Don't know how to do that, unfortunately. But you could try to use following instead of shelling out to date:
Wise Perl coders say: "You don't get charged for extra lines in Perl"
I have a file called test.txt. Inside this file is the following:
tcenh100.telkom.co.za
100.200.300.400
tcenh101.telkom.co.za
500.600.700.800
I want to take out the new lines and spaces, then I want to put the ip address of the host name next to the host name on the same line, as soon as... (7 Replies)
Hi
I have a file with the records
1 A B C D
2 E F G H
3 I J K L
4 M N O P
In the ouput I want
1 A B C D 2 # F G H
3 I J K L 4 M N O P
How to achieve this? (10 Replies)
Hello,
I want to combine 2 lines in one
I have a text file
example:
bla123 blo31 xx:yy:zz
->bla43 bli532 00:01:02
bla1237 blo351 aa:ss:dd
->bla433 bli34332 55:10:28
I want the result to be:
bla123 blo31 xx:yy:zz, ->bla43 bli532 00:01:02
bla1237 blo351 aa:ss:dd, ->bla433 bli34332... (3 Replies)
All,
i am new to linux script...
source
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Hi All,
I am trying to understand if its possible to carry out the following.
I have a text file which contains output from multiple commands, within the file a node will be quiered twice if there was 2 commands for example. Is it possible do combine 2 lines into 1 if the first word is the... (1 Reply)
In the awk below, what I am attempting to do is check each line in the tab-delimeted input, which has ~20 lines in it, for a keyword
SVTYPE=Fusion. If the keyword is found I am splitting $3 using the . (dot) and reading the portion before and after the dot in an array a.
If it does have that... (12 Replies)
I have been searching and trying to come up with an awk that will perform the following on a
converted text file (original is a pdf).
1. Since the first two lines are (begin with) text they are removed
2. if $1 is a number then all text is merged (combined) into one line until the next... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)