Here's my problem:
I have a laptop running Windows XP Pro with no internal CD or Floppy drives. I want to install Linux on it. I don't care about the Windows XP Pro installation, in fact I would like to install Linux over the entirety of the HD. However I cannot boot from any external CD drive... (1 Reply)
Hello. I am trying to convert occurrences of 'NULL' from a datafile. The 'NULL' occurences appears at this:
|NULL| NULL|NULL| NULL|NULL| NULL|NULL| NULL|
There should be 52 fields per line.
I would like any occurrence of | NULL| or |NULL| to appear as '||'
Currently I am using this sed... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm in the midst of writing a UNIX script that sftp's files to an external host and am stuck with a problem. The problem is that the files created on my server as a order number that correlates to a sequence of directories on the remote host which is where the file should be ftp'ed.
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am at a point in my script where I defined the number of the command line parameter I would like to set a variable equal to:
parameter_number=14
I would then like to set a variable equal to the correct parameter:
variable=$parameter_number
The issue here is that {} is required... (2 Replies)
So, first and foremost, I'm having issues with my internet connection. Periodically, the connection drops across the network. The fix is simple enough: restart the modem. However, this gets old when the connection dies out every hour.
I can hit my surfboard on 192.168.100.1, and navigate to a... (5 Replies)
Hi, I have a requirement in which i have to read a csv file and put data in certain set of variables:
File content:
VP-DTL-REC-CNT, ,854840,0.00,VP-PAID-AMT, ,0,32280885.17,VP-PAT-PAID-AMT, ,0,9930244.32,VP-PAID-REV-CNT, ,484927,0.00,VP-REJ-CNT, ,369913,0.00, , ,0,0.00, , ,0,0.00, , ,0,0.00, ,... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone..
I am new here, hello.. I hope this doesn't come across to you folks as a stupid question, I'm somewhat new to scripting :)
I'm seeking some help in finding a way to manipulate data output for every two characters - example:
numbers.lst contains the following output:... (3 Replies)
Hi folks!
My first post here.
I'm working on a script that retrieves a range of files from a list depending on a range of time.
UPDATE:
I've seen it could be difficult to read all this thing, so I'll make a summarize it..
How come I do this and take a result..
grep "..\:.." lista.new |... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I need to put some sed together for a task and its a bit advanced for me, so I thought I'd ask if anyone here could help.
I have a csv file with content like this -
"","abcde","",""
"'","abcde","",""
"","","","1234"
"'e'","","",""
I need to remove any single quotes that fall... (17 Replies)
Hi,
i am new to linux programming fraternity but looks like starting with a big thing...
yes..xml parsing (it is indeed tough for a beginner like me) so need your kind help...
The snippet of xml looks like:
<snapshot>
<tag1>
<key>1234</key>
<keytype>abcd</keytype>
</tag1>
<tag2>... (11 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)