Hi All
In a script, I want a user to enter 4 characters, these can be a mix of letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.
In this example $var represents what the user has entered.
eg $var can be A9xZ, 3DDL, bbHp .........etc
I need to check that the user has only entered characters... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am getting very confused as to where should i quote special/metacharacters in shell.
Sometimes i write * directly and it works, othertimes i have to do "*".
Same is the case with other special characters like /,\,.,$,etc.
Can somebody give me link to somewhere where i can found... (1 Reply)
can somebody help, what quote i should use in below statement or what wrong of it ?
the 1st (*) is a char, the 2nd and 3rd (*) is a wildcard
if ] && ] && ]
................^ .............^
then
echo "ok"
fi
thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
I'm trying to take the command `date` giving me:
Fri Feb 22 09:23:52 EST 2008
and using some command take out the rest of the string leaving me with
"Fri Feb 22"
any help appreciated hopefully thanks in advance (3 Replies)
hi guys, i have a question related to quoting but i am not sure how to formulate it...
lets say we want to simulate the following shell actions
cd ~/project-dir
ctags /home/work/folder1/*.sh /home/work/folder2/*.sh /home/work/folder3/*.sh
so i make the following script
buidtags.sh
... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
i have a file that looks like:
one:two:three:four:five
six:seven:eight:nine:ten
and i'd like to quote the fourth column, getting:
one:two:three:"four":five
six:seven:eight:"nine":ten
i was thinking something like:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{print $1 FS $2 FS $3 FS \"$4\" FS $5}'... (5 Replies)
I am writing a bash script to automate the installation of web environment on a base install of Fedora. And I'm at the limit of my last nerve and my bash skills. My brain is screaming at me: "Give up and use perl", but I am trying to stick to bash since the script will modify the perl environment... (6 Replies)
Hi,
My first shell script is one that prints the five largest directories in a given directory. My current effort is as follows, it gives me the output I'd like, but I have to quote a globbed pathname, which seems wrong:
#!/bin/sh
du -hs $1 | sort -rn | head -n 5
And I must invoke... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have got a file comp_data containing the below data :
38232836|9302392|49
39203827|8203203,3933203|52
72832788|567,3245,2434324|100
This file can have many rows like shown above. I want the values separated by "," in second column(taking "|" as delimiter) to be in quotes. These... (2 Replies)
I am trying to write a BASH script that will prompt a user to enter a number of days, then calculate the date.
My problem is the date command uses single or double quotes. For Example..
date -d "7 days"
Here is an example of some same code I am trying to work through.
echo "when do you... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: javajockey
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
fc-pattern
FC-PATTERN(1)FC-PATTERN(1)NAME
fc-pattern - parse and show pattern
SYNOPSIS
fc-pattern [ -cdVh ] [ --config ] [ --default ] [ [ -f format ] [ --format format ] ] [ --version ] [ --help ]
[ pattern [ element... ] ]
DESCRIPTION
fc-pattern parses pattern (empty pattern by default) and shows the parsed result. If --config is given, config substitution is performed
on the pattern before being displayed. If --default is given, default substitution is performed on the pattern before being displayed.
If any elements are specified, only those are printed.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
-c Perform config substitution on pattern.
-d Perform default substitution on pattern.
-f Format output according to the format specifier format.
-V Show version of the program and exit.
-h Show summary of options.
pattern
Parses and displays pattern (uses empty pattern by default).
element
If set, the element property is displayed for parsed pattern.
SEE ALSO FcNameParse(3)FcConfigSubstitute(3)FcDefaultSubstitute(3)FcPatternPrint(3)FcPatternFormat(3)fc-cat(1)fc-cache(1)fc-list(1) fc-
match(1)fc-query(1)fc-scan(1)
The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.
AUTHOR
This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.
Apr 20, 2010 FC-PATTERN(1)