i've reworked some code from an earlier post, and it isn't working as expected
i've simplified it to try and find the problem. i spent hours trying to figure out what is wrong, eventually thinking there was a bug in perl or a problem with my computer. but, i've tried it on 3 machines with the... (5 Replies)
Folks,
I have a 3 problems. In a sh script, I call a server name from a list and rex to a distant machine to get the boot date.
for i in `cat list`
do
(echo "$i|"; /bin/rexsh $i -l bozo -t10 who -b | cut -d" " -f14-16) >>getBootTimes.out
sleep 1
done
The results are on 2 lines instead... (8 Replies)
Hi there
If I run a 'swap -l' on my solaris box, i get
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 54,65 8 67119560 65655144
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 54,65 8 33119522 32655122
I wanted to run a for loop adding up the totals of each column 4 , excluding the... (2 Replies)
Hi Perl Gurus , need URGENT HELP PLEASE !!!!!
I have one recursive Perl function which takes path of any directory as argument and returns array containing all the sub folders inside it recursively.
Now the problem is that it works well if i use it with one time but the problem is that when... (0 Replies)
Hi,
hope I am posting in the right section.
My problem is that I have 2 or more arguments passed and I want to check if the arguments passed exists or not.
The first argument should not exist and the remaining others should exist.
example:
./shells.sh argument1 argument2 argument3
... (5 Replies)
I have files structured in stanzas, whose title is '', and the rest couples of 'id: value'. I need to find text within the title and return the whole stanzas that match the title.
The following works:
awk 'BEGIN{RS="";IGNORECASE=1}/^\/' myfileI would need to count all of the occurences, though,... (7 Replies)
find $SRC -type f -name *.emlx |
while read FILE
do
if :
then sed -n '/From/p' $FILE
fi
done > $DEST-output.txt
The loop above spits out a .txt file with several lines that look like this:
From: John Smith <jsmith@company.com>
How can I narrow that sed result to spit out the email... (5 Replies)
hi guys, I have this question. I am creating an script to that read a text file(.ini) with the list of the patterns to find for example:
EPMS_VO
EMPS_PARTS
Then it check if file have been delivered in a folder and process it with each pattern, but I am having problems concatenting the... (7 Replies)
hi,
let's say we have input in files test1.txt, test2.txt, text3.txt ... ... ... ('...' means more files & lines not just 'dots')
test1.txt has:
A
B
C
D
...
...
...
test2.txt has
A
B
C
D
...
...
... (4 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am doing a check of the disk space using df -h, I want to combine the result in break line; but the result after while/done is empty:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 20G 14G 4.6G 75% /
/dev/root 20G 14G 4.6G 75% /... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: Abu Rayane
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)