Yes, exactly. It does the normal substitution step like any other shell command, then starts over.
You have shell variables in your sql file, even though it's not a shell script? Yeah, that's awkward.
One way to substitute would be to put it all into a here-document like this:
This takes the big SQL file, puts cat <<__EOF___ at the front of it, __EOF__ at the end of it, escapes ` and $( and \, prevents people from sneaking out of the here-document with their own __EOF__, and runs it in a shell. It will swallow the entire text nearly raw, substituting variables and nothing else. Results in /tmp/converted, or you can use them directly via a pipe.
This would be far less risky than eval -- less risk of malicious use, and less risk of accidental syntax errors due to embedded ' " | ` ( ) &
Last edited by Corona688; 05-03-2013 at 05:51 PM..
Hi All,
I'm running some encrypted data through a script I wrote. In order to do this, I'm using eval to resolve some of my variables. At the moment, when I use eval to resolve, it strips out some of my encrypted values, and totally drops some others. For example if I have the value ab1"3 it drops... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have two files "foo" and "bar"
$ cat foo
a is \$a and b is \$b
$ cat bar
car tree
using the below 'while' loop I expect the output to be: a is car and b is tree
while read a b; do
eval echo $(cat foo) # o/p: a is $a and b is $b
eval "echo $(eval "cat foo")"... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have snippet like the following
x="1"
prompt1="hi"
if I say
eval echo \$prompt$x then it is giving o/p "hi"
if I say `eval echo \$prompt$x` here it is giving 1 !
if I add one more escape character i.e.
`eval echo \\$prompt$x` then it is giving "hi"
Can you please... (3 Replies)
I am trying to expand the variable $user in my alias command and tried
several variations of eval but can't seem to get it to work.
The end result should be either:
oracle_user='sudo su - oracle ' or oracle_user='sudo su - oracle1 '
user=$(grep '^oracle:' /etc/passwd | cut... (5 Replies)
hi all,
Am trying to add some code to a ksh script and i dont understand how an eval function is used :
_var=$1
_conceal=$2
eval _val=\$${_var}
can someone shed some light on what the eval function in the above context means/does ??
thanks. (4 Replies)
Hi all,
some small script with eval turned me to crazy.
my OS is linux
Linux s10-1310 2.6.16.53-0.8.PTF.434477.3.TDC.0-smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 06:07:27 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
below script works well
#!/bin/bash
eval ssh remotehost date
eval ssh remotehost ls
below... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
Since my variables are nested I use eval to populate the data.
I have an ambiguity here when eval is used along with &
say I have the below variable
url="www.unix.com" , this come from function call as argument.
I want to take this into another variable say... (6 Replies)
anyone has any info on why this is complaining???
vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC
$ zoneCounter=1
vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC
$ optUsage1=23%
vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC
$ eval eval echo "<th>Zone $zoneCounter </th><th align=\"left\"> \$optUsage$zoneCounter </th>"
-bash: syntax error... (13 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
safe_asterisk
SAFE_ASTERISK(8) Linux Programmer's Manual SAFE_ASTERISK(8)NAME
safe_asterisk -- A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop
SYNOPSIS
safe_asterisk [ asterisk_params ]
DESCRIPTION
safe_asterisk is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you fear asterisk may crash.
The script does not run in the background like a standard service. Rather, it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, by default). It
also uses the option '-c' of asterisk(8) to avoid detaching asterisk from that terminal.
safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus asterisk will dump core in case of a crash.
To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a remote shell session) you can use:
screendump 9
The init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe_asterisk as the asterisk service, if so configured. See coments in
/etc/default/asterisk
FILES
/tmp
safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.
/tmp/core
If core files were generated there, they may be
/etc/asterisk/startup.d
Files in this directory will be 'source'd by the safe_asterisk script before it starts Asterisk proper, allowing them to set addi-
tional environment variables or run any other steps that are needed for your system.
BUGS
While showing the output on a console is useful, using screen(1) as the terminal may be better.
The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc
It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a symlink attacks.
SEE ALSO asterisk(8), screendump(9)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
Asterisk Jun 30th, 2005 SAFE_ASTERISK(8)