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value of $VAR already contains backtick and/or single quote inside. How to handle it? How to properly pass $VAR to program? [duplicate]
$ bash --version
GNU bash, versione 5.2.26(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
I don't know how to deal with $VAR when its value inside contains single quote (') and/or backtick (`).
I'm in the need of ...
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Tab character in exiftool
I need to insert tab character on place of _ between day and hour.
exiftool -T -r -filename -CreateDate -d "%Y%"."%m%"."%d_%H%"."%M%"."%S" /Users/***/***/testmapa/mapa2/ > /Users/***/***/testmapa/...
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How to use a special character as a normal one in Unix shells?
Many questions like 'How to type the double-quote char (")?' are being asked, and we don't want to clutter our community with the same answer (Type it as \" if not enclosed in 's, " if enclosed in 's.)...
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Can't use exclamation mark (!) in bash?
I'm trying to use the curl command to access a http url with a exclamation mark (!) in its path. e.g:
curl -v "http://example.org/!287s87asdjh2/somepath/someresource"
the console replies with bash: ....
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What are curly quotes and can I use them in my code?
Somehow curly quotes got into my code and I'm getting unexpected behavior
#!/bin/sh
if [ foo = ‘foo’ ]; then
echo yes
else
echo no
fi
I would expect this to echo yes but instead it echoes no.
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How to add a line break inside a bash string? [duplicate]
I have the following bash string and I need to add a line break to it, before the 'Hello' string:
bash -c "echo 'Hello' > /location/file"
I already tried adding it with different variations of ...
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"bash: !/bin/su": event not found" [duplicate]
I have line in script which is working, but not working from command line.
echo "User ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL, !/bin/su" | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers
[user@localhost ~]$ echo "test ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL, !/...
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How to grep for pipe |
How can I grep for line containing pipe character | or for character >:
files content:
|this is test
where is >
this is none
now what I need using grep command is
grep -iE "<some ...
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how to filter inner quotes? [closed]
is it possible to filter, i.e to put ESC in front of the inner quotes with sed, awk or other *NIX tool (no perl/python)?
Example (revised):
$ echo label=\"123 \"456\" 789\" \"AB C\" e f gh | magic-...
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Representing/quoting NUL on the command line
Can \0 be used on the command line?
Background
For testing corner cases in GNU Parallel I was curious whether all characters were correctly quoted on the command line. Most of them are:
perl -e '...
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Difference between ' and " on command line (bash)? [duplicate]
I used to use '' and "" (single and double-quotes) interchangeably on the command line, but I recently noticed that '$HOME/some/dir' is not expanded, while "$HOME/some/dir" is. I searched around a ...
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sh and grep numbers only
I'm facing a problem and trying to find a solution that works in sh.
If I could use bash this code would work:
ls /a|grep ^[0-9]
Unfortunately this is not the case with sh, and yes I need to use sh. ...
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Problem with spaces when used in find command
I'm trying to place a zip file with the content of the directory in each directory that doesn't contain any subdirectory.
The following command works if there's no space in dirnames and/or filenames ...
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Shell eating `?` characters
This is such a simple question that I'm sure it's been asked somewhere, but I can't find it. My shell, which I have not intentionally set up to do so, seems to eat any words involving question marks:
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Define string with the characters *, single quote and $
I create bash scripts which get sourced from another "main" script to set up variables needed by the main script. These variables need to be able to contain any character and not have them ...
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