Re: shell script problem

2012-12-24 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 447, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:48:12 +0100 Dh?nin Jean-Jacques dhe...@gmail.com 2012/12/23 Polytropon free...@edvax.de #!/bin/sh cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 do cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 do

shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi all Please take a look at the script below wich I've wrote : 1- cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE12- do3-    cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE24-    do 5-         if [ $LINE1 = $LINE2 ]; then6-               sw=17-               echo Current value of sw is : $sw8-              

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:05:35 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi all Please take a look at the script below wich I've wrote : 1- cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE12- do3-    cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE24-    do 5-         if [ $LINE1 = $LINE2 ]; then6-              

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:34:34 +0100, Polytropon wrote: First, the lines with read have to be: cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE1 cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE2 Reason: $LINE1 and $LINE2 will be evaluated here, they are empty string, causing read to throw an error.

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/12/2012 09:43, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:34:34 +0100, Polytropon wrote: First, the lines with read have to be: cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE1 cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE2 Reason: $LINE1 and $LINE2 will be evaluated here, they are empty

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:57:02 + Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: Hmmm I'd just like to draw your attention to the comm(1) program, which lets you find lines common to two files, or only in one or other of a pair of inputs, very easily. The only slight gotcha is that the input

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread  Dhénin Jean-Jacques
2012/12/23 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:34:34 +0100, Polytropon wrote: First, the lines with read have to be: cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE1 cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE2 Reason: $LINE1 and $LINE2 will be evaluated here, they are

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread  Dhénin Jean-Jacques
2012/12/23 Polytropon free...@edvax.de #!/bin/sh cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 do cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 do if [ $LINE1 = $LINE2 ]; then sw=1 echo Current value of sw is : $sw

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:19 AM 8/23/2008, David Banning wrote: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done then filenames that have a space in them ie: john smith.jpg are processed by my script as two names, john

space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread David Banning
I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done then filenames that have a space in them ie: john smith.jpg are processed by my script as two names, john and smith.jpg. What is the best way to deal

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread RW
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:19:42 -0400 David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done for x in * ___

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done for x in * There's the (poorly documented, IMO) IFS (internal field separator) shell variable. It's a

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:19:42 -0400, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done then filenames that have a space in them ie: john smith.jpg are

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:19:42 -0400, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:16:36 -0400, Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: spaces won't go away, and since they're legal in filenames, one may as well handle them. Well, it's completely possible to create a file name like: This is my *favourite* photo from Cats \ by Bob Jane / my wife ~ 2008

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: Well, it's completely possible to create a file name like: This is my *favourite* photo from Cats \ by Bob Jane / my wife ~ 2008 `musical'.JPG Um... actually you cannot create that as a filename on UFS. There are precisely two characters you cannot use in a filename.

Re: OT: shell script problem

2003-02-21 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:14:22PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: i have this script with one input file and i keep getting the error: /files_???/19980527/???/servermyname # sh doc_id.sh input.txt /files_???/19980527/???/: No such file or directory /files_???/19980527/???/ sh

OT: shell script problem

2003-02-20 Thread Brian Henning
i have this script with one input file and i keep getting the error: /files_???/19980527/???/servermyname # sh doc_id.sh input.txt /files_???/19980527/???/: No such file or directory /files_???/19980527/???/ sh doc_id.sh - #! /bin/sh -x INPUT=$1 for i in `cat $INPUT`;