On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 17:58, Guy Rouillier wrote: > I had the following script that I sourced from .bashrc to let me know > when I was running out of disk space. > > #!/bin/bash > df | grep dev | cut -c53-54,56- | while read p1 p2 > do > if [ $p1 -gt 95 ] > then > echo "Danger! $p2 is $p1 full!" > fi > done > > This worked fine under Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 8.0. I've just spent 3 > tortuous hours determining that sourcing this no longer works. Now I > have to simply run it. That is, before where I had > > source ~/checksize.sh > > now I must have simply > > ~/checksize.sh > > The original method produces this: > > bash: [: -gt: unary operator expected > bash: [: -gt: unary operator expected > bash: [: ha: integer expression expected > bash: [: oo: integer expression expected > bash: [: -gt: unary operator expected > > The reason that I sourced it originally is that because I was starting a > shell script from within .bashrc, I got into an infinite loop. This no > longer appears to happen. Why does sourcing no longer work?
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