what is the word for ' \ ' (which I call 'next line indicator' ) in shell scripting terminology ? I need to do some googling on how this character behaves within a shell script.
Its just instruct the shell that commands will be continued in the next line..
Hope below will explain it more clearly for you
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Good day ladies and gents,
I'm trying to write shell code that can give ignore everything else in a line bar the last character but not having much luck.
Any ideas? I have been looking at cut and sed but not making any progress. (3 Replies)
Hello.
I have a file (old.txt) that I need to copy into another file (new.txt).
Each line on old.txt ends with CR/LF but the position of CR/LF varies from one record to another.
I need to copy each line of record to new.txt and move CR/LF in pos 165.
Can I use awk to achieve this? How?... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am reading data from file and storing it in a multiline variable. Every line is seperated with "\n" character.
globalstrval="${globalstrval}""${line}""\n"
If the value of globalstrval is like:
1234
ABCD
EFGH
WXYZ
....
If I do,
YLvar=`echo $globalstrval | grep "ABC"`
then... (1 Reply)
Hi guys , i need help so bad on this issue..
Basically i have to delete the line continuation symbol of first column variable and add the truncated part of that word in next line to first line.
here i written sample 3 lines but originally i have bunch of lines in that file.
client1_day- ... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have data coming in 4 columns and there are new line characters \n in between the data. I need to remove the new line characters in the middle of the row and keep the \n character at the end of the line.
File is comma (,) seperated.
Eg:
ID,Client ,SNo,Rank
37,Airtel \n... (8 Replies)
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.
I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I am doing some enhancements in an existing shell script. There it used the awk command in a function as below :
float_expr() {
IFS=" " command eval 'awk "
BEGIN {
result = $*
print result
exit(result == 0)
}"'
}
It calls the function float_expr to evaluate two values ,... (1 Reply)
Hi friend,
I have one file , and i want to read that file character by character.
I need this script in ksh.
while using read option with -n1 am getting error.
while read -n1 c read has bad option
And if i am using below script, then if in a line has space like this ( Pallvi mahajan)... (10 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I do have some basic knowledge of Unix. The task I am trying to do through shell script is to generate the view script for all of the tables which is in YYYYMMDD format (I assume I am on Ksh).
I have certain tables that ends in YYYYMMDD format (eg: tbl_20150630)
For each... (1 Reply)
I am still learning shell scripting. Recently I see a function for read configuration. But some of special character make me confused. I checked online to find answer. It was not successful. I post the code here to consult with expert or guru to get better understanding on these special characters... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)