Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100
Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could not get this to work, the shell complains:
./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think
this is rather an
Brian wrote:
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100
Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could not get this to work, the shell complains:
./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think
this is
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian wrote:
So can you explain exactly what the first ( echo $teststring )
does exactly please?
In any case, I'd be interested in knowing where you found this
construct.
The bash man page seems to be one of
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian wrote:
So can you explain exactly what the first ( echo $teststring )
does exactly please?
In any case, I'd be interested in knowing where you found this
construct.
The bash man page
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian wrote:
So can you explain exactly what the first ( echo
$teststring ) does exactly please?
In any case,
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian wrote:
So can you explain exactly what the first ( echo
$teststring ) does exactly please?
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I do the process substitution using a stand alone programs, it
works as described:
$ wc (echo this is a test)
1 4 15 /dev/fd/63
I couldn't find the correct place to
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William Pursell wrote:
I couldn't find the correct place to interject this question in
the thread, so I fairly randomly selected this location...
As far as I can tell, the following 4 commands should
all behave the same, but the last one hangs.
On Wed March 5 2008 15:36:50 William Pursell wrote:
As far as I can tell, the following 4 commands should
all behave the same, but the last one hangs. Can anyone
see why?
$ cat (echo foo)
foo
$ bash -c 'cat (echo foo)'
foo
$ echo foo | bash -c 'cat'
foo
$ bash -c 'cat' (echo foo)
The
Georg Neis wrote:
Brian wrote:
The following does not (the value is empty):
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; }
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in
a subshell.
Yes.
So how can I extract the parts I
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:48 +0100, Brian wrote:
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; }
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
{ read A B C D E F; } ( echo $teststring )
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
Robomod,
I could not get this to work,
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100
Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could not get this to work, the shell complains:
./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think
this is rather an esoteric but often useful
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:08:47PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages
generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:08:47PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages
generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example)
Hi,
I tried using bash to split a string. This works OK:
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; echo Data received = $E Bytes; }
The following does not (the value is empty):
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; }
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
I assume it has something to
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:48:49PM +0100, Brian wrote:
Hi,
I tried using bash to split a string. This works OK:
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; echo Data received = $E Bytes; }
The following does not (the value is empty):
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; }
echo Data
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:48 +0100, Brian wrote:
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; }
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
{ read A B C D E F; } ( echo $teststring )
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
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Brian wrote:
The following does not (the value is empty):
echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; }
echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty
I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in
a subshell.
Yes.
So how can I extract the parts I want into
How can I see all the messages generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is a redirection but I don´t know how to make
both things happen at
Hi,
You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename
Chris
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I see all the messages generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:33:20PM -0800, Luis Maceira wrote:
How can I see all the messages generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:33:20PM -0800, Luis Maceira wrote:
How can I see all the messages generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:33:20PM -0800, Luis Maceira wrote:
How can I see all the messages generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is
Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages
generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is a redirection but I don´t
Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe?
Not only stdout,stderr.
Chris Henry wrote:
Hi,
You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename
Chris
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I see all the messages generated by
a bash command (configure
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hhding wrote:
Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe?
Not only stdout,stderr.
Chris Henry wrote:
Hi,
You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename
Chris
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:25PM +0800, hhding wrote:
Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe?
Not only stdout,stderr.
If you mean both stdout and stderr
./configure 21 | tee log.txt
would work. But I don't know if that is what you meant.
HTH.
Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:25PM +0800, hhding wrote:
Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe?
Not only stdout,stderr.
If you mean both stdout and stderr
./configure 21 | tee log.txt
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joseph lockhart wrote:
Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages
generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
For things like saving photos to hard disk, I tend to use a few bash scripts
to rename the files, keeping the numerical part and coding something else in
place of the cimg. For example, I might change all the files cimg1234.jpg
to cimg1299.jpg to be called foobar234.jpg to foobar299.jpg. I tend
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:16:38PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
For things like saving photos to hard disk, I tend to use a few bash scripts
to rename the files, keeping the numerical part and coding something else in
place of the cimg. For example, I might change all the files cimg1234.jpg
to
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:16:38PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
For things like saving photos to hard disk, I tend to use a few bash scripts
to rename the files, keeping the numerical part and coding something else in
place of the cimg. For example, I might change all the files cimg1234.jpg
to
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:16, Richard Lyons wrote:
For things like saving photos to hard disk, I tend to use a few bash
scripts to rename the files, keeping the numerical part and coding
something else in place of the cimg. For example, I might change all the
files cimg1234.jpg to
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:52:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:43:28AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
This has been asked and answered a few times in the past. There are
several ways to do it. Here is one:
#!/bin/sh
IFS=$'\n'
for FILE in `ls
* Shawn Lamson
for file in `ls`
do mpg123 $file
done
Really?
