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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Special characters in command arguments Post 302603996 by alister on Friday 2nd of March 2012 01:58:07 PM
Old 03-02-2012
Unless you disable pathname expansion (globbing), your attempt to quote with sed is too little too late.

Code:
$ ls
d1      d2      f1      f2
$ line='cmd * d? f[12]'
$ set -A lineargs $line
$ echo "${lineargs[@]}"
cmd d1 d2 f1 f2 d1 d2 f1 f2
$ echo $line
cmd d1 d2 f1 f2 d1 d2 f1 f2
$ set -o noglob
$ echo $line
cmd * d? f[12]

Why exactly you're trying to do this is unclear, since the code you provided culminates with an uninformative echo statement. It's possible you're jumping through these hopes for no reason. It would be helpful if you shared the code that is actually used to do the work.

Regards,
Alister
 

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NAME

     rpc.yppasswdd -- NIS update password file daemon

SYNOPSIS

     rpc.yppasswdd [-d directory] [-noshell] [-nogecos] [-nopw] [-m arg1 [arg2 ...]]

DESCRIPTION

     rpc.yppasswdd must be running on the NIS master server to allow users to change information in the password file.

     The options are as follows:

	   -d directory    Change the root directory of the password file from ``/'' to directory.  It is important to create the binary database
			   files (pwd.db and spwd.db) when using this switch or the password change will fail.	The databases need to be created
			   only once with the following command:

				 pwd_mkdb -d directory directory/etc/master.passwd

	   -noshell	   Don't allow changes of the shell field in the passwd file.

	   -nogecos	   Don't allow changes of the gecos field in the passwd file.

	   -nopw	   Don't allow changes of the password in the passwd file.

	   -m arg1 [arg2 ...]
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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