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How to pass bash's $@ over ssh accounting for spaces in arguments?
I want to read logs conveniently from my server. I'm trying to write a script that reads output of journalctl from my server, applying the parameters I pass to the script to journalctl call. I may ...
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How can I escape single quotes in cmd parameter?
I wanted to display a network profile in cmd using netsh, with netsh wlan show profile name="JohnDoe's iPhone". This WiFi name has an apostrophe in it, as you can see. The command responds ...
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Passing list of file paths in variable as arguments to command
Scenario:
kdialog --menu takes a list of strings of the form title element label element label .... Now, the issue with this is that spaces are used as delimiters.
Let's say I have a string variable $...
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Escaping double quotes in .csv
I have a .csv file which has values like
Abc,3/4"×3/4"
Paper,Blue,2"
Abc 45 xyz 3/4""
The issue is when I open it in notepad these values become
"Abc,3/4""×3/4&...
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Is it required to sanitize parameters of curl (called from a bash script) filled with user inputs?
Is it safe to run curl in a bash script like this:
#!/bin/bash
response=$(curl --data-urlencode "user=$username" --data-urlencode "pass=$password" https://my-api-url)
with ...
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sed - replacing string with variable containing?
Please help, I am not getting anywhere despite extensive search in here.
I have a html file, and I want to replace some of the links it it - problem is, some of the links have a ? in it.
original='...
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trouble with spaces in environment variable in rsync script on MacOS
I have a Bash script that I plan to run for daily backups (my HOME is /Volumes/Norman Data/me):
#!/bin/bash
# Halt the script on any errors.
set -e
# Remote server where
remote_server="example.com"
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How can I single-quote or escape the whole command line in Bash conveniently?
Introduction
Consider a tool like watch that can take another command (e.g. ls -l) like this:
watch ls -l
# or equivalently
watch 'ls -l'
If the command is more complicated, it's all about quoting/...
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Display unescaped URLs in the Chrome address bar
I have whitespaces in some local files. Is there a possibility, for example an addon, to change the way the URLs of such files are represented in Chrome’s address bar?
For example instead of
file:///...
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emacs find file at point double backslashes on windows
My problem is that I want to be able to navigate to directories like:
"..\\A\\B\\a.blah"
Currently, when i use the ffap command, it works for:
"../A/B/a.blah"
"..//A//B//a.blah"
"..\A\B\a.blah"
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Set arbitrary text to windows clipboard
I'm using clip to set text on the clipboard.
To do that, I use echo.
echo Works|clip
The problem is when the text contains special characters, eg. | ".
echo (TRUE|FALSE)|clip
echo " is a Quote Mark|...
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Proper escaping of Characters for Shell execution from ASP/VBScript
I am executing a curl call from ASP with the WScript.Shell Object.
Set objCmd = objWShell.Exec("cmd.exe /c echo "&dataString&" | /path/to/curl --cacert '/path/to/cert/cacert.pem' -X POST"&...
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Why does `echo -e "\\\SOME_TEXT"` show only one backslash?
Could some one explain what is happening behind the scenes in character escaping in Linux shell? I tried the following and googled a lot, without any success in understanding what (and how) is going ...
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How to escape "$@" in a makefile?
test:
@echo "#!/bin/bash\njava -classpath \"$(CLASSPATH)\" com.atm.ATM \"$@\"" > test
@chmod a+x test
I am trying to escape the "$@" so that it literally appears in the "test" script as "$@...
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Unescaped commandline content in fish shell
Is there a way to get the unescaped content of command line in fish? I mean if command line is like ...
$ ls 'foo' "bar"
... the desired output would be ls 'foo' "bar".
The commandline fish command ...
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unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
I get this error bash on my virtual hosting, in cron tasks. My command is following:
/usr/bin/mysqldump --user=USERNAME --password="C\(mRA0_ifmv\(" DATABASE > ROOTFOLDER/backup/$(date +%F).sql &...
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SublimeText3 double-backslash in snippet
I'm using SublimeText3 with LaTeXTools for my LaTeX work and want it to insert a double-backslash+newline when I hit ctrl+enter. Like this:
asdf\\
foobar
I tried inserting the following into "...
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Bash script that calls a program with some asterisks in arguments
I’ve spent last hour or so trying to write a pretty simple bash script and I never felt so dumb.
So I have a list of strings (which are package selector specifications for a package manager, if that ...
