Somehow I completely missed the output section of your post, until after I had typed and submitted my earlier post. Perhaps the following will suffice:
Code:
eval set -A runstatCmds `db2 -x "select '\"' || stats_command || '\"' from db2law1.parallel_runstats where tabname='BAZ'" | tr -d ,`
That may be good enough, but if you wanted to be very cautious, changing the double quotes to single quotes would be a good idea. Double quoting the command substitution would preserve whitespace, but the embedded newline which seems to be in the db2 output would then cause problems with eval. A workaround for that would be to use tr to convert it to a space.
Take care,
alister
Simple enough - add the 'eval' before the 'set -A' and all is well. Thanks
Hi,
Please can someone help to return the array elements from a function. Currently the problem I face is that tempValue stores the value in myValue as a string while I need an array of values to be returned instead of string.
Many Thanks,
Sudhakar
the function called is:
... (5 Replies)
I would like to find a list of files in a directory less than 2 days old and put them into an array variable. And then search for each file in the array for a matching string say "Return-code= 0". If it matches, then display the array element with a message as "OK".
Your help will be greatly... (1 Reply)
Hi,
My doubt is how to access array elements..
Situation is as below:
#!/bin/ksh
set -x
typeset -i x=0
typeset -i y=0
typeset -i BID=0
typeset -i count=0
while ] ; do
x=`expr $x + 1`;
hwmgr show scsi > scsi.tmp
while read line; do
set... (1 Reply)
Is there a way to print multiple array elements without iterating through the array using bash?
Can you do something like...
echo ${array}and get all those separate elements from the array? (2 Replies)
Hi I have two arrays :
@arcb= (450,625,720,645);
@arca=(625,645);
I need to remove the elements of @arca from elements of @arcb so that the content of @arcb will be (450,720).
Can anyone sugget me how to perform this operation?
The code I have used is this :
my @arcb=... (3 Replies)
I have a script which takes backup of some configuration files on my server. It does that by using an array which contains the complete path to the files to backup.
It copys the files to a pre defined dir. Each "program" has it's own folder, ex. apache.conf is being copied to /predefined... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I can't find out how to create correct code to get multiplication of each elements of array. Let's say I enter array into command line (2 3 4 5 6 8) and i need output 2*3*4*5*6*8=5760.
I tried this one, but answer is 0.
for i in $@; do
mult=$((mult*i))done
echo "mult: " $mult
... (4 Replies)
Hi
I wanted to print random elements from an array at bash shell
I use the following code, but I always see first element getting printed
#!/bin/bash
c=1
expressions=(pink red white yellow purple)
while ]; do
echo "The value of RANDOM is $RANDOM"
selectedexpression=${expressions}]};... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
need help with reading the array and sum of the array elements.
given an array of integers of size N . You need to print the sum of the elements in the array, keeping in mind that some of those integers may be quite large.
Input Format
The first line of the input consists of an... (1 Reply)
I have an array code and output is below:
echo $1
while read -r fline; do
echo "%%%%%%$fline%%%%%"
fmy_array+=("$fline")
done <<< "$1"
Output:
CR30903 YU0007 SRIL CR30903 Yogesh SRIL
%%%%%%CR30903 YU0007 SRIL%%%%%
%%%%%%CR30903 Yogesh SRIL%%%%%
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)
01-05-2010
