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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting why is this code generating syntax error?pls help Post 302197670 by wrapster on Wednesday 21st of May 2008 11:18:06 AM
Old 05-21-2008
why is this code generating syntax error?pls help

Code:
#!/bin/sh

copy()
{
source=`stat -c %s $1`
dest=0
cd $2
while [ $source -ge $dest ];do
cp $1 $2 &
pct=`((100 * $dest) / $source )`
dest=`dest+1`
echo -en ".$pct%\b\b\b"
sleep 1
done
}

echo "starting now"
copy /file1 /tmp

This is the code i wrote to make cp address a progress bar...
But i have an error that goes like this....
"syntax error @ line 1: '/` unexpected"

May i know what syntax error it is?
I am actually trying to copy a file to /tmp ,through this routine, but why is this error??

Thanks
 

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STREAM_COPY_TO_STREAM(3)						 1						  STREAM_COPY_TO_STREAM(3)

stream_copy_to_stream - Copies data from one stream to another

SYNOPSIS
int stream_copy_to_stream (resource $source, resource $dest, [int $maxlength = -1], [int $offset]) DESCRIPTION
Makes a copy of up to $maxlength bytes of data from the current position (or from the $offset position, if specified) in $source to $dest. If $maxlength is not specified, all remaining content in $source will be copied. PARAMETERS
o $source - The source stream o $dest - The destination stream o $maxlength - Maximum bytes to copy o $offset - The offset where to start to copy data RETURN VALUES
Returns the total count of bytes copied. CHANGELOG
+--------+------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+------------------------------+ | 5.1.0 | | | | | | | Added the $offset parameter | | | | +--------+------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 A stream_copy_to_stream(3) example <?php $src = fopen('http://www.example.com', 'r'); $dest1 = fopen('first1k.txt', 'w'); $dest2 = fopen('remainder.txt', 'w'); echo stream_copy_to_stream($src, $dest1, 1024) . " bytes copied to first1k.txt "; echo stream_copy_to_stream($src, $dest2) . " bytes copied to remainder.txt "; ?> SEE ALSO
copy(3). PHP Documentation Group STREAM_COPY_TO_STREAM(3)
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