Does anybody understand why this is not being interpreted as true.
Script:
#!/bin/bash
errored=`grep "errored" new_update_scripts.txt`
echo $errored = "errored"
if ; then
echo true
else
echo false
fi
Output:
$ UpdateScripts
errored = errored
false (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file like this
A Bob
A Sam
A John
B David
C Paul
C Sandra
If the consecutive field values in column one is same, then concatenate the corresponding strings.
So, I need an output like this,
A Bob_Sam_John
B David
C Paul_Sandra
I usually work with excel but... (3 Replies)
I have this code and I want to get the first two consecutive distances (obtained by calling GET_TH(IT, 'DIST', DIST) at index IT, the result stored in DIST) for which (ITFLG(IT) .NE. 1). L_FIRST get the first DIST for which ITFLG(IT) .NE. 1. Getting a bit confused on how to achieve this.
... (0 Replies)
Hi all
I am trying to scan a file that has 3 columns:
red blue 123351
red blue 848655
red blue 126354
red blue 023158
black white 654896
red blue 650884
I want an output that sums the rows that have matching columns 1 and 2 :wall:
red blue has 5 entries
black white has 1 entry
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Here is my sample input
X 2 AAA
Y 3 BBB
Y 2 CCC
Z 4 DDD
In field 1, if the value of one line is same as that of next line, I want to concatenate the corresponding value of the second line in the third field with the value of the third field of first line. And I dont need the third... (2 Replies)
I would like to compare the values of 2nd column of consecutive lines of same file in such a way so that if the difference between first value and second value is more than 100 it should print complete line else ignore line.
Input File
==========
PDB 2500
RTDB 123
RTDB-EAGLE 122
VSCCP 2565... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a tab delimited text file where some lines have the string "NA" in the second column. For these lines, I want to replace NA with the value in the first column, the symbol underscore followed by the value in the fourth column. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!
Input:
1 ... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have compiled a script but I have stucked at one point.
Each line contains two pcs of % value and what I want to do is to delete any line if both % values are zero.
data:
expected output:
ow3 should be deleted as both percentage value in related line are equal to zero.
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
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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)