[dundee] Help with Bash Shell

['Gary Short']

Yeah works here too, if I input a short line. The JSON lines are looong,
that's why I thought maybe some buffer issue or something. Anyhoo, that
didn't work either, sorry, though it did put the single quote in exactly the
same place near the end of the line. I've messed around with this long
enough, I'm going to try python now I think. Shame Bash didn't work as it
would have been a nice, short, simple solution.

Thanks for your help.

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-
> bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Ladyman
> Sent: 31 March 2011 10:33
> To: Tayside Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell
> 
> Err...well, it works here (as the old saying goes): I suspect that
> something
> in the data is being interpreted as a bash command.
> 
> Try
> 
> echo \'$data\'
> 
> (that's slash-quote)
> 
> 
> 
> > Weird, Bash inserts the single quote near the end of the string. It's
> like
> > $data isn't all there when the quote is added and then the rest of it
> > "catches up". Tried putting in a sleep 1, but that made no difference
> so I
> > don't think it's a timing issue. Tried saving $data locally first so
> as to
> > try and flush any buffer, didn't work either. Weird. Linux sucks. ;-)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-
> > > bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of 'Gary Short'
> > > Sent: 31 March 2011 09:38
> > > To: 'Tayside Linux User Group'
> > > Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell
> > >
> > > Thanks Robert,
> > >
> > > And that nearly works too! :-)
> > >
> > > Echoing "'$data'" (to see what gets sent to couchdb) gives me
> > >
> > > '{"key":"value" ... }
> > >
> > > Note, no single quote at the end, no idea why Bash doesn't append
> it,
> > > it's
> > > there in the code, but of course, without it, Couchdb returns "bad
> > > JSON".
> > >
> > > Sigh... may have to break out Python
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Gary
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-
> > > > bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Ladyman
> > > > Sent: 31 March 2011 05:09
> > > > To: Tayside Linux User Group
> > > > Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell
> > > >
> > > > Whoops - that should be:
> > > > QUOTED_DATA="'$data'"
> > > >
> > > > although the echo would work
> > > >
> > > > > if that fails, use the echo trick above and put the result into
> a
> > >
> > > new
> > >
> > > > >  variable
> > > > >
> > > > > QUOTED_DATA=`echo "'$data'"`
> > > > >
> > > > > note the back-ticks around the right-hand statement
> > > >
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