Extracting columns within a range AWK
You want to test for 0.75-0.8 but wrote code to test for 0.7-0.75 and you forgot to specify what to test in the second part of your condition. Do this: awk '$2 >= 0.75 && $2 <= 0.8' Also note that you want a numeric comparison not a string comparison...
Struct member selected from type, it is not visible and will not be selected
You can write t.Unix.tm_yday $ ocaml OCaml version 4.02.1 # let f (t: Unix.tm) = t.tm_yday;; Warning 40: tm_yday was selected from type Unix.tm. It is not visible in the current scope, and will not be selected if the type becomes unknown. val f : Unix.tm -> int = <fun>...
Bash script to email when wc -l count is below 3
[[ $( find /folder/with/files -type f | wc -l ) -lt 3 ]] && mail -t [email protected] -s Problem <<< "Less than three files." Find and wc -l return the count of files and then [[ evaluates if the count is lees than three. If this evaluates to true and...
Improving a sort program's efficiency; displaying column sort % completion in terminal
From your sample data, you are going to sort approximately 950MB. It will take 9.5s reading from normal HD (100MB/s). I do not know how fast it will be sorted by standard sort but from my experience it can go 1-3 millions of records per CPU core. Let's say 1...
Modern-day Unix tools are written in what programming language? [closed]
Unix tools are written in a number of languages. Most of the classic tools are written in languages such as C and C++, but Perl and Python are also popular choices. C is still the dominant language, but it seems that Go might find some use in writing Unix command-line...
C - does read() add a '\0'?
does read() add a '\0'? No, it doesn't. It just reads. From read()'s documentation: The read() function shall attempt to read nbyte bytes from the file associated with the open file descriptor, fildes, into the buffer pointed to by buf. Is there potential for error here, other than the...
Join Statement omitting entries
I tried this out, and I noticed a couple things. First: this is minor, but I think you're missing a comma in your -o specifier. I changed it to -o 1.1,2.1. But then, running it on just the fragments you posted, I got only three lines of output: 1|1 3|3...
Why is Unix/Terminal faster than R?
I'm not sure what operations you're talking about, but in general, more complex processing systems like R use more complex internal data structures to represent the data being manipulated, and constructing these data structures can be a big bottleneck, significantly slower than the simple lines, words, and characters that Unix...
schedule automate shell script running not as ROOT
python,linux,shell,unix,linux-kernel
Ideally you should have your system administrator add your user account to /etc/cron.allow - without that you do not have permission to use the crontab command, as you probably discovered. If that is not possible, then you could use a wrapper shell script along these lines (note: untested): #!/bin/bash TIME="tomorrow...
Where is the cupsctl terminal executable on MacOSX?
Use the UNIX find command to search your entire disk starting at the root e.g. find / -name 'cupsctl' Shouldn't actually take all that long assuming an average sized SSD. A couple of seconds on my Mac $ sudo find / -name 'cupsctl' 2> /dev/null /usr/sbin/cupsctl or, as it's OS...
How to search for a text in specific files in unix
It might be better to use find, since grep's include/exclude can get a bit confusing: find -type f -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l 'hello' {} + This looks for files whose name finishes with .xml and performs a grep 'hello' on them. With -l (L) we make the file name...
Delete numbers from filename
for i in $(ls) ; do mv $i $(echo $i | awk -F '.' '{print $1"."$3}'); done For testing change mv to echo. PS: Did the code from my head, but should work. =)...
How to create a new file where each new line contains some text and quoted line/step number?
The code needs to be placed inside of BEGIN block: gawk 'BEGIN { for (i = 1; i <= 1000; i++) print "begin\""i"\"text"i"end" >> "path/to/output.txt" }' ...
Find the maximum values in 2nd column for each distinct values in 1st column using Linux
awk seems a prime candidate for this task. Simply traverse your input file and keep an array indexed by the first column values and storing a value of column 2 if it is larger than the currently stored value. At the end of the traversal iterate over the array to...
^M behind operating system version?
linux,windows,unix,operating-system
vi and familiars (you're probably actually using vim) display the the return character as ^M. Since line endings in unix and windows are different, you get this displayed instead of an actual line break.
How can I configure and allow pipes in my bash script?
