My problem is not to find some substring within a file; as jim mcnamara give me a solution.
My (new)problem is to find substring which contain single quote within the file. And to print to the screen what is to be being done.
Making some try, I can print the variable CMD which show on screen the good code to be executed:
Show :
Which is correct; and should give CNT=3 which is correct.
But when I try to execute $CMD I get this error :
How to execute $CMD with success.
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i run a command that submits a word to WordNET which stores the search results in a document which looks like this... i searched "car" in this instance
and id like to extract auto, automobile, machine, and store it in a file with the , , stripped away just the words. WordNET's results' template... (2 Replies)
hi,
I have few text templates
as a simple ex:
template 1
city Name:
zip code:
state Name:
template2:
employee Name:
Phone number:
I wish to grep on given text file and make sure the text file matches one of these templates. Please give your ideas. (6 Replies)
Hi frnds
i want to desplay file names that should be word1 and word2
ex :
i have 10 *.log files
5 files having word1 and word2
5 files having only word1,
i have used below command
egrep -l 'word1|word2' *.log
its giving all 10 files, but i want to display only 5... (20 Replies)
Hi..
How to search for multiple words in a single line using grep?.
Eg: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill were best friends
Humpty and Dumpty were good friends too
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I want to extract the 2nd statement(assuming there are several statements with... (11 Replies)
Can any one help me to sort and extract the max date row from multiple same key ?
example of input file
kEY DATE(YYY-MM-DD)
10 2011-08-01
20 2011-09-02
20 2011-10-01
20 2011-08-02
30 2010-01-20
30 2011-01-20
Out put :
10 2011-08-01co
20 2011-10-01
30 2011-01-20
... (5 Replies)
Hello All,
I'm a newbie/rookie in Shell scipting. I've done oracle export of a table using Export utility. When I do export, it generates 2 files.
1> .dmp file
2> .dmp.log file.
In .dmp.log file I have to search for a sentence which goes like '0 records have been inserted' and then... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to grep a file if any one (GH, IJ, KL) is not null. If it is null i dont want to pull anything.
cat file | awk '{print ($1)}'
Parameters are : AB=123;CD=456;EF=6789;
cat file | awk '{print ($2)}'
GH=456;IJ=789;KL=1011
eg:
Contents in file:
Parameters are :... (10 Replies)
Hi guys and gals,
I have many files that contains many lines of data. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack in that I'm looking only for files that contain word1 AND word2.
I'm using ...
...
but this is finding files that contains word1 OR word2. No good for me. How can I grep to... (7 Replies)
I have multiple strings in a file which have special character $, when i search strings by ignoring $ with \ using single quotes it returns empty results.
My search strings are set char_1($lock) and set new_char_clear_3($unlock)
I tried searching with
but it returns empty results.However... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: g_eashwar
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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)