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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to find & replace a multiple lines string across multiple php files and subdirectories Post 302604319 by agama on Sunday 4th of March 2012 11:14:43 AM
Old 03-04-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by spfc_dmt
Hi. When i execute the script it keeps saying:

No such file or directory cd: /directory/path/where/you/want/to/start (i did replaced this with the full path of the directory i wanted it to start)
If you cut and paste the cd command with your path at the command line do you get the same error? Screams typo in the path to me, but it is hard to say from here.

Quote:
BTW, when i execute it just by typing
Code:
delete_frm_php.ksh

it says :
Code:
-bash Command not found: delete_frm_php.ksh: Command not found

You'll need to make the script executable. You can change the file's mode to turn on the executable bit with the chmod command. This should work:
Code:
chmod 755 delete_frm_php.ksh

If you've done that then I'm a bit confused. And if you want bash to execute the script, rather than ksh, then change the ksh reference in the first line to bash.

Quote:
when i execute it typing
Code:
bash delete_frm_php.ksh

it says:

Code:
: command not found line 2:
: No such file or directory cd: /directory/path/where/you/want/to/start
delete_frm_php.ksh: line 32: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
delete_frm_php.ksh: line 41: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I also a few tweaks in the path, no success

Any clues ? Thank you!
Without seeing the changes you've made this is impossible to give any suggestions for. Sounds like you've got a missing quote (check out line 32 to start with). You can post the whole script if you cannot find the missing quote.
 

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