+ set -x + FIND=-name "*" + find /root/bin -name '"*"' + echo -name '"*"' -name "*"
+ touch '/root/bin/"foo"'
+ set -x + FIND=-name "*" + find /root/bin -name '"*"' /root/bin/"foo" + echo -name '"*"' -name "*" You'll note the file with quotes in the name. Looks to me that bash puts an extra set of quotes around the quoted term in the variable upon expansion. I can't think why that would be. I don't think this is going to display properly, sorry. Thanks for your help, Mike
Hi,
I'm making progress on this but hung up on one last detail. I'd like to use AWK to pass the system date and time(among other things) to the first line of a file.
Here's what I have:
BEGIN {TOTALPP = 0;FREEPP=0;USEDPP=0;print "LPAR NAME:",lpar,"DATE:",tdate }
I call AWK with the... (4 Replies)
I'm not very familiar with the ssh command. When I tried to set a variable and then echo its value on a remote machine via ssh, I found a problem. For example,
$ ITSME=itsme
$ ssh xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx "ITSME=itsyou; echo $ITSME"
itsme
$ ssh xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx 'ITSME=itsyou; echo $ITSME'
itsyou
$... (3 Replies)
I have some troubles with variables and quotes...
I want:
if $URL is empty (no user input) go to http://www.localhost/index.php/ else add this string (search) "?s=+$URL"
EXAMPLE:
No user input
string= http://www.localhost/index.php/
User input = "unix"
string=... (3 Replies)
Hi.
please help me to write the following query in a shell script.
the Query is :select no,salary from emp_info where name='$var_name'
the following is my code.
#! /bin/sh
var_name=$1
sqlplus -s user/pwd@DB << EOF
select no,salary from emp_info where name="'$var_name'";... (4 Replies)
I have the following line of code:
sed -i "/MatchText/ s/${tgrepLine}/${tNewLine}/" filename.outputfilename.output contains this:
blablabla
PATH=".:/home/root/bin/:/usr/local/bin/"
blablablaVariable ${tgrepLine} contains:
PATH=".:/home/root/bin/:/usr/local/bin/"
Variable ${tNewLine}... (3 Replies)
Hello. I'm trying to write a bash script that uses GNU screen and have hit a brick wall that has cost me many hours... (I'm sure it has something to do with quoting/globbing, which is why I post it here)
I can make a script that does the following just fine:
test.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# make... (2 Replies)
file1
----
34556745
32678343
31576776
31455566
21356666
I want to assign the record values to a variable in the below format, so that I can use output in .sql file for querying in database.
('34556745', '32678343', '31576776', '31455566', '21356666')
-----------
below is the... (11 Replies)
Ok, this one isn't for everybody, it's pretty tough and I've spent a good deal of time on it without figuring it out yet.
Can anybody get this script to work:
#!/bin/bash
cq_fname="%let outputfile="/user/cq_"$1".csv";"
sed "29s/.*/\"$cq_fname\"/" file1.sas >... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Trying to change the prompt. I have the following code.
export PS1='
<${USER}@`hostname -s`>$ '
The hostname is not displayed
<abc@`hostname -s`>$ uname -a
AIX xyz 1 6 00F736154C00
<adcwl4h@`hostname -s`>$
If I use double quotes, then the hostname is printed properly but... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobbygsk
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
system
SYSTEM(3) Linux Programmer's Manual SYSTEM(3)NAME
system - execute a shell command
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
int system(const char *command);
DESCRIPTION
system() executes a command specified in command by calling /bin/sh -c command, and returns after the command has been completed. During
execution of the command, SIGCHLD will be blocked, and SIGINT and SIGQUIT will be ignored.
RETURN VALUE
The value returned is -1 on error (e.g. fork(2) failed), and the return status of the command otherwise. This latter return status is in
the format specified in wait(2). Thus, the exit code of the command will be WEXITSTATUS(status). In case /bin/sh could not be executed,
the exit status will be that of a command that does exit(127).
If the value of command is NULL, system() returns nonzero if the shell is available, and zero if not.
system() does not affect the wait status of any other children.
CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
If the _XOPEN_SOURCE feature test macro is defined, then the macros described in wait(2) (WEXITSTATUS(), etc.) are made available when
including <stdlib.h>.
As mentioned, system() ignores SIGINT and SIGQUIT. This may make programs that call it from a loop uninterruptible, unless they take care
themselves to check the exit status of the child. E.g.
while (something) {
int ret = system("foo");
if (WIFSIGNALED(ret) &&
(WTERMSIG(ret) == SIGINT || WTERMSIG(ret) == SIGQUIT))
break;
}
Do not use system() from a program with set-user-ID or set-group-ID privileges, because strange values for some environment variables might
be used to subvert system integrity. Use the exec(3) family of functions instead, but not execlp(3) or execvp(3). system() will not, in
fact, work properly from programs with set-user-ID or set-group-ID privileges on systems on which /bin/sh is bash version 2, since bash 2
drops privileges on startup. (Debian uses a modified bash which does not do this when invoked as sh.)
In versions of glibc before 2.1.3, the check for the availability of /bin/sh was not actually performed if command was NULL; instead it was
always assumed to be available, and system() always returned 1 in this case. Since glibc 2.1.3, this check is performed because, even
though POSIX.1-2001 requires a conforming implementation to provide a shell, that shell may not be available or executable if the calling
program has previously called chroot(2) (which is not specified by POSIX.1-2001).
It is possible for the shell command to return 127, so that code is not a sure indication that the execve(2) call failed.
SEE ALSO sh(1), signal(2), wait(2), exec(3)COLOPHON
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be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
2004-12-20 SYSTEM(3)