It returns 'c' and the name of a file in the directory I'm in.
I can't for the life of me work out how to prevent the shell interpreting the '*' and just get it to return the plain character ... is there a way to do this?
Also, my Learning the Korn Shell book lists several sed-like functions you can use to edit variable names, e.g.
returns 'strings'. But Sed has a function where you can 'store' part of the pattern matched, and get it back in the replacement string, e.g.
returns 'strin'. Does the Korn shell have a similar feature that's not in my book?
Environment: Sun UNIX
Language: Bourne Shell
Problem:
I am writing a script that allows user to key in a directory. Example: /root/tmp.
Since the user can key in anything he/she wants, I need to validate to make sure that he/she does not key in anything funny i.e.... (37 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to display the following message from my shell (Korn) script
Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"
My code looks as follows
print "Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt""
However, when I execute the script, I get the following output
Copy old_file.txt to... (6 Replies)
When I open a file in vi, I see the following characters:
\302\240
Can someone explain what these characters mean. Is it ASCII format? I need to trim those characters from a file.
I am doing the following:
tr -d '\302\240'
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Hi all,
I was wondering how can i see the special characters like \t, \n or anything else in a file by using Nano or any other linux command like less, more etc (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to replace a string in shell but it is not working correctly.
@xcom.file@
needs to be replaced with
tb137
Plz help.Thx.
Please use and tags when posting code, data or logs etc. to preserve formatting and enhance readability, thanks. (4 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I am calling a series of shell scripts via CRON so everything is running as root. However, in my error log file I am seeing the following errors. Please can anyone offer any advise as to the possible causes and solution to prevent the errors from appearing.
The Error 1227 seems to... (2 Replies)
How to match a shell variable that contains parenthesis (and other special characters like "!")
file.txt contains:
Charles Dickens
Matthew Lewis (writer)
name="Matthew Lewis (writer)";
awk -v na="$name" ' $0 ~ na' file.txt
Ideally this would match $name in file.txt (in this... (3 Replies)
In this example function below, I cannot figure out what certain parts mean.
if ! echo $PATHwhat is "if !"?
(^|:)$1($|:) What is ^|: and$|:?
pathmunge () {
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
if ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else... (3 Replies)