You're making this much too hard on yourself. When you set a variable in the shell, parameter expansion occurs in double quoted strings and that is all you need here.
Adding the eval also causes the entire string to be executed which is causing the & to be evaluated as a command separator. All you need is:
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Hi All,
I'm running some encrypted data through a script I wrote. In order to do this, I'm using eval to resolve some of my variables. At the moment, when I use eval to resolve, it strips out some of my encrypted values, and totally drops some others. For example if I have the value ab1"3 it drops... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have two files "foo" and "bar"
$ cat foo
a is \$a and b is \$b
$ cat bar
car tree
using the below 'while' loop I expect the output to be: a is car and b is tree
while read a b; do
eval echo $(cat foo) # o/p: a is $a and b is $b
eval "echo $(eval "cat foo")"... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have snippet like the following
x="1"
prompt1="hi"
if I say
eval echo \$prompt$x then it is giving o/p "hi"
if I say `eval echo \$prompt$x` here it is giving 1 !
if I add one more escape character i.e.
`eval echo \\$prompt$x` then it is giving "hi"
Can you please... (3 Replies)
I am trying to expand the variable $user in my alias command and tried
several variations of eval but can't seem to get it to work.
The end result should be either:
oracle_user='sudo su - oracle ' or oracle_user='sudo su - oracle1 '
user=$(grep '^oracle:' /etc/passwd | cut... (5 Replies)
hi all,
Am trying to add some code to a ksh script and i dont understand how an eval function is used :
_var=$1
_conceal=$2
eval _val=\$${_var}
can someone shed some light on what the eval function in the above context means/does ??
thanks. (4 Replies)
Hi all,
some small script with eval turned me to crazy.
my OS is linux
Linux s10-1310 2.6.16.53-0.8.PTF.434477.3.TDC.0-smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 06:07:27 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
below script works well
#!/bin/bash
eval ssh remotehost date
eval ssh remotehost ls
below... (1 Reply)
URI::URL(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation URI::URL(3)NAME
URI::URL - Uniform Resource Locators
SYNOPSIS
$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base);
$u2 = $u1->abs;
DESCRIPTION
This module is provided for backwards compatibility with modules that depend on the interface provided by the "URI::URL" class that used to
be distributed with the libwww-perl library.
The following differences exist compared to the "URI" class interface:
o The URI::URL module exports the url() function as an alternate constructor interface.
o The constructor takes an optional $base argument. The "URI::URL" class is a subclass of "URI::WithBase".
o The URI::URL->newlocal class method is the same as URI::file->new_abs.
o URI::URL::strict(1)
o $url->print_on method
o $url->crack method
o $url->full_path: same as ($uri->abs_path || "/")
o $url->netloc: same as $uri->authority
o $url->epath, $url->equery: same as $uri->path, $uri->query
o $url->path and $url->query pass unescaped strings.
o $url->path_components: same as $uri->path_segments (if you don't consider path segment parameters)
o $url->params and $url->eparams methods
o $url->base method. See URI::WithBase.
o $url->abs and $url->rel have an optional $base argument. See URI::WithBase.
o $url->frag: same as $uri->fragment
o $url->keywords: same as $uri->query_keywords
o $url->localpath and friends map to $uri->file.
o $url->address and $url->encoded822addr: same as $uri->to for mailto URI
o $url->groupart method for news URI
o $url->article: same as $uri->message
SEE ALSO
URI, URI::WithBase
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1998-2000 Gisle Aas.
perl v5.18.2 2012-02-11 URI::URL(3)