I have a linux vm on aws in ec2 that starts up, performs a task, then shuts itself down. I am issuing the shutdown command like this: shutdown -h 5 I have a 5 minute delay to give myself time to ssh into the server and cancel the shutdown if I want to do something with the server. The problem I...

I'm trying to align output from a bash for loop. Currently, I'm getting output from my loop that looks like so: Directory: /some/long/directory/path Remote: some-remote Directory: /some/dir/path Remote: other-remote Which I'm trying to align like so: Directory: /some/long/directory/path ...

I have a seemingly very simple problem but I am unable to come up with a satisfying solution. I have a simple input file containing IPs and ports, like 10.155.78.0 445 172.17.11.0 3389 Now I want to execute nc -vvv <ip> <port> for each line in a for loop. All I can come up with is splitting the ...

Example: When I run echo -e "\[\033[;33m\][\t \u (\#th) | \w]$\[\033[0m\]" the printed response is \[\][ \u (\#th) | \w]$\[\] where everything after the first \[ and before the last \] is an orangey-brown. However when I set the command prompt to \[\033[;33m\][\t \u (\#th) | \w]$\[\033[0m\...