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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am new in bash scripting. In my work, I provide support to several users and when I connect to their computers I use the same admin and password, so I am trying to create a script that will only ask me for the IP address and then connect to the computer without having me to type the user... (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an application which I am integrating with that accepts the password via a CLI. I am running in to issues with passwords that contain special characters. I tried to escape them all, but I ran in to an issue where I cannot escape the characters
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]
My attempt is as follows:
$... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: AMG1978
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I am looking for a function which will do the following.
1. I have a variable which will hold few special chracter like
SPECIAL_CHARS="& ;"2. I have an escape character.
ESCAPE_CHAR="\"3. Now when I passed some string in the function it will return the same string but now it will... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anupam_Halder
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is a bit off the wall, but I often need to run scripts where there are argument values that contain special characters.
For example,
$ ./process.exe -t M -N -o temp.mol.s -i ../molfiles/N,N\',N\'\'-trimethylbis\(hexamethylene\)triamine.mol && sfile_space_to_tab.sh temp.mol.s temp.s
It... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
My input is:
jdbc:Oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=10.147.109.211)(PORT=1526))(CONNECT_DAT A=(SID= MWDBD22)))
In the search pattern, ( and ) and . and @ are special RE, and need to be escaped \( and \) and \. and \@
how can i do it by script or command (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: arindam guha
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have written a unix expect utility "ssh-login.exp" which connects (ssh) to remote host and execute some shell script. I am calling this "ssh-login.exp" utility from another shell script.
"ssh-login.exp" takes username, password, host and shell script path to execute on remote host. All... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Mahesh Desai
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need help in escaping special characters in sed command.
Here is the the string which i am trying to find a replace with
From :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID={//MESSAGE_ID}
To :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID= X_EDELIVERY_MESSAGE_ID & BATCH_ID= X_EDELIVERY_BATCH_ID
Here is the sed command i am... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: aakishore
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am having issues escaping special characters in my AWK script as follows:
for id in `cat file`
do
grep $id in file2 | awk '\
BEGIN {var=""} \
{ if ( /stringwith+'|'+'50'chars/ ) {
echo "do this"
} else if ( /anotherString/ ) {
echo "do that"
} else {
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: purebc
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Everyone,
I need to read an encrypted password from the user and update that value in an xml file. I am trying to use "sed" for searching the appropriate tag and replacing this new value that get from the user. Since the encrypted password can contain special characters(like /,\,&,etc),... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: majose
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm using awk '{print $1}' and it works most of the time to print the contents of a mysql query loop, but occationally I get a field with some special character in it, is there a way to tell awk to ignore all special characters between my FS? I have >186K records, so building a list of ALL special... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: unclecameron
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