Extra quotes don't protect you no matter how many of them you have. They do leave you wide open to bizzare errors and intentional abuse. The -v syntax eliminates all these problems.
Quote:
And yes - threre is not an universal "safe" way to embed shell variables.
Your method isn't merely imperfect, it's downright unsafe.
Hi,
I need to know how I'll be able to write a script that can goto a different dir where I don't have access to read,write and execute and also to run a commandline prompt in that dir with one file whose path has to be specified in that command.
Will I be able to do this?
Any ideas or... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I have a wapper script which passes the argument from command prompt to inner script.. It works fine as long as the argument containing single word. But when value contains multiple word with space, not working as expected. I tried my best, couldn't find the reason. Gurus, pls.... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am working on nawk script, has the small function which prints the output on the screen.Am trying to print/append the same output in a file.
Basically nawk script should print the output on the console/screen and as well it should write/append the same result to a file.
script :... (3 Replies)
Hi..I have the data in a file like in this format, and I need the output time difference in seconds by using awk command. Start date/time and end date/time given in column 2,3 & 4,5. Please assist how to write shell script.
File1.txt
JOB1 10/09/2013 17:42:16 10/09/2013 17:43:46 SU 6202685/1... (4 Replies)
solaris 5.10 Generic_138888-03 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
I need a sed command that tests true when presented with lines that contain either forward and backslash.
input file:
c:/myFile.txt
c:\yourFile.txt
It doesn't appear that sed (in my environment anyway) supports... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a question regarding the difference betwen cron and command line.
What I would like to do is to print a statement into a logfile if a script has been executed from cron or from command line.
It should be as:
#!/bin/bash
if <Check if this script has been... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to write a script to determine the time gap between HTTP PUT and HTTP DELETE requests in the HTTP Servers access log.
Normally client will do HTTP PUT to push content e.g. file_1.txt and 21 seconds later it will do HTTP DELETE, but sometimes the time varies causing some issues... (3 Replies)
In the awk I am trying to subtract the difference $3-$2 of each matching $4 before the first _ (underscore) and print that value in $13.
I think the awk will do that, but added comments. What I am not sure off is how to add a line or lines that will add sum each matching $13 value and put it in... (2 Replies)
Hello,
For my CGI, I have this script :
#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
echo '
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="test/html"; charset=UTF-8">
<title> CLF MONITORING </title>
<h1> FRAME... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
mac::types
Types(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Types(3)NAME
Mac::Types - Macintosh Toolbox Types and conversions.
DESCRIPTION
Access to Inside Macintosh is essential for proper use of these functions. Explanations of terms, processes and procedures are provided
there. Any attempt to use these functions without guidance can cause severe errors in your machine, including corruption of data. You have
been warned.
Functions
MacPack [ CONVERTERS ...] CODE, DATA ...
Convert a perl value into a Mac toolbox type. Predefined codes are:
TEXT
Text (an identity operation).
enum
type
keyw
A 4-byte string.
bool
A boolean.
shor
A short integer.
long
A long integer.
sing
A single precision float.
doub
A double precision float.
magn
An unsigned long.
qdrt
A QuickDraw "Rect".
'STR '
A pascal style string.
'STR#'
A string list.
'fss '
A file specification record.
You can pass further code mappings as hash references.
MacUnpack [ CONVERTERS ...] CODE, DATA
Convert a Mac toolbox type into a perl value. Predefined codes are as for "MacPack". You can pass further code mappings as hash
references.
XS Functions
Debugger [ MSG ]
Break into MacsBug. Don't use this if you don't know what MacsBug is.
AUTHOR
Written by Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeracher@mac.com>. Currently maintained by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>.
perl v5.18.2 2017-10-06 Types(3)