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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting -exec cmd in ksh script Post 302453872 by Tanuka on Thursday 16th of September 2010 04:16:00 PM
Old 09-16-2010
Hi Filipe,

When I use the double quotes around the positional paramter like this ("$2") I get wierd results when I run the script.

For example, if I have a directory with the following files in it:

Code:
    cpmany
    file1
    file2
    file3
    file4

and I'm cd'ed into this directory and I invoke cpmany like this:

Code:
./cpmany  .  f*  /joe/stuff/

what happens is file1 is copied to file2, with no files copied to the dest dir I specified on the command line, and after doing the one copy operation the script finishes, with no errors.

It should have copied all four files to the dest dir - but it does not do so. What is wrong with my syntax?

Last edited by Scott; 09-16-2010 at 05:34 PM..
 

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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