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Find exec sh: Shell variable not getting passed to subshell
Here is a simplified code that prints the name of Directory if it contains a Filename with same name as the parent directory and .md extension.
FIND(){
find . -type d -exec sh -c '
for d ...
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problem escaping quotes in script
I'm constructing a command line for use with the 'mogrify' tool [part of imagemagick]. the finalised command line looks something like this :
mogrify -stroke yellow -draw 'line 0,0 0,319' -draw 'line ...
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Why do these rsync filter args fail in bash when passed in array?
Why does this rsync command work when I give it literally but not when I create it from variables?
Here are the variables - first the options I'm passing to rysnc, as an array:
$ echo "${options[@]}"...
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Correctly quote array that is being passed indirectly via another command
I need to pass an array of filenames to a command, preserving proper quoting. So far, so good. Unfortunately the command is actually a sub-command that is, in turn, invoked by another command. ...
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Bash : Give builded array to function as a list of argument?
I have this issue with borgbackup, but because the reaction is the same, I will use rsync in my example.
I want to build an array of arguments by adding a prefix to each, and then give that array to ...
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Bash: Special variables $@ vs. $* in For Loop [duplicate]
Using $@ instead of $* would preserve quoting. Consider the following script:
#!/bin/bash
# Test.sh
for arg in $@
do
echo "I found the argument $arg"
done
./Test.sh "One Two Three"
I reach the ...
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Can a shell script prints its argument, quoted as you would write them on the shell prompt?
In a shell script, my understanding is that "$@" expands to the script arguments, quoting them as needed. For instance this forwards the script arguments to gcc:
gcc -fPIC "$@"
When using the bash ...
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Passing a git command as an argument
I'm trying to automate some tedious parts of a student job I'm working on.
Basically, the goal is to clone a bunch of git repositories (which I already have working), then run the same git checkout ...
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bash script function argument problem [duplicate]
Not sure why this is producing error. This is a test code emulating my real code. I want to write a wrapper for find and want to allow for any argument, so I'm wrapping each arg in single quotes.
#...
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Passing paths with spaces as arguments
I am having difficulty in passing some string variables having spaces in them as arguments to a program.
For debugging and showing the arguments being passed, I created a demo Python script -:
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How does 'find -exec' pass file names with spaces?
If I have a directory containing some files whose names have spaces, e.g.
$ ls -1 dir1
file 1
file 2
file 3
I can successfully copy all of them to another directory like this:
$ find dir1 -mindepth ...
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UNC Argument in bash scipt
I want to create a bash script with a "pure" UNC (i.e. I do not want to escape the backslashes literally) as an argument, i.e. something like:
./foo \\my\share\is\here
However, as is natural, the ...
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Bash string concatenation used to build parameter list
Given this piece of bash:
PARMS='-rvu'
PARMS+=" --delete --exclude='.git'"
echo $PARMS
rsync ${PARMS} . ${TARGET}
The echo shows the PARMS string as expected, no error is displayed, but rsync ...
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Add arguments to 'bash -c'
Let's say that I want to run a command through Bash like this:
/bin/bash -c "ls -l"
According to Bash man page, I could also run it like this:
# don't process arguments after this one
#...
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Bash Script : Passing a variable to a bash script that contains quotes, single quotes. etc [closed]
lets assume this is the string:
'a',"b"
it contains both single and double quotes.
how would you pass this to a bash script as a single string ?
this is the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
echo $1
it ...
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