You could try this:
If you do it your original way, you need to add quotes so all the files get assigned to the variable:
Also, I don't think there is anything to be achieved by piping anything into the echo command.
Last edited by KenJackson; 10-28-2008 at 11:41 PM..
Reason: typo
I've been asking on IRC channels but no one answers me, I need to format my hard drive, normally it's just format c:
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Please i installed linux RH 6.1 on Toshiba , 10G , RAM=128 , 600 MHZ .
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I have next part of script:
for i in $LIST
do
echo "`date +"%H:%M:%S"` Converting $i ...";
mysql -uroot some -sABe "ALTER TABLE $i ENGINE=$ENGINE";
done
I want to get following output formatting:
"OK" must be one under another :)
... (3 Replies)
I have file with different columns
for ex.
contents of file "txt"
NAME AGE MARKS
HARRY 23 89
TOM 12 67
BOB 23 11
and you see its not formatted.Now, I need the file "txt" to be formatted like
COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3
NAME AGE ... (3 Replies)
I need to format a txt file and convert it in CSV.
Any "future" column is separated by a newline.
FROM:
XS1
1.43294
0.0
XS2
1.21824
0.0
TO:
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Hi Guys,
i have report that runs every 10 min and send the report of failed jobs to my mail.
Currently i am using a command like this to send mail.
mailx -t -s "FAILURE JOBS IN HYDRA $temp_date" addressee@domain.com < temp_file5
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Good day All,
I have requirement where my input data looks like below
] Message5
Expecting Output as
04/MAR/2104 ||| 23:15:45 ||| servername ||| NOTIFICATION |||message1||||||userId|||||| Message5
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Hi, I am new to UNIX and need your help in formatting the below input command to the desire output
Input:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX XPKTABLE1
(
COL1,
COL2
) ON TABLE_NM;
Output:
COMMENT ON TABLE DB_NM.TABLE_NM AS 'PK=,COL1,COL2; ';
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Discussion started by: varun2327
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
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)