Questions tagged [escaping]
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How to make bash treat variables as strings using process substitution
I have the statement:
A=$(echo "echo a") && bash -c "awk -v var=\"$A\" 'BEGIN {printf \"%20s\", var}'"
Which outputs:
echo az
And I can't make this one-liner work:
A=$(echo "echo a") && bash -c "paste <(awk -v var="$A" 'BEGIN {printf…
Mindaugas Bernatavičius
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bash: Something like quotemeta() for pattern characters?
Background
I am aware of bash's various string manipulation capabilities.
Also, I know I can escape special pattern characters with a backslash \.
For instance:
# x is a literal string 'foo*bar'
x="foo*bar"
# prints "*bar".
echo "${x##foo}"
#…
jwd
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SSH hangs every time an escape character is transmitted
I've been asked to continue installation of a freshly installed Debian system. I can log in there through SSH with no problems. But the connection hangs every time the remote shell sends an escape character. For example, all these commands hang the…
Petr
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Ubuntu Server Cron Jobs not running
iam about to blow up: i cant figure out why my jobs in the crontab -e file of any user are not running. None of them do so the "last cron job is not running" problem is not aplicable. Also i checked this thread and couldn't find any mistakes. I even…
Salkei
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How to escape pipeline char in Windows shell?
I need to specify a regular expression that includes | character to findstr command:
processtext.exe | findstr /R "Hello|Bye"
How do I escape it? \| does not work. Quotes fix issue with pipelining but the regex does not match although separate…
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Deal with dashes and spaces in T-SQL String functions
I am searching for the occurrence of a string in a field on a table. The search statement is done through dynamic sql with my statement template looking like this.
SET @sSQL = 'UPDATE #tempProcsAndJobs SET ' +
@columnName + ' = 1 WHERE…
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Do modern mail servers still escape lines they think are headers?
For many years I have made it my practice to set up my e-mail clients so that when I forward e-mails I forward them as attachments rather than forwarding them "inline".
I did this because, in the past, often when I forwarded e-mail an intervening…
user35042
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batch for loop with bracket in the command
I have a batch file with the following code:
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d') do (
echo Processing %%a >>%LOG%
dtsrun /S(local) /NNotesLoad /A"FilePath:8="%NOTESDIR%\%%a" /AClientID=%1 >>%LOG%
echo Deleting %%a >>%LOG%
del %%a…
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Run commands that run in a shell as a script
Running the following commands in a shell runs without issues:
ssh user@machine systemctl status my-service.service
ssh user@machine sudo systemctl stop my-service.service
scp -r ./my-service/* user@machine:/home/user/my-service
ssh user@machine…
Ramon Smits
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sed replace text - escape characters
I have a mysqldump file in which I want to replace the following text
George Tasioulis
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