Hi,
I have a file with about 60 lines of path:
app-defaults/boxXYZ.......
I want to change this to /my/path/goes/here/app-defaults/boxXYZ, but of course vi doesn't like the regualr :s/old/new/ command.
Is there any other quick way to do this?
Thanks ;) (2 Replies)
Greetings to everyone,
iam a new unix learner. i just jumped from windows to unix.
in my office iam accessing unix machine thro telnet.
i got this path details after executing the following command echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/mipl/bin.
can... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Im a new bee for scripting,
I would ned to do the following via linux shell scripting, I have an application which throws a log file, on each action of a particular work with the application, as sson as the action is done, the log file would vanish or stops updating there, the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
How to get the same through shell script?... (7 Replies)
I have scheduled couple of shell scripts to run using 'at' command.
The o/p of at -l is:
$ at -l
1320904800.a Thu Nov 10 01:00:00 2011
1320894000.a Wed Nov 9 22:00:00 2011
1320876000.a Wed Nov 9 17:00:00 2011
$ uname -a
SunOS dc2prcrptetl2 5.9 Generic_122300-54 sun4u sparc... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to write a script with goes through thousands of XML documents to pull out the values for a particular tag to a .txt file.
For example I have
file1.xml
file2.xml
file3.xml
.
.
.
fileN.xml
All these files have a tag called <systemID>.
The value that sits within... (6 Replies)
Hi,
file=/usr/lib
I need to cut and put it into two variable like
string1=/usr
string2=lib
I made it for string2
string2=${file#/*/}
How to get String1 in the same way which I have get string2.
Use even more code tags ;) (4 Replies)
Hi
I have two text files. The first file is TEXTFILEONE.txt as given below:
<Text Text_ID="10155645315851111_10155645333076543" From="460350337461111" Created="2011-03-16T17:05:37+0000" use_count="123">This is the first text</Text>
<Text Text_ID="10155645315851111_10155645317023456"... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I am creating a file with all the source folders included in my git branch, when i grep for the used source, i found source included as relative path instead of absolute path, how can convert relative path to absolute path without changing directory to that folder and using readlink -f ? ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sekhar419
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LEARN ABOUT V7
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)