How to run simple calculations in shell scripts - batch-processing

i want to run the following
For i in A*.wav
do
soundstretch $i B$i -tempo=n
done
but i wan n to be (2/(soxi -D $i)-1)*100.
how do i code that?

How about
n=$(echo "(2/(soxi - D $1)-1)-100" | bc)
though I cant parse the expression you are trying to evaluate. I mean I dont know what soxi and D is. echo prints the expression, which is then piped into bc and whatever that prints to its stdout is then assigned to n.

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Issues converting a small Hex value to a Binary value

I am trying to take the contents of a file that has a Hex number and convert that number to Binary and output to a file.
This is what I am trying but not getting the binary value:
xxd -r -p Hex.txt > Binary.txt
The contents of Hex.txt is: ff
I have also tried FF and 0xFF, but would like to just use ff since the device I am pulling the info from has it in that format.
Instead of 11111111 which it should be, I get a y with 2 dots above it.
If I change it to ee, I get an i with 2 dots. It seems to be reading it just fine but according to what I have read on the xxd -r -p command, it is not outputing it in the correct format.
The other ways I have found to convert Hex to Binary have either also not worked or is a pretty big Bash script that seems unnecessary to do what I thought would be a simple task.
This also gives me the y with 2 dots.
$ for i in $(cat Hex.txt) ; do printf "\x$i" ; done > Binary.txt
For some reason almost every solution I find gives me this format instead of a human readable Binary value with 1s and 0s.
Any help is appreciated. I am planning on using this in a script to pull the Relay values from Digital Loggers devices using curl and giving Home Assistant a readable file to record the Relay State. Digital Loggers curl cmd gives the state of all 8 relays at once using Hex instead of being able to pull the status of a specific relay.
If "file.txt" contains:
fe
0a
and you run this:
perl -ane 'printf("%08b\n",hex($_))' file.txt
You'll get this:
11111110
00001010
If you use it a lot, you might want to make a bash function of it in your login profile along these lines - being extremely respectful of spaces and semi-colons that might look unnecessary:
bin(){ perl -ane 'printf("%08b\n",hex($_))' $1 ; }
Then you'll be able to do:
bin file.txt
If you dislike Perl for some reason, you can achieve something similar without it as follows:
tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' < file.txt |
while read h ; do
echo "obase=2; ibase=16; $h" | bc
done

How to store a result to a variable in HP OpenVMS DCL?

I want to save the output of a program to a variable.
I use the following approach ,but fail.
$ PIPE RUN TEST | DEFINE/JOB VALUE #SYS$PIPE
$ x = f$logical("VALUE")
I got an error:%DCL-W-MAXPARM, too many parameters - reenter command with fewer parameters
\WORLD\
reference :
How to assign the output of a program to a variable in a DCL com script on VMS?
The usual way to do this is to write the output to a file and read from the file and put that into a DCL symbol (or logical). Although not obvious, you can do this with the PIPE command was well:
$ pipe r 2words
hello world
$ pipe r 2words |(read sys$pipe line ; line=""""+line+"""" ; def/job value &line )
$ sh log value
"VALUE" = "hello world" (LNM$JOB_85AB4440)
$
IF you are able to change the program, add some code to it to write the required values into symbols or logicals (see LIB$ routines)
If you can modify the program, using LIB$SET_SYMBOL in the program defines a DCL symbol (what you are calling a variable) for DCL. That's the cleanest way to do this. If it really needs to be a logical, then there are system calls that define logicals.

