It is safer to have while not followed by the "okay" expression.
The following ensures there is only and at least one non-blank characters:
The quotes are necessary for safety. Also further references should quote "$jobname".
The x is for additional safety, e.g. to escape a user input "-n" that has a special meaning in echo.
More strict is to test for at least one alphanumeric character:
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 05-02-2013 at 01:21 PM..
Hi,
How can I find the egrep version installed on Solaris 10 as I don't see any egrep --version option.Also wanted to know which version would support option of -A (eg. egrep -A NUM PATTERN FILE )
Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.
Thanks & Regards,
Kiran. (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have some csv files out of which i want to find records which have empty values in either the 14th or 16th fields.
The following is a sample.
$cut -d',' -f14,16 SPS* | head -5
VOIP_ORIG_INFO,VOIP_DEST_INFO
sip:445600709315@sip.com,sip:999@sip.com... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i wrote If Conditions in my script, it's returns null and some values.
but i am unable to find when Null value getting. bec we need modification according null vales.
pls help me on this. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to display the filename in which a string was found after using find and grep. For this after some googling I found that this works:
find -name "*.java" -exec grep "searchStr" {} /dev/null \;
I wanted to know the difference between the above and the following:
find -name... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I've a pipe delimited file where I want to find out a number of lines where 1st 2nd and last field are null using awk/sed. Is it possible?
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hi, everyone
I have a requirement as following:
source file
1, abc, def, caaa
2, , cde, aaa
3, bcd, , adefefg
I need find columns which contains null value, in above example,
I need get two rows
2, , cde, aaa
3, bcd, , adefefg
anybody has idea how to achive this
... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Can some one please help me how to grep the comments from "oracle" & "sybase" code. I would like to grep below type of pattern.
--
/* */
Please help. (6 Replies)
hi Gurus,
I need find the null column in a file.
my file like below
abc, ,cde,def
abc,ded,cdd,def
abc, ,ddd,ccd
aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd
basic, I need to find the lines which second column is null
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Hi All
My requirement is to find the null values in particular column of a file and reject it in case if it contains null values. But the challenge is that I want a common command which can be used across different file, as the position of the column we need to check for different file may get... (14 Replies)
Hi there I am trying to figure out and understand what the syntax would be to egrep lines that have a word occur twice in a row. the two words obviously should have a space between them and also it has to be case sensitive which I believe grep is by deffault. the closest I have come is...
grep... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: spo_2138
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)