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Escape Skype Messages to Use Special Character Combinations
In a technical environment it's more than common to copy/paste configuration files, URLs, code samples and such in order to inform the other chat participant about something. In that case all kinds of ...
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How to escape "!" and "&" in docker's environment varibles
I have a docker container I want to run and hand it over some passwords. One with an exclamation mark ! and the other one with an ampersand &. So I want to run this:
docker run -i -t --rm \
-e "...
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How to use a space in date format section of annotate-output?
I try to use annotate-output (part of devscripts package), to prefix outputs of a script with date and some extra info. First parameter can be a format string passed to date. I want to include a space ...
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How to transmit locally entered modifier keys or shortcuts to the remote desktop via VNC? Mask or escape them somehow?
I am connected to a xmonad desktop but am only able to use the first workspace. How can I change to other workspaces?
Furthermore: If the last terminal is closed, I can’t do anything. How can I open ...
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Using net user with a system account with a backslash
Entering:
net user "IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool"
Results in:
The syntax of this command is:
NET USER
[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/...
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grep fails in upstart script
I have an upstart configuration for a service which needs to check the existance of a process on it's startup. This sounds fairly easy but I'm already trying for 3 hours to get this thing solved and I'...
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Upload a file with a comma in its name with curl
How can I upload a file named yes, this filename has a comma.txt with the cli curl?
You would normally do this to upload a file with curl:
curl --progress-bar -F "[email protected]"
However ...
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why is it true that three backslashes are needed on windows for sed replace
Refering to this question:
Why is an extra \needed in cmd.exe to work with sed (MinGW msys-1.0) when \ is not a special character according to cmd /? (see last paragraph or here)?
The following ...
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Echo string in tcsh with special characters escaped
Is it possible to echo out a string in tcsh such that it is fully escaped, as tcsh would understand? In the same way as printf %q works in bash:
% # Create a variable containing a tab character
% ...
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Escaping a directory in a $PATH-like list
I'm developing a wrapper for LibGit2, the Git library.
And I come out with a problem:
Many GIT functions accept path lists, that is, a string
composed of a series of paths separated by a token,
that ...
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ash scripting: space-containing variable refuses to be grepped
I am trying to run the script listed at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70866&page=2 on its intended hardware, a Nokia Linux phone running BusyBox ash.
The script receives the name of WiFi ...
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bash "pass through" script for android build, space issue
I have an android build i need to customize,
the question is ehre and not in stackoverflow because my issue wis with bash.
I wrote a script:
#!/bin/bash -xv
params=$@
if [ "$#" -ge "2" ]; then
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Transferring environment variable through SSH / quoting in bash/sh/csh/tcsh
I want to transfer an environment variable over SSH.
The "correct" way is using SendEnv/~/.ssh/environment, but that requires the server to support AcceptEnv or PermitUserEnvironment, which it does ...
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cmd.exe quoted string expansion?
Bash has the feature of quoted string expansion, which will allow you to send special characters like so
#!/bin/sh
rtmpdump \
-r rtmp://freeview.fms.visionip.tv/live \
-y tvnetwork-hellenictv-...
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How to quote a command between backticks when shell scripting
The command executed in the following script works:
#!/bin/bash -xv
REM_DIR="/home/jan/rem-dir"
SSHOPTS="-C -c arcfour256 -o "\""ServerAliveInterval 15"\"
SSHUSER="[email protected]"
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where is the '^]' character on an azerty keyboard?
I am currently using telnet and i need to do an escape character (SMTP), where is this character on an azerty keyboard? (linux ubuntu).
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How to escape & sign in excel footer?
I need to have an excel footer that contains the string "&T". My problem is that when I attempt to do this excel automatically changes it to be "&[Time]". Is there anyway to escape the & ...
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Run Program Escape Sequence Putty
Run windows calculator in windows from the Unix command prompt environment!
>echo \\calc
How would I accomplish this same task in putty?
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cat file that contains escaped characters to netcat
I'm trying to test a webserver with some HTTP request written in a file.
GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n
Right now I'm feeding that file to netcat like this:
cat files | nc localhost 80
However, the \r\n ...
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OS X: How to get the current network location inside a bash function?
I need to use the current network location inside a bash script conditional. I've tried using the scselect command, which outputs an asterisk next to the current location:
~/ scselect
Defined sets ...
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