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Backslash in variable substitution in Bash
I was working on a Bash script to help partition a hard drive correctly, and I came across a strange problem where I had to append a number to a variable. It took me a while to get the outcome right ...
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Double Quotes in Bash's variable substitution
I am trying to configure some software packages with a script thereby I got the following problem. Assume that the environment variable PREFIX is set to the location where I plan to install the ...
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Reading output of command into variable in shell, splits text at every white space not just newline
I'm using sh (not bash/csh) on FreeBSD 11, and I don't understand this:
In console
Command: zpool status -v
Result:
pool: My_pool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being ...
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Use sed command with variables
I have tried every possible solution available on the Stack Overflow and its related websites but did not find any solution. I spent a reasonable amount of time on this issue and am finally posting ...
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Spaces for variables in bash script
I have a space in one of the directory names. I want to list a file under it from a bash script. Here is my script:
fpath="${HOME}/\"New Folder\"/foobar.txt"
echo "fpath=(${fpath})"
#fpath="${HOME}/$...
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bash adds apostrophes to expanded variable
I am reading in a file inside my bash script where each line consists of multiple columns like this:
ANSIBLE 'first run' '--diff --extra-vars "client=yes fast=no"'
As you can see, the line consists ...
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Passing a variable to sed [duplicate]
I cannot not use a shell variable in sed in the $NUMBER form. I have this line in my shell script:
cat shared.txt sed 's/whatever1/$2 ... whatever2/' > shared2.txt
The result in shared2.txt looks ...
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