If you have a modern Korn shell installed, ${.sh.file} should contain the name of the file that was sourced.
Have a try with something like this:
I think it goes without saying, but just to be sure, the parent script must be executed by Kshell, not Bourne shell.
Hello,
I am quite new to Linux... I need to set some aliases and I can't get it to work. Can somebody tell me what's wrong?
I modified the .bashrc file in my home directory. I added:
alias pmv= '/home/vera/MGLTools-1.4.5/share/bin/pmv'
saved it and ran source .bashrc
The shell... (3 Replies)
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Hi,
I have a script
#!/bin/ksh
#reading parameters.
. FileA
Echo ......
......
File A has all parameters.
FileA:
Infile=xyz.com
outfile=abc.com
#Userid file
. FileB
FileB: (2 Replies)
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I have a program that get a directory name from the user, then the program should go through one by one of the file, asking the user whether to move it to another folder. I tried to list the time of the file one by one. But it seems like it doesn't work. The code is as follow:
check()
{... (10 Replies)
Hi Team,
Thank you for your time.
i have a situation where the user IDs of the applicatio users have been locked down to Read only.
Hence I am writing a script to invoke their old .profile every time they login.
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i am trying to write a program, that will list .txt files and .png files.
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Hey everyone!
I have my .bash_profile file which is read automatically when I launch Terminal therefore I can run my own functions.
BUT.
When I do:
sudo -s
sudo su
sudo su -
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My manager required that i keep the hostnames and username and password in a separate file when creating my sftp script.
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I don't know... (3 Replies)
I'm wanting to write a bourne shell script that takes in two command line arguments - a directory and a file. With this I want to return a list of files within the directory that are older (based on creation date) than the given file, and print the number of files that have not been listed (they... (4 Replies)
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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)