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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Piping fails in locale other than English Post 302670803 by alister on Thursday 12th of July 2012 12:54:39 PM

07-12-2012

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The output you're seeing is what one would see if the pipe symbol were to be quoted.

Code:

grep -n '^PAX_PAYLOAD:$' $0 '|' cut -d ':' -f 1

Seeing the entire script and knowing exactly how it's invoked (especially the value of $0) would be helpful. Also, further details of the environment may help. Which sh exactly is being used, for starters.

A shot in the dark (although I don't see how it could be the cause, it's good practice): try double-quoting $0.

Regards,
Alister

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Some light may be shed on the problem if you enable tracing at the top of the script (or at least before the problematic section is entered). set -x enables tracing, set +x disables it.

Regards,
Alister

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