Aloha! I have just over 1k of users that have permissions that they shouldn't under our system. I need to parse a provided list of usernames, check their permissions file, and strip the permissions that they are not allowed to have. If upon the permissions strip they are left with no permissions,... (6 Replies)
Can somebody explain why my sed command is not working.
I do the folloinwg:
Generates a binary file to /tmp/x1.out
/usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 4:00 -e 8:00 -i 3600 -A -o /tmp/x1.out
decodes the file (no problem so far)
sar -f /tmp/x1.out
When I do this it does not appear to delete the... (4 Replies)
Hello everyone,
This is my first posting. I have read the rules of this forum. I have searched many various threads and haven't found one that applies to my situation or suggestions to fix the issue. I do appreciate the help.
I am trying to execute a basic UNIX script in a Solaris... (4 Replies)
Gents,
I would like to remove some lines from a big file ( file2).
The objetive is to remove all the lines in file2 containing a certain string which are in file data2delete..
file data2delete contens:
2573.0 7260.01
2893.0 7255.01
2903.0 7245.01
2897.0 7255.01
2561.0 7255.01... (6 Replies)
Hi I have the following kind of line sin my file .
print ' this is first'.
print ' this is firs and next '
' line continuous '. -- this is entire print line.
print ' this is first and next '
' line continuous and'
'still there now over'. -- this 3lines together a single print line.
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix and i started some scripting recently. Please go through the following script i wrote.
#!/bin/sh
file='path../tfile'
file1='path../tfile1'
rmfile='path../test2'
C1=1
C2=1
exec 3< $file1
while read LINE1; do
read LINE2 <&3
a=$LINE1
b=`expr $LINE2 - 1`
... (1 Reply)
I have been searching and trying to come up with an awk that will perform the following on a
converted text file (original is a pdf).
1. Since the first two lines are (begin with) text they are removed
2. if $1 is a number then all text is merged (combined) into one line until the next... (3 Replies)
In the awk piped to sed below I am trying to format file by removing the odd xxxx_digits and whitespace after, then move the even xxxx_digit to the line above it and add a space between them. There may be multiple lines in file but they are in the same format. The Filename_ID line is the last line... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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 v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)