Hi,
I have a awk script to read a CSV file.
After reading the values i want to call a executable (nameely call_it) with the values what i read from the scv file.
I dont want to use system command inside the awk.
Is there any other way to run the executable from the awk script
Thanks ... (1 Reply)
Hi Jim,
The following script is in working state. But i m having one more problem with awk cmd. Could you tell me how to use any variable inside awk or how to take any variable value outside awk.
My problem is i want to maintain one property file in which i am declaring variable value into that... (12 Replies)
Would really appreciate it if someone could point out my mistake in this line of code, i've been staring blankly at it trying everything i can think of some time now and coming up with nothing.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter Username"
read Username
awk -F: -v var=${Username} '/^var:/... (9 Replies)
below is the output xml string from some other command and i will be parsing it using awk
cat /tmp/alerts.xml
<Alert id="10102" name="APP-DS-ds_ha-140018-componentFailure-S" alertDefinitionId="13982" resourceId="11427" ctime="1359453507621" fixed="false" reason="If Event/Log Level(ANY) and... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to use grep command inside awk.
Here is my requirement below :
file.txt
col1 col2 col3 col 4 col 5
wrxwrx 124 jun 3 Sensex.EMEA
wrxwrx 120 jun 4 Emex.US
wrxwrx 130 feb 3 passion.AUS
wrxwrx 145 feb 9 lession.AUS
wrxwrx 130 feb 5 pass.US
wrxwrx 130 feb 8... (5 Replies)
Hello
can you please help me with below script which is meant to delete clients from multiple netbackup policies
I want to run a command insdie awk statement
apparelnlty this script is not working for me
for i in $( cat clients_list)
do
bppllist -byclient $i | awk... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I need to read a string with ; separated using loop one filed by one field and perform some operation. Can you please check and let me know how to print command parameterised.
key=phani;ravi;kiran
number_of_keys=`echo $key|awk '{print NF}' FS=';'`
for (( i = 1; i <= $number_of_keys;... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have 2 .txt pads containing data.
I need a script which reads content of one .txt file, performs some operations and calculates a number which is stored in a variable.
Now , all the content of another .txt pad should be appended to first .txt pad at pre calculated nth line number.
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravindra Swan
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)