It means that the shell will expand the pattern and pass the resulting file names as a parameter to find (so find will never "see" a pattern, just the expansion result), which will lead to a syntax error if the result is more than one file and and to the wrong result if it just one file:
A short illustration would be:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 08-16-2013 at 12:45 PM..
I have input file like
RDBMS FALIURE UTY8703 'USER_WORK.TEST' .HIghest return code '12'
I want to parse data which comed between first quote till next quote
USER_WORK.TEST
can you please suggest how to do that (4 Replies)
hey all,
i made a simple .sh like this:
echo "<style media="screen" type="text/css">@import url("main.css");</style>"
but the output is:
<style media=screen type=text/css>@import url(main.css);</style>
i want to keep double-quotes, can anyone help me?
thanks (3 Replies)
The command line bellow works fine by itself.
/opt/csw/bin/rsync -azq --delete -e "ssh -i /.ssh/ss" /home/ me@myaccount.storage.com:/home/
Now I would like to introduce some variable into it and make a .sh file such as bellow and it does not work anymore. I guess the part -e "ssh -i /.ssh/ss" has... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I've been trying to write a regex to use in egrep (in a shell script) that'll fetch the names of all the files that match a particular pattern. I expect to match the following line in a file:
Name = "abc"
The regex I'm using to match the same is:
egrep -l '(^) *= *" ** *"$' /PATH_TO_SEARCH... (6 Replies)
i want to replace mistaken quotes in line starting with tag 300 and relocate the quote in the correct position so the input is
223;25
224;20100428064823;1;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;8;1;3;9697;18744;;;;;;;;;;;;
300;X;Event:... (3 Replies)
Can somebody supply me with a simple way to get a value between
two double quotes?
Example:
input = ADR base is "/u01/app/oracle"
output = /u01/app/oracle
Thanks to all who answer (4 Replies)
Hi All ,
We have source data file as csv file and since data could contain commas ,each attribute is quoted into double quotes.However problem is that some of the attributa data also contain double quotes which is converted to double double quote while creating csv file
XLs data :
... (2 Replies)
From:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This, is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ""test"""
4,7,3,1,8,""""
To:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This; is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ''test''"
4,7,3,1,8,"''"Is there an easy syntax I'm overlooking? There will always be an odd number... (5 Replies)
Food for thought!
"""
Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer...because it teaches you how to think.
"""
Steve Jobs.
So, SO, true!
Merry XMAS all... (4 Replies)