I am writing a simple script and want to keep the user in a fuction until they are ready to get out. For some (probably stupid) reason, it doesn't seem to be working. You guys see anything that I'm overlooking?
crsd()
{until
do
/home/wcs3611.crsdtmp.sh
echo 'run another? \c'
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm having some trouble with the syntax in constructing a simple nested 'for' loop.
My code is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
dir1="fred flume haystack"
for dir2 in ${dir1}
do
fred="1 2 3"
flume="a b c"
... (7 Replies)
I have an array of hashrefs that look like the following:
my @LAYOUT = (
{SQL_1 => "select count (*) FROM prospect
WHERE PROCESS_DATE = To_date('INSERT_DATE_HERE', 'mm/dd/yyyy')
and tiff_filename is not null
... (2 Replies)
From time to time I need to extract portions of a very large weblogic log file.
Each line in the file begins with a date stamp like this:
####<Dec 26, 2005 10:58:30 PM CST>
What would be the most efficient way to select all lines in the file between, say, 10:15 PM and 10:20 PM? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have series of data stored in a variable xyz:
(between 0 and 100)
example:
20 45 98 21.....
I need to find if there is/are any occurance of data > 95
Not sure what kind of looping is required to check.
Please help.
thanks (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that contains the following contents:
14:05 apple
orange123
456mango
16:45 banana
I wanted to replace ONLY the "14:05 " and "16:45" with nothing and trying to use the following syntax
sed -e 's/*//g' -e 's/^: //g' my_file > new_temp
cat new_temp
apple
orange... (2 Replies)
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I want to search a field and print first field in these record. There is a "*" in the field I want to search, like "TRBD2*01".
I used the command like this:
awk '/TRBD2*01/ {print $1}' test.txt
But it doesn't work. The command line
awk '/TRBD2/ {print $1}' test.txt
will work.
How... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to modify an xml file and I wanted to search and replace using the sed command but here is my issue. I want to search and replace maximumHeapSize="512" and replace it with maximumHeapSize="768" but I have multiple files with different values so I can't search for... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am using Solaris 5.10 & ksh
Wanted to loop through a pattern file by reading it and passing it to the awk to match that value present in column 1 of rawdata.txt , if so print column 1 & 2 in to Avlblpatterns.txt. Using the following code but it seems some mistakes and it is running for... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)