Test it and remove the echo if happy with the result.
Quote:
Originally Posted by lxdorney
All posted is not working.
@Yoda can you make your script not specific to 2 folder, because we have thousand of folders.
@Rudic
when I run your script I got error message:
./test1.sh: line 4: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./test1.sh: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Thanks very much.
Substitute the highlighted `]' for a `}'
Please, remember that the ultimate goal is for you to learn how to make that change that you are asking Yoda to do for you. Instead, you could ask: Is this the way I should change your code to not be specific to 2 folders? Then, you post what you have tried!
I need to list the files that do not match the search pattern:
Example:
cat file1
This is how it should work
cat file2
This is why I like Unix
grep -option? Unix * (or some other command)
returns file1 (1 Reply)
I need to list the files that do not match the search pattern:
Example:
cat file1
This is how it should work
cat file2
This is why I like Unix
grep -option? Unix * (or some other command)
returns file1 (7 Replies)
Hello all
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Hi, I have 2 files that I have modified to basically match each other, however I want to determine what (if any) line in file 1 does not exist in file 2. I need to match column $1 and $2 as a single string in file1 to $1 and $2 in file2 as these two columns create a match.
I'm stuck in an AWK... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I do not have programming experience and mostly use one-liner or sometimes more to get the job done. I am having problem to batch rename the files that do not match a particular pattern.
Sample file-names from directory:
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Help needed urgently please.
I have a large file - a few hundred thousand lines.
Sample
CP START ACCOUNT
1234556
name 1
CP END ACCOUNT
CP START ACCOUNT
2224444
name 1
CP END ACCOUNT
CP START ACCOUNT
333344444
name 1
CP END ACCOUNT
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Im using the command below , but thats not the output that i want. it only prints the odd and even numbers.
awk '{if(NR%2){print $0 > "1"}else{print $0 > "2"}}'
Im hoping for something like this
file1:
Text hi this is just a test
text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 text6
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In the below I am trying to rename the contents within each data subfolder in a specific run, based on a partial match of the IonCode_0000_ in each file in the data subdirectory to $1 in f1. There will be multiple runs in f1 but each run in $uniq is unique and will be found in f1 and the rename... (27 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)