Hi
I have a shell script with many lines as below:
comment on column dcases.proj_seq_num is dcases_1sq;
....
....
I want the above script to be as below:
comment on column dcases.proj_seq_num is 'dcases_1sq';
I want to have single quotes like that as above for the entire shell... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've been trying to write a regex to use in egrep (in a shell script) that'll fetch the names of all the files that match a particular pattern. I expect to match the following line in a file:
Name = "abc"
The regex I'm using to match the same is:
egrep -l '(^) *= *" ** *"$' /PATH_TO_SEARCH... (6 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I wish to insert predefined text in front of every line and this needs to be in a loop because it is always expanding.
Before :
11111111
22222222
33333333
44444444
55555555
77777777
88888888
00000000
To be Inserted :
a=
b= (2 Replies)
Hi I want to replace single quote with two single quotes in a perl string.
If the string is <It's Simpson's book> It should become <It''s Simpson''s book> (3 Replies)
Hi ,
how to add the single digit to front of the word and front of the lines in the one file with compare pattern file and get digit. like example
pattern file pattern.txt
pattern num
bala 2
raja 3
muthu 4
File Name: chennai.dat
muthu is good boy
raja is bad boy
selvam in super... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a set of data as below :
XS012371378 Raj 23-09-12
SH128238948 Andrew 24-08-12
CH273712399 Walsh 12-10-12
JK7249923893 Nick 10-02-13
JP6383791389 Braslin 30-12-13
I want the first column to be extracted separately. I can get this using awk.
awk '{print $1}' file_name
... (3 Replies)
From:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This, is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ""test"""
4,7,3,1,8,""""
To:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This; is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ''test''"
4,7,3,1,8,"''"Is there an easy syntax I'm overlooking? There will always be an odd number... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a text file as:-ABC
BCD
CDF
DEF
EFGI need to convert as 'ABC', 'BCD', 'CDF', 'DEF', 'EFG' using a unix command
anybody can help me out on this.
Regards,
Jas
Please wrap all code, files, input & output/errors in CODE tags.
It makes them easier to read and preserves... (12 Replies)
Dear all,
I would like to insert N blankspaces in front of a string using sed command
To give an example (N=10), I tried that code:
$ echo "abcd" | sed 's/^/ \{10,\}&/'
but I failed, by obtaining that result:
{10,}abcd
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance,... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: dae
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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)