Tmp has special permissions only the person that created it can delete it and
generally global write is not enabled
Clan up the tmp file reliably and you should have no problems.
The is also a make temp call that gives you a reliably unique filename
Ken Foskey
On 09/05/2011, at 9:59 AM, Chris Donovan <alienreside...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a good idea to use variables for storing the filenames used.
> It's also a good idea to use an absolute path when accessing the file.
> eg:
>
> my_user = "voytek"
> ccc_final = "/var/tmp/ccc"
> ccc_html = "http:.../ccc.html"
> ccc_txt = "/var/tmp/ccc.txt"
> ccc_bod = "/var/tmp/ccc.bod"
>
> wget ... $ccc_html
> ...
> links -dump $ccc_html > $ccc_txt
> ...
> awk '/Page/, /References/ { print }' $ccc_txt > $ccc_bod
> ...
> mail -s "ccc list" $my_user < $ccc_final
>
> etc.
>
> Chris-
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Voytek Eymont <li...@sbt.net.au> wrote:
>> I'm trying to put together a basic script, it works fine when I run it as
>> root, but, I'm having issues when I try to run as 'voytek'
>>
>> $ ls -al /usr/local/bin/ccc
>> -rwxr-x--- 1 root voytek 1409 May 9 08:19 /usr/local/bin/ccc
>>
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/ccc: line 16: ccc.txt: Permission denied
>> mv: overwrite `ccc.old', overriding mode 0644?
>> rm: remove write-protected regular file `logout.html'?
>> rm: remove write-protected regular file `logout.html'?
>> logout.html: Permission denied
>>
>>
>> script fetches a html page, parses it several times, then emails some text
>> from it
>>
>> when starting the script should I say 'cd /var/tmp' (to have temp files
>> in/var/tmp?)
>>
>> should I prefix full path to intermediate files ( /var/tmp/body.txt?)
>>
>> -------------------------------
>> wget .... http://dom.tld/main.htm
>> wget .... ccc.html
>>
>> echo "dump to text, get rid of blanks "
>> links -dump ccc.html > ccc.txt
>>
>> ## get rid of blank lines
>> awk '/Page/, /References/ { print }' ccc.txt > ccc.bod
>>
>> ## Better remove all leading and trailing whitespace from end of each line:
>> sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' ccc.bod > ccc.1
>>
>> # delete lines matching pattern
>> sed '/INT/d' ccc.1 > ccc
>>
>> mail -s "ccc list" voytek < ccc
>>
>> mv ccc ccc.old
>> rm main.htm
>> rm logout.html
>> rm ccc.1
>> rm ccc.bod
>> rm ccc.html
>> rm logout.html
>> rm my-cookies
>>
>> -------------------------------
>>
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>>
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