Hi
I need to pass a date argument with my shell script. Can any one send me code for the same.
eg For 15th Aug 2006. Iwant to pass parameter like this
./startenv.sh 08/15/2006.
Everyday date argument must change. Will the below code work ?
./startenv.sh date '+%m/%d/%y'
THanks... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone
I was asked to pass a parameter in the calling of a script. I´ll have two parameters London and Birmingham and I´ll need to pass this because each of these will have a specific script however with the same name.
/home/script/loaddata.ksh Lond
/home/script/loaddata.ksh Birm... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to write a script file(script1.sh) to read the file from the folder say /usr1/profiles/active and pass the file name as a parameter to another script file say (script2.sh) which would subsitute this parameter.
The script2.sh will have a line like the one below
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Hi All,
I have a 2 files. File1 i am generating using an ETL tool, which is a comman seperated delimited file which contains country code & load date.
everytime, this country code will be updated from a table. It might be AB or BA & ld_date will be for which date we need to load the file.
... (7 Replies)
I am unable to spit the file based on the 2nd column passing as a parameter with awk command.
Source file:
“100”,”customer information”,”10000”
“200”,”customer information”,”50000”
“300”,”product information”,”40000”
script: the command is not allowing to pass the parameters with the awk... (7 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am passing current month & day (i.e. 'Jul 21') from script aaa.ksh to zzz.ksh. The value 'Mon DD' is being used in zzz.ksh.
Problem: If I pass 'Mon DD' value manually to zzz.ksh i.e.
/test/zzz.ksh 'Jul 21'
it works fine. However, if I pass value from aaa.ksh, it does... (2 Replies)
I would like to run a compress script on files in certain directories.
My compress_script.sh is just basically
compress file*
In order for me to use this I have to copy it into each directory and run it.
How can I state the directory on the command line with the compress script so it... (2 Replies)
OS SCO Open Server 6.0 MP4
I am trying to change the value of a enviornment variable thru a script and want to pass a parameter on the commande line, If I hard code the value inside the script the script changes the enviornment variable
. mytest
where my test is
MYVAR=$1
export MYVAR... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm new to Linux and scripting, apologies in advance for 'stupid' questions.
Please help... Im writing a script that calls a sqlplus script but the sqlplus requires inputs and i cant seem to get this to work.
here is my code.
#!/bin/sh
TERM=vt100
export TERM... (4 Replies)
Say I have something like this to try and build a parameter string:
OPT1="This is my Option";
OPT2="/folder/file";
PARMS="-u me -J \"$OPT1\" -g \"$OPT2\"";
./script.ksh -n 1 $PARMS;
./script.ksh -n 2 $PARMS;
./script.ksh -n 3 $PARMS;
./script.ksh -n 4 $PARMS;
But this doesn't work. ... (2 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)