The quotes are there in instruct the shell (with regards, for example, to the expansion of shell variables in the case of using single quotes - where the shell would not expand them). In this case, it generally doesn't matter whether you put the closing quote before or after the g.
But it is important that you use the correct ones. e.g.
Logically, someone might ask "why put the closing quote there?", as it could look odd, but it's not so important with regard to your example.
Hello,
I'm trying to translate a fixed length (the first 6 positions) that begins with a 0 to overwrite the field with an *.
Any suggestion?
File 1
-------
013344 01:20
222343 19:30
233333 20:30
File 2 (result)
-----------------
****** 01:20
222343 19:30
233333 20:30 (5 Replies)
how can I find cpu usage memory usage swap usage and
I want to know CPU usage above X% and contiue Y times and memory usage above X % and contiue Y times
my final destination is monitor process
logical volume usage above X % and number of Logical voluage above
can I not to... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I need your help.
For example I have string in file.txt:
-x -a /tmp/dbarchive_NSS_20081204 -f 900 -l 1 2008/12/04 2008/12/04
So, I need to replace symbols from (for e.g.) position 26 till 33 with symbols which I have in file replace.txt
And I have no idea how to do it.
If... (1 Reply)
I want to remove text from nth position to nth position couple of times in same line
my line is
"hello is there anyone can help me with this question"
I need like this
ello is there anyone can help me with question
'h' is removed and 'this' removed from the line. I want to do this... (5 Replies)
I'm drawing a blank on how to use sed to replace selectively based on position in the string (vs nth occurence):
hello.|there.|how.|are.|you.|
I want the period removed in the 3rd item (as defined by the pipe delimiter) if a period is present. So the result in this case would be:
... (2 Replies)
I'm coding using BASH and have a requirement to replace apostrophes with backslash apostrophes. For example below:
I am here 'in my room' ok
Would be changed to:
I am here /'in my room/' ok
The original text is coming from a field in a MySql database and is being used by another process that... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a document with usual English text and some of the words have apostrophes (e.g. don't, can't, etc.)
I would like all these apostrophes to be doubled (e.g. don''t, can''t, etc.), but the problem is, that some of such words have double apostrophe and
by using sed -i "s/'/''/g"... (2 Replies)
Currently the table looks like this
student-id,last,first,hwk1,hwk2,hwk3,exam1,hwk4,hwk5,exam2
pts-avail,,,100,150,100,200,100,150,300
991-78-7872,Thompson,Ken,95,143,79,185,95,135,259
123-45-6789,Richie,Dennis,99,123,89,189,97,139,279
234-56-7891,Aho,Al,78,146,75,176,88,128,285... (3 Replies)
i have a requirement like this
if the line contains from position 294 to 299 is equal to "prabhu" ,then print entire line .
i want to use awk
awk '{if(substr(294-299) == 'prabhu') print "line" }' filename (1 Reply)
Thanks to help from Don Cragun in post 302924174, I'm off and getting into trouble on my own (finally) with sed.
Here is my goal - insert \\r\n at the 60th character on each line and then every 76th character thereafter:
Input:... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gusbrown
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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)