Escaping special character stored in variables : perl
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 :
now i can put anything as a seperator other than WORDS & NUMBERS this is where problem is coming look in above output last "/" in red is not required so i want to remove this and in code i am doing this as :
thanks
dear, I would like to rename files in a dir to another format, so I write a bash shell script to handle it. But my problem now is how to handle files having special characters like spaces, (, ):
"a b c (d).doc"
It seems that I need to escape those characters before applying the "mv" command.... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
In ksh script i'm trying to assign "sqlstmt1" varaible value,
update VAREntryTb set VAR10num = VAR1num * Mltplr where BusD = '$val1' and RunI = 1"`
Hence i wrote below statement, the issue with this is shell is expanding "*" character adn thus subistuting it with the content of my... (6 Replies)
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I am writing a Perl script that reads in many lines, if a line meets the criteria I want to edit, it. For example, the script will return the following example line... test=abc123
All I want to do is strip off the "test=" and just be left with the abc123. In my script I can easily... (3 Replies)
I'm running into a problem with a differential backup script written in GNU Bash 3.0 - the following stripped down code demonstrates the problem quite nicely.
$ DATE="last tuesday"
$ date --date="$DATE"
Tue Jan 6 00:00:00 PST 2009
So far so good.
$ CMD="date --date=\"$DATE\""
$... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I am having a trouble in passing special characters to a script. As I am new to bash script I dont know how to go and solve this.
mypwd=(a+sdfg!h#
if i pass $mypwd to a bash script, it is not accepting "(,!,+ etc". It would be a great help if some one can help to escape these... (3 Replies)
All I'm trying to split a string at the $ into arrays
@data:=<dataFile>
a $3.33
b $4.44
dfg $0.56
The split command I have been playing with is:
split(/\$/, @data)
which results with
a .33 b .44 dfg .56
any help with this is appreciated
/r
Rick (9 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?
---------- Post updated at 04:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:07 PM ----------
"Linux CPU (EDF)" is actually stored in a... (11 Replies)
I'm attempting a little hack to get grep to highlight (change foreground color to red) a found string. Assuming a target file "test" consisting of the word "albert":
My executable "algrep" consists of this:
grep $1 $2 | sed "s/$1/\\\033
And when run:
algrep al test
Produces this:... (2 Replies)
Hello
I have string (string can have more sections)
LINE="AA;BB;CC;DD;EE"I would like to assigne each part of string separated by ";" to some new variable.
Can someone help? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vikus
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)