[dundee] Help with Bash Shell

[Rick Moynihan]

I suspect you might be surpassing the maximum commandline argument limit.

You might want to look at piping stdin directly into to curl... I
think it takes a - argument that'll do this.

R.

On 31 March 2011 10:40, Gary Short <gary at garyshort.org> wrote:
> 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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