It would help to see at least the first few lines of your input .txt file. I'm guessing that it contains more than just the user name on each line. If that is the case then each space separated token on each record will be assigned to line and the loop executed. If your file contains three tokens per line (lets say a, b, and c for line 1), then the first time through the loop the deststr variable is assigned something like this:
and that might not be a legitimate filename.
There are several ways that you can test for this, with the easiest being to echo the contents of deststr rather than executing the mv command. This would validate the contents of deststr and give you a better idea of what is going on.
If your input file does contain multiple columns of data, the following could be used to extract the proper column (column 3 in my example) and then do the right thing.
If your input list contains only the dbuser name, then I suggest running your script with a 'set -x' at the top and looking at the tracing output for clues as to what is going on.
I have written a script to run on UNIX server. When I tested, it always hanged on after "date +"%D %T: XXXXXX script started." part. Then it wouldn't go further. UNIX server gave me one error message. I used the same code in another script. It works fine. I think the major problem may be in... (3 Replies)
Howdie everyone...
I have a shell script RemoveFiles.sh
Inside this file, it only has two commands as below:
rm -f ../../reportToday/temp/*
rm -f ../../report/*
My problem is that when i execute this script, nothing happened. Files remained unremoved. I don't see any error message as it... (2 Replies)
Hi everybody:
I usually use Mandriva distro (in my laptop), and I have made some scripts. These scripts work correctly but now, in other computer which is installed Ubuntu don't work, and I have this error message:
The script is:
.....
echo "Your option is:"
echo
read option
case... (1 Reply)
Hi there. I'm new to scripting in bash shell and I have this problem.
I'm trying to make a script that returns the greatest common divisor of two integer numbers according to Euclid's algorithm...
Here is, what I've done:
#!/bin/bash
m=$1
n=$2
while
do
if ; #line 8
then m=$m-$n... (1 Reply)
I have a script which uses below for loop:
for (( i = 0 ; i <= 5; i++ ))
do
echo "Welcome $i times"
done
But when I run the script, it gives error message:
Syntex Error : Bad for loop variable
Can anyone guide to run it?
Thanks in advance. (10 Replies)
Hello,,
Im verry new to scripting and have some problems with this script i made..
What it does:
It checks a directory for a new directory and then issues a couple of commands.
checks sfv - not doing right now
checks rar - it checks if theres a rar file and when there is it skips to... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I need some help. my shell script doesn't work especially in the loop.
#!/bin/sh -xv
export ORA_ADMIN=/oracle/home/admin
export ORACLE_SID=ORA_SID
cat ${ORA_ADMIN}/param_alert_log.ora | while read MSG
do
#echo $MSG
#echo "tail -400... (8 Replies)
i have this script and when i ejecute it, the console tell me this " sintax error line 41 unexpected element "}" "
is the sintaxis ok?
#!/bin/bash
if ;then
{
exit 0;
}
if ; then
{
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start;
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start;
php5 &
nautilus... (3 Replies)
hi,
i am trying to run this script.the name of script is final.sh
after i run it:
#./final.sh &
i grep the command
# ps -a | grep bash
and i see more then one processes runing 3!!
Please use code tags
how can i solve this problem?
my target script must always run in... (8 Replies)
I am trying to run a script to make a simple modification to a number of similar files. The sed works, but after it runs and the differences are displayed, the script does not read ans to start a renaming script if the user answered Y or y.for i in "$@"
do
sed -f myfile.sed $i >$i.new
diff... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
colrm
COLRM(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLRM(1)NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file
SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]]
DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read
from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output.
If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec-
ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not
zero.
Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD August 4, 2004 BSD