With your recent bash, you have "Arithmetic Expansion" at your finger tips. You don't need the ´ls´ "command substitution". Try
. (Check for residual files added after Jim McNamara's post) Replace the echo with your actual command. You might also want to try e.g.
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Reason: Check for residual files added after Jim McNamara's post
Hi,
I'm not very experienced in shell scripting and that's probably why I came across the following problem:
I do have several hundred pairs of text files (PF00x.spl and PF00x.shd) where the first file (PF00x.spl) needs to be renamed according a string that is included in the second file... (12 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a list of xml file. I need to split the files to a different files when see the <ko> tag.
The list of filename are
B20090908.1100-20090908.1200_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
B20090908.1200-20090908.1300_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
B20090908.1300-20090908.1400_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a requirement like below
I need to sort the files based on the timestamp in the file name and run them in sorted order and then archive all the files which are one day old to temp directory
My files looks like this
PGABOLTXML1D_201108121235.xml... (1 Reply)
hello,
File 1
main Group sub group
MIT VAR_1D_DATA_TYPE 23-03-2012
MIT VAR_1D_DATA_TYPE 22-03-2012
MIT VAR_10D_DATA_TYPE 23-03-2012
MIT VAR_10D_DATA_TYPE 22-03-2012
MIT ... (0 Replies)
Hey guys,
Sorry for the basic question but I have a lot of files that I want to separate into groups based on filenames which I can then cat together. Eg I have:
(a_b_c.txt)
WB34_2_SLA8.txt
WB34_1_SLA8.txt
WB34_1_DB10.txt
WB34_2_DB10.txt
WB34_1_SLA8.txt
WB34_2_SLA8.txt
77_1_SLA8.txt... (1 Reply)
I have my log file as below
00:18:02 - Nothing normal; Garbage Collection kicked off & running from last 3 min...
00:19:02 - Nothing normal; Garbage Collection kicked off & running from last 4 min...
00:19:02 - Nothing normal; Garbage Collection kicked off & running from last 4 min...... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
I do have an EBCDIC file sent from the z/os , this file has records with different record types in it, the type of record is identified by bytes 45-46 like
value 12 has employee record
value 14 has salaray record and etc....
we do now want to split the big ebcdic file into multiple... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have script which call test utility and it takes token input which is kept in a separate file. now instead of taking tokens from single file,will keep 5 input files and script should read tokens from each files.
EX : There will 5 token.txt file which will have say around 1000... (1 Reply)
Hello,
First time poster. I am looking for a way to script or program the process of moving files from one folder to another, automatically, based on the count of files in the destination folder.
I was thinking a shell script would work, but am open to the suggestions of the experts... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: comtech
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LEARN ABOUT V7
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)