Hello Experts,
I am newbie to perl, just curious to know how to do the following in perl.
suppose I ve a txt file like below. when it founds "*Main Start"
Then go to "*Main End,,,,,,,," patteren and just collect the number from the previous line of "*Main End,,,,,,," pattern . In my... (17 Replies)
I am trying to match a pattern exactly in a shell script. I have tried two methods
awk '/\<mpath${CURR_MP}\>/{print $1 $2}' multipath
perl -ne '/\bmpath${CURR_MP}\b/ and print' /var/tmp/multipath
Both these methods require that I use the escape character. I am guessing that is why... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a question..
Here is my requirement..I have 500 files in a path say /a/b/c
I have some numbers in a file which are comma seperated...and I wanted to check if the numbers are present in the FileName in the path /a/b/c..if the number is there in the file that is fine..but if... (1 Reply)
Hello, can someone help me how to find a word and 2 lines after it and then send the output to another file.
For example, here is myfile1.txt. I want to search for "Error" and 2 lines below it and send it to myfile2.txt
I tried with grep -A but it's not supported on my system.
I tried with awk,... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to write a simple shell script that looks at a given text file and if the only word in the file is 'completed', it launches another shell script.
So far I have this almost working...
if grep 'completed' $datafile
then...
however, using this logic the secondary shell script... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to extract the next 7 characters after I encounter the first ( in the code
eg
abc123=(xvn1342)
xyz678123=(ret8901)
I want to extract xvn1342,ret8901.
Please advise how to achieve this with awk, if possible? (9 Replies)
I need to help to work this
Print everything between 2 patterns if grep is not found the search word
example
Detroit
orange
cat
bat
rat
apple
sed -n "/Detroit,/apple/p" d |grep chicago
output would be
Detroit
orange
cat
bat
rat (1 Reply)
I ask of you but yet another simplistic question that I hope can be answered. Its better explained showing my code. Here is my list(tmp_pkglist), which contains a list of all Debian (Jessie) packages:
snippet
'zssh (1.5c.debian.1-3.2+b1 , 1.5c.debian.1-3.2 )',
'zsync (0.6.2-1)',
'ztex-bmp... (2 Replies)
Well guys and gals I have discovered after all these years that Python does complex numbers without the 'complex()' function or 'cmath' import.
It is well known that Euler's Identity E**(i*pi)+1=0 so I decided to experiment
Last login: Fri Dec 13 18:27:30 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> python3.8... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)