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Full Discussion: Reason why some commands need escaped-characters and other not
Operating Systems Solaris Reason why some commands need escaped-characters and other not Post 302463683 by doublefrangelic on Monday 18th of October 2010 08:20:28 AM
Old 10-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
There is neither a comma nor an equal sign appearing in the first command line so obviously no need to escape them within it.

The commas and equals signs appear in the file names and folders, and these appear within the listoffiles.txt input file

apologies, I only noticed now that the comment
# (this command does need to have the equals and commas escaped
preceded the wrong line. It is meant to be before the rm command.

---------- Post updated at 01:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:46 PM ----------

I have edited the script in my post, and it now appears as it should be.

The question remains

Thank you

---------- Post updated at 02:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:49 PM ----------

OK, my apologies, I have not solved the problem but my question is irrelevant.

I discovered that the problem I am experiencing occurs whether or not the file names are escaped.

The filenames are corrupted in the results of the rm command-line and many were corrupted close to the equals signs and commas
The issue occurs intermittently so I assumed it had something to do with escaping the characters.
Now to figure out why.. thanks Anyway for the assistance
 

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cpio.h

cpio.h(3HEAD)                                                         Headers                                                        cpio.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       cpio.h, cpio - cpio archive values

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cpio.h>

DESCRIPTION

       Values needed by the c_mode field of the cpio archive format are described as follows:

       Name              Description
       C_IRUSR           Read by owner
       C_IWUSR           Write by owner
       C_IXUSR           Execute by owner
       C_IRGRP           Read by group
       C_IWGRP           Write by group
       C_IXGRP           Execute by group
       C_IROTH           Read by others
       C_IWOTH           Write by others
       C_IXOTH           Execute by others
       C_ISUID           Set user ID
       C_ISGID           Set group ID
       C_ISVTX           On directories, restricted deletion flag
       C_ISDIR           Directory
       C_ISFIFO          FIFO
       C_ISREG           Regular file
       C_ISBLK           Block special
       C_ISCHR           Character special
       C_ISCTG           Reserved
       C_ISLNK           Symbolic link
       C_ISSOCK          Socket

       The header defines the symbolic constant:

       MAGIC         "070707"

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          10 Sep 2004                                                      cpio.h(3HEAD)
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