I would like to start a review of my config variable to check whether they have been changed and if not then there is only an echo. If they have been changed to my other commands are executed.
Hello All,
I have a script that will email out if the email address is specified as parameter 1.
I am using ksh, and then tried the following :
email=$1
Following did not work, I am getting error
test -z $email
test ${email:=" ") -eq " "
test -n $email
test ${?email}
What... (4 Replies)
Hi
I am writing a bash script and would like to check is a variable contains a . or not
ex.
a=102 output ok
a=1.02 output not ok
Many thanks, (3 Replies)
Hi all,
to check that a variable is not empty, I usually do:
if ; then...
or
if ; then...
what if I have a serie of variables and want to do the same test on all of them. How to do this in a single if statement?
thank you (1 Reply)
hi to all,
i want to check the value of a variable that it contains characters.
for example i try the following:
if then .........
i just want to check that in the specific line that is a variable called "passline" has the entry "password". But it can contain also other characters in the... (4 Replies)
I have seen many posts for this sort of problem but I just did not know how to use it for my issue. A number is assigned to a variable and I wanted to check if it is a zero or non zero.
Example of my numbers are below:
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000... (8 Replies)
#!/bin/sh
echo "Running Script to capture ORACLE Erros"
# Change Directory to the actual logs path
cd /home/nv8510/lognew
err_var=`grep -in "ORA-" *`
if then
echo "THESE ARE THE ORACLE ERROR OCCURED"
echo "$err_var"
echo... (7 Replies)
I have a script /root/asas with following contents.
#!/bin/bash
ha=`cat /etc/passwd | grep sandra`
if ; then
echo "Sandra is in /etc/passwd"
echo "variable ha is $ha"
else
echo "Sandra is NOT in /etc/passwd"
echo "variable ha is $ha"
fi
What... (3 Replies)
hi,
i want to check whether a a variable contains some value or is empty in a shell script. so if the variable contains some value i want to do some job and if the variable doesnt contain any value then i need to skip that job.
here is a sample script
read_filenames.sh contains
... (5 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)