I was wondering if there is anyway to use the curses library with ksh88. I saw Shell Curses function library which says I can use /usr/local/functions/shellcurses on ksh93 but I am on ksh88. I am on a HP-UX box. (0 Replies)
Hello,
I need ksh88 for my linux system - and I don't want pdksh.
Possible to get original ksh 88 binaries or source ?
(I don't need ksh93 which is available)
thanks
Vilius (1 Reply)
I have to use KSH88, so going to BASH, perl etc. is not an option.
Below is a much simplified verison of what I am doing (aka ignore my cut command and i not increasing) :)
i=1
BIGSTRING="one two three four five six seven eight"
while ]; do
typeset "STRING$i=`echo $BIGSTRING| cut -d' '... (8 Replies)
Hi,
With:
# VALUES="one~two~~~"
# echo $VALUES | awk 'BEGIN {FS="~"} {print NF}'
5
I can determine the number of fields.
How to determine the number of fields with a value ?
In this case 2.
Thanks in advance,
ejdv (6 Replies)
Hi I tried the following string comparison script in Ksh88
#!/bin/ksh
str1='aC'
str2='ABC'
if
then
echo "Equal"
else
echo "Not Equal"
fi
Though str1 and str2 are not equal the script output says Equal .
Please correct me
Thanks (2 Replies)
I'm using Ksh88 .
I've last day files in one directory and current month files in another directory , having the same naming convention.
Now i need to compare these folders size , if there is no change in these files then no action to be performed
else if there is a change then i need to call... (1 Reply)
Hi I tried the following code to FTP the files from test server to dev
#!/bin/ksh
DST=/home/files
cd $DST
ftp -inv 'test_serv101' << EOF
quote USER test
quote PASS test
# File Path on test server
cd /etc/home/Or_Files
ascii
mget curMonth* $DST
quit
EOF
when i try the above code it... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to pick a random element from a list, and created these 2 lines, which work very well in ksh93. Unfortunately, I get this "bad substitution" message in ksh88.
I'm wondering if there's an equivalent to the second line of my script.. or if I have to install ksh93 to make this... (8 Replies)
I don't know if anyone is interested but I have been meddling with FFT for the AMIGA.
(Sadly we AMIGAns don't have these luxuries through any scripting language.
Below is a Python snippet that uses the builtin 'cmath' module to work with the lowly
Python 2.0.1 for the AMIGA. It is part of a... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
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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)