I have written a little script to scan users home directories for certain commands located inside a file. The script is setup to include a small help section and allows for passing a username argument to override scanning of all users home directories.
A lot of searching and trial and error has went into this script on my part. I would appreciate it if some of you that actually know what you're doing can take a look at it for me. If you could give me some pointers, ideas, or suggestions I would be grateful.
Hi,
I want to copy all the log file except current date log from one server to another server.
Log File will be like this LOGNIG_08_11_2008*.log
For this
cd /test/log
date -d '1 day ago' "+%d_%m_%Y" -->This command gives previous day
scp LOGSNIG_date -d '1 day ago' "+%d_%m_%Y"... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I 've been brewing this shellscript, but I can't test it until next tuesday.
In the meantime I am too curious wether it will work or not, so I'd like to hear your comments.
Background:
I want to watch the user quota for mailboxes in various email-domains on a IMAP-server.
I have... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need Unix Shell Script Review Check list in the format of word or excel.
Can any one provide the review checklist for unix shell script. Pls. (1 Reply)
I have written a bit of shell that lets our company check all our SSL certs.
the aim is to have a list of servers and run this check from cron once a week.
Our managers have decided that we will not run BASH, so it has been written in /bin/sh and only needs openssl, no perl, no bash, no extra... (8 Replies)
Hello
Im new to this forums, I would like some help regarding a script that I need in order to copy some files. Heres the scenario:
I need to search several files which have a particular code inside, lets say "test" all of them on different directories. I need to copy all of them on a new... (4 Replies)
HI everyone,
I been to this site before for help and found my answers on other threads now I am posting my own :).
I have a list of file names with out extensions on an txt file. I need a way for the script to search on the server for each file name and copy the files over to a new directory.... (12 Replies)
The script distributes files from an AIX server using iether ftp or sftp depending on the constraint of the destination server. I am interested in having the error checking routine critically reviewed. I will only include an excerpt from the script concerning error trapping: (where $FTP_OUT is the... (7 Replies)
Hello *nix friends,
I've written a shell script that allow web admin's to copy file/folder from a development site to the production site. It's more or less a poor man SVN.
I'm posting the script here because I was able to get many questions answered through this forum and also, I want to... (4 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)