Programming :: SH - Recursive Variable Substitution

Jul 1, 2010

I have the following test code fragment:

Code:

When I try to run it 'sh' reports the following message^

Code:

You might understand what I mean with that test code so could you recommend how to achieve the required effect?

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Programming :: Variable Substitution In BASH?

Feb 17, 2011

Just a simple BASH for loop to read the file path from a text file (clean.txt) echo the variable for debug purposes, and scp it to a server I have using port 50 for SSH.

I've already formatted the entries in clean.txt to handle spaces correctly, using sed replacement.

Example from the clean.txt file:

Code:
/MP3/NAS000000001/Barenaked Ladies/Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays/20 Auld Lang Syne.mp3
/MP3/NAS000000001/Barenaked Ladies/Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays/14 Deck the Stills.mp3

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May 6, 2011

I have an interpteter that supports string literals, and the way it works is that the lexer returns the entire string as a single token, with the quotes removed and escape sequences replaced with the literal characters they represent.

I already implemented single-quote strings, they don't interpret any characters specially except for the single quote. I partially implemented double-quoted strings, they already support all the same backslash escape sequences that C does. But I would also want to add variable substitution.

The way it would work is that "${expression}" would interpret the expression (which could just be a variable name) and replace itself with the result. But I have no idea how to do this.

In case it matters, I'm using a hand-written lexer and recursive-descent parser.

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Jun 15, 2010

I have the following TCL code:

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} else {
do something
}

What I want is to use a variable for the file name/path. When I put in a variable instead of the absolute path, I get an error: "missing close-brace: possible unbalanced brace in comment while executing"

This is weird because when I run the code with the fully qualified pathname, it works fine. I substitute out the pathname for a variable containing the pathname ($variable) and I get this error.

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Dec 27, 2010

I am trying to alter the character position of residue numbers above 999 in a pdb file.The following script is an attempt to:1) Get all unique pdb residue numbers (in column 5) using awk and assign it to a variable i.2) Loop through all the values in $i and if it is greater than 999, shift that number one character to the right using sed.However, the script only manages to alter the final residue numberCould anyone please advise how I can loop through all values in $i and shift it one character to the right?

#!/bin/bash
# Script to alter position of residue number in pdb file for resid above 999
i=$(awk '{print $5}' wt-test.pdb | uniq)

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General :: Shell Script -- Awk Variable Substitution?

Oct 7, 2010

I have a script in which I'm reading a file line by line and I'm finding certain position value using awk index as

Code:
# 2 spaces before open parens
pos=`echo | awk -v Line="$Line" '{ print index("'"$Line"'"," (")}'`

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Aug 21, 2009

I'm trying to read content of file to variable and use this variable in for loop. The problem is, when I have c++ comment style in file - /*. Spaces in line are also interpreted as separated lines.

For example:

Code:

Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).

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Nov 25, 2010

file allids consists of 300,000 rows, each containing a 5-7 digit numeric id. file newids consists of 20,000 rows of id's. How do you explain the following timings? time: 0.07s:

Code:

diff <(sort allids) <(sort newids)
time: 1.6s:

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Programming :: C Wrapper For Secure Password Substitution

Feb 3, 2011

I'm working on a program that will allow non-privileged users the ability to substitute passwords that are read in from a 600-root:root file.
A user might call it like this:
/bin/securepasswrapper "/path/to/check_ping -u Admin -p ?webserver1?"

The file (defined now as /tmp/securefile) will be searched for the identifier "webserver1", and it's corresponding password will be returned to securepasswrapper. Now, I know you could just call /bin/echo, and get the output, but that's in scope at this point.
File format of securefile is:
<identifierassword>
ex: webserver1:asdf123

Once the password is properly substituted in, securepasswrapper should then execute it as the UID/EUID of the calling user (not root)...that part I've not got to yet.
Code:
/* program: securepasswrapper
author: R.Briggs + Google
date: 02/02/11
purpose: C wrapper that replaces placeholders in a string with secure passwords retrieved from a file
*/ .....

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Programming :: Shell Scripting Array - Bad Substitution

Jun 19, 2009

I made a little rsync script for log transfer.

Code:
SERVERS=(SERVER1 SERVER2 SERVER3)
SERVER1_SERV=(web ftp mail)
SERVER2_SERV=(web transcoding)
SERVER3_SERV=(web ftp mail)
for SERVER in ${SERVERS[@]}
do
echo "Starting tranfer for server $SERVER"
for SERVICE in ${$SERVER_$SERVICE[@]}
do
something_to_be_done
fi
done
But when I run it I get ${$SERVER_$SERVICE[@]}: bad substitution

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Apr 7, 2010

my script has a variable which comes in the form +00.00 +0.00 -00.00 or -0.00 (the numbers can be any in that form) for any that have a + symbol I need to remove the +, but if it has a - symbol it needs to stay.

i need to make a new variable with the string from the old variable btut without any plus sign. I have tried a lot of different ways with no success, each thing I tried either left the + or removed the entire string. I think this should work but doesn't

foo=+12.40
bar=${foo#+}

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Feb 16, 2011

This is my sub;

Code:

sub projName
{
print "Enter project name: " ;
$PROJ = <STDIN>;
print "";

[code]....

I can call this routine and it works fine when I enter a valid name for $PROJ. If I enter an invalid name it goes to the else block and prints the statement. However, it does not call itself. Instead the script just exits.I've googled 'perl recursive subroutines' and the example don't appear to be doing anything different.

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Jul 14, 2011

I am looking for a one liner to search for a string in file(s) which are in a tar ball (.tar.bz2 in my case)

Code:
-bash-3.2$ tar -tjf /var/log/ABC/07142011-1412.tar.bz2
var/log/ABC/07142011-1412/
var/log/ABC/07142011-1412/live_hosts.txt
var/log/ABC/07142011-1412/all_hosts.txt
var/log/ABC/07142011-1412/LOGS.txt

How can I recursively look inside all the txt files in this tar file ?

