The problem is that you can't put quoted strings inside variables and expect them to get split sanely AFTER substitution has already happened. It'll split apart on spaces but not much else. It doesn't re-check for quoted strings etc. after substitution's already happened. So your script isn't being given **, it's being given '**', quotes and all! And yet, if you remove the quotes, it WILL substitute for *, even though it doesn't substitute for strings...
Put them in an array so there's no guessing at all involved in which parts are string, which parts are quotes, and where it should split them apart; it'll do so just like you'd expect of program arguments. There's a magic syntax to spit out an entire array as properly separated parameters too.
This won't work in ordinary sh, which doesn't have arrays.
I have the following situation
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export DirectoryName=/tmp/xyz
if ; then
some_new_env=$DirectoryName"/*"
=======================
I tried all the ways of escaping the '*', but still the shell seems to expand the '*' character. I want some_new_env to contain "/tmp/xyz/*"
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Hi All,
In ksh script i'm trying to assign "sqlstmt1" varaible value,
update VAREntryTb set VAR10num = VAR1num * Mltplr where BusD = '$val1' and RunI = 1"`
Hence i wrote below statement, the issue with this is shell is expanding "*" character adn thus subistuting it with the content of my... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have pipe delimited file in which some of the description fields can have commas. e.g.
1|123|abc,def
2|456|qwert
3|345|aty,try,rty
I need to convert this to a 'csv' file BUT i need to add \ before every comma present in the description values (so that my next program can read it as... (3 Replies)
Hi
I use :
path=/var/www/admin
echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'
this return
\/var\/www\/admin
and is ok.
but
path2=`echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'`
echo $path2
return an error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to `s'
Can anyone help me?
Thanks (3 Replies)
So I understand that I should be able to ouput a literal \ by escaping it with a preceding \. My problem is that I am trying to ouput a script that will subsequently be run on a different system with UNC pathing, so I want to ouput two \\ in a row, but escaping them both in sequential order is not... (4 Replies)
I would like to open a text m3u file and add the same string to the beginning of each line. I think I am close, but I cannot figure out how to escape the ampersand in the following code:
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./split2.sh: line 1: split/ssl/pop3s.txt: No such file or directory
sort: cannot read: split/ssl/pop3s.txt: No such file or directory
Hi there,
I am pulling data from the following source:
ssl/http
ssl/http
ssl/http-alt
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https... (3 Replies)
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graphics::primitive::insets
Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things
DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding
or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside)
SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets;
my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({
top => 5,
bottom => 5,
left => 5,
right => 5
});
METHODS
Constructor
new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets.
Instance Methods
as_array
Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left.
bottom
Set/Get the inset from the bottom.
equal_to
Determine if these Insets are equal to another.
left
Set/Get the inset from the left.
right
Set/Get the inset from the right.
top Set/Get the inset from the top.
zero
Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0.
AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>"
SEE ALSO perl(1)COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)