I modified your script and ran it again. I have a doubt that it is to do something with my permissions or selinux or something. I created the temp file manually under /tmp but when trying to create it through the script, it gave me an error. As a result, I removed all the substitutions and put in the file names directly, and this time they worked. But this is really stupid and confusing if I cant do that.
Regarding your suggestions, one thing for sure is BEGIN MESSAGE and the END MESSAGE will always occur as a block. No other lines will have the same words again as these are log messages for an application and it is not programmed like that.
Can someone explain the following? I can use find on *.pm without quotes, but find on *.pl makes on error, I need quotes for the second version. What's up with that?
$find -name *.pm
./tieProxyStatus/Status.pm
$find -name *.pl
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find
$find... (2 Replies)
i would like to ask how to make a script that in evry 3 lines of my paragraph(below) it would appear like this:
$ cat myparagraph
this is line 1
this is line 2
this is line3
this is line 4
this is 5
this 6
this is 7
this 8
====================================================
$ cat... (2 Replies)
I]hi all
i am in confusion since last 2 days :(
i posted thraed yesterday and some friends did help but still i couldnt get solution to my problem
let it be very clear
i have a long log file of alkatel switch and i have to seperate the minor major and critical alarms shown by ! , !! and !!!... (6 Replies)
Hi ,
Unix.com has been life saver for me I admit :)
I am trying to extract a paragraph based on matching pattern "CREATE TABLE " from a ddl file . The paragraphs are seperated by blank line .
Input file is
#cat zip.20080604.sql1
CONNECT TO TST103
SET SESSION_USER OPSDM002
... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to run 5 `ps -ef | grep ` cmds in one script and i want the script to give me return code 0 if everything is OK. If it notices one of the processes is not there, it will prompt me the process name and advice me to check it.
I've wrote a script that separates the output but I want... (2 Replies)
Hello
I am trying to generate a script to run on worldwide firewalls.
I need the spf block for large sites like google, etc so I can essentially whitelist google sites for users.
(Google here is just an example...)
Right now I am just testing Bash oneliners to see how I can isolate the... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
The following lines are taken from a long paragraph:
Labels of output orbitals: RY* RY* RY* RY* RY* RY*
1\1\GINC-COMPUTE-1-3\SP\UB3LYP\6-31G\C2H5Cr1O1(1+,5)\LIUZHEN\19-Jan-20
10\0\\# ub3lyp/6-31G pop=(nbo,savenbo) gfprint\\E101GECP\\1,5\O,0,-1.7
... (1 Reply)
i'm trying to write a bash script that that will automatically extract zip files after the download.
i writed this script
#!/bin/bash
wget -c https://github.com/RonGokhle/kernel-downloader/zipball/master
CURRENDIR=/home/kernel-downloader
cd $CURRENDIR
rm $CURRENDIR/zipfiles 2>/dev/null
... (2 Replies)
I am using OSX. I have a multi-mol2 file (text file with coordinates and info for several molecules). An example of two molecules in the file is given below for molecule1 and molecule 2. The total file contains >50,000 molecules.
I would like to extract out and write to another file only the... (2 Replies)
Hello:
Have a very annoying problem:
Need to extract paragraphs with a specific string in them from a very large file
with a repeating record separator.
Example data: a file called test.out
CREATE VIEW view1
AS something
FROM table1 ,table2 as A, table3 (something FROM table4)
FROM... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: delphys
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
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)