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Bash - setting a string variable and printf
I am setting a variable as follows and when I print it out I get something unexpected.
sql="values ('$yy-$mm-$dd $time','$tz', $load)"
printf "%s\n" "$sql"
)alues ('2011-...
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Bash: Reuse printf variables in output
Is it possible to use the variables passed to printf more than once in the formatting?
For example, with this line:
printf 'Hi %s, welcome to %s. %s is a great place to work. Thanks %s.' "John&...
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How do I output all BASH results of find to a single variable? More details in post
LATEST UPDATE:
I nearly have it figured out with some help from Richard Jessop and his comment. This is the output I currently have:
(\
"DSC009.jpg"\
"wallpaper.png"\
"image732.bmp"\
"animated.gif"\
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How to use a bash variable to hold the format of find's printf statement [duplicate]
How can bash use a variable for the format of find's -printf statement? I am trying to convert the following:
find ./ -type f -printf "File: %p has modification time [%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM:%TS %TZ]\n"
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Bash: on the escapping of the variables within printf [duplicate]
I have a script in bash which print some file with another script which do again the same job (the first script print another executable script which again produce the third one):
#!/bin/bash
# it is ...
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An escaping of the variable within bash script
My bash script writes an another bash script using printf.
printf "#!/bin/bash
HOME=${server}
file=gromacs*
file_name=\$(basename "\${file}")
date=\$(date +"\%m_\%d_\%Y")
for sim in \${HOME}/* ; do
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Variables within the printf
Using bash I need to print some txt file which actually is another python script consisted of some tittles moved into the variable (t) within the main script
t="test"
printf "import pymol
cmd.load("$...
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Expand a variable with spaces for printf
My script constructs variables into a given order depending on a table to be printed. But if there are any spaces in the end string, printf treats it as a separate column. Imagine the following:
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Bash: Variable substitution in quoted string looks like something from the Twilight Zone
I've got a bash script that's reading essentially the output of telnet (actually socat to a unix domain socket).
while read -r LINE; do
if [ "$USER_DATA_FLAG" == "true" ]; then #Evaluates to ...
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How do I print some text in bash and pad it with spaces to a certain width?
I'm echoing some text in a bash script with a variable in it, and want to pad that variable so it will always have the appropriate ammount of spaces to the right to keep the rest of the text aligned.
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