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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting defining variables Post 302273256 by cfajohnson on Saturday 3rd of January 2009 02:53:14 PM
Old 01-03-2009
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Originally Posted by em23
Hey all, I was wondering if someone would take a look at this script I'm working on. I don't know if i have the syntax correct for my variables and if the for loop is written correctly.

Did you run the script? If you did you would have received error messages telling you what and where the errors were.
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any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

When posting code, please put it in [code] tags.
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Code:
if [[ -e $DMI_FILE ]]; then #check to see if the file exists


[[ -e ... ]] is not standard and, in this case, offers nothing over the standard [ -e ... ].
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    for conf in $($DMI_FILE)


There's an obvious mistake. Why are you using command substitution when the variable does not contain a command?
 

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xmlindent(1)															      xmlindent(1)

NAME
xmlindent - XML stream reformatter SYNTAX
xmlindent [-o output file] [-i indent level] [-l max columns] [-n newline position] [-t] [-c] [-f] [-w] [-h] [-v] DESCRIPTION
XML Indent is a XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent. OPTIONS
-o output file Write indented XML to output file -i indent level Indent each level indent level spaces deeper -l max columns Wrap lines longer than max columns -t Use tabs instead of spaces -nas Suppress newline after start-tag -nae Suppress newline after end-tag -nbs Suppress newline before start-tag -nbe Suppress newline before end-tag -f Force newline on elements without children -w Overwrite original file -v Show version -h Show command line help AUTHORS
Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi> Thomas Fischer <th.fischer@gmx.net> (man page) SEE ALSO
indent(1) Thomas Fischer 0.2.17 xmlindent(1)
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