Hi team,
I am looking to execute some command through xargs.
$cat testfile | grep myloc
alias myloc='cd /export/nfs-1sv-23/'
I am trying to execute that alias as soon as i cat and grep ?
I tried with
$cat testfile | grep myloc | xargs
--> no luck ...
Can some one assist me with correct approach please .
My OS is RHEL6 and Solaris 10.
My Shell is Bash & Ksh.
You can try do it as follows:
cat testfile | grep myloc | xargs sed 's/=/ /g' |awk "{print $2}' | bash
What do you mean by no luck?
Thanks for the feedback ...
$ cat testfile | grep myloc | xargs sed 's/=/ /g' |awk '{print $2}' | bash
sed: can't read alias: No such file or directory
sed: can't read myloc=cd /export/nfs-1sv-23/: No such file or directory
no luck --- tried with xarg and it did not work
Any more thoughts please ??
xargs?? Do you mean
eval `grep myloc testfile`
?
Hi think grep myloc = grep cd export/nfs-1sv-23/ i think its wrong can u pls check it
it think should be grep "cd export/nfs-1sv-23/"
please can u be more specific like what are u try to to grep i mean are u trying to grep "some cd" or grep "somepath to file" commands from a file containing multiple
Here is what am planning / my need
We have a NFS mount point on each host - /export/nfs-1sv-23; this NFS mountpoint will be different on different hosts and like that I have 1500 hosts almost 100 NFS mount points are there connecting 1500 Hosts.
So we kept the alias in .profile [ our default shell is KSH ] so as soon as call myloc it will take me to /export/nfs-1sv-23. People who build those shells edited 1500 .profile files.. and kept the
But I want to Keep that same stuff in my .bashrc [ a single file that will be pushed to each host ] so its unique instead of me editing my .bashrc file ... i want to get that content from exisiting file and use it.
cat and grep needs to pass the output which needs to be excuted. Not sure how to acheive this
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Can somebody help me please