A test command parameter is not valid, when special characters are tried to match


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A test command parameter is not valid, when special characters are tried to match
# 8  
Old 05-07-2013
There's a lot of special characters, and there could be a lot of "contexts"!

Suffice it to say that a hyphen doesn't have any special meaning unaccompanied.

Code:
$ touch -
$ ls -l -
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff  0  7 May 14:39 -
$ [ -r - ] && echo - exists
- exists
$ rm -
$ ls -l -
ls: -: No such file or directory

Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Grep exact match without period or other special characters

If I have a file like the following abc.1 abc abc_1 abc..1 abc*1 abc@1 abc def ghr def...... ddef 5466 def ed def** 123445 I`m trying to find exact words from the list abc def (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ritakadm
4 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk match shell variable that contains special characters?

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)
Discussion started by: Mid Ocean
3 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Test command with special character not work

Hi all, Case 1 : A=88^M && echo "PASS" Result: PASS Case 2: A=88 && echo "PASS" Result: PASS I would like to know why Case 1 and Case 2 got the same result? What make ^M ignored ? Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: montor
6 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help with error "por: 0403-012 A test command parameter is not valid."

Hi, im asking for help with the next script: echo ^; then if then printf "\033 query1.sh: export TERM=vt100 export ORACLE_TERM=at386 export ORACLE_HOME=/home_oracle8i/app/oracle/product/8.1.7 export ORACLE_BASE=/home_oracle8i/app/oracle export... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: blacksteel1988
8 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Special characters in parameter

Hello, I'm trying to write a simple (korn) shell script which is called from the command line with some parameters. But one of the parameter contains a "!" sign. For example: myscript.ksh foo bar foo!bar When I call the script like above I always get an error. So I tried to wrap the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: merlinhst123
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

if condition error: test: 0403-004 Specify a parameter with this command

Hi all, I would like to ask if there's something wrong with my if - else condition, i couldn't run the script perfectly due to the error in my if - else condition stating that "test: 0403-004 Specify a parameter with this command." below is the snippet of my script if && && ] then echo... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jihmantiquilla
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Special characters in command arguments

Hey Guys, I have a program that populates a database based on input I feed it. so it would look like: cmd arg1 arg2 ... argN Now some of the arguments have special characters in them so I wrote a small script to pull the args and wrap them in quotes ('arg'). The problem is sometimes... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: aaron0001
10 Replies

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

special characters in IF TEST

I'm using Korn shell. I'm doing an IF TEST for lots of characters and don't know how to also check for single quote and parentheses and slash. I'm reading a file and some records have garbage characters in them. The following works, but how do I add single quote, parentheses and slash to the IF... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sboxtops
3 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

A test command parameter is not valid

Hello, Getting error "A test command parameter is not valid" when trying to run the code below under /sbin/sh AA = "12:00" CHK=$(date +"%H:%M") if then print "Yes" fi Getting 2 errors: 1) "AA: not found" 2) "Specify a parameter with this command" Thanks, IS Please... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: schureki
5 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help regarding Error message: A test command parameter is not valid

Hi I am getting few messages when trying to run my script from the following lines in the script if test then // SomeCode fi The messages are as follows: testing.sh: OBLIGOR_GROUP_ID: 0403-012 A test command parameter is not valid. testing.sh:... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: skyineyes
5 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question
PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal". --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do right to left (RTL) layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4. Postscript points Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --gutter-width=gw Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)