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Passing a git command as an argument
I'm trying to automate some tedious parts of a student job I'm working on.
Basically, the goal is to clone a bunch of git repositories (which I already have working), then run the same git checkout ...
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bash script function argument problem [duplicate]
Not sure why this is producing error. This is a test code emulating my real code. I want to write a wrapper for find and want to allow for any argument, so I'm wrapping each arg in single quotes.
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Passing paths with spaces as arguments
I am having difficulty in passing some string variables having spaces in them as arguments to a program.
For debugging and showing the arguments being passed, I created a demo Python script -:
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How does 'find -exec' pass file names with spaces?
If I have a directory containing some files whose names have spaces, e.g.
$ ls -1 dir1
file 1
file 2
file 3
I can successfully copy all of them to another directory like this:
$ find dir1 -mindepth ...
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UNC Argument in bash scipt
I want to create a bash script with a "pure" UNC (i.e. I do not want to escape the backslashes literally) as an argument, i.e. something like:
./foo \\my\share\is\here
However, as is natural, the ...
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Can't use argument in bash date calculation script
The following bash script won't work. I need to calculate the date depending on the number of days since 14th Oct 1582, where the argument will be the number of days.
d="$1"
date -d '14 Oct 1582 + "$...
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Bash string concatenation used to build parameter list
Given this piece of bash:
PARMS='-rvu'
PARMS+=" --delete --exclude='.git'"
echo $PARMS
rsync ${PARMS} . ${TARGET}
The echo shows the PARMS string as expected, no error is displayed, but rsync ...
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Add arguments to 'bash -c'
Let's say that I want to run a command through Bash like this:
/bin/bash -c "ls -l"
According to Bash man page, I could also run it like this:
# don't process arguments after this one
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How to enclose a quoted variable in quotes
I want to call: ./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so -r 320x240" -o "./output_http.so -w ./www" from a C program, running system().
The problem is that I have to enclose shell command in quotes, which ...
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Bash Script : Passing a variable to a bash script that contains quotes, single quotes. etc [closed]
lets assume this is the string:
'a',"b"
it contains both single and double quotes.
how would you pass this to a bash script as a single string ?
this is the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
echo $1
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Command substitution interpreting spaces within quotes as argument separators
I'd like an alias that additionally appends itself to ~/.bashrc, e.g.
function tailias
{
$(echo "alias $1='${*:2}'" | tee -a ~/.bashrc)
}
I'm using tee to split the command to ~/.bashrc while ...
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Making md5sum understand file names with spaces
I need to use md5sum in Python by using pipe to calculate checksum for a bunch of .mp3 files... is there a command which ignore whitespaces in filenames on the command line of md5sum program?
For ...
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How to prevent command injection through command options?
I have an wrapper application where I need to let the user specify custom options to pass to a simulator. However, I want to make sure the user doesn't inject other commands through the user options. ...
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Pass arguments to function exactly as-is
I have the following function:
bar() { echo $1:$2; }
I am calling this function from another function, foo. foo itself is called as follows:
foo "This is" a test
I want to get the ...
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Bash : command line with optional arguments
I'm running this kind of code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -u
exclude1='--exclude=/path/*'
exclude2='--exclude=/path with spaces/*'
exclude3='' # any 'exclude' can be empty
tar -czf backup.tgz "$...
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