I have a directory named Project.I have a control file which contains valid list of files.I would like list the files from directory Project which contains files other than listed in the control file.
Sample control file:
TEST
SEND
SFFFILE
CONTL
The directory contains followign... (15 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using cp -Rp to copy directories while preserving permissions. I want to exclude any ".lproj" files except for "English.lproj" and "en.lproj" from being copied, but the rest is copied as usual. Is there a way to do this (without using tar or other compression utilities)
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I was exploring find command and came across -prune option which would exclude search in a mention subdirectory.
My quesry is to search all files more that 100 MB size but exclude search in a subdirectory.
I am using below command,but somehow it is not working.
Can anybody help me... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time..
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hello Linux Masters,
I am not a linux expert therefore i need help from linux gurus.
Well i have a requirement where i need to search all files based on first patterns and after seraching all files then serach second pattern in all files which i have extracted based on first pattern.... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a folder which contains files in this format.
abc-bin.000001
abc-bin.000002
abc-bin.000003
abc-bin.000004
abc-bin.000005
abc-bin.000006
abc-bin.000007
abc-bin.000008
abc-bin.000009
abc-bin.000010
abc-bin.index
I want to copy all the files between
abc-bin.000004... (6 Replies)
Hi Forum,
I am using the below command to find files older than x days in a directory excluding subdirectories. From the previous forums I got to know that prune command helps us not to descend in subdirectories. Though I am using it here, not getting the desired result.
cd $dir... (8 Replies)
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)
Hii,
Could someone help me to append string to the starting of all the filenames inside a directory but it should exclude .zip files and subdirectories.
Eg.
file1: test1.log
file2: test2.log
file3 test.zip
After running the script
file1: string_test1.log
file2: string_test2.log
file3:... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a list of files all starting with aa but some of them also have a timestamp suffixed which I want to remove from my search. For e.g.
aa1
aa2
aa.15-05-25_20:41:05.20150611
aa.15-05-26_20:29:40.20150611
aa.15-05-27_20:28:32.20150611
If I do ls -1 aa*, it will list everything... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: swasid
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)