So, I will be working with someone and basically we are trying to build a form that is submitted most likely via the web and the data is just a string of numbers.
like:
19383882872201110929282821818182827349190102837364718191001932873711
Now, each number is part of a numerical value of... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a big data file (160 MB) full of records with pipe(|) delimited those fields. I`m sorting the file on the first field.
I'm trying to sort with "sort" command and it brings me 6 minutes.
I have tried with some transformation methods in perl but it results "Out of memory". I was... (2 Replies)
Hi,
So I'm kinda new to shell scripts and the like. I've picked up quite a bit of use from browsing the forums here but ran into a new one that I can't seem to find an answer for.
I'm looking to parse/find a string AND the next 15 or so charachters that follow the string within a text file... (1 Reply)
It is for HP-Unix B.11.31.
Requirement:
1. List the directories, which directories name has given particular string.
Example: Directories with name "Build"
2. On the output of 1. list the directories by creation date as sort order.
I tried with; find . -type d -name "Build*"
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am confused how to proceed firther please find the problem below:
Input Files:
DCIA_GEOG_DATA_OCEAN.TXT
DCIA_GEOG_DATA_MCRO.TXT
DCIA_GEOG_DATA_CVAS.TXT
DCIA_GEOG_DATA_MCR.TXT
Output File Name: MMA_RFC_GEOG_NAM_DIM_LOD.txt
Sample Record(DCIA_GEOG_DATA_OCEAN.TXT):(Layout same for... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a filelist collected from another server , now want to sort the output using date/time stamp filed.
- Filed 6, 7,8 are showing the date/time/stamp.
Here is the input:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
-rw------- 1 root ... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
How do I achieve this? I have A, B and A/B in different variables in a file in col2.
I want them to sort in such a way, that the variables appear together, and within a variable, the data is sorted in the order A,B and then A/B. If I sort on the second column, the order becomes A,... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to sort a large data file by the 3rd column so that all of the first words in the 3rd column that are in all uppercase appear before (or after) the non uppercase words. For example,
Data file:
xxx 12345 Rat in the house
xxx 12345 CAT in the hat
xxx 12345 Dog in the... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am using SUN SOLARIS (SunOS sun4v sparc SUNW, T5240).
I have a huge data file with header and trailer. This file gets used into an ETL process. ETL skips the header record (which is the first record of the file) and loads the rest of the record. The file can be delimited (comma,... (5 Replies)
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)