#!/bin/sh
rpt="/export/home/legato/rpt_offsite"/test_eject.tape
cat <$rpt
while read line
do
echo $line
perform routine
done
I am trying to read the contents of this file line by line and perform a routine for each line read.
The file contents are numbers..
What is wrong with my... (1 Reply)
Hi all
As quite newbie in shell scripting i need your help.
The case: two files with question mark delimeter:
file1.txt:
A; B; D; E;
file2.txt:
a,antonis,red; b,maria,green; c,george,blue; d,jack,red; e,Helen,yellow; k,konstantin,black;
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All,
I am trying to figure out a script to run in windows that will allow me to match on First column in file1 to 8th Column in File2 then
Insert file1 column2 to file2 column4 then create a new file.
File1:
12345 Sam
12346 Bob
12347 Bill
File2:... (1 Reply)
What is a more efficient way to read files into a script? I don't want to hard code the file names like below:
for file in file1 \
file2
do
...
done
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I am hoping someone can help me with some scripting I need to complete using AWK.
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aaaa bbbbb ccccc 1 xxxx aaa bbb
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I have a script which checks on my jobs that run on some cluster.
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I have this script
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#!/bin/sh
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Running it like this:
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I'm trying to figure out how best to approach this script, and I have very little experience, so I could use all the help I can get. :wall:
I regularly need to delete files from many directories.
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Discussion started by: nashrik
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)