Shell Programming and Scripting

First off: you shouldn't. UNIX (any UNIX, including Linux) has a different way of separating text lines in a file , compared to Windows (any Windows-version). If you use (Windows-)notepad.exe to write a file chances are you can't run it on Unix wiht some processing so you will be on the safer side writing the file with a UNIX-based editor on the system itself instead.

OK, but: show us the script! how are we supposed to tell you what is wrong with your script when we haven't seen it yet? Post the content of said valsplit.sh and we will perhaps be able to tell you why it doesn't do what it should. Then you can correct it until it is working. But without having seen it we are like doctors who - instead of examining a patient - are just called by one with the information "it hurts". The reason for this can be everything and then some.

OK. Lets for now assume the thread is legitimate here. We still haven't seen your code and as long as that has not been changed we can't help you. So please post your code (put it in CODE-tags!!) and on we go.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

This might be a start:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# cycle through the arguments
for input in "$@"
do
  err=""
  linenr=0
  # cycle through each line
  while read line
  do
    ((linenr++))
    case $line in
    (*a*)
      : do nothing
    ;;
    (*)
      err="No 'a' in line $linenr"
    ;;
    esac
  done < "$input"
  if [ -n "$err" ]
  then
    echo "${err}, file $input not copied"
  else
    : copy $input
  fi
done

Please try to understand it, and modify it according your needs.