hi,
how would i go about making a loop which gets each line from a single text file, set it to a variable and then print it to screen?
thanks
eg:
#!/bin/sh
FILE="somefile.txt"
text_line=""
what kind of loop would use here? (18 Replies)
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Hi,
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e.g.
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Hi,
I have a requirement where I have to check for 10 files in Unix location. If all of the files present in that directory then i have execute another process.
can you help me resolving this issue.
sample
location
/home/usr
abc.txt
cde.txt
aaaa.txt
lll.txt
ooo.txt
if all the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have code like below
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for disk in $disk_list
do
pvcreate $i
done
I know what pvcreate command does, but I do not understand what this $i do here. can someone please explain. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: stew
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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)