hi All
Why is #!/bin/sh being used in most of the ksh scripts......?
I have seen this (#!/bin/sh) being used at the start of the script
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Suresh (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a file which looks like this
//string = "abcd"; //info
//string = "*pqrs"; //add
string = "#123"; //sub
//string = "#1234567890"
data = check(string)
//string = "#1234567890"
I want to modify this as
string = "#987"; //mult
data = check(string)
How do i do that? (1 Reply)
hi,
I have to extract a column from a file and then updated that column..??
Now i can use wak for extracting it and then how to update it..
$ awk' {print $5}' input_file
Can i use sed command here piping it to the output from the awk command.. (2 Replies)
hi there
I have the following script in which i have created a PrintHash() function.
I want to pass to this function the reference to a hash (in the final code i will be passing different hashes to this print function hence the need for a function). I am getting an error
Type of arg 1 to... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have put a query in a thread but didn't get any reply. Hoping to get a reply here.
I have a file in that one line resembles like below...
Forwarded by Deepak on 11/15/2009 10:28 AM EST
ofcourse AM can be PM also...
so what i need is first i need to get only... (1 Reply)
I am executing the ls command to show the contents of a folder,
it shows some number in front of word total as highlighted in blue color below quotes.
Can anyone please share that what it is? (2 Replies)
Hi All,
The result for 'grep "cert_codes" /develop/sales/appl.srce/*.4gl' command will be saved at aa.txt
grep "cert_codes" /develop/sales/appl.srce/*.4gl >aa.txt
But I am not sure, whether, all result stored in .txt file in case of multi-line result.
Please revert back if... (2 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)