Powershell piping to variable and write-host at the same time

Hello all and thanks for your time in advance;
I'm running into a slight issue.
I'm running a command and piping it into a variable so i can manipulate the output.
$variable = some command
this normally works fine but doesn't output what's happening to the screen, which is fine most of the time. However occasionally this command requires some user input (like yes or no or skip for example), and since it's not actually piping anything to the command window, it just sits there hanging instead of prompting the user. If you know what to expect you can hit y or n or s and it'll proceed normally.
Is there anyway to run the command so that the output is piped to a variable AND appears on screen? I've already tried:
($variable = some command)
I've also tried:
write-host ($variable = some command)
But neither work. Note that the command running isn't a native windows or shell command and I cannot just run it twice in a row.
To clarify (because i probably wasn't clear)
I've also tried :
$variable = some command : Out-host
and
$variable = some command | out-default
with all their parameters, But the "prompt" from the command (to write y, n, s) doesn't show up.
Being able to pass S automatically would also be acceptable.
Sounds like you need Tee-Object. Example:
some command | Tee-Object -Variable MyVariable
This should pass everything from the command down the pipe, as well as store all output from the command in the $MyVariable variable for you.
You need to give some specific example that doesn't work. I tried this and it works:
function test { $c = read-host "Say something"; $c }
$x = test
I still see "Say something". read-host does not output to standard output so your problem is surprising. Even this works:
read-host "Say something" *> out
=== EDIT ===
Since this is interaction with cmd.exe you have two options AFAIK. First, test command:
test.cmd
#echo off
set /p something="Say something: "
echo %something%
This doesn't work as you said: $x= ./test.cmd
To make it work:
a) Replace above command with: "Say something:"; $x= ./test.cmd. This is obviously not ideal in general scenario as you might not know in advance what the *.cmd will ask. But when you do know its very easy.
b) Try this:
Start-transcript test_out;
./test.cmd;
Stop-transcript;
gc .\test_out | sls 'test.cmd' -Context 0,1 | select -Last 1 | set y
rm test_out
$z = ($y -split "`n").Trim()
After this $z variable contains: Say something: something. This could be good general solution that you could convert to function:
$z = Get-CmdOutput test.cmd
Details of text parsing might be slightly different in general case - I assumed here that only 1 question is asked and answer is on the same line but in any case with some work you will be able to get everything cmd.exe script outputed in general case:
=== EDIT 2 ===
This might be a better general extraction:
$a = gi test_out; rm test_out
$z = $a | select -Index 14,($a.count-5)
$z
$variable = ""
some command | % {$variable += $_;"$_"}
This executes the command, and each line of output is both added to $variable and printed to the console.

