These seems ridiculously simple but I can't get it to work. Using korn shell and I want to pass in a flag to tell my echo statements to either write to the screen for debugging or a file if not. So I have something like:
Code:
if [ $testmode = TRUE ]; then
logout=&1
else
logout='logfile.out'
fi
Then later on:
Code:
echo messages>$logout
But I can't get it to write to the screen if testmode is TRUE. Tried logout=1,logout=stdout, pretty much every combination of escape/quote/backslashes around the 1 or &1 and nothing works.
Writing a ksh script. If someone starts a process with:
test.ksh > date.log
How can I grab 'date.log' name as a variable in test.ksh?
I need to get the 'date.log' name (not the contents) as a variable...without entering something like 'test.ksh date.log > date.log' (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am getting the following error while executing the script. Please can someone throw some light where is the problem. Many thanks.
./check: temp: not found
The directory related to SEP instance 4 does not exist.
The script is as follows.
SEP_APP="/scp/sepx/app... (2 Replies)
Hi all..
I got a problem..
Its easy to redirect o/p to a file.. But Is it possible to redirect the O/P to a variable?
For example:
I've a command in my script:
string1=cut -d ':' -f2 file.txt
When I do:
echo $string1
The value is empty... Pls suggest me how to store the value... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to do the following thing
var='date'
$var
Above command substitutes date for and in turn runs the date command and i am getting the todays date value.
I am trying to do the same thing as following, but facing some problems,
unique_host_pro="sed -e ' /#/d'... (3 Replies)
Hi everybody,
I am trying to do the thing you see in the title, and I can't simply do
a=$(svn up)
echo $a
because the program (svn) gives output on lots of lines and in the variable the output is stored on only one line (resulting in a horribly formatted text). Any tips?
Thanks,... (2 Replies)
sorry i'm newbies c programer
how to store string to variable with value flexible.
example
int hh=1; ---> value flexible 1,2,3,4,5;
int xx=1; ---> value flexible 1,2,3,4,5;
char test="value=%d and value=%d",hh,xx; --> not working
char test2="value2=%d and value2=%d",hh,xx; --> not... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Daily I am generating a file dfm_daily_file_
ex: dfm_daily_file_05072015 date will be changed daily.
Once the file is FTP it is deleted.
I have tried the below code to get the file name with any date and store it in a variable its not working.
#!/bin/ksh ... (4 Replies)
Friends have the following problem:
cat $PATH_DAT/mr.txt | nawk 'BEGIN {
CantPnt=0;
NumReg=0;
FS="|"
}
{
NumReg++
CantPnt=CantPnt+int($2)
}
END{
printf... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: tricampeon81
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)