Hi,
I have a question on bash. Basically I would like to print a file name using bash. I am actually trying to grep a particular character in sequential files.
I have alot files such that a.txt, b.txt,c.txt...etc.
If I found a certain character, I would print that particular filename.
I... (5 Replies)
Hi,
On AIX 5200-07-00 I have a find command as following to delete files from a certain location that are more than 7 days old. I am being told that I cannot use -exec option to delete files from these directories.
Having said that I am more curious to know how this can be done.
an sample... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to clean up my samba share and need to print the found file or print the path of the image it tried to searched for. So far I have this but can't seem to get the logic right. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
for FILE in `cat list`; do
if ;
then
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a directory with around 100k files and files with varying sizes(10GB files to as low as 5KB). All the files are having pipe dilimited records.
I need to append 7 pipes to the end of each record, in each file whose name contains _X3_ and need to append 10 pipes to the end of each... (3 Replies)
Hello.
I want to get all modules which are loaded and which name are exactly 2 characters long and not more than 2 characters and begin with "nv"
lsmod | (e)grep '^nv????????????
I want to get all modules which are loaded and which name begin with "nv" and are 2 to 7 characters long
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can anyone let me know what is difference between
grep .* foo.c
grep '.*' foo.c
I am not able to understand what is exact difference.
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
How do I pipe the output of something to a filename that includes the date, in a specific date format?
Here's the goal. Output a script to a file periodically during the day:
./script.sh >>logname_yyyy-mm-dd.logAnd when the next day comes, it starts logging to a new filename because the date... (2 Replies)
I have this filename "RBD_EXTRACT_a3468_d20131118.tar.gz" and I would like print out the "yyyymmdd" only. I use this command below, but if different command like cut or print....etc. Thanks
ls RBD_EXTRACT* | sed 's/.*\(........\).tar.gz$/\1/' > test.txt (9 Replies)
Hello,
Normally below script works, could you please comment out what could be the reason of failure if there are spaces in input filename:
script.sh
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/hts/.hts/tvh/
file="$1 $2 $3 $4"
read -d $'\x04' name < "$file"
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i ""$name"" -vcodec copy -preset... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)