it's possible:
What is it that you're after?
Most likely you don't have to pass the variables back to shell - everything could be down within awk itself...
to make this script run in continues time intervals
if for certain time span the USEDMEM is high then generate an ALERT
also avoiding using cron job
I'm trying to write a simple script program (C shell). I have a problem redirecting input into a variable. Say I have a variable called J, and there is file called result which contains just some number, say 5. Which command should I use to assign J value 5 from the file result. I tried the... (2 Replies)
The following creates a needed awk command from some preexisting variables and stores it in the variable i. I then redirect it to a new file change the permission on the file and run it as a script.
How can I do a simple redirect on this variable to the command line, instead of creating a new... (8 Replies)
how make assign the output of the command (for example: grep "file" "string" ) in a variable ($name)?
i thing how put the result of the command (grep , cut, find ecc) in a variable..
IT's Possible ?? (1 Reply)
how do you redirect stdout into a variable. whenever I try I get an ambiguous redirect error :( I am trying to validate some user input and failing miserably.
cal $MONTH $YEAR | grep -c "$DAY"
if the above is 1 then it is valid if 0 then not valid. I have been trying to redirect the output... (2 Replies)
for the below
grep -i $1 "${logdir}"* | grep -i adding | grep -iv equation | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 1
the result of the grep i want to redirect into some variable, i tried to do
veri=grep -i $1 "${logdir}"* | grep -i adding | grep -iv equation | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 1
but it is... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I don't know how to redirect a variable in this case:
while true
do
./ready_data
...
done
ready_data should read a file looking for an ID, if this doesn't exist then add the last ID seen into the first line.
When ID exists there is no problem, but when ID doesn't... (0 Replies)
hello
just i saw a really strange for cat
i have file (file1) contains line /home/rajiv/proj1/*.txt
now applied a commonds
DDPATH="$(cat file1)"
echo $DDPATH
it shows all the txt files in that folder like /home/rajiv/proj1/read1.txt /home/rajiv/proj1/read2.txt... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I wanted to o/p the number of rows in a table to a variable in linux. How can i achieve this.
I wrote the query and its settings like feedback, pagesize line size in a file and using this file as a parameter to the sqlplus command. now can i redirect the o/p of that query to a variable.... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Im reading an ANSI text file and greping for a pattern. Then i cut what i dont need from that pattern. So now i just have what i need. What i have now just so happens to be a constant integer. How can i save this integer in a varaible? Or do i use command capture in some form?
cat... (2 Replies)
I have shell script generate.sh that has
var="HP-UX"
I am following example 19-8 in the below document.
Here Documents
The output.txt is generated however I want the value of variable var to be reflected in the contents of the output.txt file
cat <<'EOF' #!/bin/bash
connect("Welcome... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)