I'm doing a ksh shell script and I can't figure out for the life of me how to insert a "\n" newline into a shell script's string variable. I wish I could say:
someVar="a string\nmore words"
echo $someVar
However when I do this, I can only get the exact output of:
a string\nmore words
... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I am having an issue with the Awk script to insert newline for a regular expression match
Having a file like this
FILE1
####################
RXOER , RXERA , RXERC , RXERD
.RXEA(RXBSN), RXERD , REXCD
input RXEGT
buffer RXETRY
#######################
Want to match the RXE... (38 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm not exactly a shell script guru, so this is probably a very silly question and I'm not seeing the point, but you know, sometimes it happens...
I have this script which adds entries to local arp cache using it to find the corresponding IP address.
# export MAC=00:25:90:34:3d:f2... (16 Replies)
Good day ...
Well i do have this project in school, in our Principles Of Operating System Class
We are using Cygwin....
And our project goes like this...
Create a dictionary using cygwin. Display the following menu at the start of
execution
1-add a word in the dictionary # specify... (1 Reply)
Good day ...
Well i do have this project in school, in our Principles Of Operating System Class
We are using Cygwin....
And our project goes like this...
Create a dictionary using cygwin. Display the following menu at the start of execution
1-add a word in the dictionary # specify the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a glance adviser, the highlights below. The problem that i have is that every time glance finds process name "abc" it write the memory region data in a new line. My question is if i have a way to print without newline?
The output line for process abc looks something like this:... (0 Replies)
I am trying to search the pattern "ARS (11)" and after the LAST pattern, i am trying to open new line and enter text using sed.
My Existing Text file is Users.txtpaul, Paul Smith, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
sam, Sam Martin, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
mike, Mike Conway, Stevn... (8 Replies)
Hi everyone
I have a file where CP occurs both within each line and at the very end:
dwer 17 knsdask= * CP hwla 17 h'wopie un CP
I would like to separate the line on the first CP to get:
dwer 17 knsdask= * CP
hwla 17 h'wopie un CP
What I have so far is:
awk '{for (x=1; x<NF; x++)
... (5 Replies)
Hi below is my file.
cat input.dat
101,abhilash,1000
102,prave
en,2000
103,partha,4
000
10
4,naresh,5000
(its just a example file)
and my output should be:
101,abhilash,1000
102,praveen,2000
103,partha,4000
104,naresh,5000
below is my code
cat input.dat |tr -d '\n' >... (6 Replies)
Hi, Thanks to RudiC I have a functioning awk portion of a script which reads a text file and replaces all matching values in an XML.
I need help with placing print statements in the script to see line by line what is being replaced.
Script:
#!/bin/sh
if
then
echo
else
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ocbit
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
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)