Will remove files called clean_tmp_* from the user running the scripts home directory, hence:
Quote:
/pps/clean_tmp_cmd
rather than the expected:
${HOME} is the standard variable for a user's home directory, don't know where ${HOMEDIR} comes from?
${LOGNAME} or ${USER} are the normal variables holding the username, don't know where ${UNXUSER} comes from?
If /pps is really the intended directory it would be interesting to see the output from:
because it looks like you "might" have some non-Unix compliant file names in there.
I'd also like to see what the user pct home directory is set to in /etc/passwd?
I posted this in Shell scripting... maybe I'll try it in this forum..
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I wrote a script to stop a process,truncate its log files and re-start the process...
We are using Progress Software in Unix ( Sun Sparc)
When ever I start this progress program , it should kick off a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I wrote a script to stop a process,truncate its log files and re-start the process...
We are using Progress Software in Unix ( Sun Sparc)
When ever I start this progress program , it should kick off a C pgm in the background..
The script work perfectly fine when I run it from command... (4 Replies)
All,
I have a script that runs on 2 servers and there seems to be something wrong. It's producing different results on the 2 servers.
Here is the script on server1 which is behaving correctly but on 2 behaving differently.
2nd server:
I couldn't make out whats the error is?... (5 Replies)
Hi
i need to FTP files from windows to unix(sun) machine using script. what are the scripts commands i need to use to transfer files
Thanks (2 Replies)
I would like to find whether a file exists in the UNIX machine. That i can check using
if ;then
echo "exists"
echo " `cat $file` "
else
echo "invalid file"
fi.
and i can find out using :
find / -name "filename" . But it i have wanted to search in all directories. How to get... (3 Replies)
i need to ftp a file from windows to a unix machine by executing a sript(perl/shell/php) from that unix machine.i can also use HTML and javascript to build forms. (3 Replies)
Guys i have strange behaviour with command output being saved in a variable instead of a tmp file.
1. I suck command output into a variable
Sample command output
# cleanstats
DRIVE INFO:
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Drv Type Mount Time Frequency Last Cleaned Comment
*** ****... (1 Reply)
Hi All..
Am new to Unix!!
Am creating a shell script in which a scenario is like i have transfer the output file from unix machine (Server) to local directory (Windows xp).
And also i have to transfer the input file from the local directory to Unix machine (Server)
Any help from you... (1 Reply)
There are 2 dates,
Tue Oct 1 13:40:19 2013
Sun Sept 30 10:26:23 2013
I have multiple dates like the above one. How do I calculate the date time difference and display in another column in Shell script. Please help. (3 Replies)
Hi, awk seem to be acting differently in Unix and Linux when it comes to formatting. This is making it difficult to migrate scripts.
for example:
UNIX:
echo "123" |awk '{printf ("%05s\n" ,$1)}'
00123
echo "123" |awk '{printf ("%05d\n" ,$1)}'
00123
echo "S12" |awk '{printf ("%05s\n"... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: wanderingmind16
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)