This is a misunderstanding of the problem... It is not process.exe that requires all this quoting, it's the shell that requires all this quoting. Feeding it into any other program would have the same problem.
However, the shell has an easy way to do this. May I suggest the much simpler facility of double quotes? The only things you will need to escape inside them are " ` $.
Last edited by Corona688; 09-18-2013 at 03:29 PM..
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
'
]
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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string::shellquote
ShellQuote(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation ShellQuote(3)NAME
String::ShellQuote - quote strings for passing through the shell
SYNOPSIS
$string = shell_quote @list;
$string = shell_quote_best_effort @list;
$string = shell_comment_quote $string;
DESCRIPTION
This module contains some functions which are useful for quoting strings which are going to pass through the shell or a shell-like object.
shell_quote [string]...
shell_quote quotes strings so they can be passed through the shell. Each string is quoted so that the shell will pass it along as a
single argument and without further interpretation. If no strings are given an empty string is returned.
If any string can't be safely quoted shell_quote will croak.
shell_quote_best_effort [string]...
This is like shell_quote, excpet if the string can't be safely quoted it does the best it can and returns the result, instead of dying.
shell_comment_quote [string]
shell_comment_quote quotes the string so that it can safely be included in a shell-style comment (the current algorithm is that a sharp
character is placed after any newlines in the string).
This routine might be changed to accept multiple string arguments in the future. I haven't done this yet because I'm not sure if the
strings should be joined with blanks ($") or nothing ($,). Cast your vote today! Be sure to justify your answer.
EXAMPLES
$cmd = 'fuser 2>/dev/null ' . shell_quote @files;
@pids = split ' ', `$cmd`;
print CFG "# Configured by: ",
shell_comment_quote($ENV{LOGNAME}), "
";
BUGS
Only Bourne shell quoting is supported. I'd like to add other shells (particularly cmd.exe), but I'm not familiar with them. It would be
a big help if somebody supplied the details.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
SEE ALSO perl(1).
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 ShellQuote(3)