I am writing a shell script that executes another script by fetching it over the network and piping its contents into sh (ftp -o - $script | sh; or wget -O - |sh). Since this bypasses putting the script on the filesystem, this means I can't source the script directly (using . ), but rather it... (1 Reply)
Okay this is a mess, I'm trying to assign variables with variables in a for-loop. Here is what i have for code. The syntax is not good.
Given the following script:
#! /bin/csh
foreach site (ABC DEF GHI)
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eval set... (2 Replies)
Hi -
I'm trying to think of a clever way to write a shell script (trying to stay w/ ksh as that's what I know the best...) that will resolve the following problem:
Problem - On a daily basis I have to email folks who are on-call to remind them. I was hoping to script this out so I could have... (9 Replies)
Hi,
Could any one share the intelligence to track this problem.
I have any array BT_META_36 and it prints properly with contents of array.
# print "BT_META_36=${BT_META_36}"
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Hi,
I came across a post wherein you can use "set -r"(on bash) to activate restricted mode ( wherein you cant run some commands such as cd etc).
Can anyone guide if we have anything similar in ksh ?
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Hi,
I am running this on Redhat 5.10
I have a simple test script called test.sh which has the following
contents and it uses the BASH shebang.
-------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
eval `/tmp/filereader.pl /tmp/envfile.txt`
echo "TESTPATH=$TESTPATH"
... (28 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I need to pass a parameter to ksh and the value is windows path eg: sh abc.txt C:\Users\chill3chee\Desktop
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Hi,
There is an Informatica tool through which unix scripts can be called. Now the requirement in my project is that a parent script calls a child script but this parent script has to be called through the Informatica tool.
In Parent script I'm using
TEMP=`getopt -o x:y: -l area:,volume:... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I am taking a course on Lynda and they show this code below. I didn't fully understand some parts. Please see the questions within the code.
Thank you for your input and time.
Regards,
function usage {
echo Options are -r -h -b -x --branch --version --help --exclude... (9 Replies)
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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)