Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone knows how i take in a file, format the file, and then rename the file as the same name as the input file in shell script. Here is an example of what I am doing:
if ]
then
echo "please enter a filename"
else
export infile=$1
I take in a file... (3 Replies)
I have an audit log that is produced each day from a production printer. It names the file using todays date, but it removes the leading zero's. For example: todays date 060104 names the file 6104.txt.
I ftp this file onto a Sun box and pull stats off of it. To keep some consistency to what I am... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
Need your help once again.
I have this file name
e.g.1) report_12.rp_1
e.g.2) remark_mm.rmr_3
I want it to be renamed as
report_12_1.rp
remark_mm_3.rmr (3 Replies)
I am a complete Unix newbie and I need some help! (Please...)
I need to rename a file from the following format:
Test_Test_EAR_1234.ear
To the following:
Test_Test_EAR.ear
In other words, I need to remove everything after & including the final underscore up to the "." What is the best... (6 Replies)
have this shl that will FTP a file from the a directory in windows to UNIX, It get the name of the file stored in this variable $UpLoadFileName then put in the local directory LocalDir="${MPATH}/xxxxx/dat_files" that part seems to be working, but then I need to take that file and rename, I am using... (3 Replies)
I have to rename a large number of files so that the name of each file corresponds to a code number that is given side by side in a list (textfile).
The list contains in column A the filename of the actual files to be renamed and in column B the name (a client code, 9 digits) that has to be... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have an outstanding issue..Iam on linux and using a putty to connect to my server and then fire our unix shell script.
At location /usr/sam a file called "er 1 32.txt" out boss transfer via application.
From my end on terminal when i want to transfer this file to some other location... (2 Replies)
I have a file named as Pro_PatAct_MMDDYYYY.csv. I need to renmae it to this Pro_PatAct.csv without the date timestamp. Can someone help me to achieve this using a regular expn. (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I have 350 files in this directory: /home/adams/29 that was mistakenly renamed in this format:
TTFILE_BIT_638478.txt.dat
I want to take out the trailing .dat so that it ends in .txt: TTFILE_BIT_638478.txt
I need help please.
Thank you. (6 Replies)
Hi
Am trying to move a file from one name to another
When I do "ls" to check for the moved filename
I can see the file but when I try the same with a script am unable..
I think am doing some pretty silly error.. please help..
toMove=`ls | grep -E "partition.+"`
mv $toMove partition._org... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Priya Amaresh
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)