
exit $?
answered 7 hours ago
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The command: LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog is shorthand for:
if [[ "$1" == "" ]] # if parameter 1 is blank
then
LOGFILE="/var/log/syslog" # LOGFILE set to /var/log/syslog
else
LOGFILE="$1" # LOGFILE set to parameter 1
fi
If parameter 1 is not passed you see:
If you pass paraemeter 1:
journalctl -b > /tmp/messages
yad-logfile /tmp/messages
you see:
The original code in question link was modified:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: yad-logfile
# DATE: May 19, 2019.
# From: https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/wiki/LogViewer/
# This script demonstrates new features of list dialog. Script displays content
# of specified log file and mark some special strings: with word "kernel" by
# setting italic font, with word "error" by light yellow background and with
# word "warn" by pink background
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
PARSER='font=""; color="#FFFFFF";
/CRON/ font="italic";
/smartd/ color="#FFF4B8";
/upower/ color="#FFD0D8";
OFS="n" print $1 " " $2, $3, $4, substr($5,0,index($5,":")-1),
substr($0,index($0,$6)), font, color; fflush()'
cat $LOGFILE | awk "$PARSER" |
yad --title="Log viewer" --window-icon=logviewer
--button=gtk-close --geometry 600x350
--list --text="Content of $LOGFILE"
--column Date --column Time --column Host
--column Tag --column Message:TIP
--column @font@ --column @back@
exit $?
answered 7 hours ago
WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix
50.5k12100195
The command: LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog is shorthand for:
if [[ "$1" == "" ]] # if parameter 1 is blank
then
LOGFILE="/var/log/syslog" # LOGFILE set to /var/log/syslog
else
LOGFILE="$1" # LOGFILE set to parameter 1
fi
If parameter 1 is not passed you see:
If you pass paraemeter 1:
journalctl -b > /tmp/messages
yad-logfile /tmp/messages
you see:
The original code in question link was modified:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: yad-logfile
# DATE: May 19, 2019.
# From: https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/wiki/LogViewer/
# This script demonstrates new features of list dialog. Script displays content
# of specified log file and mark some special strings: with word "kernel" by
# setting italic font, with word "error" by light yellow background and with
# word "warn" by pink background
LOGFILE=$1:-/var/log/syslog
PARSER='font=""; color="#FFFFFF";
/CRON/ font="italic";
/smartd/ color="#FFF4B8";
/upower/ color="#FFD0D8";
OFS="n" print $1 " " $2, $3, $4, substr($5,0,index($5,":")-1),
substr($0,index($0,$6)), font, color; fflush()'
cat $LOGFILE | awk "$PARSER" |
yad --title="Log viewer" --window-icon=logviewer
--button=gtk-close --geometry 600x350
--list --text="Content of $LOGFILE"
--column Date --column Time --column Host
--column Tag --column Message:TIP
--column @font@ --column @back@
exit $?
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Close enough IMO, heemayl’s answer explains thoroughly what the pattern with and without
:does. If you don’t think the explanation suffices, maybe edit the answer over there? With 13 UVs on the question and 19 on the answer I think it’s save to say that this is our generic post for this particular parameter expansion, and we don’t really need to split things up even more – one post covering parameter expansion in general would be nice.– dessert
7 hours ago