Because shell variables are not expanded inside single-quoted strings. (And, note that in your echo statement:
single-quote characters are not special inside a double-quoted string; so in that case $LOGDATE is expanded because it is in a double-quoted string; not inside a single-quoted string.)
Can some-one give me a view to this :
I have a directory in an unix server, having permissions r-xr-xr-x .This directory is basically a source directory.
Now there is another directory basically the destination directory which has all the permissions.
Note:I log in as not the owner,but user... (5 Replies)
$ echo a.bc | sed -e "s/\|/\\|/g"
|a|.|b|c|
$
Is the behavior of the sed statement expected ? Or is this a bug in sed ?
OS details
Linux 2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 2 14:59:56 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (8 Replies)
Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, my search skills may be lacking somewhat today.
I have a script that does the following (as a test):
find . -name "*.txt" -exec file {} \; >>$sFullFilePath
Now, the variable is set up up correctly in the script too. When I run the script... (1 Reply)
Hi people,
I'm having some strange behaviour with an 'expect' script.
spawn csession blah
expect "Username: "
send "userblah\r"
expect "Password: "
send "passwordblah\r"
interact
When I execute the script as root it runs perfectly.
However, when executed as any other... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I got a strange problem here. I have a perl script which is fetching data from a database table and writing a file with that data.
If i run that script from linux command line, the file it creates is a normal ascii text file without any binary character in it.But... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I was trying to identify lines who has a word of the following pattern "xyyx" (where x, and ys are different characters).
I was trying the following grep -
egrep '(\S)()\2\1'
This pattern do catches the wanted pattern, but it also catches "GGGG" or "CCCC" patterns. I was trying to... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm having this scenario which for the moment I cannot resolve. :(
I wrote a script to make a dump/export of the oracle database. and then put this entry on crontab to be executed daily for example.
The script is like below:
cat /home/oracle/scripts/db_backup.sh
#!/bin/ksh
... (3 Replies)
I'm working on a script to make backup of various folder located on various host using different OS.
I got a strange behaviour because the script donět process all lines of a configuration file, the script execute only one loop even the input file have 6 lines:
This is the script:
#!/bin/bash... (4 Replies)
Hi
I ahve 2 files with below content:
cat file1
FILE3
test1
test2
cat file2
file3
ghg
test1
test2
i want to use file1 as pattern file and find out the missing strings in file2.(i.e ghg in this case regardless of c ase)
I have tried:
grep -i -v -f /path/file1 /path/file2 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pandeesh
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)