Do i have to make a seperate file for this one, so it opens the numbersfile.txt or? Not sure what im getting myself into
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Hi, try something like:
As i said, im new to this scripting and unix, so go easy on me
im guessing that FILENAME is the name of my file with numbers in it. And the file is the output? I seem to be getting an error saying something about it not being able to open "file".
I am using
printf "%-75s%+10s %5s %1s \n" $s $z $x $y > status
It works really well, however, when I email status it is sending 10 emails when I would like it to be in one.
Is there a way to make all the output to go into one instance of a txt file. Yet still keep it 1 on each... (12 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a bunch of files that are named like 12543, 467249877, etc all over some directories.These files are named only with numbers, they dont have any letters or special characters in their file names. Could you please help me out and give me some command/script to remove only those... (6 Replies)
My goal is to send multiple files to a person based on their input. The files have similar names like:
file1-egress-filter
file2-ingress-filter
stuff1-egress-filter
stuff2-ingress-filter
...
The script is run with the filename given as arguments, such as: ./mail.sh file stuff
would... (6 Replies)
Hi,
So I have a text file which I want to separate into separate text files. I would use the split command but the problem here is that the text file is separated by delimiters. For example:
blah
blah blah
------
more text
-----
and some more text
So basically the first part should be... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am comparing files with for mismatches using fgrep but I've run into a problem.
fgrep -vf $file1 $file2 > mismatches.dat
file1 and file2 both contain file names on each line
file1 has filenames which are up to 92 characters long and contain the "$" char.
example file name:... (2 Replies)
It may sounds too easy but appreciate any help on this..
i have a file with the below details:
******************************************
Please find the locked pernr details for the Time evaluation
Personnel number could not be locked
Person rejected: 04552737
Personnel number could not... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
New to this forum!
I got a Q: i want to find all files with numbers in the file name. e.g. blabla234.pm or fool654.pl
action i took:
ls | egrep '+'
ls | egrep
ls | egrep +
ls | egrep ''
ls | egrep '(+)'
ls | egrep '()'
ls | egrep '(.*.*)'
ls | egrep '.*.*'
ls | grep... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need help finding a script that will allow me to move files from one directory to another directory 10k files at a time.
I have a directory that has 100 K files in it. I need to have those 100k files broken apart to separate directories each with 10k files in them.
Here is the... (8 Replies)
Hi,
My first post!!
I have a files with header, something like this
Header_Row
AMC|D1|D2|D2
AAO|D3|D4|D5
AMC|D6|D7|D8
AAO|D9|D10|D11
.
.
.
.
.
and millions fo records thereafter like this.
I want to read the above file in a loop and write the lines having AMC into another... (1 Reply)
For shell script. If I had two separate files, file.txt and file1.txt and each has just a list of names from the who command. How would I create an if loop to compare each name? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Eric7giants
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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)