If you are unsure about the content why don't you just display it?
This line appends a literal "/*" to whatever is given as the first positional argument. Suppose this is inside a script "foo.sh" and you call this script with "foo.sh bar" the variable DIR would contain "bar/*", if you call it with "foo.sh /path/to/somewhere" it would contain "/path/to/somewhere/*".
The statement is poorly phrased, btw., because it is asking for troubles: the asterisk ("*") has a special meaning to the shell and to protect such special characters from being interpreted one should cover them in quotes:
Furthermore, when using variable-names without spaces surrounding them it is a wise precaution to explicitly mark what belongs to the variable identifier and what doesn't:
In your case this makes no difference, but consider:
I'm writing a bash script to search the contents of a postfix log. To keep the script's output readable (since multiple lines from the log file need to be echo'ed) I am setting the IFS variable to an empty string so that the line breaks in my grep results are preserved. I am storing the results... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to pass a variable to perl script from bash script, where in perl i am using if condition. Here is the cmd what i am using in perl
FROM_DATE="06/05/2008"
TO_DATE="07/05/2008"
"perl -ne ' print if ( $_ >="$FROM_DATE" && $_ <= "$TO_DATE" ) ' filename"
filename has... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I use AIX (ksh) and Linux (bash) servers. I'm trying to do scripts to will run in both ksh and bash, and most of the time it works. But this time I don't get it in bash (I'm more familar in ksh).
The goal of my script if to read a "config file" (like "ini" file), and make various report.... (2 Replies)
Hi, I've been running code which very frequently calls books.csv. e.g:
grep -i horror books.csv > tempExcept, I'm trying to move away from using temporary files or frequently calling books.csv to improve efficiency. So I tried something like
bookfile=$(cat books.csv)
grep -i horror... (4 Replies)
have a script that calls child scripts depending on conditions. All of the child scripts source in a common file that contains shared functions.
At the moment each script has to source this file itself, is there a way for the master script to automagically source the file for them?
For... (3 Replies)
Hello,
The task is quite simple. I need to initialise а string variable and assign to it a very long value. For the reason of readability I want to devide this long value into equal parts and place each part at a separate line.
For instance, I have -
... (1 Reply)
Suppose I have a file named Stuff in the same directory as my script. Does the following assign the file Stuff to a variable?
Var="Stuff"
Why doesn't this just assign the string Stuff? Or rather how would I assign the string Stuff to a variable in this situation?
Also, what exactly is... (3 Replies)
while i've used arrays to work with variables, i've never used them to loop through a set of strings and wanted to ask the community for some feedback or assistance.
let me be specific. here's my code:
# URL port Variables
port2195=`nc -z $url2195 2195`
port2196=`nc -z $url2196 2196`... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to Linux and studying to become a Unix System Admin. I am taking a course in which I was practicing creating a bash script to ping a particular IP address. The script can be found below:
#/bin/bash
echo "Enter the IP address"
read ip
if
then
ping -c 1 $ip
if ;... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a file of ip addresses called activeips.txt
What I'm trying to do is run a simple bash script that has a loop in it. The loop is a cat of the IP addresses in the file.
The goal is to run 2 nmap commands to give me outputs where each address in the list has an OS... (11 Replies)
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apple_dump - Dump AppleSingle/AppleDouble format file
SYNOPSIS
apple_dump [-a] FILE | DIR
apple_dump -f FILE
apple_dump -d FILE
apple_dump -h | -help | --help
apple_dump -v | -version | --version
DESCRIPTION
apple_dump dump AppleSingle/AppleDouble format file.
OPTIONS -a FILE|DIR
This is default. Dump a AppleSingle/AppleDouble file for FILE or DIR automatically. Extrapolate FinderInfo type from absolute path. If
FILE is not AppleSingle/AppleDouble format, look for .AppleDouble/FILE and ._FILE. If DIR, look for DIR/.AppleDouble/.Parent and ._DIR.
-f FILE
Dump FILE. Assume FinderInfo to be FileInfo.
-d FILE
Dump FILE. Assume FinderInfo to be DirInfo.
-h, -help, --help
Display the help and exit
-v, -version, --version
Show version and exit
NOTE
There is no way to detect whether FinderInfo is FileInfo or DirInfo. By default, apple_dump examins whether file or directory, a parent
directory is .AppleDouble, filename is ._*, filename is .Parent, and so on.
If setting option -f or -d, assume FinderInfo and doesn't look for another file.
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