I am have an issues with one of my scripts. I get the following error when I get to the point in the script where I am making the change. The change does take however. the error is "change: xecho: execute permission denied"
Everything was working properly until I start cleaning up the code. (indent)
Code:
ans=y
while [ "$ans" = "y" ]
do
cat<<here0
${bold}Please enter the name of the user you want to change:${off}
here0
read name
clear
grep -in "$name" phonebook | sed -n -e 's/^/\
/' -e 's/:/\
/gp'
cat<<here1
${blink}${bold}Please enter the record that you want to change:${off}
here1
read number
record=`sed -n ${number}p phonebook`
name=`echo "$record"| cut -d: -f1`
address=`echo "$record"|cut -d: -f2`
city=`echo "$record"|cut -d: -f3`
state=`echo "$record"|cut -d: -f4`
zip=`echo "$record"|cut -d: -f5`
phone=`echo "$record"|cut -d: -f6`
echo "Do you want to change $name's name? (y/n) \c"
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "y" ]
then
echo "Please enter new name"
read newname
name=$newname
fi
xecho "Do you want to change $address? (y/n) \c"
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "y" ]
then
echo "Please enter new address"
read newaddress
address=$newaddress
fi
echo "Do you want to change $city? (y/n) \c"
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "y" ]
then
echo "Please enter new city"
read newcity
city=$newcity
fi
echo "Do you want to change $state? (y/n) \c"
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "y" ]
then
echo "Please enter new state"
read newstate
state=$newstate
fi
echo "Do you want to change $zip? (y/n) \c"
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "y" ]
then
echo "Please enter new zip"
read newzip
zip=$newzip
fi
echo "Do you want to change $phone? (y/n) \c"
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "y" ]
then
echo "Please enter new phone number"
read newphone
phone=$newphone
fi
sed "$number"d phonebook > phonebook.tmp
mv phonebook.tmp phonebook
echo "$name:$state:$city:$state:$zip:$phone" >> phonebook
echo "Would you like to change another record? /c"
read ans
done
---------- Post updated at 04:04 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:14 PM ----------
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checkbashisms
CHECKBASHISMS(1) General Commands Manual CHECKBASHISMS(1)NAME
checkbashisms - check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts
SYNOPSIS
checkbashisms script ...
checkbashisms --help|--version
DESCRIPTION
checkbashisms, based on one of the checks from the lintian system, performs basic checks on /bin/sh shell scripts for the possible presence
of bashisms. It takes the names of the shell scripts on the command line, and outputs warnings if possible bashisms are detected.
Note that the definition of a bashism in this context roughly equates to "a shell feature that is not required to be supported by POSIX";
this means that some issues flagged may be permitted under optional sections of POSIX, such as XSI or User Portability.
In cases where POSIX and Debian Policy disagree, checkbashisms by default allows extensions permitted by Policy but may also provide
options for stricter checking.
OPTIONS --help, -h
Show a summary of options.
--newline, -n
Check for "echo -n" usage (non POSIX but required by Debian Policy 10.4.)
--posix, -p
Check for issues which are non POSIX but required to be supported by Debian Policy 10.4 (implies -n).
--force, -f
Force each script to be checked, even if it would normally not be (for instance, it has a bash or non POSIX shell shebang or appears
to be a shell wrapper).
--extra, -x
Highlight lines which, whilst they do not contain bashisms, may be useful in determining whether a particular issue is a false posi-
tive which may be ignored. For example, the use of "$BASH_ENV" may be preceded by checking whether "$BASH" is set.
--version, -v
Show version and copyright information.
EXIT VALUES
The exit value will be 0 if no possible bashisms or other problems were detected. Otherwise it will be the sum of the following error val-
ues:
1 A possible bashism was detected.
2 A file was skipped for some reason, for example, because it was unreadable or not found. The warning message will give details.
SEE ALSO lintian(1).
AUTHOR
checkbashisms was originally written as a shell script by Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org> and rewritten in Perl with many more features by
Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
DEBIAN Debian Utilities CHECKBASHISMS(1)
12-04-2009
