I have the following situation
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export DirectoryName=/tmp/xyz
if ; then
some_new_env=$DirectoryName"/*"
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I tried all the ways of escaping the '*', but still the shell seems to expand the '*' character. I want some_new_env to contain "/tmp/xyz/*"
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Hi
just for regular use i m working on small module written in perl for getting date in specified format like i have to specify date format and then seperator to seperate date i am 95% done. now i m sure explanation i gave is not good enough so i am putting output here :
C:\Documents and... (2 Replies)
I want to append the following line to /var/spool/cron/root:
*/7 * * * * /root/'Linux CPU (EDF).sh' > /dev/null 2>&1
How to accomplish this using echo?
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"Linux CPU (EDF)" is actually stored in a... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have pipe delimited file in which some of the description fields can have commas. e.g.
1|123|abc,def
2|456|qwert
3|345|aty,try,rty
I need to convert this to a 'csv' file BUT i need to add \ before every comma present in the description values (so that my next program can read it as... (3 Replies)
Hello
This should be easy, but bash is giving me headaches.
At the command line the following command works:
duplicity --include /home --exclude '**' / file:///foo
Doing that from a script is not straightforward. Note that it is basically a requirement that I place the... (3 Replies)
Hi
I use :
path=/var/www/admin
echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'
this return
\/var\/www\/admin
and is ok.
but
path2=`echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'`
echo $path2
return an error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to `s'
Can anyone help me?
Thanks (3 Replies)
So I understand that I should be able to ouput a literal \ by escaping it with a preceding \. My problem is that I am trying to ouput a script that will subsequently be run on a different system with UNC pathing, so I want to ouput two \\ in a row, but escaping them both in sequential order is not... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print and set the date
SYNOPSIS
date [-nu] [-d dst] [-t timezone] [yymmddhhmm [.ss] ]
DESCRIPTION
If no arguments are given, the current date and time are printed. Providing an argument will set the desired date; only the superuser can
set the date. The -d and -t flags set the kernel's values for daylight savings time and minutes west of GMT. If dst is non-zero, future
calls to gettimeofday(2) will return a non-zero tz_dsttime. Timezone provides the number of minutes returned by future calls to gettimeof-
day(2) in tz_minuteswest. The -u flag is used to display or set the date in GMT (universal) time. yy represents the last two digits of
the year; the first mm is the month number; dd is the day number; hh is the hour number (24 hour system); the second mm is the minute num-
ber; .ss is optional and represents the seconds. For example:
date 8506131627
sets the date to June 13 1985, 4:27 PM. The year, month and day may be omitted; the default values will be the current ones. The system
operates in GMT. Date takes care of the conversion to and from local standard and daylight-saving time.
If timed(8) is running to synchronize the clocks of machines in a local area network, date sets the time globally on all those machines
unless the -n option is given.
FILES
/usr/adm/wtmp to record time-setting. In /usr/adm/messages, date records the name of the user setting the time.
SEE ALSO gettimeofday(2), utmp(5), timed(8),
TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD, R. Gusella and S. Zatti
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 on success, 1 on complete failure to set the date, and 2 on successfully setting the local date but failing globally.
Occasionally, when timed synchronizes the time on many hosts, the setting of a new time value may require more than a few seconds. On
these occasions, date prints: `Network time being set'. The message `Communication error with timed' occurs when the communication between
date and timed fails.
BUGS
The system attempts to keep the date in a format closely compatible with VMS. VMS, however, uses local time (rather than GMT) and does not
understand daylight-saving time. Thus, if you use both UNIX and VMS, VMS will be running on GMT.
4th Berkeley Distribution March 24, 1987 DATE(1)