On some shells, you can do ${!VARNAME} to get the value of the name pointed to by VARNAME instead of the value of VARNAME itself. But this only works in certain shells.
In others you can do math or string operations on the day to get rid of the leading zero.
So, what's your system? What's your shell?
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If you have BASH or ksh:
The trickery with subtracting 100 is necessary because BASH will believe numbers starting with 0 to be octal, not decimal! So we cram a 1 on the front then subtract 100...
hey gents,
I'm working on something that will use snmpwalk to query the devices on my network and retreive the device name, device IP, device model and device serial. I'm using Nmap for the enumeration and sed to clean up the results for use by snmpwalk. Once i get all the data organized I'm... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I want to make sed write a part of fileA (first 7 lines) to file1 and the rest of fileA to file2 in a single call and single line in sed. If I do the following:
sed '1,7w file1; 8,$w file2' fileA
I get only one file named file1 plus all the characters following file1. If I try to use curly... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I've to do a simple job many times whenever it has been asked, just i've to log in to all of fourtien HP servers and i've to execute
ps -fu user > temp
cat temp|sendmail "xyz@z.com"
commands to send the statics of all of 14 servers over the mail to particular user id..
Though logging... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to write a script with include more than 6 unix commands.
my script like below:
echo " script started"
ls -ld
bdf | grep "rama"
tail -10 log.txt
...
..
...
now, i want to run above unix commands one by one.
example:
first the ls -ld command will be... (3 Replies)
Can somebody help me in solving this..
Input data is like
0 A
1 B
2 C
3 D
0 A1
1 B1
2 C1
3 D1
0 A2
1 B2
2 C2
3 D2
Output should be like
A B C D
A1 B1 C1 D1
A2 B2 C2 D2 (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement with,
No~Dt~Notes
1~2011/08/1~"aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee
fff
ggg
hhh"
Single column alone got splitted into multiple lines.
I require the output as
No~Dt~Notes
1~2011/08/1~"aaa<>bbb<>ccc<>ddd<>eee<>fff<>ggg<>hhh"
mean to say those new lines to be... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting and have a question. I would like to redirect the output of multple commands to single file, From what I read from the bash manpage and from some searching it seems it cannot be done within the shell except setting up a loop. Is it?
I am running all clearcase... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a single line output like below
echo $ips
10.26.208.28 10.26.208.26 10.26.208.27
want to convert above single line output as below format. Pls advice how to do ?
10.26.208.28
10.26.208.26
10.26.208.27
Regards
Kannan (6 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve.. i have a file with below contents
cat fileName
blah blah blah
.
.DROP this
REJECT that
.
--sport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
--dport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
.
.
.
more blah blah blah
--dport 3306... (14 Replies)
I wish to generate output of two commands in the same line separated by a single white-space.
Below is my command and output in the same line.
ls -ltr fname1.out | awk '{$2=$4=$5=x; print}' | tr '\n' '\t' | tr -s ' '; cksum<fname1.out | cut -d' ' -f1
Output:
-rw-r--r--. root Aug 26 16:57... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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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)