Can someone explain the following? I can use find on *.pm without quotes, but find on *.pl makes on error, I need quotes for the second version. What's up with that?
Hi All
In a script, I want a user to enter 4 characters, these can be a mix of letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.
In this example $var represents what the user has entered.
eg $var can be A9xZ, 3DDL, bbHp .........etc
I need to check that the user has only entered characters... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am getting very confused as to where should i quote special/metacharacters in shell.
Sometimes i write * directly and it works, othertimes i have to do "*".
Same is the case with other special characters like /,\,.,$,etc.
Can somebody give me link to somewhere where i can found... (1 Reply)
can somebody help, what quote i should use in below statement or what wrong of it ?
the 1st (*) is a char, the 2nd and 3rd (*) is a wildcard
if ] && ] && ]
................^ .............^
then
echo "ok"
fi
thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
hi guys, i have a question related to quoting but i am not sure how to formulate it...
lets say we want to simulate the following shell actions
cd ~/project-dir
ctags /home/work/folder1/*.sh /home/work/folder2/*.sh /home/work/folder3/*.sh
so i make the following script
buidtags.sh
... (2 Replies)
I think this has to do with the quoting, I just feel I've been looking at it too long. Thanks ~T
prompt> cat my.awk
BEGIN{"date +%d%b%Y.%H%M%S" | getline sDate}
{
if (substr($0,151,1) ~ /6/ )
print >> sDate".NEW_ORDER.dat"
# print >> sDate # note this works to output the contents to sDate,... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
i have a file that looks like:
one:two:three:four:five
six:seven:eight:nine:ten
and i'd like to quote the fourth column, getting:
one:two:three:"four":five
six:seven:eight:"nine":ten
i was thinking something like:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{print $1 FS $2 FS $3 FS \"$4\" FS $5}'... (5 Replies)
I am at a loss on this one. I am trying to run this command on a bunch of (OS 10.7.4) macs:osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to return name of every process whose frontmost is true"
On some, it works fine. On others, I get this error:
I have also tried (note the single quotes):... (3 Replies)
I am trying to write a BASH script that will prompt a user to enter a number of days, then calculate the date.
My problem is the date command uses single or double quotes. For Example..
date -d "7 days"
Here is an example of some same code I am trying to work through.
echo "when do you... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Its been a long time since I have used Bash to write a script so am really struggling here. Need the gurus to help me out.
uname -a
Linux lxserv01 2.6.18-417.el5
i have a text file with blocks of code written in a similar manner
******* BEGIN MESSAGE *******
Station /... (12 Replies)