when you need the 'dynamic value' of var so... when you need $var,
just refer to it as
Indeed if you do
then, if TYPE and NO are changed after that assignation to var, var will not be changed until you do this var assignation again : ---------- Post updated at 05:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:43 PM ----------
Enter this succession of command and see the result
The statement in red will give you the old value of $var this is because var has not been reassigned (with var=${TYPE}_${NO}) since TYPE and NO have changed to V 2...
i have a file in this format
curyymm PRVYYMM CDDMmmYY bddMmmyy eddMmmyy
--------- ------- ------------ ---------- -----------
0906 0905 09Jun09 01Jun09 30Jun09
----------- --------- ------------ ------------ -----------
i need to read the... (5 Replies)
I have a csv file with the values seperated by commas.I want to extract these values one by one and assign to a variable using shell script.Any ideas or code? (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file with multiple lines, each having data in the below format
<DOB>,<ADDRESS>
I have to write a script which reads each line in the text file in loop, assign the values to these variables and do some further processing in it.
Using the following code prints the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a text file with multiple lines, each having data in the below format <DOB>,<ADDRESS>
I have to write a script which reads each line in the text file in loop, assign the values to these variables and do some further processing in it.
Using the following code prints the values... (12 Replies)
I have a log file that has certain fields that I want to evaluate, and depending on the value in those fields, I want to put the value of a different field in that line in a particular variable that I'll use later on down the log file. Sort of like setting a switch to change what I do with a bunch... (5 Replies)
Hi i have one variable like DIR="f1 f2" in config file
in my script i have one runtime variable LFILE="DIR"
now i want to use $DIR in my script by using LFILE that is i dont want to use DIR dirctly i am extracting DIR by some other means.
Config file : DIR="f1 f2"
Script:
LFILE="DIR"
i... (3 Replies)
I have a file containing multiple values, some of them are pipe separated which are to be read as separate values and some of them are single value all are these need to store in variables.
I need to read this file which is an input to my script
Config.txt
file name, first path, second... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I wrote a database command that queries our application and outputs a whole bunch of values to a text file. I need to assign the output to two values.
Here is a sample of the output:
valueOne, checkOne
valueTwo, checkTwo
valueThree, checkThree
I would like... (9 Replies)
Hello,
Could anyone please help me with Assigning a value to variable and then updating the value in the original file
IFS='|'
while read -r Serial_ID JOB_NAME STATUS
do
if
then
echo "Perform Fuctions"
???Assign STATUS to COMPLETED and Update File???
done <File (7 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a script which assign awk output to shell variable. current it uses two awk command to assign value to two variables. I want to use one command to assign two values to two variables. I tried the code, but it does't work. kindly provide your suggestion.
current code... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: green_k
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LEARN ABOUT V7
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)