Hello everyone!
I have a file: text.txt
and also a list of replacement: replace.txt (tabbed)
is isn\'t
Mac Windows
will won\'t
\.\n \! <--- ! plus 2 spaces
I want a script which will change text.txt as
I made a script:
#!/bin/bash
echo Please input the file of... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that contains the following contents:
14:05 apple
orange123
456mango
16:45 banana
I wanted to replace ONLY the "14:05 " and "16:45" with nothing and trying to use the following syntax
sed -e 's/*//g' -e 's/^: //g' my_file > new_temp
cat new_temp
apple
orange... (2 Replies)
Well, I'm losing my regex ability in sed! Please help.
I need to search for this text in multiple html files in a directory:
</body>
and add the following lines in front of the text above:
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
... (11 Replies)
Hello all,
I would like to replace some text that are forwarded in standard output from a script, then save the replaced text to a file.
The text i would like to replace is in the form of:
1 some text
1.1 other text
1.2 more text
1.2.1 still more text
i would like to replace
1 some... (5 Replies)
Hi guys,
got a problem here with sed on the command line.
If i have a string as below:
online xx:wer:xcv: sdf:/asdf/http:https-asdfd
How can i match the pattern "http:" and replace the start of the string to the pattern with null?
I tried the following but it doesn't work:
... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have one question that hopefully isn't too complicated for the more advanced users here. In one of the Solaris KSH scripts I'm working on, is it possible to script the following:
- If there "is" an empty blank line "at the end" of /tmp/text.txt, then remove only that one empty... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
basically I am been cleaning data by using simple sed commands
So what i have below has been working for me.
sed 's/="//g' trade.csv > tradeb.csv
sed 's/"//g' tradeb.csv > trade2.csv
but now i don't want to remove all the quotes just the ones if i encounter this ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to run a search and replace on a large database,
what I need to change is all instances of
#### (eg. 1764 or 1964)
to
(####) (eg. (1764) or (1964))
But there might be other numbers in there such as
(1764) and I do not need those changed to ((1764))
How can I... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to modify an xml file and I wanted to search and replace using the sed command but here is my issue. I want to search and replace maximumHeapSize="512" and replace it with maximumHeapSize="768" but I have multiple files with different values so I can't search for... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Need a little bit of help. Basically I need to replace lines in a file which were calculated wrong as it would 12 hours to regenerate the data. I need to calculate values based on other files which I've managed to figure out with grep/cut but now am stuck on how to shove these new... (21 Replies)
Discussion started by: f77coder
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
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)