Hi
Can someone please tell me what is wrong with this (ksh)..
if + ]] then
echo ${COMP_TEMP}
fi
What i need here is, say if the variable is a 1 or 2 digit number, then execute the if loop. Basically the variable can either be 1-30 or some other character sequence say '?', '&&'... (4 Replies)
Sorry for such a dreadful title, but I'm not sure how to be more descriptive. I'm hoping some of the more gurutastic out there can take a look at a solution I came up with to a problem, and advice if there are better ways to have gone about it.
To make a long story short around 20K pieces of... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to understand if it's possible to create a set of variables that are numbered based on another variable (using eval) in a loop, and then call on it before the loop ends.
As an example I've written a script called question (The fist command is to show what is the contents of the... (2 Replies)
I'd like to
1. Check and compare the 10,000 pnt files contains single record from the /$ROOTDIR/scp/inbox/string1 directory against 39 bad pnt files from the /$ROOTDIR/output/tma/pnt/bad/string1 directory based on the fam_id column value start at position 38 to 47 from the record below. Here is... (1 Reply)
Hi,
In the code included below, the string comparision is not working fine. Please help
while (( find_out >= i ))
do
file=`head -$i f.out|tail -1`
dir=`dirname $file`
cd $dir
Status=""
if ; then
Status=`cvs -Q status... (3 Replies)
The string comparison highlighted below is not working fine. Please help:
while read line
do
# Get File name by deleting everything that preceedes and follows Filename as printed in cvs status' output
f_name=`echo $line | sed -e 's/^File://' -e 's/ *Status:.*//' | awk '{print $NF}'`
... (4 Replies)
i am having a file contants as below
my requirement is
for file in `awk -F "," '{print $8,$9}'` <temp.txt
echo "$file"
echo "$file">test.txt
a=`awk -F "," '{print $1}' `<test.txt
b=`awk -F "," '{print $2}' `<test.txt
but script reads , i want both the vales for further... (5 Replies)
hi all,
i have two files:
test1 contains : one two three four five (on separate lines)
test2 contains: one ten nine (on separate lines)
I want to compare two files, test1 against test2. if any word from test1 does not match test2 display it. can someone help me with a while loop on this.
... (4 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I need to handle the views created over monthly retention tables
for which every new table in YYYYMMDD format, there is
equivalent view created and the older table which might be
dropped, the view over it has to be re-created over a dummy
table so that it doesn't fail.... (2 Replies)
Hello, please assist:
users="test1 test2"
keytest1="abcd"
keytest2="dbcd"
for i in $users
do
echo "$key${i}" > fileout
done
So, my objective is to take the current user (ie test1) in loop and echo its associated keyname (ie keytest1) variable to a file.
The echo... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: motdman
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)