I have a very basic bash shell script, which has many "while... done; for .... done" loop clauses, like the following
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#!/bin/bash
while blablalba; do
....
done < /tmp/file
for line in `cat blablabla`; do grep $line /tmp/raw ; done > /tmp/1;
while blablalba2; do
....
done <... (2 Replies)
Hello, first of all I am happy to sign up here.
Next is, I have shell scripts for all the files I want looped infinitely for specific intervals(This is for a wmii config). My question here is how can I run multiple scripts at a 10 second interval for instance? (4 Replies)
I'm trying to search all .odt files in a directory for a string in the text of the file.
I've found a bash script that works, except that it can't handle whitespace in the filenames.
#!/bin/bash
if ; then
echo "Usage: searchodt searchterm"
exit 1
fi
for file in $(ls *.odt); do
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am working on bash script after a long time. I am getting error near done statement while running a for loop snippet. The error says "Syntax error near unexpcted token 'done'"
please suggest what could be wrong. here is the snippet
elements=${#option_arr} //an array of values... (1 Reply)
Having issues with an expect script. I've been scripting bash, python, etc... for a couple years now, but just started to try and use Expect. Trying to create a script that takes in some arguments, and then for now, just runs a pwd command(for testing, final will be command I pass).
Here is... (0 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a loop that goes through an array and the output is funky.
sample:
array=( 19.239.211.30 )
for i in "${array}"
do
echo $i
iperf -c $i -P 10 -x CSV -f b -t 50 | awk 'END{print '$i',$6}' >> $file
done
Output:
19.239.211.30
19.2390.2110.3 8746886
seems that when... (2 Replies)
I have the following while loop that I put in a script, demo.sh:
while read rna; do
aawork=$(echo "${rna}" | sed -n -e 's/\(...\)\1 /gp' | sed -f rna.sed)
echo "$aawork" | sed 's/ //g'
echo "$aawork" | tr ' ' '\012' | sort | sed '/^$/d' | uniq -c | sed 's/*\(*\) \(.*\)/\2: \... (3 Replies)
Dear all,
Please help with the following.
I have a file, let's call it data.txt, that has 3 columns and approx 700,000 lines, and looks like this:
rs1234 A C
rs1236 T G
rs2345 G T
Please use code tags as required by forum rules!
I have a second file, called reference.txt,... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone
I need some help
I want to create an script which does some processing
it takes the two arguments 201901010000 and 201901020200 - so YYYMMDDHHMM
I want to split processing into hours from start until end,
I dont get why this works but when I add to a future variable... (1 Reply)
Create a single bash script that does the following:
a. Print out the number of occurrences for each motif that is found in the bacterial genome and output to a file called motif_count.txt
b. Create a fasta file for each motif (so 3 in total) which contains all of the genes and their... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dre
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
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)