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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I need to understand the differences between the bash shell and the Bourne shell Post 302368269 by pludi on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 12:33:10 PM
Old 11-04-2009
The line
Code:
#!/bin/bash

is the so-called "shebang" line which tells the system what interpreter to run the script in. It's pretty much the same as the magic bytes in executable formats, like ".ELF" (UNIX) or "MZ" (Windows .exe). This was needed after other shells and interpreters came available other than just the Bourne Shell.

Your other errors probably stem from the sed commands, as probably starting with Korn Shell (which is the base for the POSIX standard shell) the commands for sed have to be passed as a single argument, but the shell splits arguments on spaces. So your first command should (as an example) be written as
Code:
sed -e 's/ -/ DOT./' ipc > raw

 

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git-annex-shell

git-annex-shell(1)					      General Commands Manual						git-annex-shell(1)

NAME

       git-annex-shell - Restricted login shell for git-annex only SSH access

SYNOPSIS

       git-annex-shell [-c] command [params ...]

DESCRIPTION

       git-annex-shell is a restricted shell, similar to git-shell, which can be used as a login shell for SSH accounts.

       Since  its  syntax  is  identical to git-shell's, it can be used as a drop-in replacement anywhere git-shell is used. For example it can be
       used as a user's restricted login shell.

COMMANDS

       Any command not listed below is passed through to git-shell.

       Note that the directory parameter should be an absolute path, otherwise it is assumed to be relative to the user's home directory. Also the
       first "/~/" or "/~user/" is expanded to the specified home directory.

       configlist directory
	      This outputs a subset of the git configuration, in the same form as git config --list

       inannex directory [key ...]
	      This checks if all specified keys are present in the annex, and exits zero if so.

       dropkey directory [key ...]
	      This drops the annexed data for the specified keys.

       recvkey directory key
	      This runs rsync in server mode to receive the content of a key, and stores the content in the annex.

       sendkey directory key
	      This runs rsync in server mode to transfer out the content of a key.

       commit directory
	      This commits any staged changes to the git-annex branch.	It also runs the annex-content hook.

OPTIONS

       Most options are the same as in git-annex. The ones specific to git-annex-shell are:

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	      git-annex uses this to specify the UUID of the repository it was expecting git-annex-shell to access, as a sanity check.

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       After  content is received or dropped from the repository by git-annex-shell, it runs a hook, .git/hooks/annex-content (or hooks/annex-con-
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	      If set, disallows any command that could modify the repository.

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SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-shell(1)

AUTHOR

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