On 10/04/2006, at 12:39 AM, Jan Grant wrote:
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I'm trying to follow the instructions at
<http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/>
At point four it offers this shell script.
cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uniq |
while read X; do
if [ -f $X ]; then echo $X; fi;
done | sort > /root/base-old
Running this from root shell in konsole (bash) I get "while:
Expression
Syntax". The various hints and clues I get from the shell, the web
and man
bash haven't helped me. Would someone provide the correct syntax for
me?
That syntax is correct for sh and bash; you're not running it, however.
Double-check that after you su to root, you're really running bash.
That
error is what csh will tell you.
Thanks Jan,
Your advice got me to step 7 where the need to pass a control structure
to the loop stopped me again.
I got a bash shell and I write:
for dist in base dict doc games info manpages ports; do
cat /mnt/6.0-RELEASE/${dist}/${dist}.?? > /usr/${dist}.tgz
done
I put it onto three lines by typing "\" at the end of each line to
achieve the layout and I get the prompt ">". When I get to the end, ie,
"done" I press Enter and get another prompt.
How can I get the multi-line command executed?
Malcolm
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