if you want to use Perl, use Perl. There's no need to cat the file. Pass it into perl as an argument. Also, don't cram everything into one line like that. Its hard to read and troubleshoot. Indent your code where necessary.
Hi ppl,
I am a bit lost on this...can some one assist. I know this can be down with awk or sed, but i cant get the exact syntax right.
I need to only extract the numbers from a signle word ( eg abcd.123.xyz )
How can i extract 123 only ?
Thanks (14 Replies)
Just wondering if someone could assist me with shell script I'm trying to write. I need to read the final column of a text file (shown below) and workout what the average number is. The text file will have a variable number of lines, I just want the script to pull out the values in the final field... (14 Replies)
Hey all, I am relatively poor at programming and unfortunately don't have time to read about programming at this current moment.
I wanted to be able to run a simple command to read a column of numbers in a file and give me the average of those numbers. In addition if I could specify the... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a list of numbers. I need an awk command to find out the numbers of elements (number of numbers, sort to speak), the average value the min and max value. Reading the list only once, with awk.
Any ideas?
Thanks! (5 Replies)
Hello
I have created next scritpt to do the next: chekp if host is alive. When the host down, launch telnet other equip to do checks.
When execute the script the load average of the machines increase. For example:
Before launch script
top - 11:14:56 up 14 days, 18:06, 3 users, load... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have 3 to 4 different files, from that i need to take a Average of numbers from a particular column. here i have to take 4th column,
that should present in diff. file.
File 1:
Col1 col2 col3 col4
1 11 sa 12.00
2 22 sb 134.59
3 33 sc 11.99
4 44 sd 12.44
Col1 col2 col3... (8 Replies)
For the data
I would like to parse down and for each parsing
I want a cumulative averaging, stored in an array
that can be output.
I.e.
546/NR = 546
(546+344)/NR=(546+344)/2 = etc.
For N record input I want N values of the average (a block
averaging effectively)
Any... (3 Replies)
Hello friends,I am new to Unix programming.
how do I achieve the following in Unix shell script (I am running ksh on AIX)
extract the number from name of file?
My file format is like "LongFileName-1234.020614-221030.txt"
now I want to extract value which is between (-) hyphen and (.) dot... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
What is load average and how is it computed in Solaris 10?
What are the different ranges for normal, warning and danger signs?
Kindly clarify.
Thank you,
Sunil Kumar (3 Replies)
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
I have this script that will monitor filesystems and send me e-amil alerts.
#! /bin/ksh
DIST_LIST=monitor@...com
WORKDIR=/home/monitor
WARNLEVEL=90
MAIL_SUBJ="filesystems monitor on "$(hostname)
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: danielshell
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)