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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing variables problem - Bash Post 302499348 by bobanpetrovic on Thursday 24th of February 2011 06:56:53 AM
Old 02-24-2011
Passing variables problem - Bash
I have a following problem:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
NUM=`cat accounts | wc -l`; 
for i in {1..$NUM}
do
    account=`awk "NR==$i" accounts`;
    echo -e "\nAccount: $account\n";
    sudo ./backup_maildir $account;
done

"accounts" is a file with regular e-mail addresses, one in each line.
backup_maildir is expect script.

When the main script is executed, the 6th line successfuly echo current mail address, but the following line is not passing that string to backup_maildir script. If the $account variable is user@domain.com, a string that is passed to backup_maildir is {user@domain.com?} ?! How is that possible? How to solve it?
 

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