I am trying to get a total number of tapes w/out headers or footers in a ERV file and append it to the file. For some reason I cannot get it to work. Any ideas?
#!/bin/sh
dat=`date +"%b%d_%Y"`
+ date +%b%d_%Y
dat=Nov16_2006
tapemgr="/export/home/legato/tapemgr/rpts"... (1 Reply)
I want to take the below data, and have it output to file only the STMC#/(IP address) and the "there are X number of updates to install" lines for each machine. I know it's easy, but Im a beginner in BASH stuff, my solution would probably take way too many lines to do something easy.Thanks!
... (5 Replies)
i have a file that's about 2GB, i have to get the total number of lines in this file every 10 minutes.
the interval is not an issue. i just need the proper, most efficient way to do this.
any ideas?
i got the following from another thread on this site, but:
awk 'int(100*rand())%5<1'... (12 Replies)
I have a text file with 1000 lines, I want to randomly select 200 lines from it and print them as output. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (7 Replies)
Hi
I need to select lines from a txt file, I have got a line starting with ZMIO:MSISDN= and after a few line I have another line starting with 'MOBILE STATION ISDN NUMBER' and another one starting with 'VLR-ADDRESS' I need to copy these three lines as three different columns in a separate... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I am new to AWK and I am trying to solve a problem that is probably easy for an expert. Suppose I have the following data file input.txt:
20 35 43
20 23 54
20 62 21
20.5 43 12
20.5 33 11
20.5 89 87
21 33 20
21 22 21
21 56 87
I want to select from all lines having the... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to get the maximum value of each record separated by empty line based on the 3rd column of each row within each record?
Input:
A1 chr5D 634 7 82 707
A2 chr5D 637 6 82 713
A3 chr5D 637 5 82 713
A4 chr5D 626 1 82 704... (4 Replies)
Trying to use awk to print the lines in file that have either REF or SNV in $3, add a header line, sort by $4 in numerical order. The below code does that already, but where I am stuck is on the last part where the total lines are counted and printed under Total_Targets, under Targets_less_than is... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)