. . . Since no pathname operands are given to awk, all of the filenames printed by awk will be an empty string.
At least with the combination of find and awk implemented on my linux system, there's a full path listing avalable, including filenames containing spaces:
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And, if there are x field separators on a line, there are x+1 fields.
Yes. Still I thought the number of fields to be more relevant than the number of separators. Might have been premature.
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Works, and satisfies the standards, but:
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Some implementations of awk have a nextfile statement
Special thanks for this; I was looking for that or an equivalent; unfortunately not available on my system.
Hey Guyz I have a requirement something like this..
a part of file name, date of modification of that file and a text is entered as input.
like
Date : 080206 (MMDDYY format.)
filename : hotel_rates
text : Jim
now the file hotel_rates.ZZZ.123 (creation date is Aug 02 2006) should be... (10 Replies)
Hi
My files is like
a|test|s|
b|test2 | n|
c|ggg|v|
i want to count the no of lines which is ending with "|" ...
Please let me know how can it be done.
Thanks,
Arun (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have to grep a word 'XYZ' from 900 files ( from 2007 till date), take its count month wise. The output should display month, count , word 'XYZ' .
I tried searching the forum for solution but could find any.
I would apprieciate if any one can help me asap ....
Many Thanks:) (12 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to grep a particular string from the files of 2 different servers without copying and calculate the total count of its occurence on both files.
File structure is same on both servers and for reference as follows:
27-Aug-2010... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I need to get the latest file. I have found this command "ls -lrt" that is great but not recursive.
Can anyone help?
Thanx by advance. (7 Replies)
Tricky one:
I want to do several things all at once to blow away a directory (rm -rf <dir>)
1) I want to find all files recursively that have a specific file extension (.ver) for example.
2) Then in that file, I want to grep for an expression ( "sp2" ) for example.
3) Then I want to... (1 Reply)
Is there a way to use the find command to recursively scan directories for files greater than 1Gb in size and print out the directory path and file name only?
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Hi,
Need some help...
I want to execute sequence commands, like below
test1.sh
test2.sh
...etc
test1.sh file will generate log file, we need to search for 'complete' string on test1.sh file, once that condition success and then it should go to test2.sh file, each .sh scripts will take... (5 Replies)
I have a file example.txt as follows :SomeTextGoesHere
$$TODAY_DT=20140818
$$TODAY_DT=20140818
$$TODAY_DT=20140818I need to automatically update the date (20140818) in the above file, by getting the new date as argument, using a shell script.
(It would even be better if I could pass... (5 Replies)
I have a large dataset with following structure;
C 0001 Carbon
D SAR001 methane
D SAR002 ethane
D SAR003 propane
D SAR004 butane
D SAR005 pentane
C 0002 Hydrogen
C 0003 Nitrogen
C 0004 Oxygen
D SAR011 ozone
D SAR012 super oxide
C 0005 Sulphur
D SAR013... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)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 v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)