$ touch aa aa
$ touch bb
$ for file in `ls`; do echo $file; done
aa
aa
bb
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beating this to death:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=
for file in $(ls -1); do
echo $file
done
cheers,
-matt zagrabelny
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This is a general shell-scripting question:
In a for loop which runs through all files, as in:
for file in `ls`
do
#stuff
done
How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, to play all
mp3s in the current directory:
for file in `ls`
do
mpg123 $file
done
...will do
Stephan Sauerburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a for loop which runs through all files, as in:
for file in `ls`
do
#stuff
done
ITYM 'for file in *'...
...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any
spaces in them.
because it gets around this. In general,
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:
So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only by
newlines (\n), filling the contents of file with the whole line,
and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space?
This has been asked and
On Tue, July 01 at 2:46 AM EDT
Stephan Sauerburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only
by newlines (\n), filling the contents of file with the whole line,
and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space?
You'll probably get a
* Stephan Sauerburger
This is a general shell-scripting question:
In a for loop which runs through all files, as in:
for file in `ls`
do
#stuff
done
How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, to play
all
mp3s in the current directory:
for file in
Hi.
Try find. It has the -exec parameter. That is what you want.
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
ITYM 'for file in *'...
ISTR earlier versions...
flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email.
Guess i should learn some acronyms!
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for file in *.ogg; do
ogg123 $file
done
(Since the double-quotes allow variable expansion, but force the
result to be a single world for shell purposes.)
To deal with all (im)possible filenames, you could even do:
for file in *.ogg
do
ogg123 -- $file
done
Just in case you have
Jon Haugsand [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-01 19:43]:
in your directory.
A very failsafe variant is to use find:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 mpg123
I usually make use of find's parameter
-maxdepth level
if you would like to restrict the search to a certain depth of the
directory tree
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:43:28AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:
So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list
only by newlines (\n), filling the contents of file with the
whole line, and not separate
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 3:18 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
There's one mistake in the above even before looking at the contents of
#stuff, namely that you shouldn't be using ls here. Have a look at
this document written by a friend of mine:
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/04/shell.html
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:04:35PM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote:
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 3:18 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
There's one mistake in the above even before looking at the contents of
#stuff, namely that you shouldn't be using ls here. Have a look at
this document written by a friend
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 9:46 am, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:
How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example,
to play all mp3s in the current directory:
for file in `ls`
do
mpg123 $file
done
...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any
ls | while read file
do
cat $bob
done
for loops treat spaces and newlines the same (which is what you are
seeing), the read command reads till the end of the line including
spaces. Note that when you use the environment variable you must quote
it (be sure to use as opposed to ').
If you
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:41:56 +0100
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
ITYM 'for file in *'...
ISTR earlier versions...
flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email.
Guess i should learn some acronyms!
Indeed, eval did the trick, exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks to all
who responded, you were most helpful.
-Corey
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On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:01 pm, Bob Proulx wrote:
Craig Dickson wrote:
echo $var=$(eval echo \$$var)
That works. Personally I prefer to eval the entire line. This way
you only use one layer of processing rather than the two in the above.
for var in FOO BLAH ; do
eval
Hello,
This isn't exactly a debian-specific question, but I'm not sure where
else to turn.
I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
to do would be like this:
#!/bin/bash
FOO=bar
BLAH=blarg
for
Corey Hickey wrote:
I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
to do would be like this:
#!/bin/bash
FOO=bar
BLAH=blarg
for var in FOO BLAH ; do
echo $var = $$var #this part
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:58:35PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
This isn't exactly a debian-specific question, but I'm not sure where
else to turn.