In Unix like systems, everything is a file.Funneling output of a command (again, it is a file) to another as an input is called pipe lining (or piping in short). So when you see a set of commands as follows: history | grep ls | less history : returns list...
Redirect Outward of unix os commands to html page
Try something like this (using command ls): # start the html file echo "<html lang="en"><head><title>Command Output</title></head><body><table>" > output.html # get the data needed to a file for processing ls -lah >> output.html # escape html entities with PHP (optional but recommended) cat output.html | php -R 'echo html_entity_decode($argn);' > output2.html...
Is setting environment variable through a makefile - possible?
c,unix,makefile,malloc,gnu-make
Browning, setting an environment variable in the makefile is easy, and you have done so, but that is not what you want. That makes it take that value during the compile. But you want it to change malloc's behavior when you run the program. Reading the man page you referenced...
Converting values from for loop to json format
Observe that each line except the first begins with ",\n". dir="myfiles/test/" prefix="" echo "[" >> test.json for dir in "${array[@]}"; do #reverse the result of comparisons file=$(find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.txt' | awk "NR==$i") [[ -n $file ]] && printf '%b{ "filepath": "%s" }' $prefix "$file" >>...
What does mean the @ (at) on unix access right?
The @ symbol which you get from ll command (alias of ls -l) indicates which the file has extended attributes. Wikipedia: Extended file attributes are file system features that enables users to associate computer files with metadata not interpreted by the filesystem, whereas regular attributes have a purpose strictly defined...
SFTP Processbuilder
java,unix,sftp,processbuilder,ssh2-sftp
Two possible approaches: Use the scp command instead. It does the same ssh-based file transfer, but allows you to specify source and destination on the command line. ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("scp", "-i privateKey", "-r", "localFileDirectory", "[email protected]:remoteDirectory"); The -r is for "recursive", needed if you are transferring a whole folder....
Mounting GEOM_ELI Encrypted ZFS Pool as root
unix,encryption,freebsd,boot,zfs
Turns out I was correct. The daXp4.eli files are necessary as it's the metadata of each disk. A reference point if you will. By performing: geli backup /dev/daXp4 /boot/daXp4.eli It create the meta files required for geom to attempt a decryption at boot time. I hope this helps someone else...
Blocking in pthread_join()
c,multithreading,unix,pthreads
Yes - the main thread blocked on thrs[0] will not get the result from thrs[2] until after thrs[[0] and thrs[1] have also exited. If you need more flexibility one option is to do something like having the threads post their results in a queue or signal in some other way...
Can not connect to an abstract unix socket in python
python,c++,sockets,unix,unix-domain-sockets
Your C++ doesn't do quite what you think it does. This line: strncpy(addr.sun_path, UD_SOCKET_PATH, sizeof(addr.sun_path)-1); Copies a single null character '\0' into addr.sun_path. Note this line in the manpage for strncpy(): If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() writes additional null bytes to dest to ensure that...
man pages for c variable types
Read the C11 standard. On wikipedia, you will find referencess to all standards, including the older ones. Do not worry (too much) about them being draft; that is mustly due to ortographic corrections, etc. The final versions will cost money, so most here (and elsewhere) use the drafts. Linux man...
How to perform parallel processes for different groups in a folder?
bash,unix,parallel-processing,groups
So my whole ordeal was with trying to use my code on a directory with a lot of files. In order to get rid of the errer stating that there are too many Arguments, I used this code that I gathered from previous Ole Tange posts: ls ./ | grep...
Copy file into multiple directories - Unix
linux,bash,unix,directory,directory-structure
First try (has limitations) for d in $(find . -maxdepth 2 -type d | grep "/.*/"); do cp file "$d" done LIMITATIONS: No spaces/slashes/glob characters in the dir-names Second try (cleaner, thanks to gniourf_gniourf) find . -maxdepth 2 -path './*/*' -type d -exec cp file {} \; ...
Capture tee's argument inside piped Perl execution
The short answer is - you can't. tee is a separate process with it's own arguments. There is no way to access these arguments from that process. (well, I suppose you could run ps or something). The point of tee is to take STDOUT write some of it to a...
C std library don't appear to be linked in object file
Dynamic libraries are linked to the final executable, not to the object files, so you should run (e.g.) otool -L com_ex1 This should show something like com_ex1: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1213.0.0) because on OS X, the math library is part of libSystem: $ ls -l /usr/lib/libm.dylib lrwxr-xr-x...
