Questions tagged [quoting]
Strings are typically delimited by quotes, which raises the problem of dealing with strings that include quotes.
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bash cd issue with path containing spaces: "too many arguments" [closed]
I created a path with spaces, and when I try to change directory I get "too many arguments" error message despite escaping the spaces or quoting the path :
Here are the tests I made :
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Replace string ${FOO} by ${'$'}{BAR} with sed
I have this string occurring N times in a file: ${FOO}
that I have to replace by this string: ${'$'}{BAR}
This is my current state:
sed "s/\\${FOO}/\\${'\\$'}{BAR}/" file.txt but it raises &...
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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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Meaning of \ before environment variable
In ksh on an old Solaris box I used:
export PS1="$PWD $"
to set the prompt to the current directory. It works great until you cd elsewhere, then you see that it's not evaluating PWD each time. I ...
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How to use a variable in a command inside of a bash file
I use this command directly on our redhat linux server 8.8 and it's working correctly and I get the result I want:
grep '01-FEB-2024' /u01/app/server1/listener_scan/trace/listener_scan.log | awk '{ if ...
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Why is echo ignoring my quote characters?
The echo command isn't including the complete text that I give it. For example, if I do:
$ echo ' echo PARAM=` grep $ARG /var/tmp/setfile | awk '{print $2}' ` '
It outputs:
echo PARAM=` ...
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Should variables be quoted when executed?
The general rule in shell scripting is that variables should always be quoted unless there is a compelling reason not to. For more details than you probably want to know, have a look at this great Q&...
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Security implications of forgetting to quote a variable in bash/POSIX shells
If you've been following unix.stackexchange.com for a while, you
should hopefully know by now that leaving a variable
unquoted in list context (as in echo $var) in Bourne/POSIX
shells (zsh being the ...
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Why isn't passed quoted $@ a single argument? [duplicate]
Why isn't passed quoted $@ a single argument?
f2()
{
echo "f2: $1"
}
f1()
{
local x=("$@")
f2 "${x[@]}"
}
f1 x y
Invocation:
$ bash t537.sh
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escape in double and single quotation [duplicate]
I am confusing why bash can escape "..." but can't escape '...'? Can some one give me a hint? Thanks
test@test:~$ echo "He said, \"Hello world\""
He said, "Hello ...
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How can I create a file named "\?$*'ChouMi'*$?\"?
I need to create a file with this exact name "\?$*'ChouMi'*$?\" so that ls would show it as:
$ ls | cat -e
"\?$*'ChouMi'*$?\"$
$
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What characters need to be escaped in files without quotes?
I have browser-based shell/terminal that executes bash commands and I'm escaping spaces but it turns out that parenthesis also need to be escaped. What other characters need to be escaped for file ...
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How to ensure that string interpolated into `sed` substitution escapes all metachars
I have a script that reads a text stream and generates a file of sed commands that is later run with sed -f. The generated sed commands are like:
s/cid:image002\.gif@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/...
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Why does -n with unquoted variable containing empty string return true? [duplicate]
From man bash:
-n string
True if the length of string is non‐zero.
Examples:
# expected
$ var=""; [ -n "$var" ]; echo $?
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How to proberly deal with quotes in filenames when using variables/arrays including the filenames in bash? [duplicate]
I have been working on a bash script for a few days and got stuck with filenames including single and double quotes.
Give I want to iterate over the following files in a directory:
'file1.txt'
'file2....
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