Eval command with space, quote and bracket characters
Hi,
I am Pradnya Gandhe trying to use in shell script.
I want to use a bit complicated command using eval command in a shell script.
Works correctly as expected on shell prompt
works correctly
I want to use this command in shell script, so I used eval command eval "command" like following
It gives following error->
I want to know rules to used in eval if command within it contains characters like brackets, quotes, space, etc.
This is all issue of characters which when passed over eval generates error.
Pls guide me.
Thanks and regards,
Pradnya Gandhe
Last edited by Don Cragun; 07-10-2015 at 03:06 AM..
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Hello,
I need to replace the comma to something else between the single quote:
1aaa,bbb,'cc,cc','ddd',1
2aaa,bbb,'ccc','d,d',0
to
1aaa,bbb,'cc<comma>cc','ddd',1
2aaa,bbb,'ccc','d<comma>d',0
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