i have a list of apps that i need to forcequit and, from time to time, that list changes. perfect excuse to manage a single array! however, my strings with spaces aren't passing as i'd like them to. here's the simple script:
when i generate verbose feedback, i'm seeing each app in question quit EXCEPT for those with spaces. on a mac, in the command line, i have to type the following to forcequit word and chrome:
but i can't seem to find a way to paste the correct syntax into the array to get these applications to quit as the others do. in the above script example, the result just says:
"+ for i in '"${apps[@]}"'
+ killall 'Microsoft\' Word
No matching processes were found"
Though really, I think your program could be rewritten as
People are understandably leery of 'killall', since on some other systems it has a far more, shall we say, literal meaning.
didn't know about pkill so thank you. otherwise, i'm all about elegance. if i can do something in two lines of code, i don't care what those two lines are. yours is great but as i'm already using arrays and not bothered by them, so is the earlier example.
Semi-newbie, so flame throwers to 'singe-only', please. ;-)
I have a large number of (say) .html files, where I'd like to do a recursive in-place search and replace a particular string. The following bit of perl works fine:
perl -pi -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g' `find ./ -name *.html`
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Good grief so this should be easy. Passing an array as an argument to a function. Here is the sample code:
#/bin/bash
function foo {
local p1=${1}
local p2=(${2})
local p3=${3}
echo p1 is $p1
echo p2 is $p2
echo p3 is $p3
}
d1=data1
d2=data2
a=(bat bar baz) (2 Replies)
Hi,
In directory "inoutfiles", I have folders fold0001, fold0002 and so on. Every folder has corresponding file file0001.txt, file0002.txt and so on. I want to perform a certain action on multiple files in one go. The cpp file is in the same directory as "inoutfiles".
This is my code :
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Hi,
In directory "inoutfiles", I have folders fold0001, fold0002 and so on. Every folder has corresponding file file0001.txt, file0002.txt and so on. I want to perform a certain action on multiple files in one go. The cpp file is in the same directory as "inoutfiles".
This is my code :
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I'm trying to use the following command:
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It also appears that awk scripts... (3 Replies)
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wordIWasLookingFor
anotherWordIWasLookingFor
yetAnotherWordIWasLookingFor
I want to toss each line into an array such that:
myArray = wordIWasLookingFor
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Hi
I am passing or want to pass value of a char array, so that even thoug the called routine is changing the values the calling function should not see the values changed, meaning only copy should be passed
Here is the program
#include<iostream.h>
#include<string.h>
void f(char a);
int... (5 Replies)
Hi
I need a better idea to implementing following in my code.
I need to store 80 long strings that will be used to display one by one in my GUI application. now i am storing those 80 long string in following two dimentational array.
uchar vpn_alm_long_str={ }
each index will be an... (1 Reply)
Is it possible to pass a string as an argument from the command line?
I know I can pass a word in but can I put a line of text in with spaces and fullstops or do I just put it in brackets or quotes so the compiler can differinate between the first argument and the second. (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'm having a rather peculiar problem involving parameter passing with declared functions in my shell script. Hope to get some advice here.
A brief description of my code is as follows:
However, I'm not getting the results I wanted. If I pass in $rdir, I'm going to end up... (4 Replies)