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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Problem insert $1 value into a command Post 302560536 by PatMcDonagh on Friday 30th of September 2011 05:23:07 AM
Old 09-30-2011
Yazu,

thanks for the spot. It helped but the overall problem manifested itself with how the shell was handling ' and " characters.

not long at shell programming but found out that i can turn on debug (set -x) and it dumped the exact command and I then spotted the confusion.

The correct syntax is as follows:

Code:
 
cmd_result=$(/usr/bin/python -c "import time; print time.strftime(\"%d\",time.strptime(""\"${datein}\""", \"%d/%m/%Y\"))" \
 2>/dev/null | wc -l)

Many thanks to Yazu for replying and anyone else for checking the post.
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)
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