How to convert following text in required format in unix?
If your file is called test.txt, you can do xargs -L 2 < test.txt ...
How to send message (in C) from one thread to another?
c,multithreading,unix,pthreads
An example, it's pretty simple — first make a pipe with pipe(). It creates two file descriptor — one for reading, and the second for writing. Here we calling it two times to have both read and write sides. Then we calling fork (that makes a second thread), and write/read...
Selecting unique lines based on two columns
You can perfectly use an index that uses more than one field for the array elements: awk -F"\t" '!seen[$2, $3]++' file In this case we use $2, $3 as index. This way, we will get all different elements of the tuples ($2, $3)....
How to fix btrfs root inode errors
Provided that the broken inodes are the only problem present, the solution is to simply remove them. There may be a quicker way to do this, but here is what worked for me. From here I gleaned that you can use the find command to search for an inode like...
Split a column's values into multiple rows awk/unix/python
This may help you $ cat file header: id,indicator,{(pid,days_remaining)} row: id_558314,1,{(property_66021,7),(property_24444,1),(property_285395,6)} $ awk -F, '{gsub(/[{}()]/,"")}FNR==1{print;next}{j=0;p=$1;for(i=3; i<=NF; i+=2){ $1=p;sub(/:/,++j"&",$1);print $1,$2,$i,$(i+1)}}' OFS=, file header: id,indicator,pid,days_remaining row1: id_558314,1,property_66021,7 row2: id_558314,1,property_24444,1 row3: id_558314,1,property_285395,6 Better Readable version awk -F, '{ gsub(/[{}()]/,"") } FNR==1{ print next } { j=0 p=$1 for(i=3;...
Redirect output from file to stdout
Many tools interpret a - as stdin/stdout depending on the context of its usage. Though, this is not part of the shell and therefore depends on the program used. In your case the following could solve your problem: myprog -o - input_file ...
gzip and pipe to output (performance consideration)
linux,unix,encryption,gzip,solaris
Gzip is a streaming compressor/decompressor. So (for large enough inputs) the compressor/decompressor starts writing output before it has seen the whole input. That's one of the reasons gzip compression is used for HTTP compression. The sender can compress while it's still generating content; the recipient can work on decompressing the...
Multiple line search in a file using java or unix command
You can find like this. File file = new File("data/pattern.txt"); Pattern pat = Pattern.compile("subclass \"Pool1\" 11:22:33:44:55:66 \\{\\s*dynamic;\\s*\\}"); String content = Files.lines(file.toPath()).collect(Collectors.joining("\n")); Matcher m = pat.matcher(content); while (m.find()) { System.out.printf("found at %d-%d%n", m.start(), m.end()); } ...
Scala Process for Linux is stuck
I preformed the concatination in the same comend without creating new file and it's work fine: val copyCommand = Seq("bash", "-c", "cat \"" + headerPath + "\" \"" + FilePath + "\">FileWithHeader") Process(copyCommand).#! ...
Send alert for 80% threshold comparing two values from Disk partition
linux,unix,ubuntu,storage,diskspace
Here's an awk script I wrote years ago to do this very thing. Just put it in cron to run at a specified schedule. #!/bin/sh /bin/df | \ /usr/bin/awk '{if($5 ~ "%" && $6 !~ "proc") {used=$5} else {used=""}; \ sub(/%/, "", used); \ if(used > 80) print $6 "...
Doubts with for loop in Unix
A for loop in shell scripting takes each whitespace separated string from the input and assigns it to the variable given, and runs the code once for each value. In your case b* is the input and $var is the assigned variable. The shell will also perform expansion on the...
Unix - Tail Utility would open the file or not
As per the source code of tail utility, it is opening the file in read mode not in write mode. So the answer is, I would say TAIL is opening the file for checks. But along with that i would like to answer one more question, since it is opening...
recursively replace echo value with previously echoed value in Unix [duplicate]
You can use printf to print backspace character \b to remove the already printed characters as printf "\b%.0s" {1..5} This will print 5 backspaces where by the cursor will be moved to the start of the line. In the next iteration the the echo will produce the new number Example...
