I am making of a script that will go through a couple of for loops and create file names based on the values in that loop, however the variable that combines everything is not getting assigned properly:
If you run this, the first echo will output whatever $imod and $emod are, but $dirout has no value.
I'm sure that I am missing something obvious, and I will do a facepalm after, but help would be appreciated.
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Bah, I see the error now, I typed "dirour" instead of "dirout".
Hi,
I want to check if a variable has a value assigned to it or not.
I can do following -
cat $Var > File1
if
then
echo "$Var has value"
else
echo "$Var is null"
fi
But I have to check for 3 Variables and I want to wrap it up in couple of unix statements.
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I'm trying to perform the following command, however it cannot read the variable assigned earlier. I'm not sure why this happen. Please help thanks
while :
do
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read name
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Here is what I did:
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{
print "variable was not assigned"
exit
}
else
NF = 2 {print $1, ""}
exit
fi
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if
then
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I'm having problems with the code below.
I'm trying to test $var2 for two different regexs.
I thought it could be done per below, but I'm getting the following error when running.
$ ./test.pl b fed50c0100****
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
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)