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08-17-2011

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BASH script outputting strange file formats

Hi

I am very new to using BASH, but I have a problem with a piece of script that I have been working on. Basically the script goes through a mailbox file looking at particular aspects of the file, for example how many spamwords there are email address etc. It does this pretty well except for an error on the command line telling me about some kind of symbol not being a valid identifiereclare, which I dont know what it means but it still kind of works. It displays the results then from the mailbox file about how many email address etc are present in to a html file which the script creates with a predefined filename for the html file, however when it does this it creates the html file with the filename.html and a fullstop on the end of that. So it looks like "filename.html.". Obvioulsy this doesnt open but when you remove the fullstop from the end it works. Has anyone got any idea what is going on, I have tried looking through the code but I cant see anything wrong and I have tried looking on forums and websites but there is no mention of this.
Also I am using an emulator, working on the BASH file on windows using "cygwin". I can show what I have so far, just wondering first if anyone else has experianced this problem.

Thanks to all who help.

9aza

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service

service(8)						      System Manager's Manual							service(8)

NAME

       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS

       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION

       service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working
       directory set to /.

       The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT.  The  supported  values  of  COMMAND  depend  on  the
       invoked	script,  service  passes  COMMAND and OPTIONS it to the init script unmodified.  All scripts should support at least the start and
       stop commands.  As a special case, if COMMAND is --full-restart, the script is run twice, first with the stop command, then with the  start
       command.

       service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command.

       If the init script file does not exist, the script tries to use legacy actions.	If there is no suitable legacy action found and COMMAND is
       one of actions specified in LSB Core Specification, input is redirected to the systemctl.  Otherwise the command fails with return code 2.

FILES

       /etc/init.d
	      The directory containing System V init scripts.

ENVIRONMENT

       LANG, TERM
	      The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.

SEE ALSO

       chkconfig(8), ntsysv(8), systemd(1), systemctl(8), systemd.service(5)

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