[FONT=Courier New]## This is a traditional shell programming solution.
This is not a traditional shell script; it is not even a POSIX shell script. It includes non-standard syntax, and doesn't take advantage of the features of the POSIX shell.
Quote:
## It works, it can handle different cases,
## The only drawback is it has several lines of code.
##
## Run it as: cat <input_file> | <this_shell>
Do not run it like that! There is no need for cat:
I am facing a very challenging task here but can't finish it.I request all of you to help me please.
I have one file which contain some data i need to format it.
data file contain data like
54321|item-68|owner|yes||||$
00-10|invoice|3221|||#
00-11|invoice|3221|||#... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I'm having a problem with the way awk is interperting a space between double quotes in a for loop. Below is the code and output from running the script:
AWK for loop:
for i in $(awk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{print "Probe Name:" $1};{print "Probe Temp:" $2};{
print... (2 Replies)
I would like to keep the complete lines in the output, but my script adds carriage returns for each space (e.g. keep BRITISH AIRWAYS on one line in the output):
File1=
BAW
BRITISH AIRWAYS
RYR
RYAN AIR
for i in $(cat File1)
do
echo $i
done
Output:
BAW
BRITISH
AIRWAYS
RYR... (4 Replies)
I want the following output:
User ID: 4071
Last Name: Gills
First Name: Roberts
Address: Maple Dr.
Phone#: 702346789
from this command:
grep "$uId" database.txt | awk -F":" '{print "User ID:\t"$uId"\nLast Name:\t"$lname"\n...etc. }'
But all I get is this:
User ID:... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I was trying to format my number like i=1 to 000001 using the below method.
typeset -Z6 i (sorry, corrected)
My shell is K, is not doing, it is supposed to do
Thanks in advance (6 Replies)
Hello; having an annoying issue:
I wish to have the same formatting in:
awk '{print $1}' LOCAL
f30f31be17a236378ac896639cc1b996
bff4c460f601444db6ef7f6ad6ca44b9
347a399b6fe9c2f21e6a7f55911c1483
ce3f8fdd4919e891090ca27872f4f983
c00098663f064d14065d0ef248a4db44... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I was trying to dos2unix a file that has some special characters but dos2unix converted those into different format. I am working on sun server.
I guess the default for dos2unix on sun server is ISO format .
Can i change the format so that it does the conversion in UTF format?
Because I... (3 Replies)
Hello;
I have a simple loop filtering a log:
for LU in $(< LU-list-Final)
do
OUT=$(grep -B1 $LU cibc-src-ip.cap |egrep 'IP 16|IP 19|IP 15' |awk -F">" '{print $1}')
if ; then
echo " LU $LU was accessed by ===============> $OUT "
echo ""
fi
done
The current output snippet looks like... (2 Replies)
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)