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12-19-2001

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Unbelievable pipe bug

Hi!

Maybe is just because I am a beginner, but I can't imagine, what is the cause of the following problem:

- I have a postinstall script(~17 Kb), which will be called in the following way from an other global installtool:

...
cat postinstall.sh | sh > /dev/null 2>&1
...

But somehow not the entire script will be sended through the pipe, and I will get an error:

if [ "$ERROR_CODE" -eq 0 ]
then
# success
exit 0
else
# /bin/sh: syntax error at line 714: 'end of file' unexpected

Of course not this is the end of the script.

I have taked out some comments from the postinstall script, now it has ~14 Kb and now works everything fine.

I have tried out the original script with the above command (cat ...) from the command line, and there everything works. The problem come out not on every computers, so I have checked out the OS versions, but these are the same.

Had somebody before such an error?
What do you thing about it?

Thank you,
Jozsef

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