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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Use wildcards in a script Post 302117454 by cfajohnson on Monday 14th of May 2007 01:06:20 PM
Old 05-14-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by emferrari
Hi

So, now my script is like this:

I repeat: Please put code inside CODE tags.

The following code doesn't give me any syntax errors, but I fixed the line breaks. Could that be your problem?

There are other issues with the script.
Quote:
for file in "$@"
do

INPUTFILE=$file
TEMPFILE=$INPUTFILE.$$
OUTPUTFILE=$INPUTFILE.new

# nr of arguments has to be 1
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "\nUsage: $0 inputfile\n"
return 1
fi

You don't need to check for number of arguments, and if you give more than one file on the command line, this will cause the script to exit.

To exit from a script, use exit, not return; return is used to exit from functions and sourced scripts.
Quote:
# inputfile must exist and be readable
if [ ! -r $1 ]
then
echo "\nInputfile $file does not exist. Please enter a valid filename\n"
return 1
fi

echo "\nConvert File $INPUTFILE to $OUTPUTFILE"
tr "ÃÃÃöôÃäãÃÃüÃëêÃïîê¿"
"OOOOOOoooooAAAAAaaaaaaUUUUuuuuEEEEeeeeIIIIiiiiNnCcaS?" < $INPUTFILE >
$OUTPUTFILE

There should be the same number of characters in both strings (or more in the first).

Quote your variables. That will fail if any filenames contain spaces.

Quote:
# Change à to SS
# sed s/Ã/SS/g $OUTPUTFILE > $TEMPFILE
# mv $TEMPFILE $OUTPUTFILE

echo "...ready\n"

done


[mantas@IDBBANKMANTASDEV test]$ ./convertspecch.sh File*.txt
./convertspecch.sh[33]: syntax error: `newline' unexpected

What's wrong?
 

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GFCOMBINE(1)							   UserCommands 						      GFCOMBINE(1)

NAME

       gfcombine - combine a number of shares to form the original file

SYNOPSIS

       gfcombine [-o OUTPUTFILE] INPUTFILE...

DESCRIPTION

       Combine a set of files (as produced by gfsplit) to produce the original file by interpolating the shares on the commandline.

       -o OUTPUTFILE
	      The name of the file to write out.

       All INPUTFILEs should be called something.NNN where the .NNN is the share number. (The gfsplit tool will output files named appropriately).
       The OUTPUTFILE if omitted will default to the name of the first INPUTFILE with the .NNN removed.

AUTHOR

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REPORTING BUGS

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SEE ALSO

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