I wonder if someone would help me a little here.
I have a directory (folder on a mac) with about 100 subfolders and sub-subfolders and files there in. All sub directories have the same name structure, "AAA Name". Like this:
ISP CompanyName
ITS CompanyName
KEL CompanyName
KRA CompanyName... (2 Replies)
Hello-
I need to copy a file into multiple directories, and each directory's sub-directories (of which there are 5)
Currently, the parent directory is set up like this:
dir1
sub-dir1
sub-dir2
sub-dir3
sub-dir4
sub-dir5
dir2
sub-dir1
sub-dir2
sub-dir3
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
am having a lease file which contains lots os lease info. In that i have to copy the whole block(shown below) by identifying the mac and change the IP according to the i/p.
I have used like
sed s/${ip_addr}/$ch_ip/g $temp_file | grep -B5 "${mac}" >> $persistent_file
sed... (2 Replies)
how can i copy those files into other directories have the same name but different in the end
i have files in directory called test:
10_10_asdadfsdfad.txt
10_10_11_asdawqefwkjasd.txt
10_10_11_12_asdafjjhoqwd.txt
i want to put them in exist directory thart i have on my system
i have... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Thank you in advance for helping a newbie who is having great trouble with this simple task.
I'm allowed to copy one file remotely each night due to bandwidth restrictions.
A new file gets generated once a day, and I need to copy the previous day's file.
Here is what I'd like to do:... (1 Reply)
Beginner/Intermediate shell; comfortable in the command line.
I have been looking for a solution to a backup problem. I need to compare Directory 1 to Directory 2 and copy all modified or new files/directories from Directory 1 to Directory 3. I need the directory and file structure to be... (4 Replies)
I have directory path in which there are several sub directories. In all these sub dir there will be one env.cnf file. I want to copy this env.cnf file from
each sub dir's and place them in destination path by creating same filename as sub dir_env.cnf.
After copying env.cnf files from source... (4 Replies)
I am trying to copy only the date specific folders/directories using the following command. However, the following copy command is also copying files from the root folder (OriginalFolder).
find /OriginalFolder/ -type -d \{ -mtime 1 -o -mtime 2 \ } -exec cp -R {} /CopyTo/'hostname'__CopyTo/ \;... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)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 v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)