I have the following situation
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export DirectoryName=/tmp/xyz
if ; then
some_new_env=$DirectoryName"/*"
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I tried all the ways of escaping the '*', but still the shell seems to expand the '*' character. I want some_new_env to contain "/tmp/xyz/*"
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I'm running into a problem with a differential backup script written in GNU Bash 3.0 - the following stripped down code demonstrates the problem quite nicely.
$ DATE="last tuesday"
$ date --date="$DATE"
Tue Jan 6 00:00:00 PST 2009
So far so good.
$ CMD="date --date=\"$DATE\""
$... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I am having a trouble in passing special characters to a script. As I am new to bash script I dont know how to go and solve this.
mypwd=(a+sdfg!h#
if i pass $mypwd to a bash script, it is not accepting "(,!,+ etc". It would be a great help if some one can help to escape these... (3 Replies)
I want to append the following line to /var/spool/cron/root:
*/7 * * * * /root/'Linux CPU (EDF).sh' > /dev/null 2>&1
How to accomplish this using echo?
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"Linux CPU (EDF)" is actually stored in a... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have pipe delimited file in which some of the description fields can have commas. e.g.
1|123|abc,def
2|456|qwert
3|345|aty,try,rty
I need to convert this to a 'csv' file BUT i need to add \ before every comma present in the description values (so that my next program can read it as... (3 Replies)
Hello
This should be easy, but bash is giving me headaches.
At the command line the following command works:
duplicity --include /home --exclude '**' / file:///foo
Doing that from a script is not straightforward. Note that it is basically a requirement that I place the... (3 Replies)
Hi
I use :
path=/var/www/admin
echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'
this return
\/var\/www\/admin
and is ok.
but
path2=`echo "$path" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'`
echo $path2
return an error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to `s'
Can anyone help me?
Thanks (3 Replies)
I am trying to echo a variable exactly to a script-
echo "${var1} ${var2} >> output.output
Gives me a blank file.
I would like output.output to basically say:
${var1} ${var2}
I think I need to use a special escape character for variables. Am I right in assuming that, and is it the... (8 Replies)