I'm writing a script to automate some post-install tasks on RHEL4 servers.
I need the following code to insert an 'A' in the middle of a string, then replace the string in a file. I know I can use sed to do this, but I'd like to use perl's in place edit so I don't have to write to a temp file,... (1 Reply)
i all.
This one sounds so simple, but I can't get it to work. I need to delete lines with certain keywords from a file.
I have a file called defaultRules, with keywords:
IPSEC_AH
IKE_UDP
IPMP_TEST_IFACE2
Then, I have another file called rules.txt with some rules:
... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I was just helped with an excellent one liner. Now I need to know how to turn it into a script that I can call at the command line. So, this works with file script:
------------
for file in DATA.txt;
do
awk 'NR==1;NR>1{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){a+=$i}}END{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){printf... (3 Replies)
abc/abc1/abc2/abc3/abc4
i need a script to pick this above path when ever
any patterns like the below will be found.
abc/abc1
abc/abc1/abc2
abc1/abc2/abc3
abc2/abc3/abc4
abc2/abc3/
etc ....
etc.....
not only the above 5 but like these one..
any one liner will be of great... (1 Reply)
Hi I have a log data that shows chunks of data like this:
thisis example test, this is example test, this is example test
thisis example test, this is example test, this is example test
thisis example test, this is example test, this is example test
thisis example test, this is example test,... (2 Replies)
Thanks for giving your time and effort to answer questions and helping newbies like me understand awk.
I have a huge file, millions of lines, so perl takes quite a bit of time, I'd like to convert these perl one liners to awk.
Basically I'd like all lines with ISA sandwiched between... (9 Replies)
Input_file_1:
ABC1 DEF11
ABC3 DEF7
ABC7 DEF36
Input_file_2:
DEF7 light 23
DEF11 over 2
DEF11 over 1
DEF17 blue 0
Perl one-liner that join two input file based on columns sharing a value (In this example, column 2 in Input_file_1 and column 1 in... (3 Replies)
I am new for Perl I want to ask one question. I have around 50 custom packages which i am using in my Perl script. I want to import all .pm packages in my Perl script in an easy way. Right now i have to import each package individually. So Is there any way to do so??
Right Now i am doing like:
... (1 Reply)
In my quest to solve a bigger problem (See my previous post called "Create SQL DML insert statements from file using AWK or similar" - sorry, not allowed to post urls until I have > 5 posts) I'm trying to get my head round awk, but have some problem figuring out why the following script does work... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to replace time stamp in the following line
PROCNAME.Merge.exchMon.CODE.T_QSTART 08:45 read
assuming the new time stamp is 09:45 ; the line is getting replaced as below
:45 read
I'm trying to use the perl one liner in bash script
perl -pi... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: charlie87
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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)