How to replace newlines/linebreaks with a single space, but only if they are inside of start/end regexes?
regex,linux,shell,unix,replace
You can do it using awk as: awk '/\[x/{f=1} {if(f)printf "%s",$0; else print $0;} /y\]/{print ""; f=0}' Output: [x data1 data2 data3 data4 y] [a data5 data 6 data7 data 8 b> [x data y] You can also simplify to: awk '/\[x/,/y\]/{ORS=""; if(/y\]/) ORS="\n";}{print}' Output: [x data1 data2 data3 data4...
C++ Compile error on NetBSD '::system' has not been declared
I do not know exactly why you are facing this problem, but I can provide you with some next steps to try. Notice that the first error is that pthread_detach is missing. The system header files will typically make sure whatever headers they need are included, but you can try...
How to grep for value in a key-value store from plain text
Use a look behind: $ grep -Po '(?<=^FOO=)\w*$' file foo I also like awk for it: $ awk -v FS="FOO=" 'NF>1{print $2}' file foo Or even better: $ awk -F= -v key="FOO" '$1==key {print $2}' file foo With sed: $ sed -n 's/^FOO=//p' file foo ...
Bash - Script that reads .txt file and stores the info in variables to be used later
bash,shell,unix,network-programming,network-interface
This is how would I handle the problem: #!/bin/bash if [[ $# != 2 ]]; then echo "ERROR: Usage is ./$0 eth-name profile-name" exit 1 fi eth=$1 profile=$2 if [[ ! -f "$profile.txt" ]]; then echo "ERROR: $profile.txt file not found!" exit 1 fi # TODO: validate $eth ip=$(awk '{print...
How to remove characters before and including an underscore?
Using Parameter Expansion: $ var="fooo_barrrr" $ echo ${var#*_} barrrr To change the var itself, var=${var#*_}. Note this removes up to the first _: $ var="fooo_barrr_r" $ echo ${var#*_} barrr_r If you wanted to remove up to the last one, you would need to use ## instead: $ var="fooo_barrr_r" $ echo...
find numbers divisible by 3 in csv file using shell script
awk -F'|' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)if(!($i%3))print $i}' file this awk one-liner shoud do. With your example, the cmd outputs: 3 6 9 ...
awk if statement with simple math
There's no need to force awk to recompile every record (by assigning to $4), just print the current record followed by the result of your calculation: awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=","; OFMT="%.2f"} {print $0, $3*($3>1336?0.03:0.05)}' file ...
C programming bi directional communication
c,unix,multiprocessing,ipc,inter-process-communicat
Pipes are uni-directional and using sockets seems painful for a little ipc thing. I recommend you to use socketpair(). You can consider them as bi-directional pipes. Here is an example where the parent sends a character to its child.Then child makes it uppercase and sends it back to the parent.(It...
wc -l on unix command return value
Use pipes for IO redirection: $> /home/user/Development/loc -c /vobs/unitTestStub/works.h | wc -l ...
Bash script to configure network interfaces
linux,bash,unix,network-programming,network-interface
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 export http_proxy='http://ip:port/'...
Kill command in UNIX
See the manual page (http://linux.die.net/man/2/kill) If pid equals -1, then sig is sent to every process for which the calling process has permission to send signals, except for process 1 (init), but see below. So I guess that is you out of the system - but life continues for the...
How to extract single-/multiline regex-matching items from an unpredictably formatted file and put each one in a single line into output file?
Assuming that your document is well-formed, i.e. <b> opening tags always match with a </b> closing tag, then this may be what you need: sed '[email protected]<[/]\?b>@\n&\[email protected]' path/to/input.txt | awk 'BEGIN {buf=""} /<b>/ {Y=1; buf=""} /<\/b>/ {Y=0; print buf"</b>"} Y {buf = buf$0} ' | tr -s ' ' Output: <b>data1</b>...
Grep a gzipped file?
If you mean you just want to do this in a pipelined fashion, this should work: curl http://www.imdb.com/sitemap_US_02002.xml.gz | zcat | grep 'imdb.com/title/tt' ...
Enumerating executable files in C
ep->d_name contains only relative pathname of the directory entry. So you should change the Current Working Directory to /tmp/hi before calling stat(2) if (chdir("/bin") != 0) { perror("chdir()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* ... */ if (stat(ep->d_name, &sb) == -1) { perror("stat()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } As noted in the comments by @Andrew Medico,...
