there is a white space after you replace the "_",the shell will expand that into two strings.
Oooooh, thanks man, I got it now, it works!!! Thanks a lot, it took me a little to understand what you did here and in case some people will be reading this and have problems too, what he did was wrap this sentence with these " ": `echo $a | sed 's/_/\\ /g'`
Thanks again man!
Hello all!
I'm having a hard time with an IBM RS/6000 J40 machine.
I'm trying to install AIX 5.2L on it but, up to now, I can't make it boot from the CDROM.
I can go to the configuration menu, but, I don't know hot to point to my SCSI CDROM in order to boot from it.
Do any of you have an... (2 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post here!
I'm having a hard time with an IBM RS/6000 J40 machine.
I'm trying to install AIX 5.2L on it but, up to now, I can't make it boot from the CDROM.
Do any of you have an ideia?
Thank you for your time! (3 Replies)
I am using GNU sed but this does not output "what". Why?
HEY=$(echo "hey 70.70.70.70:21 what: " | sed -nr 's/.*(70.70.70.70\|71.71.71.71):(21\|22\|115\|443\|989\|990) (.*):.*/\3/p')
echo $HEY (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am cutting data from a fixed length test file and then writing out a new record using the echo command, the problem I have is how to stop multiple spaces from being written to the output file as a single space.
Example:
cat filea | while read line
do
field1=`echo $line | cut -c1-2`
... (6 Replies)
one more question. I want to skip the first echo statement the first time the loop gets entered
while #keep prompting for more funds until selling price achieved
do
echo "You have inserted a total of ${total_inserted} cents. Please insert $total_remaining more cents"
echo... (1 Reply)
Hey im new in this...anything will be helpful...
The user will input the word or phrase .... I want to search the user input in file (by lines) but not all then with this line search on another file ( with the specific line) and show to the user.
Example:
file1.txt
=======
a
aa
aaa... (2 Replies)
Is there any way in a script to print out the commands being ran? In DOS script, there is the "@echo on" and "@echo off".
so I have a script like this:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "hello there. moving files."
<turn on echoing here>
cp thisfile.txt thatfile.txt
cp whatfile.prop whyfile.prop
<turn... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to find a rewrite rule that can help me with the following situation.
So I am currently on a page which has a URL:
http://www.test.mobile.com/#!/shop/phones/max-plus/features/
Now when I hover over a certain link, I can see that it will goto:
<a... (0 Replies)
version info : Fedora 28 (Kernel version: 4.16.12-300)
shell : bash
Using echo command , if I redirect a text like "Chocolate" to a file , all the contents in the file are overwritten as shown below.
# cat /tmp/someTest
Hello world
One more Hello world
myLine3
# echo... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kraljic
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)