Nope, still doesn't work... I tried that one as well. It doesn't expand the file list anymore, but then I have the backslash as part of my variable (see below for an example).
I'm not sure it's the shell that's expanding the variable:
The shell is the only thing that does expand wildcards, unless you have written something else to do it.
Quote:
The wildcard will not be expanded if it is quoted.
Quote:
meanwhile, by adding "echo $COMMAND" to my script, I get:
I tried running the script from bash and ksh with the same results.
Always quote your variables (unless you have a good reason not to):
Hello all,
I'm trying to run a script of this format -
for i in $(cat <file>); do
grep $i <file1>|awk '{print $i, $1, $2}'
It's not working - does anyone know how this can be done?
Khoom (5 Replies)
Hello everybody:
Im trying to run the following script on my sol9 machine:
line=''
((lineCount= 0))
export lineCount
more /tmp/MSISDNs | wc -l > /tmp/tmp
cat /tmp/tmp | read lineCount
export lineCount;
while (( lineCount > 0 ))
do
line= tail -$lineCount... (5 Replies)
I am using a shell script to read SQL statements stored in a DB2 table and write them out to a file. The problem I have is that some SQL statements have an "*" in them which gets resolved as the list of files in the current directory when I run the script. How can I prevent the "*" from being... (7 Replies)
I have written a Shell Script Program which accepts 3 parameters as shown below:
./calc 20 + 2
in the above line ./calc is the Shell Script itself with 3 parameters, namely:
20
+
and 2.
Well, now let's look inside the Script:
result=$1$2$3
echo $result
The output will be as... (8 Replies)
I have a shell script main.sh which inturn call the python script ofdm.py, I want to pass two variables from shell script to python script for its execution. How do i achieve this ?????
Eg:
main.sh
a=3 b=3;
c= a+b
exec python ofdm.py
ofdm.py
d=c+a
Thanks in Anticipation (4 Replies)
Hello,
How can I pass a variable into a 2nd file? I'm running a script:
ls -la $1 >pem99
cat pem99 | awk '{ print $3}' >us99
cat us99 | read us98
This then tells me the owner of a file.
my second file is:
echo OWNER GROUP OTHERS
echo
echo --data-- $us98
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to pass a variable as an argument to another script. While substitution of variable, I am facing a problem.
varaiable "a" value should be -b "FPT MAIN".
When we pass "a" to another script, we are expecing it to get substitue as ./test.sh -b "FPT MAIN". But, it is getting... (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I am having a challange to pass the asterisk in the variable. Basically, I am writing a shell script to check if a marker file exists but when I am assigning the varialbe it cannot use the wildcard asterisk as expected, therefore, my program is always outputs "Marker file is not... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
Warm regards!
I am in a difficult situation here. I have been trying to create a shell script which calls another shell script inside. Here is a simplified version of the same.
Calling Script.
#!/bin/ksh
# want to run as a different process... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: LoneRanger
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extutils::command
ExtUtils::Command(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide ExtUtils::Command(3pm)NAME
ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.
SYNOPSIS
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat files... > destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mv source... destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cp source... destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e touch files...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_f files...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_rf directories...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath directories...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e eqtime source destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e test_f file
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e test_d directory
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod mode files...
...
DESCRIPTION
The module is used to replace common UNIX commands. In all cases the functions work from @ARGV rather than taking arguments. This makes
them easier to deal with in Makefiles. Call them like this:
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e some_command some files to work on
and NOT like this:
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e 'some_command qw(some files to work on)'
For that use Shell::Command.
Filenames with * and ? will be glob expanded.
FUNCTIONS
cat
cat file ...
Concatenates all files mentioned on command line to STDOUT.
eqtime
eqtime source destination
Sets modified time of destination to that of source.
rm_rf
rm_rf files or directories ...
Removes files and directories - recursively (even if readonly)
rm_f
rm_f file ...
Removes files (even if readonly)
touch
touch file ...
Makes files exist, with current timestamp
mv
mv source_file destination_file
mv source_file source_file destination_dir
Moves source to destination. Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory.
Returns true if all moves succeeded, false otherwise.
cp
cp source_file destination_file
cp source_file source_file destination_dir
Copies sources to the destination. Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory.
Returns true if all copies succeeded, false otherwise.
chmod
chmod mode files ...
Sets UNIX like permissions 'mode' on all the files. e.g. 0666
mkpath
mkpath directory ...
Creates directories, including any parent directories.
test_f
test_f file
Tests if a file exists. Exits with 0 if it does, 1 if it does not (ie. shell's idea of true and false).
test_d
test_d directory
Tests if a directory exists. Exits with 0 if it does, 1 if it does not (ie. shell's idea of true and false).
dos2unix
dos2unix files or dirs ...
Converts DOS and OS/2 linefeeds to Unix style recursively.
SEE ALSO
Shell::Command which is these same functions but take arguments normally.
AUTHOR
Nick Ing-Simmons "ni-s@cpan.org"
Maintained by Michael G Schwern "schwern@pobox.com" within the ExtUtils-MakeMaker package and, as a separate CPAN package, by Randy Kobes
"r.kobes@uwinnipeg.ca".
perl v5.18.2 2014-01-06 ExtUtils::Command(3pm)