awk match shell variable that contains special characters?
How to match a shell variable that contains parenthesis (and other special characters like "!")
file.txt contains:
Charles Dickens
Matthew Lewis (writer)
Ideally this would match $name in file.txt (in this case Matthew Lewis (writer)). But it doesn't work (gives an error) due to the parenthesis in $name. Is it possible to pass a shell variable that contains special characters in Awk's pattern section?
Last edited by Mid Ocean; 10-01-2014 at 01:15 PM..
i have this script that searches for a pattern.
However it fails if the pattern includes some
special characters. So far, it fails with the
following strings:
1. -Cr
2. $Mj
3. H'412
would a sed or awk be more effective?
i don't want the users to put the (\)
during the search (they... (5 Replies)
Hello-
I have a variables that contains a string like this usr/pass@SCHEMA
I want to extract the usr/pass part and ignore the SCHEMA part, I tried to use this ${dbconn%%@} and apparently it will not work because @ is a special character. I tried \@ and still no go.
Any idea how to solve... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am trying the following:
echo __CHANGEME__ >> testfile
VAR1="&&&"
sed -i "s|__CHANGEME__|${VAR1}|" testfile
cat testfile
This results in testfile containing
__CHANGEME____CHANGEME____CHANGEME__
Whereas I want it to result in
&&&
I understand that if
VAR1="\&\&\&"
then... (3 Replies)
This has been covered many times earlier but couldnt figure the issue myself. Can you please advise whats wrong on the below code
I have a variable with special character ($) and am using that variable to replace another variable in file but however sed is failing to parse it correctly
... (7 Replies)
Hello all,
I am facing with a problem of invoking an environment variable.
If I use this command :
/bin/ls -lt FILE_NM_?(20120515|20120516)??????_sas.sig | head -n1 | awk '{print $9}'
It perfectly outputs the desired result.
FILE_NM_20120516000000_sas.sig
But if I do this:... (8 Replies)
Hey guys,
I know that title is a mouthful - I'll try to better explain my struggles a little better...
What I'm trying to do is:
1. Query a db and output to a file, a list of column data.
2. Then, for each line in this file, repeat these values but wrap them with:
ITEM{
... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a scenario where hyphen(-) from file should be ignored
I used the following code
if && ; then
if ; then
pow=$LINE
echo $pow > history.txt
flag=1
fi
fi
I get the following output
./valid.sh: -: 0403-012 A test... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am fairly new to unix scripting and recently tasked with some reporting scripts.
The reporting checks several batch jobs and this is quite iterative.
Now I am trying to minimize script effort and maximize reusability as there are only slight nuances in the repetitive tasks.
For... (3 Replies)
Hello Folks,
Need to bisect strings based on a subset.
Below works good.
echo /a/b/c/d | awk -F"/c/d$" '{print $1}'
/a/b
However, it goes awry with special characters.
echo /a/b/c+/d | awk -F"/c+/d$" '{print $1}'
/a/b/c+/d
Desired output:
/a/b
Escaping the special characters... (11 Replies)
If I have a file like the following
abc.1
abc
abc_1
abc..1
abc*1
abc@1
abc def ghr
def......
ddef 5466 def ed
def** 123445
I`m trying to find exact words from the list
abc
def (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ritakadm
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set
set(n) Tcl Built-In Commands set(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
set - Read and write variables
SYNOPSIS
set varName ?value?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
Returns the value of variable varName. If value is specified, then set the value of varName to value, creating a new variable if one
doesn't already exist, and return its value. If varName contains an open parenthesis and ends with a close parenthesis, then it refers to
an array element: the characters before the first open parenthesis are the name of the array, and the characters between the parentheses
are the index within the array. Otherwise varName refers to a scalar variable. Normally, varName is unqualified (does not include the
names of any containing namespaces), and the variable of that name in the current namespace is read or written. If varName includes names-
pace qualifiers (in the array name if it refers to an array element), the variable in the specified namespace is read or written.
If no procedure is active, then varName refers to a namespace variable (global variable if the current namespace is the global namespace).
If a procedure is active, then varName refers to a parameter or local variable of the procedure unless the global command was invoked to
declare varName to be global, or unless a variable command was invoked to declare varName to be a namespace variable.
SEE ALSO
expr(n), proc(n), trace(n), unset(n)
KEYWORDS
read, write, variable
Tcl set(n)