I wrote script in bash which generates this report:
phrase1;phrase2;phrase3;phrase4;phrase5;phrase6;phrase7;phrase8
phrase9;phrase2;phrase10;phrase4;phrase11;phrase12;phrase13;phrase14
phrase15;phrase16;phrase17;phrase18;phrase19;phrase20;phrase21;phrase22
...
I would like add name only... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
The question may look very silly by seeing the title, but please have a look at it clearly.
I have a text file where the first 5 columns in each row were supposed to be attributes of a sample(like sample name, number, status etc) and the next 25 columns are parameters on which... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a table in Db2 with data say
id_1 phase1
id_1 phase2
id_1 phase3
id_2 phase1
id_2 phase2
I need to concatenate the values like
id_1 phase1,phase2,phase3
id_2 phase1,phase2
I tried recursive query but in vain as the length of string to be concatenated in quite long. ... (17 Replies)
Hi,
I've got a file with 3 columns which ends like this:
...
1234 345 1400
5287 733 1400
8472 874 1400
9317 726 1400
I want to replace the last row of the last column with the value 0. So my new file will end:
...
1234 345 1400
5287 733 1400
8472 874 1400
9317 726 ... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using AIX(ksh shell).
> cat temp.txt
"a","b",0
"c",bc",0
"a1","b1",0
"cc","cb",1
"cc","b2",1
"bb","bc",2
I want the output as:
"a","b","c","bc","a1","b1"
"cc","cb","cc","b2"
"bb","bc"
I want to combine multiple lines into single line where third column is same.
Is... (1 Reply)
Hi, I'm writing a ksh script and trying to use an awk / sed / or perl one-liner to remove the last 4 characters of a line in a file if it begins with a period.
Here is the contents of the file... the column in which I want to remove the last 4 characters is the last column. ($6 in awk). I've... (10 Replies)
Greetings!
I have been trying to find out a way to take a CSV file with a large number of rows, and a very large number of columns (in the thousands) and convert the rows to a single column of data, where the first row is a header representing the attribute name and the subsequent series of... (3 Replies)
Hi, I wanted to add each row of file2.txt to entire length of file1.txt given the sample data below and save it as new file. Any idea how to efficiently do it. Thank you for any help.
input file
file1.txt file2.txt
140 30 200006 141 32
140 32 200006 142 33
140 35 200006 142... (5 Replies)
Hi would like to ask you guys any advise regarding my problem
I have this kind of data
file.txt
111111111,20
111111111,50
222222222,70
333333333,40
444444444,10
444444444,20
I need to get this
file1.txt
111111111,70
222222222,70
333333333,40
444444444,30
using this code I can... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: reks
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)