i think grep can only find char in files matching a pattern without any wildcards like ? correct? It works with * but not ?.
how can i write a small c program to find words in a file, like a list, that matches a pattern like ma?y, b??con, etc if grep doesn't understand ? in a pattern search. if... (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
Can you help with the shell script:
I would like to search a fixed width pattern from a file
say for each line from a fixed position and lenght it has to return all rows from the file.
Example:
To search the third column for "def" it has to return 1 and 4th rows only
... (2 Replies)
I have a problem in searching a specific pattern in c files.
My requirement:
I have to find all the division operator in all cfiles.
The problem is, the multi line comments and single line comments will also have forward slash in it.
Even after avoiding these comments also, if both... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Please can someone assist in the script I have made that searches a pattern in a file and delete the whole line containing the pattern.
#!bin/sh
# The pattern that user want to add to the files
echo "Enter the pattern of the redirect"
read value
# check if the user has... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need small help from you people.
In a directory there are around 150 odd files and few them contain the word "TRACK" and few are not.
How can I find out the the list of those files which doesn't contain the word "TRACK"?
Thanks,
Siba (4 Replies)
in my file i have somthing likre
kpk_12
kpk_1
kpk_1.tcl
kpk_3.tcl
kpk
kpk
kpk
i want search only kpk i am using this cmd /kpk ...results it is showing all . any cmd is ther other then this to search exactword in this example kpk it shoulsnot show kpk_* etc
Thanks in Advance
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Can you please help me out here? I am trying develop a search pattern to extract certain words from the two strings below.
I want to extract ericsson_msc_live from the 2 strings and then the date, which is a part of the filename just before the .jar extension.
... (19 Replies)
Hi there,
Looking forward to your advice for the below:
I have a file which contains 2 paragraphs related to a particular pattern. I have to search for those paragraphs from a log file and then print a particular line from those paragraphs.
Sample:
I have one file with the fixed... (3 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)