This is a script that I, this unix forum and stackoverflow come up with. I would like to get some feedback about it and improve it little bit if possible for even more readability and better working. OR get some shaming hilarious opinion.
Quote:
What this script does?
It checks whether this Script is ran with Bash shell.
If it did not, the notice will be echo'ed.
And the Script rerun with Bash.
Later:
It will check whether this Script is ran by the User that can execute Sudo directly or will be promped for a password.
The notice will be echo'ed.
Little bit more Later:
It will check if the User that executes this Script ran the Script with Sudo.
If Not, this script will be re-run with Sudo and Bash.
I want develop a script which should also check validity of netmask.
e.g.
/etc/netmasks
10.15.20.30 255.255.255.224
How can I check which IP adresses are valid for this netmask?
I think the best is use logical operations.
224 is 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
so is valid from 10.15.20.31... (2 Replies)
I wish to seach a Dir for a specific file, once the file is found i will perform additional logic. If the file is not found within two hours, i would like to exit.
Logically, I'm looking for the best way to approach this
Thanks for any assistance in advance.
Note: I'm using a C shell and... (2 Replies)
I want to create an automated script which is called by another maually executed script.
The condition is that the no one should be able to manually execute the automated script.
The automated script can be on the same machine or it can be on a remote machine.
Can any one suggest a check in the... (1 Reply)
I have written the below script to determine whether a string is palindrome or not ?
But its not working, any help to debug it ?
I am new to this forum but when I searched for my question, I found that many people refused to answer this question thinking that its Homework question, Therefore I... (2 Replies)
please check this script and let me know.wher eis the issue.
#!/bin/ksh
set -A logs AAA BB CCC DDD EE FFF
set -A ltime 7 60 7 7 7 60
set i=1
while } ]
do
find /home/logs -name "*"\${logs}"\*.log" -mtime ${l
time} -type f -ls
let i=$i+1
done (3 Replies)
I have a local linux machine in which the files are dumped by a remote ubuntu server. If the process in remote server has any problem then empty files are created in local machine. Is there any way using perl script to check if the empty files are being created and delete them and then run a shell... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am a unix newbie. I need to write a script to check wheteher another script is still running. If it is, then sleep for 30m and then check again if the script is running. If the script has stopped running then, I need to come out of the loop.
I am using RHEL 5.2 (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am sending the script i created..plzzz check it correct if any mistakes...:).
Plz reply early by today..
here i want to find the files based on date , if files are avaliable i want to send a mail to the user. here there are a total of 43 files. they are constant.
Here is... (0 Replies)
hi guys
we've had nagios spewing false alarm (for the umpteenth time) and finally the customer had enough so they're starting to question nagios. we had the check interval increased from 5 minutes to 2 minutes, but that's just temporary solution. I'm thinking of implementing a script on the... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: hedkandi
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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)