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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trick to ignore space in folder name Post 302160201 by adderek on Monday 21st of January 2008 06:33:19 AM
Old 01-21-2008
I believe that this is a bug in log_delete2.sh. Very often bug: you should always use apostrophes: "string with spaces, $HOME"=1 argument that is parsed, '$HOME xxx'=1 argument that is not parsed, string xxx $HOME=3 arguments that are parsed.
Most of the scripts I have seen have problems with such names/params Smilie
Do not try to pass directories like '/home/user/ directory with space as first character' - such scripts tends to do:
rm -rf $param
so it runs as
rm -rf /home/user
rm -rf directory
rm -rf with
rm -rf space
rm -rf as
rm -rf first
rm -rf character

Last edited by adderek; 01-21-2008 at 10:39 AM.. Reason: colors & missing details
 

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
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