I have the following script that I use to copy a list of files from one dir to another,
This reads the list of file names from a column in a text file and then copies those files from the src dir to the target dir.
I have run into a problem as some of my file names contain single quotes and I am getting an xargs error,
"xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option"
I tried adding -0, but I got an error that the argument line was too long. I don't know xargs well enough to know exactly which arguments I need, or if I need to use a different approach to the script. The filenames will never have spaces or double quotes, but may have . , ' - _ ~ ( ) [ ] { } < >
I appreciate the assistance as there are often a lot of files and no good solution in the absence of a script.
Hi there
I have a data file like so below
'A/1';'T100002';'T100002';'';'01/05/2004';'31/05/2004';'01/06/2004';'08/06/2004';'1.36';'16';'0.22';'0';'0';'1.58';'0';'0';'0';'0';'0';'0';'clientes\resumen\200405\resumen_T100002_T100002_1.pdf';'';'0001';'S';'20040501';'';'02';'0';'S';'N'... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a shell script with many lines as below:
comment on column dcases.proj_seq_num is dcases_1sq;
....
....
I want the above script to be as below:
comment on column dcases.proj_seq_num is 'dcases_1sq';
I want to have single quotes like that as above for the entire shell... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've been trying to write a regex to use in egrep (in a shell script) that'll fetch the names of all the files that match a particular pattern. I expect to match the following line in a file:
Name = "abc"
The regex I'm using to match the same is:
egrep -l '(^) *= *" ** *"$' /PATH_TO_SEARCH... (6 Replies)
Hi I want to replace single quote with two single quotes in a perl string.
If the string is <It's Simpson's book> It should become <It''s Simpson''s book> (3 Replies)
hi all,
i have a data in the file which of the formate :
100,102,103
and the required formate is
\'100\',\'102\',\'103
Idealy we need to replace , with \',\'
Regards
arkesh (2 Replies)
I need to check whether first character of variable is single quote.
I tried the below constructions but they are all not working (always return true)
if (test `echo "$REGEXP" |cut -c1` != "'"); then echo "TRUE"; fi
if (test `echo "$REGEXP" |cut -c1` != '\''); then echo "TRUE"; fi
if (test... (5 Replies)
From:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This, is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ""test"""
4,7,3,1,8,""""
To:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This; is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ''test''"
4,7,3,1,8,"''"Is there an easy syntax I'm overlooking? There will always be an odd number... (5 Replies)
Hi all...
(This is Don's domain.)
I have come across an anomaly in sh and dash compared to bash.
It involves echoing a character set to a file in sh and dash compared to bash.
It is probably easier to show the code and results first.
#!/usr/local/bin/dash
#!/bin/sh
#!/bin/bash
echo... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
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whereis
whereis(1) General Commands Manual whereis(1)Name
whereis - locate source, binary, and or manual for program
Syntax
whereis [-sbm] [-u] [-SBM dir... -f] name...
Description
The command locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files. The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname com-
ponents and any (single) trailing extension of the form ``.ext'', for example,``.c''. Prefixes of ``s.'' resulting from use of source code
control are also dealt with. The command then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard places.
Options-S dir
Search for source files in specified directory.
-B dir
Search for binary files in given directory.
-M dir
Search for manual section files in given directory.
-b Searches only for binary files.
-f Terminates last directory list created from use of -S, -B or -M flags and signals the start of file names.
-m Searches only for manual section files.
-s Searches only for source files.
-u Searches for files that do not have one of binary, source or manual section files. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have one
entry of each requested type. Thus ``whereis -m -u *'' asks for those files in the current directory which have no documentation.
Examples
The following finds all the files in which are not documented in with source in
cd /usr/ucb
whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f *
Restrictions
Since the program uses to run faster, pathnames given with the -M -S and -B must be full. That is, they must begin with a ``/''.
Files
/usr/src/*
/usr/{doc,man}/*
/lib, /etc, /usr/{lib,bin,ucb,old,new,local}
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