This is a totally dumb newbie question, but I have not been able to find t he answer in the BASH book or online.
I am trying pass a double quoted variable to the command line.
variable = "-b \"dc=example,dc=com\""
When I run sh -x the variable comes out as '-b "dc=example,dc=com"' is... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am generating html code using cshell, but i am having one problem while printing double quotes,
I need to write following code in file. where $var contains list of web address
<a href="$var">$var</a>
So i am using
echo "<a href="$var">$var</a>" > file.html
But with this " in... (4 Replies)
Hi i have to insert the below line into a specific line number of another file
export MBR_CNT_PRCP_TYPE_CODES_DEL="'01','02','04','05','49','55','UNK'"
I have passed the above line to a variable say ins_line. I have used below command to perform the insert
awk 'NR==3{print "'"${ins_line}"'"}1'... (1 Reply)
I need to interpolate a shell variable in a code, i cannot share the exact code so this is an example i made up to describe the situation
What I am trying to do here is try to wrap up the value of a variable in single quotes. This value needs to be passed to another program which would only... (4 Replies)
As the title says I'm running a korn script in attempts to find an exact match in named.conf
finddomain.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
#
echo "********** named.conf ************"
file=/var/named/named.conf
for domain in `cat $1`
do
grep -n '"\$domain "' $file
done
echo "********** thezah.inc... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
OS - Suse 10
ksh --version
version sh (AT&T Research) 93s+ 2008-01-31
I am passing two words within double quotes ("Application Developer") to script as variable, but script is adding two single quotes between two words like ("Application' 'Developer").
below is simple test... (4 Replies)
I am unable to expand the value of entry variable inside the nawk command.
I tried three different nawk command as below but none of them substitute the value of entry variable.
ls *.txt | while IFS='' read -r entry; do
#nawk '/<name>/{A=1;++i} A{print >> ("cmd"i"_"$entry)}... (9 Replies)
Hi got this issue and was wondering if someone could please help out ?
var='." "'
echo $var
." "
I 'll get ." " and not ." with 10 spaces in between "
Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: stinkefisch
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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)