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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk in shellscript Post 302936403 by crumble on Wednesday 25th of February 2015 08:54:56 AM
Old 02-25-2015
I was able to cut the problem to a minimal example:
Let's have a file /tmp/file with
Code:
"* My Information"

Now,
Code:
cat /tmp/file | awk -F '"' '{print $2}'

gives the expected result:
Code:
* My Information

Yet,
Code:
content=`cat /tmp/file | awk -F '"' '{print $2}'`

gives
Code:
file1 file2 My Information

The problem is the asterisk (*). If the asterisk is not present, it does not get substituted with the files and directories.
I assume I have to escape those characters but I cannot find a table of characters which have to be escaped. Maybe there is another way using other quote types or something else.
Any further help is very much appreciated!

Crumble
 

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ansi_code

term::ansi::code(n)						 Terminal control					       term::ansi::code(n)

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NAME

       term::ansi::code - Helper for control sequences

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require term::ansi::code  ?0.1?

       ::term::ansi::code::esc str

       ::term::ansi::code::escb str

       ::term::ansi::code::define name escape code

       ::term::ansi::code::const name code

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DESCRIPTION

       This package provides commands enabling the definition of control sequences in an easy manner.

       ::term::ansi::code::esc str
	      This command returns the argument string, prefixed with the ANSI escape character, "33."

       ::term::ansi::code::escb str
	      This command returns the argument string, prefixed with a common ANSI escape sequence, "33[".

       ::term::ansi::code::define name escape code
	      This  command defines a procedure name which returns the control sequence code, beginning with the specified escape sequence, either
	      esc, or escb.

       ::term::ansi::code::const name code
	      This command defines a procedure name which returns the control sequence code.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category term	of
       the  Tcllib  SF	Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       control, declare, define, terminal

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

term									0.1						       term::ansi::code(n)
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