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Old 03-04-2011
Works on command line but not in script

Hey guys. Hopefully this is an easy one but having reference similar problems on the web I still can't fix it.

I am doing a recursive find and replace from a script. Of course I could just run the damn thing from the command line but it's bugging me now and want to get it working.
Code:
grep -rl $1 * | xargs sed -i 's/$1/$2/g'

The above line is the basic command line I am using. When I replace the variables with real text on the command line it works just fine.

When I run that line inside my script with two inputs and echo out the line the line is exactly as it should be, but when executed from within the script it does zilch, nada, nothing.

At the top of my script I included:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAIL=/var/mail/root
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

These are exactly the same if you type env

Am I missing something?

Many thanks

Last edited by Scott; 03-04-2011 at 09:43 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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