Quoting / escaping / expansion issue in “command in a variable”
I want to run a command such as this in a bash script:
quoting
Why does bash variable expansion retain quotes?
> echo "hi" hi > VAR='echo "hi"' > $VAR "hi" Why is the output of the above commands different? A similar thing occurs with single quotes: > VAR="echo 'hi'" > $VAR > 'hi' Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the … Read more
How can I delete a file named “>”?
I was running a Python script that malfunctioned and used sudo to create a file named >.
Delete all files starting with a question mark
I have a folder in which I have around 4k files. Some of these files start with a a ? or ! character. I need to delete them but can’t find an expression that would do so:
How does ‘find -exec’ pass file names with spaces?
If I have a directory containing some files whose names have spaces, e.g.
Why doesn’t GNU parallel work with “bash -c”?
% echo -e '1n2' | parallel "bash -c 'echo :$1' '' {}" :1 :2 % echo -e '1n2' | parallel bash -c 'echo :$1' '' {} % I’d expect the second line to act the same. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help … Read more