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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ambiguous redirect error Post 302515488 by candyme on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 07:53:59 AM
Old 04-20-2011
ambiguous redirect error
This script has ambiguous redirect error.

PHP Code:
...
cd $HOME
cd folder/work
# search all subfolders in work directory
find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read directory
do 
 CUR_FOLDER="${directory#"./"}"
 cd $CUR_FOLDER
 chmod 644 *   
 
 for ff in *; do
  if [ ! "$ff" = "body.txt" ]; then 
   
   FILE_NAME=`echo $ff | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'`  #filename
   FILE_EXT=`echo $ff | awk -F"." '{print $NF}'`     #file_ext
   NEW_TXT_NAME=$FILE_NAME.txt
   NEW_XML_FILE=$FILE_NAME.xml
   
   echo $FILE_NAME $FILE_EXT $NEW_TXT_NAME $NEW_XML_FILE 
   echo "111" >> $NEW_TXT_NAME
   echo "222" >> $NEW_XML_NAME
  fi 
 done    
 cd $HOME
 cd folder/work
done
... 




like it:

./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
AB023095 PDF AB023095.txt AB023095.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
AB023069 PDF AB023069.txt AB023069.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
AB023087 PDF AB023087.txt AB023087.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Scan_201104201130 pdf Scan_201104201130.txt Scan_201104201130.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
BAN 19-04-11 #2 pdf BAN 19-04-11 #2.txt BAN 19-04-11 #2.xml
./get_mails: line 36: $NEW_TXT_NAME: ambiguous redirect
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
BAN 19-04-11 pdf BAN 19-04-11.txt BAN 19-04-11.xml
./get_mails: line 36: $NEW_TXT_NAME: ambiguous redirect
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect


please, tell me what wrong with this script?
 

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