Shell Programming and Scripting

I missed the errors on the upload of other two files. Here they are.
ok That was output, this is the script. I had to take the "." off of the fileneme of my input file, windoze made me do it.

I found the problem Something is wrong with my typeset statements.
I took them out. The other poster, cfajohnson suggested using the formatting capabilities of printf. I need to learn how to do that.
Thanks Perderabo and cfajohnson and mukundranjan.

SkyyBugg

Update. More specifically it was I believe the typeset commands for pflag and oflag and rflag that were causing the problem.

Thanks. I will get fancy with printf and also get fancy with case.
SB

Using Windows may be the cause of some of your problems. The files you uploaded have carriage returns that can break scripts, both in the script itself and in the data file.

The script you attached bears little resemblance to the scripts you posted earlier. What is the problem with the script you attached?

CFJ
Thanks for your suggestions!
when I posted the script I said it was a snippet. I thought that the problem was in the snippet. Also I did not want to overwelm any one with my excessive and incomplete documentation.
I only used windows to post the script,output file, input file to this forum.
Thanks to you I decided to focus on the typeset statements.
I found the problem and it was my use of typeset, as I said in my later post, which perhaps you have not read yet.

I should have realized what the typeset commands were doing. It's a good example of why you shouldn't use them. Even so, you could have taken that into account in your case statement:

Code:

case $oflag in
    o*) TYPEO="Orders" ;;
esac

Or:

Code:

case $oflag in
    o\  ) TYPEO="Orders" ;;
esac

This printf command should give you what you want; it may need tweaking:

Code:

printf "%-4s%-36s%-9s%-16s%-10s%-2s%-2s%-2s%-10s%-6s\n" "$no" \
             "$NM_SERVER" "$TYPEP" "$TYPER" "$TYPEO" "$pflag" "$rflag" \
             "$oflag" "$NODE_NAME" "$DOMAIN" \

CFAJ,

You are too gereous, writing that code!
Fantastic observations. There is more than one way to write it and more than one way to fix it! I will play around with the case and printf code just to learn it.

What I want to do is to use this scripting more and more so that I can quickly make observations like that. Push out code without breaking a sweat like you just did. and Perderabo.

I sweat over this stuff, but if I use it more, I should improve.
When we add new printers, some processes have to be recycled in the application. I wrote a script long ago to do this, but I have to edit it from one application domain to the next. I want to build these data files and set them to readonly permission so no one will delete them.

My next job is to write one to add the printer wrapping ksh around AIX smitt.

Well I probably in TMI territory now!

Thanks again!
SkyyBugg