Well I have a 3000 lines result log file that contains all the machine data when it does the testing... It has 3 different section that i am intrsted in
1) starting with "20071126 11:11:11 Machine Header 1"
1000 lines...
"End machine header 1"
2) starting with "20071126 12:12:12 Machine... (5 Replies)
I have an archive file that holds a batch of statements. I would like to be able to extract a certain statement based on the unique customer # (ie. 123456). The end for each statement is noted by "ENDSTM".
I can find the line number for the beginning of the statement section with sed.
... (5 Replies)
I want to add several users and several groups to a HPUX 11.31 box.
When I type groupadd -g GID <name>, I'm told GID is not unique....even though it doesn't exist in the /etc/group file.
I read in the man pages about NIS but I don't think we are using NIS....well we are using LDAP, but can... (1 Reply)
Can anyone tell me what unique does? I accidentally typed unique instead of uniq into my terminal and it accepted it. I can't find a man page, an info page, or anything useful on google. (1 Reply)
I have 84 files with the following names splitseqs.1, spliseqs.2 etc.
and I want to change the .number to a unique filename.
E.g.
change splitseqs.1 into splitseqs.7114_1#24
and
change spliseqs.2 into splitseqs.7067_2#4
So all the current file names are unique, so are the new file names.... (1 Reply)
HOW CAN I SELECT AN UNIQUE STRING FROM A FIELD? ACTUALLY I WANT TO PRINT RECORDS THAT 2ND FIELD OF THAT HAVE ONE CHARACTER AND IT MUST BE "P"
AWK '$2~"" {PRINT $0}' IN > OUTBUT THIS CODE PRINT ALL RECORDS WHICH 2ND FIELDS OF THEM START WITH "P" AND MAY CONTAINS ANOTHER CHARACTER! (1 Reply)
I would like to print unique lines without sort or unique. Unfortunately the server I am working on does not have sort or unique. I have not been able to contact the administrator of the server to ask him to add it for several weeks. (7 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have requirement to compare current result with previous reuslt.
The sample case is below.
1 job1 1
1 job2 2
1 job3 3
2 job_a1 1
2 job_a2 2
2 job_a3 3
3 job_b1 1
3 job_b2 2
for above sample file, GID is group ID, for input line, the job run... (1 Reply)
Hello Team,
I need your help on the following:
My input file a.txt is as below:
3330690|373846|108471
3330690|373846|108471
0640829|459725|100001
0640829|459725|100001
3330690|373847|108471
Here row 1 and row 2 of column 1 are identical but corresponding column 2 value are... (4 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)