I thought you generally needed double quotes to preserve the value of the $VAR.
Here it can work, but it won't in common case because sed and shell metachars can conflict (especially backslashes). So usual practice to embed shell variables in sed command is:
Sorry for my English.
I'm needing to add a "hour:min" to the end of each line in a document. The document in this case is only going to be one line.
if this inserts it at the end, what needs to be changed to add something at the end...
/bin/echo "%s/^/$filler/g\nwq!" | ex -s $oFile
Thank you... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I wanted to add specific text to each row in a text file containing three rows. Example:
0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8 9 0 7 9
7 8 9 0 1 2
And I want to add a 21 at the beginning of the first row, and blank spaces at the beginning of the second two rows. To get this:
21 0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8... (4 Replies)
hello i need some help here are the contents of my file.
test.txt
this is filename 1.mp3 http://www.url.com/filenamehashed
filename 2.mp3 http://www.url.com/fileamehashed
something_else.zip http://www.url.com/filenamehashed
so this file has 100 of these lines
filename url
I would... (9 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have a flat file where last line of it has word D$mhtt
I want to add a space and back slash after it.
Also wanna add -S "J" in the last line.
Following example will make it clear.
I have this in the last line of file
D$mhtt
I want
D$mhtt \
-S "J"
Please... (5 Replies)
I have a text file that has data like:
Data "12345#22"
Fred
ID 12345
Age 45
Wilma
Dino
Data "123#22"
Tarzan
ID 123
Age 33
Jane
I need to figure out a way of adding 1,000,000 to the specific lines (always same format) in the file, so it becomes:
Data "1012345#22"
Fred
ID... (16 Replies)
Hi,
I want to add a text to the end of the specific line in a file. Now my file looks like this:
999
111
222
333
111
444
I want to add the string " 555" to the end of the first line contaning 111. Moreover, I want to insert a newline after this line containg the "000" string. The... (8 Replies)
Hey guys,
I need to write a script that will add a specific text at the end of a specific line (of a text file). but the line is a variable
this is my text file :
device_2 ansible_ssh_host=127.0.0.1 ansible_ssh_port=30000 ansible_ssh_user='root'
device_2 ansible_ssh_host=127.0.0.1... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am doing something like below:
cat file1>file3and
cat file2>>file3
I wanted to check if there is a way to write a custom message(hardcoded message)something like below at the beginning of each line then PIPE delimitiation and then followed by remaining record.
cat file1... (7 Replies)
the first line of every unix script written in an interpreted language always has a "#!<path-to-the-language>"
is there a way to include other text in that first line without it affecting the ability of the script to run???
for instance, if i change the following line:
#!/bin/sh
echo blah... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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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)