What's the point of repeatedly clobbering $x with inadequately quoted backticked commands? Passing "$@" correctly is hard in shell, you really want to avoid passing it to a different variable (and if you really have to, use meticulous quoting).
The parts which need to be executed on the remote server need to be passed as arguments or input to ssh.
Hi,
In my shell script when I am using mv command using shell variables it is giving me error of syntax. Following is the shell script:
file_edifice="*.txt"
fquote="'"
fdquote=\"
for file in $file_edifice
do
file_name=$fquote$file$fquote
tofile_name=`date... (5 Replies)
Hi,
When I run the command acroread it is giving error
ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.
When I look at /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/ an exicutable file named acroread is there. When i run ./acroread from that directory it is working . What can i do so that I can give... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have script which is properly running but when i schedule it in cron it throws an error like :
Your "cron" job on retrprdapp1
/usr/bin/sh /retr/cron/ftp.sh 2>&1
produced the following output:
/retr/cron/ftp.sh: syntax error at line 17: `(' unexpected
line17 is
# Get list of... (10 Replies)
Hi,
We check the printer status at the command line by giving the following command and the system gives an output;
lpstat -prn001_hp4000n
When I give the same command in a UNIX script the system gives an error while running the script as "lpstat: not found".
Please let me know... (8 Replies)
Below part of script, is working fine sometimes and gives error sometime.
I am doing float operations, checking if x > y.
##########CODE##########
THRESHOLD="1.25"
ratio=$( echo "scale=2; ${prev}/${current}" | bc )
if ; then
split_date=`echo ${line} | cut -d, -f2`
fi ... (9 Replies)
Hi,
My script is working fine in AIX but throwing an error in SOLARIS system.
Here is the error message that I am getting when calculating the elapsed time:
/home/x772525/FindETA.sh: start_mins = *60 + : syntax error
.
((start_mins = $(expr substr "$j" 1 2)*60 + $(expr substr "$j" 4... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I simply want to kill a running process using a script that read pid from a file and tries to kill it .Getting error as shown below code..
cat $HOME/BackupScript.ksh.run | head -1 | while read pid
do
ps -p $pid > /dev/null 2>&1
if ; then
kill -9 $pid
else
echo "no running $pid... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
We are getting a very unique error while running a shell script on HP-UX box.
Can somebody help in this regards?
The shell script is working fine on linux/solaris box.
Error:
++++++++++++++++++++++++
$/test.sh
./test.sh: 0^J30: Syntax error
$
++++++++++++++++++++++++
TIA.... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: vai_sh
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)