awk print $1 escape all special characters Post: 302425399

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Need help to escape special characters in Korn shell script

Hi, I would like to display the following message from my shell (Korn) script Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt" My code looks as follows print "Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"" However, when I execute the script, I get the following output Copy old_file.txt to...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Using awk with the date command and escape characters

I have a file that is a log file for web traffic. I would like to convert the timestamp in it to unix time or epoch time. I am using the date command in conjunction with awk to try to do this. Just myfile: 28/Aug/1995:00:00:38 1 /pub/atomicbk/catalog/home.gif 813 28/Aug/1995:00:00:38 1...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace new line with <br /> & escape special characters

Hi, I wish to replace a new line with br (html) but it doesn't seem to work message=$(echo ${FORM_message} | tr '\r' '<br \/>' ) what it gives me seems to be ... b...? I am also having problem escaping hash sign in cut command: list=$(echo "$line" | cut -d'\#;\#' -f1) ; my intention is...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace special characters with Escape characters?

i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below. test!=123-> test\!\=123 !@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by \!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\-\=

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need help with sed to escape special characters

Hello Everyone, I need to read an encrypted password from the user and update that value in an xml file. I am trying to use "sed" for searching the appropriate tag and replacing this new value that get from the user. Since the encrypted password can contain special characters(like /,\,&,etc),...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Regex escape special character in AWK if statement

I am having issues escaping special characters in my AWK script as follows: for id in `cat file` do grep $id in file2 | awk '\ BEGIN {var=""} \ { if ( /stringwith+'|'+'50'chars/ ) { echo "do this" } else if ( /anotherString/ ) { echo "do that" } else { ...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Escape special characters in SED

Need help in escaping special characters in sed command. Here is the the string which i am trying to find a replace with From :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID={//MESSAGE_ID} To :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID= X_EDELIVERY_MESSAGE_ID & BATCH_ID= X_EDELIVERY_BATCH_ID Here is the sed command i am...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to escape Special Characters in Expect programming?

Hi, I have written a unix expect utility "ssh-login.exp" which connects (ssh) to remote host and execute some shell script. I am calling this "ssh-login.exp" utility from another shell script. "ssh-login.exp" takes username, password, host and shell script path to execute on remote host. All...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Auto escape script to escape special chars in script args

This is a bit off the wall, but I often need to run scripts where there are argument values that contain special characters. For example, $ ./process.exe -t M -N -o temp.mol.s -i ../molfiles/N,N\',N\'\'-trimethylbis$hexamethylene$triamine.mol && sfile_space_to_tab.sh temp.mol.s temp.s It...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to escape all special characters?

I have an application which I am integrating with that accepts the password via a CLI. I am running in to issues with passwords that contain special characters. I tried to escape them all, but I ran in to an issue where I cannot escape the characters ' ] My attempt is as follows: $...

LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

opimport

OPIMPORT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       OPIMPORT(1)

NAME

       opimport - converts sample database files

SYNOPSIS

       opimport [ options ] input_file

DESCRIPTION

       opimport converts sample database files from a foreign binary format (abi) to the native format.

OPTIONS

       --abi / -a
	      Input abi file description location.

       --force / -f
	      Force conversion even if the input and output abi are identical.

       --output / -o filename
	      Specify  the  output  filename. If the output file already exists it is not overwritten but data are accumulated in. Sample filename
	      are informative for post profile tools and must be kept identical, in other word the pathname from the first path component contain-
	      ing a '{' must be kept as it in the output filename.

       --help / -? / --usage
	      Show help message.

       --verbose / -V
	      Give verbose debugging output.

       --version / -v
	      Show version.

ENVIRONMENT

       No special environment variables are recognised by opimport

FILES

       /var/lib/oprofile/abi
	      The abi file description of the sample database files

VERSION

       This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.9.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/oprofile/, oprofile(1)

4th Berkeley Distribution					 Tue 10 June 2014						       OPIMPORT(1)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Need help to escape special characters in Korn shell script

Discussion started by: rogers42

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Using awk with the date command and escape characters

Discussion started by: jontjioe

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace new line with <br /> & escape special characters

Discussion started by: ted_chou12

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace special characters with Escape characters?

Discussion started by: laknar