This should work, though the processing would happen before displaying the output:
Or this would keep things in order:
Or, if the processing produces no output, you might do this:
When ever i run this if statement with the -n OR -z switches it always returns says positive and does "HAVE STUFF". BUT the file does not contain the word optimus in any form.
$echo this is mojo > test.file
$if ; then
>echo HAVE STUFF
>else^Jecho NO STUFF
>fi
HAVE STUFF
$if ; then... (1 Reply)
My System is FC3, The following Players don't run well:
1).Helix Player couldn't play MP3 and *.wma files,
2).Totem is the same,
3)XMMS couldn't play .wma files.
I am a newer of Linux,but I like Linux,just as you.
Could you help me?
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Hi friends,
I have a script that sets the env variable path based on different conditions.
Now the new path variable setting should not done in the same terminal or same shell.
Only a new terminal or new shell should have the new path env variable set.
I am able to do this only as follows:
>cd... (1 Reply)
Hi, I hope the title does not scare people to look into this thread but it describes roughly what I'm trying to do. I need a solution in PHP.
I'm a programming beginner, so it might be that the approach to solve this, might be easier to solve with an other approach of someone else, so if you... (0 Replies)
The java program is a part of speech tagger -> The Stanford NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group
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I have 2 shell scripts the primary one would load the other one which will have functions defined in it.
Script 1:
. /apps/bin/Script 2
function
if
then
continue...
....
fi
Script 2:
function() (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to run a script which will search for 2 strings(stopped,started) in a text file and echo an output depending on below condition
-bash-3.2$ cat trial1.txt
v
ggg
f
-bash-3.2$ cat trial1.sh
VAR9=` grep 'stopped' /tmp/trial1.txt`
VAR10=` grep 'started'... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a shell script (script.sh) in which we are calling java code which asks for
Username:
Password:
for authentication purpose
currently we are passing the credential manually and run the script.
but I am trying
echo -e "user_id\npassword" | script.sh
but its not... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Do you have any sample script,
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- only download specify filename
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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)