How to store a command output in OpenVMS

Im having an issue writing a DCL in OpenVMS in that I need the DCL to call a command and capture its output (but not output the output to the screen) Later on in the DCL I then need to print that output I stored.
Heres an example:
ICE SET FASTER !This command sets my environment to the "Faster" environment.
The above command outputs this if executed directly in OpenVMS:
Initialising TEST Environment to FASTER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Test Search rules FASTER
Using Test Search rules FASTER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dcl>
So I created a DCL in an attempt to wrap this output in order to display a more simplified output. Heres my code so far:
!************************************************************************
$ !* Wrapper for setting ICE account. Outputs Environment
$ !************************************************************************
$ on error then goto ABORT_PROCESS
$ICE_DCL_MAIN:
$ ice set 'P1'
$ ICE SHOW
$ EXIT
$ABORT_PROCESS:
$ say "Error ICING to: " + P1
$ EXIT 2
[End of file]
In the lines above ICE SET 'P1' is setting the ice environment, but I dont want this output to be echoed to VMS. But what I do want is to write the output of $ICE SHOW into a variable and then echo that out later on in the DCL (most of which ive omitted for simplification purposes)
So what should be outputted should be:
current Test Environment is DISK$DEVELOPERS:[FASTER.DEVELOP]
Instead of:
Initialising TEST Environment to FASTER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Test Search rules FASTER
Using Test Search rules FASTER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
current Test Environment is DISK$DEVELOPERS:[FASTER.DEVELOP]
Ive had a look through the manual and im getting a bit confused so I figured I tried here. Id appreciate any pointers. Thanks.
EDIT
Here is what ive come up with after the comments, the problem im having is when I connect to VMS using an emulator such as SecureCRT the correct output is echoed. But when I run the DCL via my SSH2 library in .NET it doesnt output anything. I guess thats because it closes the SYS$OUTPUT stream temporarily or something?
$ !************************************************************************
$ !* Wrapper for setting ICE account. Outputs Environment
$ !************************************************************************
$ on error then goto ABORT_PROCESS
$ICE_DCL_MAIN:
$ DEFINE SYS$OUTPUT NL:
$ ice set 'P1'
$ DEASSIGN SYS$OUTPUT
$ ice show
$ EXIT
$ABORT_PROCESS:
$ say "Error ICING to: " + P1
$ EXIT 2
[End of file]
EDIT 2
So I guess really I need to clarify what im trying to do here. Blocking the output doesnt so matter so much, im merely trying to capture it into a Symbol for example.
So in C# for example you can have a method that returns a string. So you'd have string myResult = vms.ICETo("FASTER"); and it would return that and store it in the variable.
I guess im looking for a similar thing in VMS so that once ive iced to the environment I can call:
$ environment == $ICE SHOW
But I of course get errors with that statement
The command $ assign/user_mode Thing Sys$Output will cause output to be redirected to Thing until you $ deassign/user_mode Sys$Output or next executable image exits. An assignment without the /USER_MODE qualifier will persist until deassigned.
Thing can be a logical name, a file specification (LOG.TXT) or the null device (NLA0:) if you simply want to flush the output.
When a command procedure is executed the output can be redirected using an /OUTPUT qualifier, e.g. $ #FOO/output=LOG.TXT.
And then there is piping ... .
You can redirect the output to a temp file and then print its content later:
$ pipe write sys$output "hi" > tmp.tmp
$ ty tmp.tmp
VMS is not Unix, DCL is not Bash: you can not easily set a DCL symbol from the output of a command.
Your ICE SHOW prints one line, correct? The first word is always "current", correct?
So you can create a hack.
First let me fake your ICE command:
$ create ice.com
$ write sys$output "current Test Environment is DISK$DEVELOPERS:[FASTER.DEVELOP]"
^Z
$
and I define a dcl$path pointing to the directory where this command procedure is
so that I can use/fake the command ICE
$ define dcl$path sys$disk[]
$ ice show
current Test Environment is DISK$DEVELOPERS:[FASTER.DEVELOP]
$
Now what you need, create a command procedure which sets a job logical
$ cre deflog.com
$ def/job/nolog mylog "current''p1'"
^Z
$
And I define a command "current" to run that command procedure:
$ current="#deflog """
Yes, you need three of the double quotes at the end of the line!
And finally:
$ pipe (ice show | #sys$pipe) && mysym="''f$log("mylog")'"
$ sh symb mysym
MYSYM = "current Test Environment is DISK$DEVELOPERS:[FASTER.DEVELOP]"
$
On the other hand, I don't know what you are referring to C# and Java. Can you elaborate on that and tell us what runs where?
You can try using: DEFINE /USER SYS$OUTPUT NL:.
It works only for the next command and you dont need to deassign.
Sharing some of my experience here. I used below methods to redirect outputs to files.
Define/Assign the user output and then execute the required command/script afterwards. Output will be written to .
$define /user sys$output <file_path>
execute your command/script
OR
assign /user <file_path> sys$output
execute your command/script
deassign sys$output
To re-direct in to null device like in Unix (mentioned in above answers), you can use 'nl:' instead of
define /user sys$output nl:
or
assign /user nl: sys$output

ksh loop putting results of file into variable

I'm not sure the best way to handle this, I'm guessing it's using a while loop. I have a .txt file with a set of numbers ( these numbers can change based on another script that runs )
ex:
0
36
41
53
60
Each number is on it's own line. For each number I want to get that number and execute a script using it. So in this example I would call a script to stop database 0, after that completes call a script to stop database 36 and so on until it's complete with all numbers in the list.
1) Is a while loop the best way to handle this?
2) I'm having trouble trying to determine what the [[condition]] needs to be to get each number 1 at a time, where can i find some additional help on this?
while [[ condition ]] ; do
command1
done
For testing purposes the file that contains all the numbers is test.txt. The script that will execute is a python script - "amgr.py stop (number from test.txt)"
Here's a simpler way:
cat test.txt | xargs amgr.py stop
this will get each line of your file, and then put it as an extra parameter for your amgr.py:
amgr.py stop 0
amgr.py stop 36
and so on..
I ended up using this method to give me the results i was looking for.
while read -r line ; do
amgr.py stop $line
done<test.txt