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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use sed for string manipulation Post 302205604 by hikrishn on Monday 16th of June 2008 12:55:39 AM
Old 06-16-2008
Bug How to use sed for string manipulation
Hi,

I would like to know How to use use sed for manipulating string for the following situation.
Basically my objective is to check validity of the filename in my shell script.
I am getting a parameter like this for my shell script.
Check my folder is having some space.

$1=/root/krishna mohan/file.txt

I am trying to use sed so that I can mutate the above file path like below and further use ls command.
/root/'krishna mohan'/file.txt

ls /root/'krishna mohan'/file.txt

Ofcourse I do know that I can use single quote in the begining and end.But I will have problems if I am getting above parameter with some mask/pattern like
/root/krishna mohan/file*.txt
Here keeping single quotes in the begining and end won't work.

Kindly suggest me the solution How to keep quotes for any text between / and / which has space.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

script

script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a	Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       script  can  pose  a  security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

SunOS 5.10							    30 Jan 2004 							 script(1)
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