Output of SQL query and command to a file in shell script
You are overwriting the file. echo moo >output.lst echo bar >output.lst Now, output.lst only contains bar. The trick is to append, instead of overwrite. echo moo >output.lst echo bar >> output.lst Your script has multiple additional problems, so it is not really clear what you actually want it to do....
does a publicly available partial solution exist to parse *nix-style command line options without pre-knowledge of the keys? [closed]
linux,bash,shell,unix,command-line
Parsing UNIX command-line options in general is not possible in a schemaless manner, especially when supporting GNU conventions (ie. allowing intermixing between options and arguments). Consider the usage you gave here: my-script -x ex --y=why zebra Now, should this be: {options: {x: "ex", y: "why"}; arguments=["zebra"]} ...or should it be......
My JSch session doesn't execute command
I assume the problem is that you close the connection before the command is even started. All the examples your pointed to read a command output, until the end (hence until the command finishes). You do not read the output so you fail to wait for the command to finish....
Calling find more than once on the same folder tree
Try this: find . -mmin +35 -or -mmin -25 find supports several logical operators (-and, -or, -not). See the OPERATORS section of the man pages for more details. ==================== EDIT: In response to the question about processing the two matches differently, I do not know of a way to do...
Running custom program located in /bin
You can do it through your .bashrc, for example, like this: PATH=${PATH}:$(find ~/bin -type d | tr '\n' ':' | sed 's/:$//') Explanation: we search only for directories newlines get separated with : last : is stripped Aside from solutions like this, PATH doesn't understand pretty much anything other than...
nano: Move forwards/backwards one word with META+Left / META+Right
According to the manual page for nanorc, you cannot do this. It does not accept bindings for special keys modified by meta. This is what it says regarding M- (the meta-modifier): M- followed by a printable character or the word "Space". Example: M-C A similar question was asked in Bind...
Identifying when a file is changed- Bash
I would store the output of find, and if non-empty, echo the line break: found=$(find . -name "${myarray[i]}") if [[ -n $found ]]; then { echo "$found"; echo "<br>"; } >> "$tmp" fi ...
Implementation of copyout() in FreeBSD
That is a function prototype, otherwise known as a declaration. The implementation (definition if you choose) is in the kernel sources. You can find those online, or (if you chose to install sources) on your local FreeBSD machine (under /usr/src/sys). There are actually several copies, depending on the hardware for...
Disregard word order when comparing two variables
Let's define our variables: a="abc pqr mno xyz" b="mno pqr xyz abc" Now let's define a helper function which puts the words in alphabetical order: sorted() { echo "$1" | sed 's/[[:space:]][[:space:]]*/\n/g' | sort; } Now, using our helper function, lets test for equality: [ "$(sorted "$a")" = "$(sorted "$b")"...
What is wrong with these formats for Unix Shell Scripting Comparing Strings [duplicate]
Spaces in Bash are crucial not optional. Change the if statement to: if [ "$uInput" != "n" ]; then If you are wondering why? see this: Why should be there a space after '[' and before ']' in the Bash Script...
Why can I view some Unix executable files in Mac OS X and not others?
Executable files may be scripts (in which case you can read the text), or binaries (which are ELF formatted machine code). Your shell script is a script; git is an ELF binary. You can use the file command to see more detail. For example, on my nearest Linux system: $...
How to open a new terminal from my working terminal with same directory in Linux?
if you connect to your remote server via ssh -x [host] now run gnome-terminal & this will open a terminal with the same ssh connection. is this what your were after?...
