Good morning forums.
Ive been trying all weekend to do this with no luck, so i have come to the forums for help.
What i want to do is check if an inputed character is inside a variable.
for example,
if
var=1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
i would like to see if a newly inputed number is already... (5 Replies)
Hi folks.
I have this variable called FirstIN that contains something like this: 001,002,003,004...
I am trying to assign the content of this variable into ModifiedIN but with the following format : 001 002 003 004...(changing the commas for spaces)
I thought about using sed but i am not... (17 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a file containing the following
p1 q1 p2 q2 p1 p2 p3
pr1 pr2 pr1 pr2
pa1 pa2
I want to remove the last character from all strings that start with 'p' and end with '1'. In general, I do not know what is between the first part of the string and the last part of the string.... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to code in ksh that will remove the first character in a string variable and replace that variable without the first character?
Example:
var1=ktest1 will become var1=test1
var2=rtest2 will become var2=test2
Need help please. (10 Replies)
Hello,
I have a text file with n lines in the following format (9 column fields):
Example:
contig00012 149606 G C 49 68 60 18 c$cccccacccccccccc^c
I need to count the number of lower-case and upper-case occurences in column 9, respectively, of the... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone,
My problem looks quite simple , how to assign a string with spaces and lines "\n" to a variable.
I've tried all kind of quoting and is impossible, bash always try to execute the string and never executes a simple assignation.
This is part of the code
... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a fixed-width datafile from which i need to extract value/string starting from some position to the specified length in each of the lines.
awk '{print substr($0,x,y)}' datafile --- is working fine
but
awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a=substr($0,x,y);print $a}' datafile ---is giving... (3 Replies)
Hey Guys,
I have text such as this.
28003,ALCORN,2
28009,BENTON,2
28013,CALHOUN,2
28017,CHICKASAW,2
47017,CARROLL,2
05021,CLAY,0
The last digit after the final "," is a variable value. This is the base file. I have to do further execution on this file later and I need to update the... (7 Replies)
Hi,
This is the first time I see something like this, and I don't why it happens.
Please give me some help. I am really appreciate it.
Basically I am trying to remove all empty lines of an input..
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
str1=`echo -e "\nhaha" | grep -v ^$`
#str2=`echo -e "\n" |... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: yoyomano
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
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)