Specifying correct type for password should be enough, try: Param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)] [string]$FileLocation, [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)] [Security.SecureString]$password ) PowerShell will “mask” password (same as for read-host -asSecureString) and result type will be the one that other cmdlets may require. EDIT: After recent comments: solution, that gives both option to provide plain text password, or force user to … Read more
You might want to look at cpanm for this; it’s lightweight, shell scriptable, and much simpler than classic CPAN.
Add the following to the systemd service file for gunicorn, or add it as an override: ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID You can then reload with systemctl reload gunicorn.
Cheap n’ dirty way: Loop stat -c %Y file and take action when the modification time changes. Probably better: Use the inotify cron service to watch for file modification events and run your action: /path/to/your/file IN_MODIFY /path/to/your/script $#
Both for MySQL and PostgreSQL you can specify your user and password in local config file. .my.cnf for MySQL and .pgpass for PostgreSQL. These files should be in your home directory (i.e. ~/.my.cnf). .my.cnf: [mysql] user=user password=password .pgpass: host:port:database:user:password You can have a wildcard entry here, substituting any field for *******. PS: DO NOT EVER … Read more
You can use xargs, with the -t flag xargs will be verbose and prints the commands it executes: ./command1 | xargs -t -n1 command2 -n1 defines the maximum arguments passed to every call of command2. This will execute: command2 word1 command2 word2 command2 word3 If you want all as argument of one call of command2 … Read more
According to the section on “Parameter Expansion” in the bash man page, this means “use the default value if the parameter is unset.” So for example, ${PID-/run/unicorn.pid} equals $PID if $PID is set, otherwise /run/unicorn.pid.
As documented you can run meta-commands via the –command option. sudo -u postgres psql –command ‘\password postgres’ The single quotes ensure that the shell doesn’t treat the backslash as an escape-character.
I generally find that using the -exec option for find to be easier and less confusing. Try this: find . -name vmware-*.log -exec rm -i {} \; Everything after -exec is taken to be a command to run for each result, up to the ;, which is escaped here so that it will be passed … Read more
mysqldump returns 0 for Success 1 for Warning 2 for Not Found It also prints an extended error message to stderr e.g. mysqldump: Got error: 1049: Unknown database ‘dbname’ when selecting the database You can inspect the returned value like so mysqldump -u DBuser -pDBpassword database >database.sql 2>database.err if [ “$?” -eq 0 ] then … Read more