I needt o know how what init.d does and how it knows which dameons/applications to turn off and how to restart the applications after reboot. any OS - solaris/hp-ux (1 Reply)
Guys,
I am trying to understand the sed command here.
adx001 $ a=/clocal/dctrdata/user/dctrdat1/trdroot/recouncil
adx001 $ b=`echo $a | sed 's/\//\\\\\//g'`
adx001 $ echo $b
\/clocal\/dctrdata\/user\/dctrdat1\/trdroot\/recouncil
The sed command i took it from the script.
Please... (3 Replies)
I am trying to create a basic script that converts an Oracle script into a Sybase script.
The only things im changing are Datatypes and the to_char and to_date functions.
I am not really 100% sure of the way it works. I have tried running the functions through a loop to replace each word line... (6 Replies)
I just started shell coding and I'm a bit confused on how 'mv' works can someone explain to me how it works and if i did this correctly. Thanks.
echo "Enter Name of the first file:"
read file1
#echo $file1
if ; then
echo "Sorry, file does not exist."
exit 1
... (16 Replies)
Hi Gurus:
I am trying to understand the following line of code.I did enough of googling to understand but no luck.Please help me understand the follow chunk of code:
X=$0
MOD=${X%/*}/env.ksh
X is the current script from which I am trying to execute.
Say if X=test.ksh
$MOD is echoing :... (3 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I need a small help in understanding the below sed command.
$ cat t4.txt
1 root 1 58 0 888K 368K sleep 4:06 0.00% init
1 root 1 58 0 888K 368K sleep 4:06 0.00% init last
$ sed 's/*$//' t4.txt
1 root 1 58 0 888K ... (3 Replies)
I have the following line of code that works wonders. I just don't completely understand it as I am just starting to learn regex. Can you help me understand exactly what is happening here?
find . -type f | grep -v '^\.$' | sed 's!\.\/!!' (4 Replies)
Hi,
I found this in a script and I would like to know how this works
Code is here:
# var1=PART1_PART2
# var2=${var1##*_}
# echo $var2
PART2
I'm wondering how ##* makes the Shell to understand to pick up the last value from the given. (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Could you please kindly explain what exactly the below SED command will do ?
I am quite confused and i assumed that,
sed 's/*$/ /'
1. It will remove tab and extra spaces .. with single space.
The issue is if it is removing tab then it should be Î right ..
please assist.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nandy
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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)