Comments on: Bash it! Bop it! Script it! http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2008/bash-it-bop-it-script-it/ one man's dawning realization that linux is waaaaay smarter than he is Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brie http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2008/bash-it-bop-it-script-it/comment-page-1/#comment-7444 Brie Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:28:43 +0000 http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2008/bash-it-bop-it-twist-it/#comment-7444 Thanks for the tip on reloading bash profile settings. That was new to me. :+). Thanks for the tip on reloading bash profile settings. That was new to me. :+).

]]> By: GeoffreyT http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2008/bash-it-bop-it-script-it/comment-page-1/#comment-7189 GeoffreyT Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:01:44 +0000 http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2008/bash-it-bop-it-twist-it/#comment-7189 Hey there. Nice informative HowTo - and thanks for thinking to put the link to the advanced bash-scripting guide. Elsewhere you mentioned DreamHost (I am an ex-hostee of theirs too); I notice that you talked about SliceHost, but their costs are exorbitant compared with, say, HostUpon's shared setup. I've never noticed any benefit from having VPS versus shared (I had a VPS server in the past... maybe my traffic was not enough to warrant it at the time), but $70 a month for bugger-all versus $4.95 a month for unlimited space AND bandwidth, I can't see anything but upside for the shared solution. Do you have a take on this? My full site is almost entirely mySQL driven, with a DB approaching 300Mb - stock and commodities research is data-intensive - and PHP scripts for presentation and what-not < 20Mb. Like you, I am just an enthusiastic amateur when it comes to all this web admin malarkey; my blog is just a little bit of vanity publishing and the site is mostly to show off. Now I have to figure out how to write a bash script to run 6 PHP scripts successively rather than crontab-ing them, since (1) the overall job starts at 4:22 NY time and must be finishe by 4:30 NY time; (2) the scripts are hierarchical (script 2 and 4 require scripts 1 and 3 to have finished), and (3) two of them sometimes take up to 4 minutes to complete. Doubtless such a thing is child's play for anyone with the least amount of scripting ability... it might even be as simple as #!/bin/bash wget -q /path/to/script1 wget -q /path/to/script2 wget -q /path/to/script3 etc,,, If not I am in trouble! Cheers GT France Hey there.

Nice informative HowTo – and thanks for thinking to put the link to the advanced bash-scripting guide.

Elsewhere you mentioned DreamHost (I am an ex-hostee of theirs too); I notice that you talked about SliceHost, but their costs are exorbitant compared with, say, HostUpon’s shared setup.

I’ve never noticed any benefit from having VPS versus shared (I had a VPS server in the past… maybe my traffic was not enough to warrant it at the time), but $70 a month for bugger-all versus $4.95 a month for unlimited space AND bandwidth, I can’t see anything but upside for the shared solution.

Do you have a take on this? My full site is almost entirely mySQL driven, with a DB approaching 300Mb – stock and commodities research is data-intensive – and PHP scripts for presentation and what-not < 20Mb.

Like you, I am just an enthusiastic amateur when it comes to all this web admin malarkey; my blog is just a little bit of vanity publishing and the site is mostly to show off.

Now I have to figure out how to write a bash script to run 6 PHP scripts successively rather than crontab-ing them, since

(1) the overall job starts at 4:22 NY time and must be finishe by 4:30 NY time;
(2) the scripts are hierarchical (script 2 and 4 require scripts 1 and 3 to have finished), and
(3) two of them sometimes take up to 4 minutes to complete.

Doubtless such a thing is child’s play for anyone with the least amount of scripting ability… it might even be as simple as

#!/bin/bash
wget -q /path/to/script1
wget -q /path/to/script2
wget -q /path/to/script3
etc,,,

If not I am in trouble!

Cheers

GT
France

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