ImageMagick - Making 2 GIFs into side by side GIFs using IM convert
image,unix,imagemagick,imagemagick-convert
I don't have 2 animated GIFs of the same length, so I'll just use two copies of this one: Let's look at the frames in there, with this: identify 1.gif 1.gif[0] GIF 500x339 500x339+0+0 8-bit sRGB 32c 508KB 0.000u 0:00.000 1.gif[1] GIF 449x339 500x339+51+0 8-bit sRGB 32c 508KB 0.000u 0:00.000...
storing 'du' result in a variable [duplicate]
Like so FOO="$(du -m myfile.csv)" echo "$FOO" Output 1.25 myfile.csv ...
series of commands using nohup [duplicate]
nohup command1 && command2 && command3 ... The nohup will apply only to command1. When it finishes (assuming it doesn't fail), command2 will be executed without nohup, and will be vulnerable to a hangup signal. nohup command1 && nohup command2 && nohup command3 ... I don't think this would work....
awk — adding a new delimiter to the default space delimiter
You can specify a regular expression as the delimiter: echo "1 2"|awk -F"[ |=]+" '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' It also means echo "1 2 3==5"|awk -F"[ |=]+" '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' would print 1 2 3 5 ...
How to do the expansion of variable in shell script? [duplicate]
Using bash -c: newvar="$(bash -c "echo $var")" Using eval: newvar="$(eval "echo $var")" Example: #!/bin/bash var='$PATH' echo "$var" #This will show that $var contains the string $PATH literally #Using bash -c newvar="$(bash -c "echo "$var"")" echo "$newvar" #using eval newvar="$(eval "echo "$var"")" echo "$newvar" It will print the environment variable paths...
Unix c program to calculate pi using threads
There are numerous problems with that code. Your specific problem is that, in C, variable length arrays (VLAs) are not permitted at file scope. So, if you want that array to be dynamic, you will have to declare the pointer to it and allocate it yourself: int N, T; double...
pass enter key from Java to Shell script
According to the JSch javadoc, you must call setInputStream() or getOutputStream() before connect(). You can only do one of these, once. For your purposes, getOutputStream() seems more appropriate. Once you have an OutputStream, you can wrap it in a PrintWriter to make sending commands easier. Similarly you can use channel.getInputStream()...
Shell script rename and move files from one folder to the other
The following command can automate the rename process: rename 's/03-06-2015$/04-06-2015/' * Then use the move command: mv source/files destination/ Hope this helps....
apache with virtual hosts: 403 forbidden
You need to change ServerName from scripts to page in second section in httpd-vhosts.conf.
Replace a double backslash followed by quote (\\') using sed?
$ sed "s/\\\\\\\'/\\\'/g" file 'one', 'two \'change', 'three \'unchanged' Here is a discussion on why sed needs 3 backslashes for one...
Path of the current, parents and root directory
gnu sed echo $(pwd) | sed -r -e 'p; :a; s#(.*)/.*#\1#; H; ta; x' | sed '/^$/d' this will print all directories from current -> root it uses greedy search for '/' keeping only left part, appending in hold space, ta is conditional branch for substutution, so if there is...
A unix system programming project on windows?
Just do the project in Ubuntu. You're going to have a hard enough time learning about signals and process handling without having to worry about various differences between Cygwin and actual unix/linux. Another option is to install virtualbox and run Ubuntu within that. There should be no differences there. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads...
Random password generate in shell script with one special character
bash,shell,unix,random,passwords
#! /bin/bash chars='@#$%&_+=' { </dev/urandom LC_ALL=C grep -ao '[A-Za-z0-9]' \ | head -n$((RANDOM % 8 + 9)) echo ${chars:$((RANDOM % ${#chars})):1} # Random special char. } \ | shuf \ | tr -d '\n' LC_ALL=C prevents characters like ř from appearing. grep -o outputs just the matching substring, i.e. a...
`fs.mkdir` is creating the directory with different permissions than those specified
Because it applies umask on your mode. Type umask in your console, you will see 022 or 0022. You can overwrite it for your node process with process.umask(newmask);...
how to check a directory exist and can write file
For Checking Diretory is present if [ -d "$YOUR_DIRECTORY" ] then #Operation when directory is present else #Operation when directory is not present fi For checking if directory is writeable if [ -w "$YOUR_DIRECTORY"] then #Operation when directory is writeable else #Operation when directory is not writeable fi Regarding Oracle...
Unix: Where does “ls -l” get comma-separated values in size field for devices?
From the POSIX specification for ls: If the file is a character special or block special file, the size of the file may be replaced with implementation-defined information associated with the device in question. In this particular case, you almost certainly have an implementation printing the major and minor device...
Unable to connect to mysql after automating mysql-server installation in bash script
I think Álvaro its right about the quotes, try something like debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password $passdb" debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password $passdb" ...