Hello everyone,
I am struggling a bit with a batch script that I need to run in cygwin. I work in winXP and I had to write some awk scripts to do some file manipulation, and now I would like to automate the process by just running a batch file so that my colleagues can use it easily.
Now, the... (2 Replies)
Hi all. I am using procmail to deliver an email to a script I am developing. Procmail delivers the email to the script on standard input. I imagine this is the same as piping input from a command into the script. Hence I've been testing my script by running
echo 'test' | sms-autosend-backup.sh
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have tried several times but failed, I need to call this script from the perl script. This one line script will be sent to /var/tmp/error
Bash command:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror -backstat -l -hoursago 12 |awk '{ print $19, $12, $14, $16}'|grep -vi default|sort >... (12 Replies)
In a bash script, one can call a perl command in the following manner, where "myperlcommand" is a perl command.
perl -e 'myperlcommand(arguments)'
perl -e 'print("UUUU"x4)'
Now, how can one call a bash command from within a perl script? (Suppose that mybashcommand is a bash... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Will following set up work in bash script? I've got errors if assigning following binary command to a variable. But on the other hand, COMMAND="ls" works. Any explanation please? How can I assign binary command to a variable COMMAND then I can just call ${COMMAND}?
COMMAND="rsync"... (3 Replies)
Hello,
i have bash script where im cycling some command for different lines in external file.
example:
while read domain;do
nslookupout=$(nslookup -type=ns $domain) || true
another commands
done < filenamewithdomains
i added:
|| true
after the command in belief it will just skip... (6 Replies)
Hello im new here... Im trying to read file and create folders from words in it but i get this for loop error
awk : line 3 : syntax error at or near for
my code is..
#!/bin/bash
begin
for (( i=1;i<=5;i++));
do
awk -v i=$i $0 { print $i }
mkdir $i
done
{print $i}
end {}
i have... (7 Replies)
I need to be able to use a sed command as a variable in a bash script. I have the sed command that almost works the way I want it. the command is
sed -n '/inet/,/}/p' config.boot
This gets me this result:
inet 192.168.1.245
}
I need to get the IP address into a variable so I... (9 Replies)
Hello.
I'm new to bash script and I'm learning the basics by writing some scripts.
Recently a friend of mine asked me if I could try to write a script to him to automate a couple of processes that uses JSON RPCs.
I'll try to explain in few words the workflow just to contextualize the problem.... (48 Replies)
The below command works in the terminal interactively but not as part of a bash script. I though maybe I needed to escape the "$dir" so it isn't interpreted literally, but that's not it. Thank you :).
interactively in terminal
dir=/path/to
new=$(ls "$dir"/*.csv -tr | tail -n 1) && echo... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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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)