Thats nice, i've had a similiar challenge a little back, but i wanted to maintain the file extensions + extra space for the possible incremented file number as well.
So that was my solution this, just copy pasted from source code:
Hope this helps
Hi,
I'm using AIX version 5.3 currently. I'm trying to create a user id, e.g. andyleong, which the system prompted the length is too long.
1. I would like to know is that the length of user id is limited to maximum 8 characters for AIX.
2. Is it apply to all versions of AIX?
If no... (2 Replies)
Hi
Hi! I'm currently using AIX 5.2 and would like to know where can i find to see that there's a restriction on the number of login times a user can have. Example, I want give a 2 login per user but some one to give 3 login and some one have to give unlit login time (without logging off the... (2 Replies)
Is there a way that I can limit number of commands that one user can run during period of time. For example Max 10 commands per senconds.:) (3 Replies)
Hello everyone.
I am trying to set up a monitor based on a "top" command statistic as follows:
top -bc -n1 > output.txt
I've put this command into a small script which is called by a cron... but there is something strange happening: the cron is limiting the output to output.txt to 80... (3 Replies)
In the vi editor, there seems to be some limit on the number of characters could be allowed in single line. I tried a line with characters up to 1880. It worked. But when i tried with something of 5000 characters, it doesnt work. Any suggestions.
Thanks in advance! (2 Replies)
I have a script that outputs the weather on two lines.
If possibly I would like to set a character limit on them
Currently it outputs something like
but I would like to limit the lines so appends an ellipsis if nescessary:
This is the script
#! /bin/bash
curl -s --connect-timeout... (2 Replies)
Hey guys and gals,
Working on a script to limit the reoccurrance of characters in a line.
sed "/\(.\).*\1/d" -i file.txt
sed "/\(.\).*\1.*\1/d" -i file.txt
sed "/\(.\).*\1.*\1.*1/d" -i file.txt
..
To limit character reoccurance with 1x, 2x, 3x etc.
However I would like to be able to... (2 Replies)
hi guys
how can i limit number of files in a disk or partition ?
or how can i make a limit to inode number for a disk or partition ?
ext3 or ext4 file system (1 Reply)
I want count number of characters / find the length of the 'wc -l' output
This is the command
bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l
830752
So final out I want is 6 i.e lenght of 830752
I tried with awk
bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l | awk '{print length ($0)... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sidnow
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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)