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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File not recognized when passed as argument Post 302444672 by methyl on Thursday 12th of August 2010 12:01:59 PM
Old 08-12-2010
Interesting you are correct. When the filename is entered into the read statement rather than on the command line it does indeed not expand the ~username.

Fix highlighted in script below.

Code:
script_name=`basename $0`
param_count=$#
case ${param_count}
in
        0)
                echo "Enter a file to get char count:"
                read FILE_NAME
                ;;
        1)      FILE_NAME="$1"
                continue
                ;;
        *)      echo "Usage: ${script_name} filename"
                exit 1
                ;;
esac

FILE_NAME=`eval echo "${FILE_NAME}"`

if [ -f "${FILE_NAME}" ]
then
        echo "valid file : ${FILE_NAME}"
else
        echo "Not a valid file : ${FILE_NAME}"
fi

 

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echo(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  echo(1B)

NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument] DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output. echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi- ronment variables. For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows: o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path. example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w" See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality. The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option. OPTIONS
-n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5) NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases. SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)
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