Hi everybody, i want to make an argument at echo command that takes a alpharithmetic and returns it reversed. How this can be done? plus what makefile changes are needed (0 Replies)
Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...
i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...
echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've a logging function in bourne shell, flog() which logs the first argument passed to it. How can I pass arguments to this function from a file, like
cat filename | sed '...filtering...' | flog
or
cat filename | sed '...filtering...' | xargs flog
Which did not work, after which... (3 Replies)
hi everobody
kindly consider the following
in tclsh
I understand that we can do the following
%exec UnixCmd arg1 arg2
but if I assinged the arguments to a list insde tclsh how can I use them back
i.e
%set ArgList
%exec UnixCmd
%exec Unixcmd $list
%exec
all the... (1 Reply)
hi,
just wanted to make a shortcut of this one
a="a b c"
b=`echo $a | awk '{print $2}'`
echo "the middle is $b"
why can't i do this:
a="a b c"
echo "the middle is ${`echo $a | awk '{print $2}'`}" <- bad substitution :wall:
thanks (6 Replies)
# echo 'export HISTFILE=/var/log/history/history_$(uname -n)_$(date +%Y:%b:%d:%H:%M)_$(who am i | awk '{print \$1}')' >> new_file
#
# cat new_file
export HISTFILE=/var/log/history/history_$(uname -n)_$(date +%Y:%b:%d:%H:%M)_$(who am i | awk {print $1})
#
Now how to echo the quotes around the... (2 Replies)
I need to call a function within a code with $database and $ service as the arguments How do I proceed ? and how would a function be defined and these two arguments would be used inside the function?
calc_pref_avail $database $service
Best regards,
Vishal (7 Replies)
Hi,
Here is my command
print $2 was meant to select the second column however, it is getting substituted with the second argument that was passed to the script.
Can you please tell me how can I resolve this ? (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am having script which contains many functions. Need to print each function name at the starting of the function. Like below,
functionname()
{
echo "functionname"
commands....
}
I've tried like below,
func=`grep "()" scriptname | cut -d "(" -f1`
for i in $func
do
nawk -v... (4 Replies)
I have a script that uses 2 arguments. I want to call the function part within this script using these same arguments. Below is what I came up with below script so far, any guidance would be helpful. Thank you!
cat backup.sh
#!/bin/bash
function usage {
echo "USAGE: $(basename $0)... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mbak
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
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)