What's happening is that your command exceeds the length of buffer allowed by your shell. Or youve got an unclosed parans/quote. This buffer length varies by shell, OS, etc, but a good rule of thumb might be 250 bytes of entry and then escaping a return:
Otherwise, you might explore variables some and letting the shell interpolate some of the values for you. This way some of the long strings and probable confusion over unclosed parans, etc, could also be eliminated.
The $PS2 variable is a system variable that you can define on the fly, or define in your .profile as a visual cue for such line breaks. It probably defaults to ">".
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What's happening is that your command exceeds the length of buffer allowed by your shell. Or youve got an unclosed parans/quote. This buffer length varies by shell, OS, etc, but a good rule of thumb might be 250 bytes of entry and then escaping a return:
Otherwise, you might explore variables some and letting the shell interpolate some of the values for you. This way some of the long strings and probable confusion over unclosed parans, etc, could also be eliminated.
The $PS2 variable is a system variable that you can define on the fly, or define in your .profile as a visual cue for such line breaks. It probably defaults to ">".
Hi,
I use the below script that will find n record the entire directory structure for a given folder.
bash-3.2$ more mkdir.sh
find . -type d |while read rec
do
echo "mkdir $rec"
echo "chmod -R 777 $rec"
#done
done >> moht.sh
The problem is the folder i m running this script... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
FTP ports opens with the given user name and password and allows to download file through COMMAND PROMPT. Code as below:
H:\>ftp ftpxxxxx
Connected to entvc2ft07-pub.xxxxx.com.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
User (entvc2ft07-pub.xxxxx.com:(none)): userxxxxx
331 User name okay, need... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am facing an issue with mget command, below are the details
The following commands are in a batch file "abc.ctl"
cd /mypath/mydirectory/
mget 'MYFILE_*.touch'
bye
I use this file as a parameter for an sftp command
sftp -b abc.ctl -oIdentityFile=$myserver -oPort=$myport >>... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I was trying to install from source USB_ModeSwitch on my Mac. I have always had success with the basic ./configure, make, make install commands in terminal so don't know how, why or what.
The issue I came across is that the makefile.conf uses the -D flag while installing and on UNIX... (0 Replies)
Does screen command run forever?
Suppose I have following command inserted at my putty shell followed by screen
# screen
# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21
# export ANT_HOME=/usr/ant
# export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin
# export... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to implement posix message queue application. I am faced with an error on the mq_receive section. It says "Message too long". I've tried couple of small tweeks, but to no result. Please do suggest any rectificaitons.
mq_send section-works successfully
#include... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am finding the performance of cat command is very wierd, it is taking more time to merge the files into a single file. We have a situation where we would be merging more than 100 files into a single file, but with cat command it is running slow. I tried doing with paste, join... (13 Replies)
hi,
Function 'mmin' is not in my unix, what is the other alternative to find files created/modified in last 10 minutes.
Unix Command:
find . -min -10
find: bad option -min
find: path-list predicate-list
Thank you (1 Reply)
Hello,
AIM: Need to test for the presence of some files (*.F) in a certain directory.
having a problem with this line is ksh:
if test `ls $SOMEDIR/dir/*.F \
2>/dev/null|wc -w` -eq 0
Basically testing for the presence of *.F files in the specified directory. If the return... (4 Replies)
hello everyone!
Very basic question for the guru's in here but anyways, I am trying to type a command that is longer than the line. What character do I use to continue my command on the next line?
Thanks in advance....
Todd (1 Reply)
