I can use
to alphabetize headers in the correct way, but I'm not sure how to bring the sequences (second lines of each pair) along for the ride. Can anyone help?
I need to read pairs of lines from a file and compare them. We can assume that the number of lines in the file is even. Can i do it in korn shell? (4 Replies)
This seems to be a question whose answer uses sed or awk.
For a file like:
a
b
c
d
e
How to swap the order of the line pairs, to end up with:
b
a
d
c
e
All lines from the original file need to wind up in the output file. (8 Replies)
I have a file that contains 87 lines, each with a set of coordinates (x & y). This file looks like:
1 200.3 -0.3
2 201.7 -0.32
...
87 200.2 -0.314
I have another file which contains data that was taken at certain of these 87 positions. i.e.:
37 125
42 175
86 142
where the first... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have multiple large files which consist of the below format:
I am trying to write an awk or sed script to remove all occurrences of the 00 record except the first and remove all of the 80 records except the last one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. (10 Replies)
Hi
I need to order these lines from a txt file my file looks like this
IMSI ........................ 1234567890
APN ......................... INTERNET.COM
APN ......................... MMS.COM
APN ......................... WAP.COM
APN ......................... BA.COM
IMSI... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to combine two lines in a file based on first character of each line in a file.
Please find the sample content of the file below:
Code:
_______________________
5, jaya, male, 4-5-90, single
smart
6, prakash, male, 5-4-84, married
fair
7, raghavi,... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to combine two lines in a file based on first character of each line in a file.
Please find the sample content of the file below:
Code:
_______________________
5, jaya, male, 4-5-90, single
smart
6, prakash, male, 5-4-84, married
fair
7, raghavi,... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
i want to write a shell script read below file line by line and want to exclude the lines which contains empty value for MOUNTPOINT field.
i am using centos 7 Operating system.
want to read below file.
# cat /tmp/d5
NAME="/dev/sda" TYPE="disk" SIZE="60G" OWNER="root"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: balu1234
4 Replies
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)