HI all
I have a problem, I need to replace a field in a file, but only in the lines that have some pattern, example:
100099C01101C00000000059394200701CREoperadora_TX
100099C01201C00000000000099786137OPERADORA_TX2
in the example above I need to change the first field from 1 to 2 only if... (3 Replies)
I have a file 'test.out' with contents:
1|1|10|10|I|asdf|
2|1|10|10|I|sdfg|
4|1|10|10|I|hgfj|
34|0|10|10|I|sdg|
I want to modify the fifth column with value 'I' to 'A' for only the last line. Below is what I expect to see:
1|1|10|10|I|asdf|
2|1|10|10|I|sdfg|
... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a xml file with below data...have to find the length of the filedvalues...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15" standalone="no"?><abc xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/XMLSchem... (3 Replies)
Hi,
in the cobol copy books is there any regular expressions to be used in awk to fetch the length of each columns?
below mentioned are the examples.
Copy Book Sample
01 tablename.
02 group header.
03 col1 s9(10)V99.
03 Col2 s9(10)V9(3).
03 Col3 XXXX
02... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a huge file and I need to get ride of the fields 6-11 and replace the blanks in field 5 with a missing value(99999).
159,93848,5354,343,67898,45,677,5443,434,5545,45
677,45545,3522,244,
554,54344,3342,456,
344,43443,2344,444,23477... (12 Replies)
Hello,
Is there anyway that I can align a pipe delimited text file by the maxium field length where the field is separated out by pipes for large text files with more than
100,000 rows?
So, far I have searched other forums and google about aligning text files in unix and I have noticed that... (7 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a file with contents like
apple|ball|charlie|David|
England|France|Germany|
Ireland|Japan|King|London|
Man|Nancy|Orange|
here the column delimiter is |
so if any of the lines/rows in the file has 3 only records (last field is empty), i want to place a | at the end of... (4 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I am stuck with one issue while working on abstract flat file which i have to use as input and load data to table.
Input Data-
------ ------------------------ ---- -----------------
WFI001 Xxxxxx Control Work Item A Number of Records
------ ------------------------... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a requirement to replace a field with a character as per the length of the field.
Suppose i have a file where second field is of 20 character length. I want to replace second field with 20 stars (*). like ********************
As the field is not a fixed one, i want to do the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gani_85
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)