Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: How to echo "#" to files?
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to echo "#" to files? Post 302864571 by CarloM on Wednesday 16th of October 2013 06:00:06 PM
Old 10-16-2013
Try echo "echo \"${tmp}\" >> $i" >> bundle.sh.

EDIT: But if a line in bin.sh has double-quotes in it you're still going to have a problem. You could transform the line first to escape any double-quotes (e.g. tmp=$(sed -n "$count,1p" $i | sed 's/"/\\"/g')).

Last edited by CarloM; 10-16-2013 at 07:10 PM.. Reason: Quotes
This User Gave Thanks to CarloM For This Post:
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

"sed" to check file size & echo " " to destination file

Hi, I've modified the syslogd source to include a thread that will keep track of a timer(or a timer thread). My intention is to check the file size of /var/log/messages in every one minute & if the size is more than 128KB, do a echo " " > /var/log/messages, so that the file size will be set... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jockey007
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Difference between using "echo" builtin and /bin/echo

So in my shell i execute: { while true; do echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line This waits one second and returns. But { while true; do /bin/echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line continues to run, and doesn't stop until i kill it explicitly. I have tried this in bash as well as zsh,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ulidtko
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete files older than "x" if directory size is greater than "y"

I wrote a script to delete files which are older than "x" days, if the size of the directory is greater than "y" #!/bin/bash du -hs $1 while read SIZE ENTRY do if ; then find $1 -mtime +$2 -exec rm -f {} \; echo "Files older than $2 days deleted" else echo "free Space available"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: JamesCarter
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

"Join" or "Merge" more than 2 files into single output based on common key (column)

Hi All, I have working (Perl) code to combine 2 input files into a single output file using the join function that works to a point, but has the following limitations: 1. I am restrained to 2 input files only. 2. Only the "matched" fields are written out to the "matched" output file and... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Katabatic
1 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

With that logic this echoes "echo". Question about echo!

echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo" (too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
2 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk command to replace ";" with "|" and ""|" at diferent places in line of file

Hi, I have line in input file as below: 3G_CENTRAL;INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL;SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL My expected output for line in the file must be : "1-Radon1-cMOC_deg"|"LDIndex"|"3G_CENTRAL|INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL"|LAST|"SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL" Can someone... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: shis100
7 Replies

7. AIX

echo $varibla | mail -s "subject" "xxx@xxx.com" not ruuning as expected

Hi Folks, As per the subject, the following command is not working as expected. echo $variable | mail -s "subject" "xxx@xxx.com" Could anyone figure it out whats wrong with this. I am using AIX box. Regards, (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gjarms
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

tcsh - understanding difference between "echo string" and "echo string > /dev/stdout"

I came across and unexpected behavior with redirections in tcsh. I know, csh is not best for redirections, but I'd like to understand what is happening here. I have following script (called out_to_streams.csh): #!/bin/tcsh -f echo Redirected to STDOUT > /dev/stdout echo Redirected to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: marcink
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete all log files older than 10 day and whose first string of the first line is "MSH" or "<?xml"

Dear Ladies & Gents, I have a requirement to delete all the log files in /var/log/test directory that are older than 10 days and their first line begin with "MSH" or "<?xml" or "FHS". I've put together the following BASH script, but it's erroring out: for filename in $(find /var/log/test... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hiroshi
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Bash script - Print an ascii file using specific font "Latin Modern Mono 12" "regular" "9"

Hello. System : opensuse leap 42.3 I have a bash script that build a text file. I would like the last command doing : print_cmd -o page-left=43 -o page-right=22 -o page-top=28 -o page-bottom=43 -o font=LatinModernMono12:regular:9 some_file.txt where : print_cmd ::= some printing... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jcdole
1 Replies
HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)						 1						HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)

htmlspecialchars_decode - Convert special HTML entities back to characters

SYNOPSIS
string htmlspecialchars_decode (string $string, [int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401]) DESCRIPTION
This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars(3). It converts special HTML entities back to characters. The converted entities are: &amp;, &quot; (when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set), &#039; (when ENT_QUOTES is set), &lt; and &gt;. PARAMETERS
o $string - The string to decode. o $flags - A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The default is ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401. Available $flags constants +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Constant Name | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | | | | ENT_COMPAT | | | | | | | Will convert double-quotes and leave single- | | | quotes alone. | | | | | | | | ENT_QUOTES | | | | | | | Will convert both double and single quotes. | | | | | | | |ENT_NOQUOTES | | | | | | | Will leave both double and single quotes uncon- | | | verted. | | | | | | | | ENT_HTML401 | | | | | | | Handle code as HTML 4.01. | | | | | | | | ENT_XML1 | | | | | | | Handle code as XML 1. | | | | | | | | ENT_XHTML | | | | | | | Handle code as XHTML. | | | | | | | | ENT_HTML5 | | | | | | | Handle code as HTML 5. | | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+ RETURN VALUES
Returns the decoded string. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.4.0 | | | | | | | The constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML | | | and ENT_HTML5 were added. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 A htmlspecialchars_decode(3) example <?php $str = "<p>this -&gt; &quot;</p> "; echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str); // note that here the quotes aren't converted echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); ?> The above example will output: <p>this -> "</p> <p>this -> &quot;</p> SEE ALSO
htmlspecialchars(3), html_entity_decode(3), get_html_translation_table(3). PHP Documentation Group HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:14 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy