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How to properly parse a quoted arg-list string in a shell script?
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How to convert a single string a "b" 'c d' $'e\nf' into separate arguments, respecting quotes and preserving whitespaces and newlines?
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I'm trying to read and process the ...
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Script Integer getting prefixed with "
I am running a jar file using a very basic shell script (I literally just need this to run on startup of a NAS). However, I am getting some rather unexpected behavior:
Script looks like this:
java -...
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Generating quoted command arguments
I'm working with a HTTP API that demands a very particular set of signed headers + JSON body. And I really want to cURL it for debugging and sanity in general.
So, I've written a small script that, ...
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Keeping quotes passed to a perl wrapper script
I'm writing a small perl wrapper to setup environment variables, etc., then invoke a command by the same name.
./foo.pl -a one -b two -c "1 2 3" -d done
When I output @ARGV, the "" around 1 2 3 have ...
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Passing arguments with spaces and quotes to a script (without quoting everything)
The following works great on the command-line:
$ ffmpeg -i input.m4a -metadata 'title=Spaces and $pecial char'\''s' output.m4a
How do I parameterize this command and use it in a script/function? I ...
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Can a shell script prints its argument, quoted as you would write them on the shell prompt?
In a shell script, my understanding is that "$@" expands to the script arguments, quoting them as needed. For instance this forwards the script arguments to gcc:
gcc -fPIC "$@"
When using the bash ...
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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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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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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?
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