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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unterminated quoted string Post 302495803 by al0x on Friday 11th of February 2011 09:01:39 AM
Old 02-11-2011
Unterminated quoted string
Hello!
I wroted a little script that should check for new updates on a server and get them if any. The problem is, every time I run it with sh, I'm getting an "script: 20: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string" error!
The problem is, there isn't any "unterminated quoted string" in my script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

ip=$(ifconfig tun0 | grep "inet Adresse:10.0.0.[0-9]*" | cut -f 12 -d " " | cut -f 2 -d ":")
logfile="/opt/update/log/$ip_$(date -I).log"
echo "\n-------STARTING-UPDATE--------" > $logfile 2>&1
echo "\n>> $(date)" >> $logfile 2>&1
echo "\n$(scp dude@10.0.0.1:/update/md5.sum /opt/update/md5.sum)" >> $logfile 2>&1
if [ "$(cat /opt/update/old.sum" = "$(cat /opt/update/md5.sum)" ]
then
	echo "\n$(mv /opt/update/md5.sum /opt/update/old.sum)" >> $logfile 2>&1
	echo "\n>> Getting Update-Script..." >> $logfile 2>&1
	echo "\n$(rsync -uv 10.0.0.1/update/update.sh /opt/update/update.sh)" >> $logfile 2>&1
	echo "\n>> Setting autostart" >> $logfile 2>&1
	echo "\n$(cp /opt/update/update.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/)" >> $logfile 2>&1
	echo "\n------UPDATE-SUCCESSFULL------"
else
	echo "\n>> No new Version" >> $logfile 2>&1
	echo "\n-----------FINISHED-----------" >> $logfile 2>&1
fi
#Line 20:
cat $logfile | ssh dude@10.0.0.1 "cat > /update/log/$ip_$(date -I).log"
exit

I can't find any single " or '
So where is the problem in my script??
Thanks for any help!

(PS: I know the echo "$(command)" >> logfile isn't the best way to solve logging, but it works and thats all I need^^)
 

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NAME

       logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile

SYNOPSIS

       logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  logsave  program  will  execute  cmd_prog with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to logfile.  If the containing
       directory for logfile does not exist, logsave will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out.	A copy of the output  will
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