Your point on alternate delimiters is a great one - It does make the line much easier to read.
Unfortunately, mixing the quotes didn't solve the problem - this revised code containing your changes (and simplified further with hardcoded values) still interprets asterisk as list commands:
It seems to be related to the backquote / command substitution...
If I copy-out the variable-set part of the line, the code returns the expected results - except those results are not saved back into the variable, they're simply echo'ed to the terminal.
Thus, this sub-string of the above code returns the correct value:
...except the variable $tb isn't updated. Wrap the tb=`[]` around it, and it misbehaves.
I might be confused on the way command substitution works... I thought it basically ran everything within the backquotes first, then stdout the results like any completed function. This is why I'm confused why the bottom code works fine, but the top one does not. Maybe someone needs to correct my thinking...
Hi,
Can you tell me how to escape a variable number of slash characters in sed "/" ?
In the script the code looks like this:
cat $file_to_update | sed s/^$param/$param=$tab2*\#\*/1
And the $tab2 value is a path so it will have a number of "/" charracters.
# cat db.cfg | sed... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to write a ksh script to parse a file. When the "\" character is encountered, it should be removed and the next line should be concatenated with the current line. For example...
this is a test
line #1\
should be concatenated with line #2\
and line number 3
when this... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone.
I beg your guys pardon please.
I try to ls -al in many path/directories. So, I put the code in text file which look like below;
ls -al /
ls -al /etc
ls -al /etc/default
...
however, when I paste it to Solaris over SecureCRT, it seems the code was escaped from "-" to... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to search a string from a text file which is in between "" (Double Quotes) (Eg: "Unix"), and replace it with a | where ever it is appearing in the text file and save the file.
Please help me.
-kkmdv (6 Replies)
Hi,
My input has much more lines, but few of them are below
pin(IDF) {
direction : input;
drc_pinsigtype : signal;
pin(SELDIV6) {
direction : input;
drc_pinsigtype : ... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone
Sorry I have to add another sed question. I am searching a log file and need only the first 2 occurances of text which comes after (note the space) "string " and before a ",". I have tried
sed -n 's/.*string \(*\),.*/\1/p' filewith some, but limited success. This gives out all... (10 Replies)
logs:
"/home/abc/public_html/index.php"
"/home/abc/public_html/index.php"
"/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
"/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
"/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
how to use "cut" or "awk" or "sed" to get the following result:
abc
abc
xyz
xyz
xyz (8 Replies)
I'd like to put paragraph breaks \n\n randomly between 5 - 10 occurrences of the dot character (.), for an entire text file. How to do that?
In other words, anywhere between every 5 -10 sentences, a new paragraph will generate. There are no other uses of the (.) except for sentence breaks in... (11 Replies)
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echo
echo(1) General Commands Manual echo(1)NAME
echo - echo (print) arguments
SYNOPSIS
[arg] ...
DESCRIPTION
writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated by a new-line on the standard output. It also understands C-like escape conven-
tions; beware of conflicts with the shell's use of
write an alert character
backspace
print line without appending a new-line
form-feed
new-line
carriage return
tab
vertical tab
backslash
the 8-bit character whose
ASCII code is the 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit octal number n, whose first character must be a zero.
write an 8-bit value that is the zero-, one-, two- or three-digit octal number
num
is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe.
Notes
Berkeley differs from this implementation. The former does not implement the backslash escapes. However, the semantics of the escape can
be obtained by using the option. The echo command implemented as a built-in function of follows the Berkeley semantics (see csh(1)).
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the interpretation of arg as single and/or multi-byte characters.
If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty vari-
able. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization
variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5).
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP.
SEE ALSO sh(1).
BUGS
No characters are printed after the first This is not normally a problem.
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE echo(1)
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