After assigning the value 0 to your variable, you break the while loop so you never display the variable with the new value 0.
Whith KSH the modification of variable inside loops aren't lost (that is not the case with bourne shell).
Try the following script:
[CODE]var=init
ls | while read file
do
var="Last file is $file"
done
why i can't use this command:
echo $arg | cut -c 1,2 | read remainArg or
echo $arg | cut -c 1,2 | read $remainArg
so that the result will be assign to remainArg.
Anyway to do this? :) (1 Reply)
I have to assign a result of a query to a vairable like this
how can i do this
Query = select count(*) from table
x=`db2 ${Query}| sed -n '4p'`
but this doesn't work, is there any other way to assign the result without redirecting the result to temp file. .
Thanks
Mark. (3 Replies)
I have a list of names in a file.
i want to assign those names to a variable in such a manner
eg:
$cat file.txt
pete
lisa
john
var=pete-lisa-john
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Hi Experts,
I am facing some problem while developing the script.My input config.csv file contains the three columns namely pathname,filename,filetype.Based on the file type i have to use ftp command that is if filetype=csv then do ftp.
The input file is
cat config.csv... (13 Replies)
Dear All,
we have a command output which looks like :
Total 200 queues in 30000 Kbytes
and we're going to get "200" and "30000" for further process. currently, i'm using :
numA=echo $OUTPUT | awk '{print $2}'
numB=echo $OUTPUT | awk '{print $5}'
my question is : can I use just one... (4 Replies)
How can I assign a variable to an variable. IE $car=honda
One way I can do it is export $car=honda
or
let $car=2323
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Hi Experts,
I'm having issue in assigning var with special character , please see below for complete details.
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/csh
$ cat bp
abd/asd/a
$ awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' bp | awk '{print $1}'
a
$ set a=`awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' bp | awk '{print $1}'`
$ echo $a ... (15 Replies)
Hello All,
Hope you're doing well !
I am trying below command to be passed in a shell script, header_date_14 is a variable and $1 is the name of a file I intend to pass as a command line argument, however command line argument is not being accepted.
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I have the following script, and I want to assign the output ($10 and $5) from awk to N and L:
grdinfo data.grd | awk '{print $10,$5}'| read N L
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Hi,
I am attempting to assign the output of the following command, to two bash variables, var1 and var2 using "read," but it doesn't seem to be working.
# openstack hypervisor stats show | awk -F'|' 'NR==14{print $2,$3}'
vcpus 92
# echo $?
0
# openstack hypervisor... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sand1234
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
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)