It is very foolish to experiment with scripts using the root account. Execute as a regular user until the script is working properly, and even then only use root if really need root privileges.
Or:
Last edited by cfajohnson; 01-14-2009 at 12:41 PM..
I've written a script (bgrep) for a more advanced grep command (& attached a cut down version below). I'm trying allow all grep options to be used, or in any combination.
The script works fine if I type say
bgrep -i -files product
it will return a non-case sensitive list of matches for... (3 Replies)
I am playing around with Perl and wrote the script below that is executed from the command line, it will split data up in a file based on a value supplied. When executed you provide two arguments - the file that contains the data to be split and the character you want to split by. It works as... (4 Replies)
All,
I have a cron job script that receives several command line arguments. At some point if there are validation problems and the job cannot be run, it duplicates the entire command line into a temporary text file which is later executed as a script. Unfortunately when I pass the list of received... (7 Replies)
I have part of the script below and I tried calling the script using
./tsimplex.py --fstmod=chris.cmod --nxz=8x6 --varp=0.25
but am getting the error
option --fstmod must not have an argument
Any idea on how to fix this would be highly appreciated
#! /usr/bin/python
import... (0 Replies)
Hi!
I have a python script that requires arguments and these arguments are file paths. This script works fine when executed like this:
/my_python_script "file_path1" "file_path2"
(i added quotes as some file names may have weird characters)
the issue happens when i launch my python script... (14 Replies)
Hi I need to pass comma seperated arguments to a perl script?
It is like:
Exect.pl -d GUI1,GUI2,GUI3
and I need to store these argsGUI1,GUI2,GUI3 in an array.
can anyone suggest how to do that: (1 Reply)
Hi,
I wanted to pass an argument to a bash script. So that the argument is used inside the awk command inside the bash script.
I know the noraml way of passing argument to a bash script as below :
sh myScript.sh abc
Inside the bash script i can use like this
myArg1=$1
wc $myArg
But... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement for creating a MQ (queue) where the inputs has to be passed as arguments.
Running the script as below
./hi.sh "Servername" "QueueManagername" "QueuecreationCommand"
cat hi.sh
echo "Welcome to $1"
runmqsc $2 < $3
But the queue creation command is... (9 Replies)
i want to be able to pass arguments to a php script if it is being piped:
cat myphpscript.php | php - $1 $2 $3 blah blah
This usually works for other script languages...i.e. ruby:
cat myrubyscript.rb | ruby - $1 $2 $3 blah blah
so my question is, how can i pass arguments to my php... (1 Reply)
I found something insteresting when I tested passing arguments into my scripts.
My scripts is as below.
% cat passarg.env
#!/bin/csh
echo "passarg: argv = $argv argv = $argv"
passarg1.env $*
% cat passarg1.env
#!/bin/csh
echo "passarg1: argv = $argv argvp=$argv"
set str = "test... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bestard
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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)