Does anybody have an explanation for the following:
The following scripts runs fine on IRIX64 6.5 but has bugs on Solaris 8.
#! /bin/sh
echo run only on an SGI machine
echo type in linenumber
read j
echo value
read value
awk -f rmspass2 level=$value $j'step1.mlf'
When the script is... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have a unix shell script with an awk statement. I would like to print some of the fields of an input file. However, I would like to print them dynamically, ie by passing the literal $1 $3 into the script to define the output.
I have tried the following:
variable1='$1'
awk... (2 Replies)
I am trying to pass the results from a variable gathered from awk, however when I echo the 'PARSE' and 'SUB', the response is blank. This is my command.
awk -F= '/Unit/''{ PARSE=substr($2,1,5) ; SUB=substr($2,1,1) }' inputfile.lst
Is this a kind of valid attempt or am I obligated to declare... (3 Replies)
I have a following problem:
#!/bin/bash
NUM=`cat accounts | wc -l`;
for i in {1..$NUM}
do
account=`awk "NR==$i" accounts`;
echo -e "\nAccount: $account\n";
sudo ./backup_maildir $account;
done "accounts" is a file with regular e-mail addresses, one in each line.... (2 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I've been looking how to pass variables between bash and php-cli in 1 file. So far i got this:
#!/bin/bash
echo "This is bash"
php << EOF
<?php
echo "This is php\n";
?>
EOF
I would now like to be able to pass a variable declared in the bash to the php. I already... (0 Replies)
I'm trying to use awk to write new entries to a hosts file if they don't exist. I need to do so depending on the type of system I have. Below is what I have, but it isn't working.
awk -v myip1=$IP1 myip2=$IP2 myhost1=$HOST1 myhost2=$HOST2' BEGIN { mqhost1=0; mqhost2=0; stap1=0; stap2=0; }
... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to fetch data from logfile between two given dates,i got the below code from our forum.It works perfect,but i need to enter the value dynamically to awk while running.
awk '/2012 Jun/{p=1}!/2012 Jul/ && prev~/2012 Jul/ && p{p=0}{prev=$0}p' file
i tried the below code,but... (4 Replies)
Heyas
Figured me had a 'typo' in tui-conf-set, i went to fix it.
Now, i also figured, it might be nice to have tui-conf-set report (to console, not only exit code) wether it could save the variable to the file or not.
This said, I appended this code: (the tui-title and tui-echo lines are... (3 Replies)
Am looking to pass some Linux environment variables into AWK , can I simply use the -v option ?
awk -F: -v AHOME=$HOME '{ if
{rm AHOME/file.txt
a=2 } }'
config.txt
... (4 Replies)
Bash version 4.4.20 / Ubuntu 16.0.4
Hello,
I tried to write a script that gathers some data and passes them to an executable.
The executed application answers with an error. The echo output in the script returns correct values.
If I copy/paste the last echo command, it get's executed... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sushi2k7
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)