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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error near unexpected token `(' Post 302391968 by hergp on Wednesday 3rd of February 2010 03:06:45 AM
Old 02-03-2010
You just rename $OUTFILE to $OUTFILE$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).${DPDEVICE}, so ${OUTFILE} does no longer exist when to try to change it's access mode. You have to save the new name in a variable for later use, because 'date' might give a different timestamp when you rerun 'date'.

Code:
NEWFILE=$OUTFILE$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).${DPDEVICE}
mv -if $OUTFILE $NEWFILE
...
chmod 755 $NEWFILE

To display a certain line from the outfile, you can use 'grep' or 'awk' for example.

---------- Post updated at 09:06 ---------- Previous update was at 09:03 ----------

Just recongnized, that NEWFILE does not get set in the else-part just before the chmod. So you have to set NEWFILE=$OUTFILE in the else-part or - if it is OK to run 'chmod' only in the then-block - move 'chmod' just before the 'mv' command:

Code:
chmod 755 $OUTFILE
mv -if $OUTFILE $OUTFILE$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).${DPDEVICE}

 

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