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Is it good to set a recursive function as inline? I would think it would increase the performance speed of the program.

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Dec 21, 2008

I have a simple script that I am writing to parse an XML file for me, and update some version numbers. Basically what happens in my script is that I'm running a grep command on the file to get the current version number, then I prompt for a new number, and then I want to globally replace that version number in the file. The problem is, the sed command seems to only want literal values (it doesn't appear to be capable of resolving variables). For example, this code doesn't work:

[Code]...

I have tried removing the curly brackets from the variable names, quoting them, etc. and nothing seems to work. Should I do this with awk instead (and if so can you kindly write out the command for me because I never bothered to learn awk).

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Apr 30, 2011

I remember reading that using sed, you can do this with parentheses: s/abc(something)def/(something)else/g I can't find an explanation of how to do something like this with Awk. Say you have this in an HTML file, where (number) stands for a one or two-digit number:

<sup>(number)</sup>

And you want to change that to this:

<a name="(number)t" href="#(number)b"><sup>(number)</sup></a>

How would this be possible? Would you have to use sed?

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Jun 6, 2011

I need a substitution of a particular string (StringA) with another string (StringB). However, there may be more than one occurrence of StringA within the file, but only one instance needs to be changed, which is why I'm trying to be sure of it's positioning against something I know will be unique in the file, and will always have the same distance from the string to be replaced. So, I intend to match on a string (StringC) above the string to be substituted and then have sed go to StringA below and replace with StringB.

So far, I have had some success with the following:

Code:

... but I can't help thinking that there *has* to be a cleaner way of doing it.

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Apr 25, 2011

how I can search within a variable and assign the results to a new variable. I'll use the following as an example -

cars="Audi BMW Cadillac Chevy Dodge Ferrari Ford Mercedes"
list=`echo ${cars} | egrep -o '<A?+|<C+'`

with the echo command I get the following output assigned to list -

A
C
C

What I'd like to get for output is -

Audi
Cadillac
Chevy

how I could do this regardless of upper/lower case letters?

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Jun 8, 2011

I'm trying to make recursive makefile work but it's giving me two problems. I have a top folder with the main Makefile and one Makefile for each sub folder 'one' and 'two'. Makefile in subfolder 'one' and 'two' are identical. The top Makefile (still a bit messy) looking like this:

Code:
# Directories
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra
TARGET_DIR = bin
MAIN_FILE = one.c

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Further to solved LQ thread Bash: how to populate a list of arbitrarily named files?, what is the functional difference between feeding a loop with process substitution and feeding it with a here string with embedded command substitution? ABSG pages: process substitution, here string and command substitution. This works

Code:

while IFS= read -r -d '' file
do
files+=("$file")
done < <(find $dir -type f -print0)

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May 18, 2011

I'm having problems with compiling recursive Makefiles in my directory structure:
My folder layout is:
top/|- one/|- one.c (With main function)|- zero.c|- two/|- two.cin my top folder the make file looks like:

Code:
MAKE_DIRECTORIES = one two
.PHONY: all
all: $(MAKE_DIRECTORIES)

.PHONY: $(MAKE_DIRECTORIES)
$(MAKE_DIRECTORIES):
@echo $@
$(MAKE) --directory=$@
in my one and two folder I have the following Makefile:

Code:
.PHONE: all
all:
@echo $@
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) *.c
But when I compile it from top folder: make

I get following output:
Code:
one
two
Which states that directory statement by echo in main Makefile is ok but the files are not compiled in one and two.

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Apr 28, 2010

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Dec 22, 2010

I can find points to Tillies Garrels TLDP reference. Do I want to create my own variable to hold the string or do I want to place the string in memory? Is that my problem? Or is something different causing the 'bad substitution' error.

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Aug 3, 2010

I'm wanting to mod some PHP files across a hierarchy and thought I'd drive it with find + grep + xargs

I built up a command line which I was confident would do the job, but now can't save the results.

First I tried this:

Code:
find . -name *.php | xargs grep serialize | cut -d: -f1| sort -u | xargs sed -i s/serialize/serialise/g
but that didn't work:
Code:
sed: illegal option -- i
so I thought I'd try using
Code:

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May 16, 2010

Way to test permissions on all files/folders into a folder recursive, then if those are not user:user then do :

Code:
chown user:user thatconcernedfile

The problem with that

Code:
chown user:user -R /folder

is that it is doing changes on file permissions whihch are already ok. If you wanna maintain a specific permission on a folder this is really not good this :

Code:
while [ 1 ] ; do
chown user:user -R /folder
# /folder contains 6.0 Tb
sleep 2s
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Dec 5, 2010

I'm starting bash shell script and I'm looping without any solution.

I'm trying to find some files under a folder hierarchy and in case of errors moving these files to a destination folder under the same hierarchy recreating this hierarchy if not exists.

Finding all ._* files under /src and moving them to /dest recreating folder1 or the others which contains ._* files but without moving files which does not correspond to the pattern.

Code:

I tried find command and I'am getting all needed files

Code:

But I don't know how to use the output to get the parent folder of files which are found to

1- create folder with mkdir -p /dest/folder1 or /dest/folder1/folder4

2- move found files from /src/... to /dest/... with rm command

I'm working on a find command as this trying to do all in the same line but ... little lost

Code:

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This loop is part of a bash script which takes multiple arguments.

Code:
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I have beat this enough and don't get what should have been a very simple thing to do. I build a variable;

Code:
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CLIST will be used by another bash script but I need to replace the commas with a space. I

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