Questions tagged [quoting]
Strings are typically delimited by quotes, which raises the problem of dealing with strings that include quotes.
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Is it possible to print a command so that the output can be parsed to create the same command?
The question may sound quite complicated, but in fact it is not! Consider:
% f() { echo "$@"; }
% f a
a
% f cmd -o"value with space"
cmd -ovalue with space
% f cmd -ovalue with ...
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Problem with single quote in Bash [duplicate]
I have a sh script for initializing dzen2, and I want to use Source Code Pro font to use there. Here's the code...
param="-p -dock -fn 'Source Code Pro-10'"
# the generated_output function ...
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Why does enclosing a command in double quotes affect aliases?
I have an alias rm='/bin/rm -i' and I know that if I type "rm" filename in the command line, the alias will be ignored somehow and the normal rm command without the -i flag will be called, ...
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How do I quote square brackets in Ansible variable value for regexp parameter?
I use the ansible.builtin.lineinfile module to modify a PHP-FPM pool configuration file. How should I quote the square brackets (annot.: or other special characters) in a value of a variable for the ...
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How to print a double quote in POSIX scripting?
So far, I've been using "\"" to print a double quote:
$ x="abc def"
$ echo "x=\"$x\""
x="abc def"
However, it seems like that behavior is ...
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Why is "${1-"$var"}" (option 6 down below) not mentioned in POSIX?
The only reference I could find in the spec is this:
It would be desirable to include the statement "The characters from an enclosed "${" to the matching '}' shall not be affected by ...
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rsync does not exclude specified directory starting with a hash character (#)
I am trying to exclude the #recycle directory with rsync:
$ rsync -Hauv -h -P --exclude '#recycle/' --exclude @eaDir/ --exclude '.DS_Store*' --exclude desktop.ini user1@src_server:/volume2/...
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Getting jq error when using variable in command line
I am using jq to get the tag_name index with the script:
curl \
https://api.github.com/repos/checkstyle/checkstyle/releases \
-H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
-o /var/tmp/cs-...
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Any shell where expansions are turned off without escaping or quoting?
Say, with zsh one can prefix a command with noglob to "turn off filename generation (globbing)".
I'm looking for a shell where similar approach can be used to disable not only globbing but ...
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How to use jq to return information to the shell, taking whitespace into account?
Given this file:
$ cat fruits.json
[
{ "name": "apple" },
{ "name": "banana\nfofanna" },
{ "name": "my kiwi" }
]
how can one use jq ...
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How Can I Interpret Quoted Wildcards
I am writing a shell script and I need to interpret quoted wildcards.
"R Programming*"
I do not want the * asterisk to be taken literally.
I want it to be interpreted as a wildcard.
"R ...
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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 properly use quotes for a bash function?
I am trying to define the following bash function in my .bashrc file:
function myfind() {
find $1 -not -path venv -not -path .tox -name "$2" | xargs grep -n "$3"
}
which is ...
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unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
I have created a script to export CSV data to mysql table.
#!/bin/bash
cd /data/NEW
for f in User*
do
mysql --user="root" --password="user@123" -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL ...
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Recursively renaming apostrophs ' in filenames (Bash)
Need to remove apostrophes from files. I have tried several approaches, also from Stackexchange.
I am on a Synology NAS, so I don't have Python, or Perl and furthermore I have to exclude certain ...
