Appreciate the follow up. The issue now is a bit more devious: setting an array with these values doesn't know how to break up the resulting text! Perhaps another problem for another thread, perhaps not.
Here's the original code:
Now, if I set a variable and then print those results to that variable, I get a series of words that aren't parsed by LINE. First, the variable:
Then showing the results:
All those spaces essentially defeat the initial reason I needed this list in the first place! I need individual entries for each line, added into the array: Wi-Fi, Display Ethernet, Bluetooth DUN, Thunderbolt Ethernet, etc.
I have a file with a set of insert statements some of which have a single column value that crosses multiple lines causing the statement to fail in sql*plue. Can someone help me with a sed script to replace the new lines with chr(10)?
here is an example:
insert into mytable(id, field1, field2)... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Please find my piece of code below. I am trying to grep the word SUCCESS from $LOGFILE and storing in the grepvar variable. And i am placing that variable in a file. Now if i open the file, i can see the four lines but not in seperate four line s but in a paragraph. If am mailing that log... (8 Replies)
Hi all
I've been working on a bash script parsing through debug/trace files and extracting all lines that relate to some search string. So far, it works pretty well. However, I am challenged by one requirement that is still open.
What I want to do:
1) parse through a file and identify all... (3 Replies)
below is the output xml string from some other command and i will be parsing it using awk
cat /tmp/alerts.xml
<Alert id="10102" name="APP-DS-ds_ha-140018-componentFailure-S" alertDefinitionId="13982" resourceId="11427" ctime="1359453507621" fixed="false" reason="If Event/Log Level(ANY) and... (2 Replies)
I need to print a specific string from an html file that's always occurring between two other known strings. Example: from the text below, I would like to print the bolded part:
<this is a lot of text before the string I want
to print> fullpath: abc/def/ghi/example.xlf -cfver. <sample text... (15 Replies)
Hi all,
i need help to extract each first line from multiple lines occurrences based on different patterns (name) starting from the fourth lines like follows:-
// header 1 header 2 header 3
// no acc name score rank
//... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file looks like:
rst:singh:99.0.20-X86 2 rst:ACSI_SIN_SERVICES
rst:singh:99.0.20-X86 2 rst:ACSI_BISI want to wrap 3rd col in one line and add variable value at start and ending of line and I wrote command:
cat file | awk '{print $3}' | xargs > command.txt
sed -e... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need to print some lines as explained below,
TXT example
1111
2222
3333
4444
5555
6666
7777
8888
6666
9999
1111
2222
3333
4444
5555 (8 Replies)
Need to parse XML like strings from a file.
Using `egrep -A 1 "Panel Temp" "$2" | tail -2` I get the following string:
<parameter name="Panel Temp" unit="0.1 C"> <value size="1" starttime="06-08-2017 09:36:56.968">95</value>
I want to output:
{"Panel Temp" 9.5 C}
The 9.5 C is the value... (16 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)