In that case, the value of x inside AWK is vulnerable to regular expression metacharacters. Say, for example, that you wanted to match a pathname that had a dot. The dot would not be treated literally, but would be a wildcard matching any character. In the following example, it yields a false positive.
There's simply no way around it. Unless you are absolutely certain that there will be no metacharacters involved, you cannot pass a value through SED or AWK's regular expression parsers (or AWK's string parser) without passing that value through some sort of sanitizing step to properly escape those special characters (which would be something of a nightmare if it had to be made safe to pass through AWK's string parsing before arriving at the regular expressioin parsing stage).
Alister
---------- Post updated at 01:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:15 PM ----------
cue:
Now that i think about it, by far the simplest solution to this is fgrep. I became fixated on AWK and sed since they were listed in the original post. Unless I missed something, the following should work just fine and is not susceptible to metacharacter interference.
Hello
I am new to shell scripting and can anyone tell me how to check if there are any special characters in a file. Can i use grep ?
thanks
susie (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a requirement to search a directory, which contains any number of other directories for file names that contain special characters.
directory structure
DIR__
|__>DIR1
|__>DIR2__
|__>DIR2.1
|__>DIR2.2
|__>DIR3
..
... (8 Replies)
i'm puzzled....
trying to look for the pattern }"'. but the below code returns to me the message below (pattern is curley queue + dbl qt + sng qt + period)
nawk -v pat="\}\"\'\."'
{
if (match($0, pat)) {
before = substr($0,1,RSTART-1);
... (11 Replies)
Hi,
On AIX 5200-07-00 I have a find command as following to delete files from a certain location that are more than 7 days old. I am being told that I cannot use -exec option to delete files from these directories.
Having said that I am more curious to know how this can be done.
an sample... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have the following lines
<b>A gtwrhwrthwr text hghthwrhtwrtw </b><font color='#06C'>; text text (text)
<b>B gtwrhwrthwr text hghthwrhtwrtw </b><font color='#06C'>; text text (text)
<b>J gtwrhwrthwr text hghthwrhtwrtw </b><font color='#06C'>; text text (text)
and I would like to... (5 Replies)
I'm looking for SED equivalent for grep -w -f. All I want is to search a list of patterns from a file. Also If the pattern doesn't match I do not want "null returned", rather I would prefer some text as place holder say "BLANK LINE" as I intend to process the output file based on line number.
... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I am here again scratching my head on pattern selection with special characters.
I have a large file having around 200 entries and i have to select a single line based on a pattern.
I am able to do that:
Code:
cat mytest.txt | awk -F: '/myregex/ { print $2}'
... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a list which I want to search in another file.
I can do that using
grep -f
but the search is failing due to special characters, how do I solve this?
One row in that list is
amino-acid permease inda1 gb|EDU41782.1| amino-acid permease inda1 Input file to be searched... (2 Replies)
Hello Team,
Any help would be much appreciated for the below scenario:
I have a sed command below where I am trying to replace the contents of 'old_pkey' variable with 'new_pkey' variable in a Soap request file (delete_request.txt). This works fine for regular string values, but this new_pkey... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: ChicagoBlues
8 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
i-ls
i-ls(1) General Commands Manual i-ls(1)NAME
i-ls - display file stat and checksum information for files
SYNOPSIS
i-ls [-s] filename
i-ls [-s] dirname
Specify a filename for i-ls to examine, or specify a directory with dirname to examine all the files in the directory.
-s
Do not show/calculate checksums for all regular files.
DESCRIPTION
The integrit system detects intrusion by detecting when trusted files have been altered.
integrit records information about files in a database. i-ls allows the user to see that information for live files.
The output syntax is the same as that of integrit.
EXAMPLES
i-ls /tmp/foo.txt
shows file stat attributes for the file, "/tmp/foo.txt".
i-ls /tmp
shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp".
i-ls -s /tmp
shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp", also including also checksums for all regular files.
AUTHOR
Ed L Cashin <ecashin@users.sourceforge.net>
See the integrit web site for up to date releases and information at
http://integrit.sourceforge.net/
SEE ALSO
Integrit File Verification System Manual (info), lstat(2)Version 4.1 Jul 27, 2001 i-ls(1)