Hi,
I need a script where I have delete all the files of type abc*.* from the directory /lmn/opq (passed as parameter to script)
But I need to check if there is file of type abc*.* existing in the directory or not before I use the
rm abc*.*
command.
Thanks (1 Reply)
say i have a file with the following contents
0x20
0x20
0xc23886
> 0xc12354
> 0xc567555555
i want to delete "> " pattern and keep the rest of the file (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Please can someone assist in the script I have made that searches a pattern in a file and delete the whole line containing the pattern.
#!bin/sh
# The pattern that user want to add to the files
echo "Enter the pattern of the redirect"
read value
# check if the user has... (1 Reply)
I've got a longish log file with content such as
Uplink traffic:
Downlink traffic:
I want to parse the log file and remove any line that contains the string "Uplink traffic:" at the beginning of the line, but only if the line following it beginnings with the string "Downlink traffic:" (in... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to to an ldapsearch and remove the shadow attributes in the output file.
What I do is ldapsearch() | operation to remove shadow > FILE
The ldapsearch gives output like this(with same line formation):
objectClass: FSConfig
objectClass: extensibleObject
fsCAIP:... (10 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a text file like this
cat main.txt
I like this website
cat website > new_website
grep website > hello_website
cat replace.txt
hello
unix
apple
Now, for each line read in 2.txt, I want the pattern "website" in 1.txt to be replaced with it. Basically, I... (9 Replies)
Hi ladies and gentleman.. I have two text file with me. I need to replace one of the file content to another file if one both files have a matching pattern.
Example:
text1.txt:
ABCD 1234567,HELLO_WORLDA,HELLO_WORLDB
DCBA 3456789,HELLO_WORLDE,HELLO_WORLDF
text2.txt:
XXXX,ABCD... (25 Replies)
Hi,
I have input file whose first column needs(match.txt) to be matched with the first column of the input file with min & max length as defined in match.txt. But conditions are not matching. Please help on the changes in the code below as for multiple enteries in match.txt complete match.txt will... (3 Replies)
hi
I have a large xml file from which i have taken few lines . In this file I have to find for the string </invoices> and check if the 3 rd line after this string does not begin with <portCode> ,then i have to delete the string </invoices> and the next line having the string </shippingBill>... (13 Replies)
Hi
I need to do a patten match between files .
I am new to shell scripting and have come up with this so far. It take 50 seconds to process files of 2mb size . I need to tune this code as file size will be around 50mb and need to save time.
Main issue is that I need to search the pattern from... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nitin_daharwal
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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)