I have a file name coming in as such
<string>_YYYYMMDD.DAT
The string could be anything. I want to cut out the date and put it in a variable. Can someone help me with this? (4 Replies)
Hi all;
i was asked to install an inventory tool on our Reliant Unix 5.45 server. I downloaded the file from our intratnet.
It was always failing when i try to install it.
After some investigation i saw that the installation script had something strange.
When i "cat <script>" i see nothing... (2 Replies)
Is there any cut or awk function that would allow me to take the last part of a path away and save the list into a file? I wrote:
find $HOME -mtime +3 > fileList
cat fileList
/home/102/s/jn/folder/HW
/home/102/s/jn/otherfolder/B.txt
/home/102/s/jn/folder4/3dA/w... (1 Reply)
echo $line|cut -d " " -f`$plannedCount`-
and this is the output
$ ./read.sh
./read.sh: 12: not found
JADE TRADER 143W MYPEN 40 HC M X10 28 7 1 0
./read.sh: 9: not found
MYPEN 20 GP X X10 15 2 1 0
./read.sh: 9: not found
MYPEN 40 GP X X10 28 7 1 0
./read.sh: 9: not found
MYPEN 20... (6 Replies)
Hi All ,
i am working on a backup script , which would a call a executable file in unix server ,
Login credentials ::
use telnet session to login to Unix server
when logged in, this would be my Prompt :::
unix11@raghav:
I just need to cut the word unix11 , so that i can use this... (12 Replies)
Dear All,
Is there a way to cut the lines that have been "head"
Here is what i m trying to do Please advice
there is file name dummy.txt
now i am trying to head this file 4 time by using a loop and every time this file is head with different values
e.g in first instance it will... (7 Replies)
Hi all
I have a string variable ${WHERE_SQL1} where i want to cut the first value of a variable.
Eg ${WHERE_SQL1} = 'Where a.id =.................'
I the string to be 'a.id =.......'
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a string in the following format
"abcd | fghfh | qwer | ertete"
I need to cut the values in the following format
line1 = abcd | fghfh | qwer
line2 = ertete
Simply speaking a want to cut all the values before the last delimiter from the line and print it on one line and... (11 Replies)
Hi, all
I need to get fields in a line that are separated by commas, some of the fields are enclosed with double quotes, and they are supposed to be treated as a single field even if there are commas inside the quotes.
sample input:
for this line, 5 fields are supposed to be extracted, they... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: kevintse
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
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)