@mirni. That would work in this case, but if if there is also text that begins with a non-digit then as space would be inserted at the start of the line.. To avoid that one could use:
@bipinajiith, the same applies to your awk approach..
Ah yes..that's a consequence of the * trying to match as much as possible but also as early as possible. "Being early" wins over "being greedy", if it can.
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I need to separate Pascal style identifiers (TheyLookLikeThis) into words separated by an underscore (_).
I've tried sed 's//&_&/' but this won't work (obviously). I'd love some help. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have logfile like this :
Actually the format is date format :
yyyymmddHHMMSS
and i want the log become this format
yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS
for example
2009-07-19 11:46:52
Can somebody help me ?
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Hello friends,
Im trying to separate a number from a log, but it seems i need help here
awk '/stimated/ {print $5}' mylog.txt
gives (1515.45MB).
i need pure number part to use in a comparision loop so i want to separate the number part (but only 1515 not 1515.45 )
awk '/stimated/... (6 Replies)
For example:
File 1:
abc def ghi
jkl mno pqr
File 2:
stu vwx yza
bcd efg hij
klm nop qrs
I want the reult to be:
abc def ghistu vwx yza
jkl mno pqrbcd efg hij
klm nop qrs (4 Replies)
Input:
Youcaneasilydothisbyhighlightingyourcode.
Putting space after three characters.
You can eas ily dot his byh igh lig hti ngy our cod e.
How can i do this using sed? (10 Replies)
I have a large 3479 line .csv file, the content of which looks likes this:
1;0;177;170;Guadeloupe;x
2;127;171;179;Antigua and Barbuda;x
3;170;144;2;Umpqua;x
4;170;126;162;Coos Bay;x
...
1205;46;2;244;Unmak Island;x
1206;47;2;248;Yunaska Island;x
1207;0;2;240;north sea;x... (5 Replies)
I want to make a program where you have to insert binary numbers like this:
do
{
iBinary = getche();
}while(iBinary == 1 || iBinary == 0);
after you get the numbers I want them to be placed behind eachother so you will get:
input:
1
1
0
1
output:
1101 (7 Replies)
hi Gurus,
I need separate a file which is one huge line to multiple lines based on certain number of charactors. for example:
abcdefghi high abaddffdd
I want to separate the line to multiple lines for every 4 charactors.
the result should be
abcd
efgh
i hi
gh a
badd
ffdd
Thanks in... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ken6503
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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)