Hi All,
I'm writing a script that provides a menu to manipulate records. I'm having a problem, however. The first option I'm writing is simply to display all of the records in a supplied file.
The supplied file ('records') currently contains sample data, this data is:
... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I try to write a shell script that would list all files on a directory and stop when it finds the first item specified on a find or ls command.
How can I tell to the find or ls command to stop when it finds the first ".doc" file for example ?
Thank you (7 Replies)
Dear all,
I have encountered some problem here. I prompt the user for input and store it into a data file, eg. key in name and marks so the data file will look like this
andrew 80
ben 75
and the next input is carine 90. So the problem here is i want to print... (2 Replies)
Good evening! Trying to make a shell script to parse log file and show only required information.
log file has 44 fields and alot of lines, each columns separated by ":".
log file is like:
first_1:3:4:5:6:1:3:4:5:something:notinterested
second_2:3:4:3:4:2
first_1:3:4:6:6:7:8
I am interested... (3 Replies)
I have the below script
i am getting the csv in garbled format.Please suggest the changes.
SUNOS
#######################################################################
####MAIN SCRIPT
#######################################################################
today=`date "+%m-%d-%Y ... (3 Replies)
I need to parse .conf file in Unix system to get output from the snippets like below :
; generated by mod_identity
exten => int,1,GoSub(mdc_template-3,s,1)
exten => int,n(next_380),Return()
; default action for busy
exten => ext,1,GoSub(mdc_template-3,s,1)
exten => ext,n,Set(PRI_CAUSE=17)... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have some tab delimited text data,
file: final_temp1
aname val
NAME;r'(1,) 3.28584
r'(2,)<tab>
NAME;r'(3,) 6.13003
NAME;r'(4,) 4.18037
r'(5,)<tab>
You can see that the data is incomplete in some cases. There is a trailing tab after the first column for each incomplete row. I... (2 Replies)
Dear all,Zabbix version : 2.4 (yes, I know, upgrading soon - honest)
Server OS version : CentOS 6, 64-bit (CentOS 7 with the Zabbix upgrade)I've got a large log file that I would like to read by an external process. It's basically the same as reading the item value on a web-page. I have... (5 Replies)
Hi - I want to interrogate information about my poker hands, sessions are all recorded in a text file in a particular format. Each hand starts with the string <PokerStars> followed by a unique hand reference and other data like date/time. There is then all the information about each hand. My first... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a src code file where I need to uncomment many lines.
The lines I need to uncomment look like,
C CALL l_r(DESNAME,DESOUT, 'Gmax', ESH(10), NO_APP, JJ)
The comment is the "C" in the first column. This needs to be deleted so that there are 6 spaces preceding "CALL".... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
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)