Auto escape script to escape special chars in script args
This is a bit off the wall, but I often need to run scripts where there are argument values that contain special characters.
For example,
It is tedious to manually escape everything and auto complete does not always solve this problem.
I was wondering if I could write a script and pass my entire command string to the script. I would keep the script in a path directory and the script would escape chars where necessary and then pass the string along to bash. The syntax could look like,
I think I could do the substitutions in sed, but I'm not sure how to capture everything after auto_escape and pass that to sed.
A bigger issue is how to keep the notion of pwd in tact. The pwd locations of process.exe and auto_escape will be different, so when bash recieves the string from the auto_escape script, I'm not sure how I could get bash to properly interpret ./, ../ etc, in terms of the original script location.
Hi,
I would like to display the following message from my shell (Korn) script
Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"
My code looks as follows
print "Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt""
However, when I execute the script, I get the following output
Copy old_file.txt to... (6 Replies)
I'm using awk '{print $1}' and it works most of the time to print the contents of a mysql query loop, but occationally I get a field with some special character in it, is there a way to tell awk to ignore all special characters between my FS? I have >186K records, so building a list of ALL special... (6 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I need to read an encrypted password from the user and update that value in an xml file. I am trying to use "sed" for searching the appropriate tag and replacing this new value that get from the user. Since the encrypted password can contain special characters(like /,\,&,etc),... (4 Replies)
Need help in escaping special characters in sed command.
Here is the the string which i am trying to find a replace with
From :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID={//MESSAGE_ID}
To :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID= X_EDELIVERY_MESSAGE_ID & BATCH_ID= X_EDELIVERY_BATCH_ID
Here is the sed command i am... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have written a unix expect utility "ssh-login.exp" which connects (ssh) to remote host and execute some shell script. I am calling this "ssh-login.exp" utility from another shell script.
"ssh-login.exp" takes username, password, host and shell script path to execute on remote host. All... (1 Reply)
Hi,
How to use * in call to pl/sql block from shell script?
The line "select * from" is causing all files and directiores to show up in email notification but if I give all column names then it works,
Please let me know how to use '*' instead of giving all column names, in other wirds how to... (2 Replies)
My input is:
jdbc:Oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=10.147.109.211)(PORT=1526))(CONNECT_DAT A=(SID= MWDBD22)))
In the search pattern, ( and ) and . and @ are special RE, and need to be escaped \( and \) and \. and \@
how can i do it by script or command (9 Replies)
Hi, i'm working on Linux 2.6.9-55.EL #1 version. Unable to use escape chars like \n, \t, etc. They don't work whn embedded in shell script. Pls help.
shell script:
echo "Hello $USER"
echo "Today is \n ";date
output:
Hello linux1
Today is \n
Thu Jul 3 12:01:31 IST 2014 (2 Replies)
I have an application which I am integrating with that accepts the password via a CLI. I am running in to issues with passwords that contain special characters. I tried to escape them all, but I ran in to an issue where I cannot escape the characters
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]
My attempt is as follows:
$... (2 Replies)
Hi Team,
I have a file a1.txt with data as follows.
dfjakjf...asdfkasj</EnableQuotedIDs><SQL><SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><!
The delimiter string: <SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><!
dlm="<SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><!
The above command is... (7 Replies)
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ustrtok
ustrtok(3alleg4) Allegro manual ustrtok(3alleg4)NAME
ustrtok - Retrieves tokens from a string. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
char *ustrtok(char *s, const char *set);
DESCRIPTION
This function retrieves tokens from `s' which are delimited by characters from `set'. To initiate the search, pass the string to be
searched as `s'. For the remaining tokens, pass NULL instead. Warning: Since ustrtok alters the string it is parsing, you should always
copy the string to a temporary buffer before parsing it. Also, this function is not re-entrant (ie. you cannot parse two strings at the
same time). Example:
char *word;
char string[]="some-words with dashes";
char *temp = ustrdup(string);
word = ustrtok(temp, " -");
while (word) {
allegro_message("Found `%s'
", word);
word = ustrtok(NULL, " -");
}
free(temp);
RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to the token, or NULL if no more are found.
SEE ALSO uconvert(3alleg4), ustrchr(3alleg4), ustrrchr(3alleg4), ustrstr(3alleg4), ustrpbrk(3alleg4), ustrtok_r(3alleg4), allegro_message(3alleg4),
ustrncpy(3alleg4), exgui(3alleg4)Allegro version 4.4.2 ustrtok(3alleg4)