Another newbie to Unix scripting Q..
How do you assign a value resulting from a command, such as awk, to a variable.
I am currently trying:-
$awk '{print $1}' file1 > variable1
with no change to $variable1.
The line:
$awk '{print $1}' file1
does print the first line of the... (3 Replies)
Hi
In my shell script, I'm trying to find the line count of a file and assign it to a variable.
LINE_COUNT=$(wc -l $FILE_NAME)
But when i display LINE_COUNT, i'm getting the linecount concatenated with the file name. I want only the number. How can i get the line count alone ? Someone... (2 Replies)
Date of Request: 20080514 10:37 Submitted By: JPCHIANG
i want to get the value "JPCHIANG" only in read a file, however, when i do this:
name=`"$line"|cut -d " " -f8`
it display all the line and append 'not found' at the end of the statement
the $line is actually a variable in a... (2 Replies)
hi all,
in ksh, how do i assign the output of a find command to a variable, e.g
am trying something like this :
totalNoFiles=$(print find ./ -name "SystemOut*.log");
but when i echo $totalNoFiles it displays
find ./ -name "SystemOut*.log"
instead of the total number of... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am getting the output for the following command when i run it on the unix console.
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grep `whoami` /etc/passwd | awk '{print ($1);}' | cut -d ":" -f3
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But i made it into a script and tried to print the variable, its... (5 Replies)
Hi folks.
I have this variable called FirstIN that contains something like this: 001,002,003,004...
I am trying to assign the content of this variable into ModifiedIN but with the following format : 001 002 003 004...(changing the commas for spaces)
I thought about using sed but i am not... (17 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a fixed-width datafile from which i need to extract value/string starting from some position to the specified length in each of the lines.
awk '{print substr($0,x,y)}' datafile --- is working fine
but
awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a=substr($0,x,y);print $a}' datafile ---is giving... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using the bourn shell on a Sun Solaris Unix system. I am relatively new to UNIX scripting so please bear with me...
I'm having a couple issues:
1) I need to have a variable $FSIZE set with the output of a command each time the script runs. (the command looks for a file and... (8 Replies)
my script is some thing like this
i11="{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,}"
echo "enter value"
read value ..............suppose i11
x="$value"
echo "$($value)" .............the echo should be {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,}
but its showing "i11" only.
plz help me out to get desired... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sagar_1986
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
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)