Hi,
I'm new to unix and i am kind of familiar with the basic commands.
can anyone suggest some good books especially for AWK scripting and SHELL scripting
thanks,
Hari (2 Replies)
I have a text file in which the text has been divided into paragraphs (two line breaks or tab marks a new paragraph) and I want to make a script which output would delete line breaks within the paragraph and the different paragraphs would be separated by two line breaks.
So, if my input file... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to understand what is happening here, new to scripting: I have a couple of these, but if I knew what was going on in one I can figure out the rest:
awk '/rpc-100083/ { $2 = "enable -r" }
$3 ~ /.NOS99dtlogin/ { $t = $2; $2 = $3; $3 = $t }
{ print }' /var/svc/profile/upgrade... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have 2 files of large size( 10 Miilions) , i want to join 2 files based on some condition .
for this taking lot of time and 100 cpu .i want to iterate the based on some value (like 1 lakh)
I put the 2 files in the associative arrays . if the array limit reaches the 1 lach join the with... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am adding a column of numbers with awk , however not getting correct output:
# awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}' datafile
2.15291e+06
How can I getthe output like : 2152910
Thank you..
# awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}' datafile
2.15079e+06 (3 Replies)
Hi, i am newbie to this site and hope to learn but problem is s but need help urgently.
Plz pm me if you are good at this.
Help will be appreciated. (11 Replies)
Hi,
This is the first time I am working with awk and I am not familiar with any commands in it. But I managed to do most of my work just left with one more. Needing your help!
I have to extract only the matrix (written within ) from a text file. For example:
1JTJ_0006_ACGC_NPNP_A_12_15.pdb ... (17 Replies)
hi all,
I am working on awk scripting.I have created two awk files and now have a requirement of replacing the contents of first file with some contents of second file.
Please find below the two files created.File1 has 3 records and File2 has 4 records.
cat File1
111,0165,CB21031251,0165,... (3 Replies)
Hey guys,
I want to get all the columns in this input file tab-delimited, i need to get the column send them to a variable. From there i could print them in shuffle and pick and select columns i want.
Here is the input sample
2013/08/05 06:50:38:067 MINOR SiteScope ... (9 Replies)
I am trying to write a shell script that will add a date to and awk command from the command prompt.
here is the line I am having difficulties.
zgrep -i playback $dir/$1-*-errors.out.gz |cut -d '|' -f 1,11,12,15 | awk -v start=${start} -v end=${end} -F '|' '{$1>=start && $1 <=end} {print $2... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)