How would I pass awk output to a perl variable?
For example, I want to save the value in the 4th column into the variable called test. My best guess is something as follow, but I am sure this isn't correct.
$test = system("awk '/NUMBER/{print \$4}' $_"); (8 Replies)
Hello,
I have a shell script containing a command string in the following format:
command1 | command2 | cut -c9-16
The output from this is a record number (using characters 9-16 of the original output string) e.g. ORD-1234
I wish to save this value to a variable for use in later commands... (4 Replies)
Good morning everyone,
i am looking to know how to save the output of a command and reuse it again within a script
i already tired this one but it didn't work
TEMPDIR=/dir1/dir2
My_command> $TEMPDIR/$TEMPFILE
rm $TEMPDIR/$TEMPFILE*
it keeps saying "cannot write to a... (15 Replies)
I am ssh to many servers to get some information... however sometimes the server is unreacheable and i am getting an error. I want to save that output to a file but I am not able to do so...
I want to be able to save output of bash into a file.. so when I run this command on a script
ssh... (5 Replies)
Hi all........
Plss do help me.......in a big trouble... :wall::wall::wall:
I have 3 directories named as :1. /home/shuchi/source
2./home/shuchi/destination
3./home/shuchi/filter
now the problem is /home/shuchi/source has say 2 files with extension .txt as given below :
A.txt
msisdn ... (5 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am having a requirement like this;
Input file
EIM_ACCT.ifb|1001|1005
EIM_ADDR.ifb|1002|1004
EIM_ABD.ifb|1009|1007
I want to read each line of this file and pass each line,one at a time,as an argument to another script.
eg;
1.read first line->store it to a file->call... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have some output from 'ls' command and I want to loop over the output in a bash script. What would be a good way to go about it?
For example, if the output of the ls command gives me 'prefix1 prefix2 prefix3', how can I set a loop that will iterate over these?
many thanks! (5 Replies)
Hi,
i need help with a file creation of an output program. I've got a program that with #find creates an output for each files in a directory.
If i give this command :
-o spec$(date -u +%Y%m%dt%H%M)
it creates just one file, overwriting all the others since it is the creation date .... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am working on a script where I am adding adding colors to few of the info in the output.
Now , after that is done , I see colour codes in log files which I don't want to see.:mad::mad::mad::mad:
So , I tried using sed command in script as below which gives me o/p (new.log) as blank file... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I've got a directory of about 6000 txt files that look like this:
a b c d
e f g h
k l m n
I need to execute a command on them to combine them and, in the end, have one big file with all the needed columns taken form all the 6000 files. I've got the "combining" program, but my problem... (26 Replies)
Discussion started by: zajtat
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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)