I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
to
Craig Dickson wrote:
echo $var=$(eval echo \$$var)
That works. Personally I prefer to eval the entire line. This way
you only use one layer of processing rather than the two in the above.
for var in FOO BLAH ; do
eval echo $var = \$$var;
done
For those following this scripting
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:34:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:58:35PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
#!/bin/bash
FOO=bar
BLAH=blarg
for var in FOO BLAH ; do
echo $var = $$var #this part is messed up
done
Try this, which I believe to be the best way:
In a shell script does:
MODPROBE=:
do anything special besides set $MODPROBE to :?
Why I ask is the hotplug usb.agent script does:
MODPROBE=:
for MAP in $MAP_USERMAP $HOTPLUG_DIR/usb/*.usermap
do
if [ -r $MAP ]; then
load_drivers usb $MAP $LABEL
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:22:14AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
In a shell script does:
MODPROBE=:
do anything special besides set $MODPROBE to :?
No.
MODPROBE=:
[...]
debug_mesg Looking for module $MODULE with modprobe=$MODPROBE
if $MODPROBE -n $MODULE
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:22:14AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
In a shell script does:
MODPROBE=:
do anything special besides set $MODPROBE to :?
No.
MODPROBE=:
[...]
debug_mesg Looking for module $MODULE with
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:
In other words, from what I can see it seems as if the program foo is
not run, although it it claims ran foo.
if : -n foo /dev/null 21 ! : foo /dev/null 21 ; then
echo failed to load
else
echo ran foo
fi
Never mind. Now
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:42:35PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
Hi,
I have the following bash question. I've written a script that makes
sure that I'm online (ISDN dial-on-demand) and then gets mail with
fetchmail. He're the code that makes sure I'm connected and prints dots
while doing
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
With kill -9, there is no way the shell can catch it. It's a bit of a
shotgun approach to getting rid of the process (man 7 signal).
However, if you were to settle for the normal kill (= SIGTERM), then you
should be OK:
#!/bin/sh
echo -n Doing
Hi,
I have the following bash question. I've written a script that makes
sure that I'm online (ISDN dial-on-demand) and then gets mail with
fetchmail. He're the code that makes sure I'm connected and prints dots
while doing so:
# Make sure we're online
echo -n Connecting
Hi All.
How do you _read_ from the printer, which is an output device?
Are you trying to get status info back from the printer?
Yes. I want to get status info. When I do `echo -e ...' then
`cat /dev/lp0' from command line, this work correctly. When I do
from script this do not work.
You'd
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:49:25 +0200 (EET) Petrov M.I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All.
How do you _read_ from the printer, which is an output device?
Are you trying to get status info back from the printer?
Yes. I want to get status info. When I do `echo -e ...' then
`cat /dev/lp0' from
Hi All.
I write small script:
#!/bin/bash
echo -e ...PJL commands... | cat /dev/lp0
cat /dev/lp0
When I try it run I get nothing.
When I run this script two time (one after the other)
I get informations.
I need write to read from /dev/lp0 in one the same
script. How do this do? Any help
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:30:47 +0200 (EET) Petrov M.I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All.
I write small script:
#!/bin/bash
echo -e ...PJL commands... | cat /dev/lp0
Try adding a newline:
echo -e ...PJL commands...\n | cat /dev/lp0
cat /dev/lp0
???
When I try it run I get nothing.
in bash, is it possible to identify the line number of a script, from
where a function has been called?
for instance, using the hypothetical print_line_number function, which
i am looking for:
1 #!/bin/sh
2
3 function myfn()
4 {
5echo -n this function has been called from line
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:28:35PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
in bash, is it possible to identify the line number of a script, from
where a function has been called?
You have $LINENO, but it restarts counting from 1 in functions. But if
you invoke the function with $LINENO as argument, the
Hey,
Anyone know where I might find info about using BASH to create an installer
for a application? something that would just ask the person various
questions, and use that info to create config files and what not?
thanks
Sunny Dubey
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:06:07AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hey,
Anyone know where I might find info about using BASH to create an
installer for a application? something that would just ask the person
various questions, and use that info to create config files and what
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com:
You could also look at some standard installer scripts...trying to think
of one off the top of my head. None are floating up that aren't
attached to some monster applications -- DB/2's installer comes to mind,
but that's a pretty hefty download..
