Questions tagged [quoting]
Strings are typically delimited by quotes, which raises the problem of dealing with strings that include quotes.
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escaping filename results from grep
How do I escape the output of grep so that bash can read the file names correctly?
I have a text file that is the output of a find command. For each line, I want to make a symlink. For now, I'm just ...
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passing parameters to driver
I'm doing a Linux driver tutorial, and I have encountered a problem
with the sample lesson of passing parameters to the driver.
I tried another parameter-passing example I found on the internet
with ...
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Is there a command to write text to a file without redirection, pipe or function?
Pipes and redirection are two of the most powerful functions in Linux, and I love them.
However, I'm stuck with a situation where I need to write a fixed piece of text to a file without using a pipe, ...
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How to escape both single quotes and exclamation marks in bash
I have a long command and I just want to use alias to shorten it. But the command contains single quotes and exclamation marks.
The origin command is ldapsearch -x -H ... -w 'abc!123'.
I tried alias ...
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Is there a way to printf $@ verbatim?
I want to write a script that echoes to stdout its $@ verbatim, including any potential double-quotes, without a newline.
What I have tried:
> cat ./script1
#! /usr/bin/bash
printf "%s %s" $0 ...
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tcsh: Handle spaces in arguments when passing on to another command
I wrote a script that needs to call a command and pass on arguments. My script has its own parameters but some need to be passed through. This fails when arguments to my script have spaces in them.
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How to pass argument with char ( in remote path?
I'm trying to move a file with rsync to a remote location,
The file has be be named : DRRS_(H264).mp4
but when I try :
rsync -azR output.mp4 [email protected]:encoded/somepath/DRRS_(H264).mp4
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Why are my strings being truncated including and after an equals sign?
I was writing a shell script for inserting a string value through a Microsoft sqlcmd variable into a Microsoft SQL server database table and noticed some unexpected behavior. It appeared the trailing ...
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How to use grep string that has double quotes in it
So I'm running a simple alias called vpn which runs a command and has an output, which I put into a .txt file.
If interested to what exactly then here is the alias
alias vpn="docker exec -it ...
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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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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 $VAR when its value inside contains single quote (') and/or backtick (`).
I'm in the need of ...
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Exclude the output from ssh and only log the error if found
typeset -f | sshpass -e ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@${IPADDRESS} "
$(cat);
IFERROR=$(checkscript);
echo "$IFERROR"" > ${SSHTEMPFILE} 2>&1
This line...I can't exclude the "...
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I can't grep some inputrc string
bind -p |grep -E "\\e.\":" work
but
bind -p |grep -E "\\e\\C-.\":" don't work
I tried a lot of combination
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ls output display a file named "N'*" as "N'\''*"
System:
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
ls (GNU coreutils) 8.32
Situation:
$ touch "N'*"
$ ls
'N'\''*'
"GNU Coreutils - Quoting File ...
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What is the difference between echo `date`, echo "`date`", and echo '`date`'?
What is the difference between these three commands?
echo `date`
echo "`date`"
echo '`date`'
I am confused on what the differences actually are. I think that when the ' are around it means that it ...
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