hi there. i have a simple bash script that reads a word from a text file
one at a time, and if a '*' character is encountered, it prints a message.
however it doesn't work as i expected. :o what am i doing wrong here?
thanks very much for the help :)
for word in `cat $DOC`
do
if... (18 Replies)
Hi all, i have a perl script. from within the perl script, i am calling a system command which i need to pass in a perl variable. but the variable substitution does not seems to happen. would like to find out where is the missing escape character or extra quotes;or what is my mistake.
... (2 Replies)
Hello
This should be easy, but bash is giving me headaches.
At the command line the following command works:
duplicity --include /home --exclude '**' / file:///foo
Doing that from a script is not straightforward. Note that it is basically a requirement that I place the... (3 Replies)
Hi
I use :
path=/var/www/admin
echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'
this return
\/var\/www\/admin
and is ok.
but
path2=`echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'`
echo $path2
return an error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to `s'
Can anyone help me?
Thanks (3 Replies)
Please forgive me if this is the wrong forum. I want to execute some one liners with the groovy programming language and I'm having trouble escaping the special characters to accommodate bash.
Here is one of the lines that is giving me trouble:
groovy -e "(new... (1 Reply)
I am currently reading a very old reference from O'Reilly: Sed and Awk 2nd Edition reprinted in 2000. So far, it's a solid read and still very relevant. I'd highly recommend this to anyone.
The only problem I have with this book is that I had to resort to bourne shell to get my examples to work... (3 Replies)
So I understand that I should be able to ouput a literal \ by escaping it with a preceding \. My problem is that I am trying to ouput a script that will subsequently be run on a different system with UNC pathing, so I want to ouput two \\ in a row, but escaping them both in sequential order is not... (4 Replies)
Hello, everyone. I'm currently trying to write a command system for a Minecraft server using screen.
Here are the scripts I'm currently using.
0.sh
#!/bin/bash
screen -S Test114 -dm java -Xmx4G -jar server.jar nogui
1.sh
#!/bin/bash
args="$@"
args2="${args@Q}"
#args3=`printf '%q\n'... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
noecho
echo(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions echo(3XCURSES)NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int echo(void);
int noecho(void);
DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft-
ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)