I'm looking at my bash man page and I'm expecting to find some option that I can use to make it echo every command that it executes. The description of --verbose was pretty terse!
Is --verbose supposed to make it echo every command it executes?
My bash script script (named ws2) contains a... (1 Reply)
Major Newbie here folks. I'm trying to set a variable to my Home directory and then echo it to the screen.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Anna (3 Replies)
Suppose that you want to mostly not echo commands inside your script during execution (e.g. to not bog the user down with details that they do not care about) but that there is the occaisional script line that you would like to echo before you execute it.
Is there an elegant way to achieve this?... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Hope someone can advise here as I have been struggling to find a syntax that works here. I have tried a stack of combination I have seed in the forums but I think because I have needed to use "" and `` in the statments another method is found.
I am reading in lines with the following... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I am executing a Oracle SQL statement in a shell script and spooling the output of the query into a File with spool command.
I want to ensure that only output of the query appears in file excluding the SQL statement but even set echo off command is not working.
Please help (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am cutting data from a fixed length test file and then writing out a new record using the echo command, the problem I have is how to stop multiple spaces from being written to the output file as a single space.
Example:
cat filea | while read line
do
field1=`echo $line | cut -c1-2`
... (6 Replies)
I came across and unexpected behavior with redirections in tcsh. I know, csh is not best for redirections, but I'd like to understand what is happening here.
I have following script (called out_to_streams.csh):
#!/bin/tcsh -f
echo Redirected to STDOUT > /dev/stdout
echo Redirected to... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have written a bash script to capture the output of jmap.
The command i execute is jmap -heap <pid>
This gives details of memory usage of the process with <pid>.
Now jmap not only gives this info but also prints couple more lines, which i am not interested in. Here are the lines that I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
My source file happens to be src.src with following contents:
1,liv 52,syrup,twice a day,children
When I do a :
for ii in `cat src.src`
do
echo $ii
medicine_name=`echo $ii | cut -f -d2","`
echo $medicine_name
done
I get output of
echo $medicine_name
as :
an the output of... (2 Replies)
$cat FILE.txt
$PATH1/file1.txt
$PATH2/file2.txt
where$PATH 1 = /root/FILE_DR/file1.txt
$PATH 2 = /root/FILE_DR/file2.txt
for I in `cat FILE.txt`
do
v=`echo $I`
echo $v
if
then
rm $v (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ekharvi
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)