How do I substitute a word throughout a file? For example change all instances of the word John to Mark. This would be in vi for korn shell. (10 Replies)
well i have this file here:
<XML>
<pregate xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<system_c>HPREGATE</system_c>
<trans_c>HSPG</trans_c>
<trans_dt>20060105161333</trans_dt>
<user_id_m></user_id_m>
<func_c>C</func_c>
</pregate>
</XML>
i want to... (2 Replies)
Hello experts,
I know line number of the word I want to replace. Can "sed" substitute word on a specific line?
As well, can sed substitute words inside a specific patten.
ex. <word>lalala</word> #replace anything between <word> and </word>
minifish (2 Replies)
Hi every body!
I would like to get only filename in the result of find command in Linux but I don't know howto. Tks so much for your helps. (5 Replies)
Hi all ,
i am having a table which contains start date and end date
for ex ..
startdate enddate
12/03/2011 12/04/2012
11/03/2011 20/05/2011
11/04/2011 28/07/2011
how to grep startdate = 12/03/2011
enddate = 28/07/2011
i need output :-
startdate:12/03/2012... (4 Replies)
I am trying to do what I thought should be a simple substitution, but I can't get it to work.
File:
Desire output:
I thought I'd start with a sed command to remove the part of the header line preceding the string "comp", then go on to remove the suffix of the target string (e.g. ":3-509(-)"),... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
OS is Solaros 10 Sparc
While doing Netbackup upgradation to 7.5 , the server was asked to reboot.
But then it came up in single user mode,
and after I typed format command it showed some disk error.
bash-3.00# format
Searching for disks...WARNING:... (2 Replies)
i need to substitute word on a specific line.
I was able to do it on command line like below but it is not working in vi.
command line like below:
sed -e '8s/table_name/schema.table_name/' file_name.
in vi table_name and schema are my positional parameters that i pass into the
script.
... (5 Replies)
Team,
I want to change below parameter in all the files in a directory,
Check for HOSTNAME=`hostname`
Change to HOSTNAME=localhost
And I tried below but, its not working ☹
find /tmp -type f -exec sed 's/"HOSTNAME\=\`hostname\`"/"HOSTNAME\=localhost/g'"
Help me if I am missing... (6 Replies)
HI
I am trying to use the following code in the shell script (using grep)
usage()
{
echo "Usage: ./$0 <file name> <interval> <pattern>"
}
METRICS_FILE=$1
INTERVAL=$2
PATTERN="$3"
..
if
then
PATTERN="grep Gx"
fi
COUNT=`cat ${METRICS_FILE} | "${PATTERN}" |egrep... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: asifansari
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)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 v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)