Removing Characters when outputting to a script

thedarkdestroyer · 03-21-2006, 07:33 AM

Hi, i have this script that creates another script which lists all duplicate files and give the user an option to uncomment the line to allow it to remove the files, the script is as follows:

#############################
OUTF=henderson.sh;
echo "#! /bin/sh" > $OUTF;
find "$@" -type f -print0 |
xargs -0 -n1 md5sum |
sort --key=1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate |
sed -r 's/^[0-9a-f]*( )*//;s/([^a-zA-Z0-9./_-])/\\\1/g;s/(.+)/#rm \1/' >> $OUTF;
chmod a+x $OUTF; ls -l $OUTF
#############################

the output looks like this:

#! /bin/sh
#rm \ \ ./.kde/share/fonts/fonts.dir
#rm \ \ ./.kde/share/fonts/overide/fonts.dir

but i need it to remove the \ \ ./. so that the output looks like this:

#! /bin/sh
#rm kde/share/fonts/fonts.dir
#rm kde/share/fonts/overide/fonts.dir

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks

marozsas · 03-21-2006, 08:52 AM

Strange...I'm not getting theses double back slashes...

Code:

miguel@gold:~/tmp> cat henderson.sh
#! /bin/sh
#rm ./motion-3.2.4/debian/motion.1
#rm ./motion-3.2.4/motion.1

#rm ./cron-4.1-20.src.rpm
#rm ./cron/cron-4.1-20.src.rpm

#rm ./motion-3.2.4/pwc-ioctl.h
#rm ./motion-3.2.4/pwc-ioctl.h-10.0.5

thedarkdestroyer · 03-21-2006, 08:57 AM

Even odder!! when i run this script on SuSE 9.1 it dosent work at all, im running it on Knoppix 4.0 and it works like i mentioned before, im using the sh shell, im pretty new to Linux/Unix/GNU+Linux..... do the shells in different versions compile differently, i though sh would be the same on Knoppix and SuSE

muha · 03-21-2006, 03:13 PM

maybe you have this problem (LC_ALL='C') :? ~> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=327916

Quote:

After setting the environmental variable LC_ALL='C' grep behaves as expected. <SNIP>
use [[:upper:]] and [[:lower:]] in scripts.