Hi.
Can I extract the last 3 characters from a given string using sed ?
Why the following doesn't work (it prints the full string) :
echo "abcd" | sed '/\.\.\.$/p' doesn't work ?
output: abcd
Thanks in advance,
435 Gavea. (7 Replies)
Hello Unix gurus,
I have a gzipped file where each line contains 2 street addresses in the US. What I want to do is get a count for each state that does not match.
What I have so far is:
$ gzcat matched_10_09.txt.gz |cut -c 106-107,184-185 | head -5
CTCT
CTNY
CTCT
CTFL
CTMA
This cuts... (5 Replies)
I have a string I keep appending too upto certain amount of chars.
Is there some sort of way for me to check the string to see if I hit my limit of repeatable characters?
For example, assume I allow for 2 repeatable chars, this will be a valid
string Xxh03dhJUX, so I can append the last... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm curious about how to do a very simple thing with regular expressions that I'm unable to figure out.
If I want to find out if a string contains 'a' AND 'b' AND 'c' it can be very easily done with grep:
echo $STRING|grep a|grep b|grep c
but, how would you do that in a single... (9 Replies)
how can i print all the chars of a string one by line?
i have thought that use a for cicle and use this command inside:
${VARIABLE:0:last}but how can i make last? because string is random
P.S. VARIABLE is the string
or can i make a variable for every chars of this string?
this was my idea... (10 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am trying to find the following string in a file, but I always get pattern not found error, not sure what is missing here. Can you help please?
I do a less to open the xrates.log and then do a /'="18"' in the file and tried various combinations to search the below string.
String... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file fo around 15k bytes which i need to insert a string " + "at every 250 bytes.
I found some ideas here using perl to split into lines and tried to addapt it but the results where not satisfactory
for instance i tried to change
#!/usr/bin/perl
$teststring =... (9 Replies)
For a given string that may contain any ASCII chars, i.e. that matches .*,
find and print only the chars that are in a given subset.
The string could also have numbers, uppercase, special chars such as ~!@#$%^&*(){}\", whatever a user could type in
without going esoteric
For simplicity take... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: naderra
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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)