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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [BASH] Using a function to write data to a file Post 302410926 by cpickering on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 07:04:49 AM
Old 04-07-2010
[BASH] Using a function to write data to a file
Hello,

I've created a shell script, which accepts information using an input from the console. Part of the script will write a file containing this information.

My code looks like (for the write)

Code:
function make_file
{
cat <<- _EOF_
The contents of my file are here
_EOF_
}

make_file >> /home/cpickering/$file.conf

However, when I run the script, the other sections work, just not the writing of the file.

Quote:
./createfile.sh: line 222: syntax error near unexpected token `/home/cpickering/$file.conf'
./createfile.sh: line 222: `make_file /home/cpickering/$file.conf'
The contents of $file are collected from my users input..
 

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if.conf

NETSCRIPT-2.2.conf(5)                                           File Formats Manual                                          NETSCRIPT-2.2.conf(5)

NAME

       /etc/netscript/network.conf - interface, firewalling, and QoS configuration file.

       /etc/netscript/if.conf - interface setup shell script file

       /etc/netscript/qos.conf - QoS setup shell script file

       /etc/netscript/ipfilter.conf - IP chains filtering shell script file

       /etc/netscript/srvfilter.conf - server IP filter shell script file

DESCRIPTION

       This manpage is a place holder until something better is written when the netscript itself has stopped changing rapidly.

       Please  see  the README file in the /etc/netscript directory, and READ the configuration files if you need to change them.  Apart from net-
       work.conf, all of them contain sh (1) shell script functions which are there so that various things can be altered  or  hooked  in  at  the
       right place. Network.conf contains the full network setup details, including special interface setup for the likes of ciped/pppd/wanconfig,
       and is fully commented with examples given.

UPGRADE PATH FROM KERNEL 2.2.X
       The firewall/IP filtering stuff in ipfilter.conf is the part that changed radically with the move to iptables and a far better way of  set-
       ting  up  the  IP filtering rules, however the QoS and interface startup/shutdown in if.conf have changed but are backwards compatible with
       the old 2.2.x ipchains version of netscript for the interface address configuration settings.  You will have to set up the filtering  again
       to use iptables by directly using the iptables commands.

       Also,  the  kernel  2.2.x version scripts are set up so that iptables is only run on a 2.4.x kernel, otherwise IP forwarding is disabled if
       beforehand you set IPFWDING_KERNEL to FILTER_ON in network.conf.

       This means that when you upgrade a box to a 2.4.x router kernel, you should then be able to reboot it and log  into  remotely  and  upgrade
       netscript  to  the version that will support 2.4.x.  In this situation, if you have set old IPFWDING_KERNEL setting to FILTER_ON beforehand
       in network.conf, all IP forwarding through the box will also be disabled.  This means that you can safely remotely upgrade a firewall.

SEE ALSO

       netscript(8), ipchains(8), iproute(8), brcfg(8).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

BUGS

       The author is lazy.  He needs to write btter man pages...

                                                                 November 23, 2000                                           NETSCRIPT-2.2.conf(5)
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