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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Escaping the * character in ksh. Post 302196679 by arvindcgi on Monday 19th of May 2008 07:36:38 AM
Old 05-19-2008
Escaping the * character in ksh.

Hi All,

In ksh script i'm trying to assign "sqlstmt1" varaible value,

update VAREntryTb set VAR10num = VAR1num * Mltplr where BusD = '$val1' and RunI = 1"`

Hence i wrote below statement, the issue with this is shell is expanding "*" character adn thus subistuting it with the content of my present directory,

sqlstmt1=`echo "update VAREntryTb set VAR10num = VAR1num * Mltplr where BusD = '$val1' and RunI = 1"`

when i escape it with "\" like,
sqlstmt1=`echo "update VAREntryTb set VAR10num = VAR1num \* Mltplr where BusD = '$val1' and RunI = 1"`

then everything is fine except backward slash is also coming as part of whole string, something like,

update VAREntryTb set VAR10num = VAR1num \* Mltplr where BusD = '$val1' and RunI = 1

Can someone help me in getting the things right here ?
 

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