I've been cobbling this together from different tutorials found via duckduckgo, so my usage of parenthesis and multiple symbols is sketchy, but based on your advice, I now have:
which appears to be working perfectly. Thank you so much.
Hi All,
I have been fighting with a syntax error for the last 2 days, still haven't got the solution. Could you please help me, your help will be greatly appreciated.
In my script I am getting a error in a for loop, its similar to the one as is below.
for v_id in v1 v2 v3 v4
do... (8 Replies)
I get this error when I try to run my script
(BTW, this is a simple script I am supposed to write for my class)
$ menuscript
menuscript: syntax error at line 89 : `"' unmatched
$
Here is the code (Any help is greatly appreciated)
(Line numbers included)
1 #!/bin/ksh
2 ... (2 Replies)
hi there
i write one awk script file in shell programing
the code is related to dd/mm/yy to month, day year format
but i get an error
please can anybody help me out in this problem ??????
i give my code here including error
awk `
# date-month -- convert mm/dd/yy to month day,... (2 Replies)
Hi
I not sure what is wrong with my script... when I try to run it I get the follow error: "remove: syntax error at line 77: `end of file' unexpected" Thanks in advance for any help.
ans=y
while
do
while :
do
echo "Please enter a name that you... (3 Replies)
Hey guys keep having problems with the below script syntax error near unpexpected token '0' exit 0 I have two directorys backups and Usr in the usr i have sub dir's wp,ss,pic which i would like to back up (copy those directorys to the backups directory) with user acknowledgement from command line.... (2 Replies)
hello everyone
i am beginner on shell scripting .and i am working on my project work on ad hoc network
i wrote a batch (.sh) to do a looping and execute a tcl script i wrote before in each iteration ..but i got this problem "
syntax error near unexpected token `('... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am new to Unix, I have written the following script in ksh and get a syntax error :wall:. I need some help to figure out the error and reason. The script below uses some variables from an environment file, also it executes a sql file. The sql file is correct and has no problems. I... (1 Reply)
Hi guys i'd like to show you this code of my script, where i couldn't find this error
" #! /bin/bash
#copiabin.sh: copia todos los archivos ejecutables a bin
if
then
mkdir $HOME/bin
fi
# copia de archivos y contador N
N=0
for ARCH in *
do
if # Si el archivo es... (9 Replies)
Evening All (or morning for some),
Could anyone have a look at the below and advise where i've going wrong with the syntax as i keep getting the below error while trying to run.
Any help would be really apprecaited.
./testout: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mutley2202
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)