Mayby
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote:
That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do.
Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory
with export to my PATH. Yesterday everything went fine, but today I always
get the error
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:55:13AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote:
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote:
That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do.
Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory
with export to my
That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do.
Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory
with export to my PATH. Yesterday everything went fine, but today I always
get the error command not found. I checked my PATH, it i so.k. and the
compiled programs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Kulka) writes:
I do not think your PATH is really set. How did you check your
path? Did you echo $PATH to verify?
That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do.
Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory
with export to
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote:
That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do.
Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory
with export to my PATH. Yesterday everything went fine, but today I always
get the error command
Ciao Andreas Sliwka,
where or whom should I ask not-so-easy bash questions?
news:comp.unix.shell
Ciao
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Hi,
where or whom should I ask not-so-easy bash questions?
The one special question or problem is:
I want to start a program in a shell script, get the filedescriptor for
its standard input and let other programs, which I want to start after the
first program, writer there standard output
Hi ppl,
As far as I did not find the answer in bash manual, I hope that
someone can help me here. Let say I have two bash scripts and I need the
parameter which is set in scr2 to be visable in scr1.
scr1:
#!/bin/sh
export LANG=lang1
echo LANG is $LANG in $0
scr2
Hi ppl,
As far as I did not find the answer in bash manual, I hope that
someone can help me here. Let say I have two bash scripts and I need the
parameter which is set in scr2 to be visable in scr1.
scr1:
#!/bin/sh
export LANG=lang1
echo LANG is $LANG in $0
Thanks Eric,
I tried sourcing scr2 and it works faster then CALLING scr2.
Eugene.
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
Hi ppl,
As far as I did not find the answer in bash manual, I hope that
someone can help me here. Let say I have two bash scripts and I need the
parameter
Thanks Eric,
I tried sourcing scr2 and it works faster then CALLING scr2.
This is to be expected: if you call a script, separate shell is started
that runs it. This takes some time. If you source a script, the only
overhead is opening and reading an extra file.
Eric
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I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured
it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've
still got it. I'm running
ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
I'm trying to get my command recall to work in vi mode for
Jim Lynch wrote:
I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured
it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've
still got it. I'm running
ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
I'm trying to get my command recall
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts?
For example, I want to create a short script called print so that I
can do some formatted printing:
#!/bin/sh
# Print -- formatted printer tool to get a 5-space margin and a
For those who are interested, my BASH problems were due to the presence
of some control characters in the script file. I was using the ae
editor, which in its latest incarnation was inserting a ^M at the end
of each line to signify a carriage return. Once I switched to vi I
could see the
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 09:50:28AM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote:
1) /bin/bash : No such file name
2) /bin/bash : Invalid file or directorypr --where part of the error
message includes the last few characters of each line in the shell
script.
/bin/sh is not linked to /bin/bash correctly.
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts?
For example, I want to create a short script called print so that I
can do some formatted printing:
#!/bin/sh
# Print -- formatted printer tool to get a 5-space margin and a
header/footer
pr -o 5 $1 | lpr
When I try to run this
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I suggest that you uuencode one of the non-working scripts and mail it
to the list. It could be that some funny characters slipped in and
they're confusing bash.
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Are there any bash gurus out there? I have a couple of Q's.
I have some scripts that run fine under bourne-shell on solaris,
but break under bash on debian. The signal trapping doesn't seem
to work. Nor does executing multiple commands on a single line
separated by ; characters. Even on the
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:54:37 +0900 Richard G. Roberto
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have some scripts that run fine under bourne-shell on solaris,
but break under bash on debian. The signal trapping doesn't seem
to work. Nor does executing multiple commands on a single line
separated by ;
bash$ xplaycd ; xmixer
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
Indeed, sh(1) will breaks in svr4, but not in bsdi.
Did not spend the time to track down the verisions thought.
In debian, bash(1) version 1.14.7-2, this problem is easily solved, do:
$ xplaycd xmixer
Do not know about
Well, unfortunately, I'm not really executing xplaycd in the
script. The and ; work fine on SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX
and Ahmdahl bourne-shells. It also works under ash. I'm tempted
to just install ash as the default shell, but I would like to run
bash as my login shell. Is there any way to
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