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How to escape single quotes in rsync out-format parameter under bash?

I'm using bash version 3.0.9 under Centos 7, and I just can't seem to find a combination of escaping that will let me pass single quotes to the out-format parameter. I've tried every combination I think of to wrap the options in single or double…
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How to make bash treat variables as strings using process substitution

I have the statement: A=$(echo "echo a") && bash -c "awk -v var=\"$A\" 'BEGIN {printf \"%20s\", var}'" Which outputs: echo az And I can't make this one-liner work: A=$(echo "echo a") && bash -c "paste <(awk -v var="$A" 'BEGIN {printf…
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SSH hangs every time an escape character is transmitted

I've been asked to continue installation of a freshly installed Debian system. I can log in there through SSH with no problems. But the connection hangs every time the remote shell sends an escape character. For example, all these commands hang the…
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Ubuntu Server Cron Jobs not running

iam about to blow up: i cant figure out why my jobs in the crontab -e file of any user are not running. None of them do so the "last cron job is not running" problem is not aplicable. Also i checked this thread and couldn't find any mistakes. I even…
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How to escape pipeline char in Windows shell?

I need to specify a regular expression that includes | character to findstr command: processtext.exe | findstr /R "Hello|Bye" How do I escape it? \| does not work. Quotes fix issue with pipelining but the regex does not match although separate…
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Deal with dashes and spaces in T-SQL String functions

I am searching for the occurrence of a string in a field on a table. The search statement is done through dynamic sql with my statement template looking like this. SET @sSQL = 'UPDATE #tempProcsAndJobs SET ' + @columnName + ' = 1 WHERE…
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sed replace text - escape characters

I have a mysqldump file in which I want to replace the following text
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Do modern mail servers still escape lines they think are headers?

For many years I have made it my practice to set up my e-mail clients so that when I forward e-mails I forward them as attachments rather than forwarding them "inline". I did this because, in the past, often when I forwarded e-mail an intervening…
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batch for loop with bracket in the command

I have a batch file with the following code: for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d') do ( echo Processing %%a >>%LOG% dtsrun /S(local) /NNotesLoad /A"FilePath:8="%NOTESDIR%\%%a" /AClientID=%1 >>%LOG% echo Deleting %%a >>%LOG% del %%a…
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Run commands that run in a shell as a script

Running the following commands in a shell runs without issues: ssh user@machine systemctl status my-service.service ssh user@machine sudo systemctl stop my-service.service scp -r ./my-service/* user@machine:/home/user/my-service ssh user@machine…
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