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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cut awk dummy question :) Post 302144841 by bakunin on Saturday 10th of November 2007 04:18:10 PM
Old 11-10-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lakris
if I enter for example on the commandline it evaluates to three elements
Isn't that all we ask for? Consider the following:

Code:
bakunin@bookchin $ cat parse.sh
#! /bin/ksh
print - "first arg: \"$1\"  second arg: \"$2\" third arg: \"$3\""
exit 0

bakunin@bookchin $ ./parse.sh first "second argument" third
first arg: "first"  second arg: "second argument" third arg: "third"

By now the solution should be clear: read in the whole file line by line, feed it - unquoted - to a script which splits it up in the different parts and writes the result to stdout. From there we read it back in. Voilá!

PS: if there are more than 9 such items on one line use "shift" to acccess all the cmd-line parameters.

bakunin
 

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ns_sockcloselater

Ns_Sock(3aolserver)					   AOLserver Library Procedures 				       Ns_Sock(3aolserver)

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NAME

       Ns_BindSock,  Ns_GetSockAddr,  Ns_SockAccept,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect2,  Ns_SockBind, Ns_SockCloseLater, Ns_SockConnect,
       Ns_SockConnect2, Ns_SockListen, Ns_SockListenEx, Ns_SockPipe, Ns_SockSetBlocking, Ns_SockSetNonBlocking, Ns_SockStrError,  Ns_SockTimedCon-
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SYNOPSIS

       #include "ns.h"

       Ns_BindSock(arg, arg)

       Ns_GetSockAddr(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAccept(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockBind(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockCloseLater(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListen(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListenEx(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockPipe(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetNonBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockStrError(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect2(arg, arg)

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DESCRIPTION

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SEE ALSO

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KEYWORDS

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