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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Project with somewhat simple bourne shell cript.. Post 302185007 by era on Monday 14th of April 2008 03:06:43 AM
Old 04-14-2008
You need to quote your arguments (and check how you spell "argument", wink wink) -- that should solve several of your problems.

Code:
grep "$2" dirInfo

Single quotes will prevent the expansion of $2 into its value; you are then grepping literally for (end of line) 2 which will never match. (Remember $ means end of line in regular expressions.) So don't use single quotes around a variable.

Things get tricky when you want to use both single quotes and double quotes, but you can even mix them in the same string. So to grep for $2 at end of line you could do something like

Code:
grep "$2"'$' file

That's $2 in double quotes, and $ in single quotes, without any space or anything in between. (Next week, we will look at double quotes in single quotes and single quotes in double quotes in the same string.)

What's with the perl? This is a shell script, you'd run it with sh, not perl (although I guess perl is always Doing What You Mean and will actually run sh for you if it sees that you are giving it a shell script; but that sounds rather fragile for you to rely on).
 

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GET_MAGIC_QUOTES_GPC(3) 						 1						   GET_MAGIC_QUOTES_GPC(3)

get_magic_quotes_gpc - Gets the current configuration setting of magic_quotes_gpc

SYNOPSIS
bool get_magic_quotes_gpc (void ) DESCRIPTION
Returns the current configuration setting of magic_quotes_gpc Keep in mind that attempting to set magic_quotes_gpc at runtime will not work. For more information about magic_quotes, see this security section. RETURN VALUES
Returns 0 if magic_quotes_gpc is off, 1 otherwise. Or always returns FALSE as of PHP 5.4.0. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.4.0 | | | | | | | Always returns FALSE because the magic quotes | | | feature was removed from PHP. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 get_magic_quotes_gpc(3) example <?php // If magic quotes are enabled echo $_POST['lastname']; // O'reilly echo addslashes($_POST['lastname']); // O\'reilly // Usage across all PHP versions if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $lastname = stripslashes($_POST['lastname']); } else { $lastname = $_POST['lastname']; } // If using MySQL $lastname = mysql_real_escape_string($lastname); echo $lastname; // O'reilly $sql = "INSERT INTO lastnames (lastname) VALUES ('$lastname')"; ?> NOTES
Note If the directive magic_quotes_sybase is ON it will completely override magic_quotes_gpc. So even when get_magic_quotes_gpc(3) returns TRUE neither double quotes, backslashes or NUL's will be escaped. Only single quotes will be escaped. In this case they'll look like: '' SEE ALSO
addslashes(3), stripslashes(3), get_magic_quotes_runtime(3), ini_get(3). PHP Documentation Group GET_MAGIC_QUOTES_GPC(3)
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