This is not Perl. This is 99% shell code in a transparently thin wrapping of perl. You could dispense with the Perl and hardly see a difference:
Also, perl wastes an entire shell every time you do system("something"); so if your perl code mostly resembles this, it might be better to do everything in 1 shell than 37.
Last edited by Corona688; 10-16-2015 at 12:39 PM..
Hi there,
I am new to Perl and KSH. The system I am using picks up the KSH scripts and uses them in a batch job control system.
I am trying to set a variable from a perl command
#!/bin/ksh -eaxp
#*******************************************************************************
# Testing... (5 Replies)
Hi,
im having problem creating a loop using my code: aside from the fact that the 1st variable (VAR) does not increment, it loops more than the expected output.
for sample purposes, test csv contains 3 lines.
#get number of lines in the file
lines=$( wc -l < test.csv )
... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I basically have an if statement that says if you have more than 5 changes you need to have the force flag set to 1 to proceed. like this
if ((($Changes > 5) && ($force == 1)) || (($nChanges > 0) && ($Changes < 6))) {
I now need to allow the force flag to be either 1 or 2 to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i have written a script. it collects data based on the sql queries executed by it. i have multiple output files. after the output file is made i need to do some cosmetic changes in the files and then store them. i am unable to use sed conditions inside the loop.
see below code for... (3 Replies)
My need is :
Want to change
docBase="/something/something/something"
to
docBase="/only/this/path/for/all/files"
I have some (about 250 files)xml files.
In FileOne it contains
<Context path="/PPP" displayName="PPP" docBase="/home/me/documents" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">... (1 Reply)
Problem: Need to read contents from a file and use that value inside sed as avariable. sample code below. THe below code replaces contents inside file123 for matched string with "$x" value only. but we want the value of x which is read from TextFile.txt to go in there.
cat TextFile.txt|while... (3 Replies)
I am trying to find out the difference between two dates, for which I am using perl inside SHELL. Below are my codes.
perl -MDate -e 'Date::Calc qw(Delta_DHMS);'
perl -e '($Dd,$Dh,$Dm,$Ds) = Delta_DHMS($year1,$month1,$day1, $hour1,$min1,$sec1, $year2,$month2,$day2, $hour2,$min2,$sec2)'
But... (6 Replies)
Hi guys
Let me at first describe the whole thing that I'm trying to do. Lets say I have 100 files like the following one.
Ow 1230 16.000000 -0.834000 16.083957
1.751652398 -17.20094528 -4.450623277
Hw 1231 ... (6 Replies)
I am having trouble re-writing this sed code
sed -nr 's/.*del(+)ins(+).*NC_0{4}(+).*g\.(+)_(+).*/\3\t\4\t\5\t\1\t\2/p' C:/Users/cmccabe/Desktop/Python27/out_position.txt > C:/Users/cmccabe/Desktop/Python27/out_parse.txt in perl Basically, what the code does is parse text from two fields... (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to use sed command inside a shell script.
The same sed command is working on command line, however its not working while using inside a shell script.
From various sources i found , it could be done by using -i option, but its not working as well.
sed... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: gotamp
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)