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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Send filename as variable in a shell script Post 302505235 by Corona688 on Wednesday 16th of March 2011 01:20:16 PM
Old 03-16-2011
Try echo "$TEMP_FILE" to make sure it's really the value you think it is.

Put $TEMP_FILE in quotes like above, because otherwise the shell will split it apart when it contains spaces.

This won't do what you think it does:
Code:
ALLFILES='ls $FILEPATH/${FILENAME}*.csv'

This sets it to the literal string "ls $FILEPATH/${FILENAME}*.csv". I think you meant to use backticks instead.

Which would be a combo useless use of ls and useless use of backticks anyway. You don't need to use ls or backticks here, the shell's flexible enough to use its own globbing directly:

Code:
for EACHFILE in $FILEPATH/${FILENAME}*.csv
do
...
done

I think that was the root problem here. You were feeding the string "ls $FILEPATH/${FILENAME}*.csv" into the program instead of looping over each file.
 

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script

script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a	Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       script  can  pose  a  security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

SunOS 5.10							    30 Jan 2004 							 script(1)
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