Greetings.
I am struggling with a shell script to make my life simpler, with a number of practical ways in which it could be used. I want to take a standard text file, and pull the 'n'th word from each line such as the first word from a text file.
I'm struggling to see how each line can be... (5 Replies)
I have following problem.
<File A> contains let say 5 lines but can be changed.
cat
dog
fish
car
if I want to add word to each line then how do I go about it?
I used paste -d but that requires two files having same number of lines but
in my case <File A> changes and I just need to... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Can anybody help me how to add a word in front of a line in a file.Actually it is bit tricky to add a word. i will give a sample for this:
Input :
1110001 ABC DEF
1110001 EFG HIJ
1110001 KLM NOP
1110002 QRS RST
1110002 UVW XYZ
Output:
%HD% 1110001 ABC DEF
%DT% 1110001 EFG HIJ... (4 Replies)
I have a File with the below contents
File1
I have no prior experience in unix. I have just started to work in unix.
My experience in unix is 0. My Total It exp is 3 yrs.
I need to replace the first word in each line with the last word for example
unix have no prior experience in... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
how to add the single digit to front of the word and front of the lines in the one file with compare pattern file and get digit. like example
pattern file pattern.txt
pattern num
bala 2
raja 3
muthu 4
File Name: chennai.dat
muthu is good boy
raja is bad boy
selvam in super... (6 Replies)
Hi
I've one file full of paths of certain files and I want to add some extra file words in front of all the paths. for eg:
i have a file name test.txt which show some details only..
024_hd/044/0344eng.txt
035_bv/222/editor.jpg
here I want to add /usr/people/indiana/ infront of all the... (4 Replies)
Hi all
I have following file which I have to edit for research purpose
file:///tmp/moz-screenshot.png body, div, table, thead, tbody, tfoot, tr, th, td, p { font-family: "Liberation Sans"; font-size: x-small; } Drug: KRP-104 QD Drug: Placebo Drug: Metformin|Drug:... (15 Replies)
Hi All,
Hope you guys had a wonderful weekend
I have a scenario where in which I have to read a file line by line
and check for few words before redirecting to a file
I have searched the forum but,either those answers dint work (perhaps because of my wrong under standing of how IFS... (6 Replies)
I have a file: file.txt, which contains the following data in it.
This is a file, my name is Karl, what is this process, karl is karl junior, file is a test file, file's name is file.txt
My name is not Karl, my name is Karl Joey
What is your name?
Do you know your name and... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: anuragpgtgerman
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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)