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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to escape colon sign from variable in shell? Post 303023254 by baris35 on Thursday 13th of September 2018 12:04:49 PM
Old 09-13-2018
Dear Rudic,
Thanks for your answer. You saved my time.
Lesson learnt:
- New notation for me: done < <(sed 's/:/\\:/g' duration)
-vf is not supported while loop

Kind regards
Boris




Many thanks
Boris
 

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eXosip2 request outside of dialog - Functions int eXosip_message_build_request (osip_message_t **message, const char *method, const char *to, const char *from, const char *route) int eXosip_message_send_request (osip_message_t *message) int eXosip_message_build_answer (int tid, int status, osip_message_t **answer) int eXosip_message_send_answer (int tid, int status, osip_message_t *answer) Detailed Description Function Documentation int eXosip_message_build_request (osip_message_t **message, const char *method, const char *to, const char *from, const char *route) Build a default request message. This method will be updated to send any message outside of dialog In this later case, you'll specify the method to use in the second argument. Parameters: message Pointer for the SIP request to build. method request method. (like 'MESSAGE' or 'PING'...) to SIP url for callee. from SIP url for caller. route Route header for request. (optional) int eXosip_message_send_request (osip_message_t *message) Send an request. Parameters: message SIP request to send. int eXosip_message_build_answer (inttid, intstatus, osip_message_t **answer) Build answer for a request. Parameters: tid id of transaction. status status for SIP answer to build. answer The SIP answer to build. int eXosip_message_send_answer (inttid, intstatus, osip_message_t *answer) Send answer for a request. Parameters: tid id of transaction. status status for SIP answer to send. answer The SIP answer to send. (default will be sent if NULL) Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for libeXosip2 from the source code. Version 3.1.0 Sun Jun 24 2012 eXosip2 request outside of dialog(3)
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