PING: command not found - unix

Given the following code
pingval=$(ping6 -c 1 "$url")
time=$($pingval| tail -1| awk '{print $4}'|cut -d '/' -f 2)
Could anyone tell me why I'm receiving a PING: command not found error?

My solution to this was to simply use
time=$(echo pingval|......)

I'm presuming you're wrapping this in a shell script? Is the ping6 command in the search path for the shell you're using to execute that script?
Also, stating the obvious: ping6 is also in your path?
which ping6

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dns2tcp Error socket.c:107 bind error

When I try and set up my DNS server to use dns2tcp using sudo dns2tcpd -F -d 3 -f ~/etc/dns2tcpdrc.conf I get the error Error socket.c:107 bind error
How do I fix this?
something running in port 53 . to find use sudo netstat -anp | grep :53
Then use kill PID
just see this image

Unix mailx html mail not working

Following html mail using mailx command is working from shell terminal, but the same command is not working from shell script.
mailx -s "$(echo -e "${sub} TRP OF ${system} \nContent-Type: text/html")" example#gmail.com < TRP.html
I guess it is some small escape character error, but not sure what it is.
Can any one help here?
Perhaps your vars sub / system are only known in your current environment.
When your sript is called mymail, try
. mymail
(Start with a dot),
or first export your vars.
When these suggestions fail, debug:
use set -x or temporary put an "echo -e" in front of your line.

Read HTTP output using shell/bash script

My url (http://myhost.com/getuser/Default.aspx?username=b772643) returns the following line of of info always:
John, Thomas;John.B.Thomas#Company.com
I wish to read this line using a shell or bash script without wget/lynx. I'm in a situation where I cannot use any other utility, the perl language etc.
Curl or wget are obviously better for the job but for the record bash and Unix standard commands (cat & printf) can do the job.
ksh introduced shell network internal handling and this has been adopted by bash.
#!/bin/bash
exec 5<> /dev/tcp/myhost.com/80
cat <&5 &
printf "GET /getuser/Default.aspx?username=b772643 HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" >&5
One liner:
(echo 'GET /getuser/Default.aspx?username=b772643' > /dev/tcp/myhost.com/80);
so
curl "http://myhost.com/getuser/Default.aspx?username=b772643"
curl "http://myhost.com/getuser/Default.aspx?username=b772643"| sed 's/\(.*\);\(.*\)/\2 \1/' | while read email name; do echo =$email=$name=; done
You could use :
curl "http://myhost.com/getuser/Default.aspx?username=b772643"
and extract the datas from what is returned :)

unix command to extract part of a hostname

I would like to extract the first part of this hostname testsrv1
from testsrv1.main.corp.loc.domain.com in UNIX, within a shell script.
What command can I use? It would be anything before the first period .
Do you have the server name in a shell variable? Are you using a sh-like shell? If so,
${SERVERNAME%%.*}
will do what you want.
You can use cut:
echo "testsrv1.main.corp.loc.domain.com" | cut -d"." -f1
To build upon pilcrow's answer, no need for new variable, just use inbuilt $HOSTANME.
echo $HOSTNAME-->my.server.domain
echo ${HOSTNAME%%.*}-->my
Tested on two fairly different Linux's.
2.6.18-371.4.1.el5, GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
3.4.76-65.111.amzn1.x86_64, GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
try the -s switch:
hostname -s
I use command cut, awk, sed or bash variables
Operation
Via cut
[flying#lempstacker ~]$ echo "testsrv1.main.corp.loc.domain.com" | cut -d. -f1
testsrv1
[flying#lempstacker ~]$
Via awk
[flying#lempstacker ~]$ echo "testsrv1.main.corp.loc.domain.com" | awk -v FS='.' '{print $1}'
testsrv1
[flying#lempstacker ~]$
Via sed
[flying#lempstacker ~]$ echo "testsrv1.main.corp.loc.domain.com" | sed -r 's#([^.]*).(.*)#\1#g'
testsrv1
[flying#lempstacker ~]$
Via Bash Variables
[flying#lempstacker ~]$ hostName='testsrv1.main.corp.loc.domain.com'
[flying#lempstacker ~]$ echo ${hostName%%.*}
testsrv1
[flying#lempstacker ~]$
You could have used "uname -n" to just get the hostname only.
You can use IFS to split text by whichever token you want. For domain names, we can use the dot/period character.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
shorthost() {
# Set IFS to dot, so that we can split $# on dots instead of spaces.
local IFS='.'
# Break up arguments passed to shorthost so that each domain zone is
# a new index in an array.
zones=($#)
# Echo out our first zone
echo ${zones[0]}
}
If this is in your script then, for instance, you'll get test when you run shorthost test.example.com. You can adjust this to fit your use case, but knowing how to break the zones into the array is the big thing here, I think.
I wanted to provide this solution, because I feel like spawning another process is overkill when you can do it easily and completely within your shell with IFS. One thing to watch out for is that some users will recommend doing things like hostname -s, but that doesn't work in the BSD userland. For instance, MacOS users don't have the -s flag, I don't think.
Assuming the variable $HOSTNAME exists, so try echo ${HOSTNAME%%.*} to get the top-most part of the full-qualified hostname. Hope it helps.
If interested, the hint is from the below quoted partial /etc/bashrc on a REHL7 host:
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen
else
PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033k%s#%s:%s\033\\" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"'
fi
;; ... ```

Problem with plink output

I'm using plink to run a command on a Unix remote machine.
The command is:
ls -1trd testegrep.txt |tail -1 |xargs tail -f| grep 's';
The way I'm sending this command is by using a file with a set of commands like:
plink.exe -ssh -t -l user -pw pwd tst.url.pt -m commands.out
When I run the command this way the plink does not receive any input. It seems that is waiting for input.
But if I run:
plink.exe -ssh -t -l user -pw pwd tst.url.pt "ls -1trd testegrep.txt |tail -1 |xargs tail -f| grep 's';"
I get the expected result.
I'm not using the plink with a file with the command because I choose so. I'm using a test automation software that allows me to run tests on remote hosts and this is the way the tool works.
Any thoughts on what is going wrong?
I tested the command you provided and it worked without problems.
Maybe the problem is related to:
The server's host key is not cached in the registry.
The path to the file is not correct.
The file is empty.
include server hostkey
most importantly, you need to include the unix profile using the -m paramater
You can include all your commands in the same file where the profile is kept also.
$Output = ((plink.exe -hostkey hostkey -l UNAME -i SSHKEY -P 22 -ssh server -batch -m PROFILE) | ? {$_ -ne ""})

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