Hi,
Sorry for silly question, but I'm trying to write a perl script to operate a log file that is in following format:
(4)ab=1234/(10)bc=abcdef9876/cd=0....
The number in the brackets is the lenghts of the field, "/" is the field separator. Brackets are not leading every field.
What I'm... (9 Replies)
HI....
It's fallow up file ..
#./show.sh click enter button.. i am gettng the fallowup file. its keep on running every time why because there are lots of users working on it.
In that file i want to search pattern between two words
for ex:
SELECT DISTINCT... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am stuck with a problem here.
Suppose i have a variable which is assigned some string containing special charatcers. for eg:
$a="abcdef^bbwk#kdbcd@";
I have to remove the special characters using Perl. The text is assigned to the variable implicitly.
How to do it? (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I want to remove first few characthers from starting of the line till ',' Comma... which needs to be done for all the lines in the file
Eg:
File content
1,"1234",emp1,1234
2,"2345",emp2,2345
Expected output is
,"1234",emp1,1234
,"2345",emp2,2345
How can parse... (4 Replies)
Guys,
can you help me in removing the junk character "^S" from the below line using perl
Reference Data Not Recognised ^S Where a value is provided by the consuming system, which is not reco
Thanks,
M.Mohan (1 Reply)
I have a file with words that begin with character #. Whenver that character is found that word should be deleted throughout the file. How do I do that in VIM.
e.g:
afkajfa ladfa ljafa #222222 kjafad ljl
afajkj kjlj uouu #44444 jlkj lkjl
Output should be
afkajfa ladfa ljafa kjafad... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using following code to remove words between start and end points.
$mystring = "The start text always precedes the end of the end text.";
if($mystring =~ s/start(.*)end/\0/) {
print $1;
print "\n";
print $mystring;
}
But this is writing special chars in place of... (1 Reply)
Hi, I'm writing a ksh script and trying to use an awk / sed / or perl one-liner to remove the last 4 characters of a line in a file if it begins with a period.
Here is the contents of the file... the column in which I want to remove the last 4 characters is the last column. ($6 in awk). I've... (10 Replies)
I had a string in perl script as below.
Tue Augáá7 03:54:12 2012
Now I need to replace the special character with space.
After removing the special chaacters
Tue Aug 7 03:54:12 2012
Could anyone please help me here for writing the regular expression?
Thanks in advance..
Regards,
GS (1 Reply)
Hi experts , im new to Unix,AWK ,and im just not able to get this right.
I need to match for some patterns if it matches I need to print the next few words to it.. I have only three such conditions to match… But I need to print only those words that comes after satisfying the first condition..... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: 100bees
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)