How are parentheses interpreted at the command line?
While reading up on how to set up grub, I came across an article claiming that I need to use one of the following two syntaxes,
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What characters are required to be escaped in command line arguments?
In Bash, when specifying command line arguments to a command, what characters are required to be escaped?
Do I need to quote command substitutions when assigning their output to a variable?
DIRNAME=”$(dirname $FILE)” will not do what you want if $FILE contains whitespace or globbing characters [?*.
Using a reference to a bash string variable in sed
I’m a relative Linux novice. Suppose that I have a text file a.txt that contains the following text:
Man page quotation characters
I’ve just been looking through a few man pages for a few different commands including grep and ifconfig. I’ve noticed over a few pages, the content uses a strange syntax to notate what i think are quotations (back-tick followed by a single or double quote): `text' Why can’t they use ‘ or ” to open … Read more
Trouble in script with spaces in filename
I’ve got a script that scp’s a file from remote host back to local. Sometimes the file names contain spaces. scp does not like spaces in its file names. For some reason my attempts at handling the spaces have not resulted in the correct scp path.
How do I join an array of strings where each string has spaces?
My bash script:
What characters need to be escaped in files without quotes?
I have browser-based shell/terminal that executes bash commands and I’m escaping spaces but it turns out that parenthesis also need to be escaped. What other characters need to be escaped for file names that are not in quotes?
grep and escaping a dollar sign
I want to know which files have the string $Id$.