hey, man--where can I find documentation on this li'l procedure?! I mean, what are the underpinnings--what made that work?! What function of UNIX allowed you to do that? Is it built in to the echo function or can I use the :#:# function with other commands such as printf?
If you have more information or could direct me, that'd be great.
Your solution worked like a charm though; YOU'RE THE MAN!!!
Hi All,
Following is the output of a find commnd to locate log directories for various projects of UNIX AIX box:
/home/hbinz6pf/projectlibs/dpr_pfsdw_dev/&PH&
/opt/tools/ds/Template/&PH&
/data/ds/ms/hmsdw/projectlibs/dpr_ms_dev/&PH&
/data/ds/riskmi/projectlibs/dpr_riskmi_dev/&PH&... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Following is the output of a find commnd to locate log directories for various projects of UNIX AIX box:
/home/hbinz6pf/projectlibs/dpr_pfsdw_dev/&PH&
/opt/tools/ds/Template/&PH&
/data/ds/ms/hmsdw/projectlibs/dpr_ms_dev/&PH&
/data/ds/riskmi/projectlibs/dpr_riskmi_dev/&PH&... (5 Replies)
Just so you know guys, I am a SAP Person and I am very new to UNIX. I need a help on a one line code.
In one of our script we are referring to a variable ($PN) which has the value /interfaces/DA1/DEV291/outbound/INVOIC which is being used in ftp command. I am just looking for a command to... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a shell script in which i want to invoke PL/SQL function and importantly get the return value from the PL/SQL function.
Pls let me know how to go about this.
Regards,
Krishna (0 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am new on here, I have a function in oracle that returns a specific value:
create or replace
PACKAGE BODY "CTC_ASDGET_SCHED" AS
FUNCTION FN_ASDSCHEDULE_GET
RETURN VARCHAR2
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE
ASDSchedule varchar2(6);
ASDComplete... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a scenario to just plug out the file name from the following location path.
/opt/project/data/int/holdFiles/csv195687.csv
So, how do I get just file name which is "csv195687.csv" from the above line using awk/shell scripting? Can we use indexOf and Substring in awk to get... (7 Replies)
hi,
I want to know how to call a pl sql function testfunction(param1,..) that returns a value and grab that value in a shell variable.
Thnx in advance
---------- Post updated 03-30-10 at 11:58 AM ---------- Previous update was 03-29-10 at 03:49 PM ----------
thnx a lot jim (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a function which connects to the db and runs the sql.
it works fine when I run it like: function "select empname from emp;"
but when I try to pass the sql string to a variable which in turn in fed to the function , it throws error.
please advise.
Thanks,
Arnie. (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have something that should be very simple yet I am losing my head in figuring out how to get it to work:
I am calling a function passing a parameter, this will return a particular string, next I want to substring the returned value and break it apart.
All of this I want to do on a... (2 Replies)
I have a file in which there are other file path and names
/home/data/abc.txt
/home/data/sdf.txt
/home/data/sdg.txt
how can I get the file names i.e. abc.txt sdf.txt sdg.txt
I searched the forum for sed command but it was confusing to me (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: eskay
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
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)