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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can't figure this one out -- Post 302488583 by Straitsfan on Monday 17th of January 2011 08:18:10 PM
Old 01-17-2011
Can't figure this one out --
I'm putting together a shell script while I'm learning UNIX -- just for myself. It's a little script that simply takes some vendor names and writes them to a file. So far I'm at the stage where the user enters the name of the file and places it in a folder called vendorlists:


Code:
 * ) touch ~/vendorlists/$vendorfilename.txt  #places file into the vendorlists folder 
                             clear


Code:














When I entered this



First Vendor File



It created three separate files -- one called 'First' in the vendorlists folder in the home folder, a second and third named Vendor and File.txt, respectively, in the Scripts folder (which contains the shell script itself) I can't figure out why this happened.  Can someone explain to me?







        

        

       



            
            
            
            


            

            
            




            
                
            

            

        



        


        


 


        

        
        

        


 

            
        




















	


		


		 
		
			












	
	









    







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packf








packf(1mh)																packf(1mh)

Name
       packf - compress a folder into a single file

Syntax
       packf [ +folder ] [ msgs ] [ -file name ] [ -help ]

Description
       Each  message in a folder is normally stored as a separate file.  The command takes all messages from the current folder and copies them to
       a single specified file.  Each message in the file is separated by four <CTRL/A>s and a newline.

       You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument.  If you do not want all the messages in a	folder	to
       be packed into one file, you can specify a number of messages or a range of messages with message numbers.

       The first message packed will become the current message.  If you specify a +folder argument, that folder will become the current folder.

       When messages have been packed into a file using you can separate them into individual messages using the command.  See

Options
       -file name
		 Specifies  the  file  in which you want the message(s) to be stored.  If you specify an existing file then the specified messages
		 will be appended to the end of that file.  Otherwise, a new file will be created and the messages placed in it.  If  you  do  not
		 specify  a  filename,	attempts  to  place the messages in a file called in the current working directory.  If this file does not
		 exist, asks whether you want to create it.

       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

       The default settings for this command are:

	      +folder defaults to the current folder
	      msgs defaults to all
	      -file ./msgbox

Examples
       The first example shows all the messages in the folder being packed into a file called
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Profile Components
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Files
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