It would be helpful to post the error messages, maybe embedded in the script's output when run with options -v and/or -x set. For now, I see the following noteworthy:
won't fly. For command substitution use backticks or the $(...) construct instead of double quotes. BTW, there may be better ways than this to eliminate special files.
After converting from "..." to $(...) or `...`, the unquoted ^- will also be a problem in many shells. At least in the Bourne shell and Korn shell ^ is a synonym for |.
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Originally Posted by RudiC
The
will destroy every file in your directory that does not have the grep pattern in it and reduce those who have to the lines containing the pattern. If filenames contain special chars, e.g. space, the ambiguous redirect error may result (not sure though).
Since the all redirections occur in the shell before grepis called, that command will always either result in an empty file or a redirection error.
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Originally Posted by RudiC
The second error you mention will probably be syntax error: unexpected end of file
and is the result of a missing ; in line 19 just in front of the done
i have following statement in the script
echo -e "$str_XML_col_name:$str_field_type;" >> $i_DC_Key_$i_Tgt_DC_key_Schema
here $i_DC_Key is DC key and $i_Tgt_DC_key are the variables...............
when i ran the script i am getting error rec_merge.sh: $i_DC_Key_$i_Tgt_DC_key_Schema:... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone, While I was trying to do
DATE=`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
STARTLOG=$TUXSTDDIR/start_$DATE.log
tmboot -y > $STARTLOG 2>&1
I got an error i.e. Ambiguous output redirect error. Here the first part is to boot the account so there is nothing wrong with that.... (6 Replies)
I am trying to run the following script and I am getting an "ambiguous redirect" error. I have checked to make sure that the files are all where I have specified and are read/write as needed. Any ideas?
Note: I have removed the actual path info for privacy sake. I have triple checked to make... (1 Reply)
Hello there,
I'm totally new in bash programming and ran into my first problem.
My script should generate 3 textfiles where the content of the first and the third row are the same in each file. Only the second row is different.
This is what I did in a very simplified explanation:
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This script has ambiguous redirect error.
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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 ; then
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Hello everybody,
I just took over this job from someone else and in the past this script they built worked but i recently upgraded from openSuSe 11.4 to 12.1
Now when i run the script i get an ambiguous error at line 25 (the first line after add() )
I have edited out the webpath and any... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I've been working on a bash script to help with backups that I have to do at work.
One of the lines in the script is supposed to launch an xterm, log into a specific server node and launch a tar backup to tape. This part works ok, but I've been trying to get stdout and stderr to... (2 Replies)
New to the site, please let me know I'm not meeting the post guidelines.
I'm creating a bash script to generate a report with output from a grep command. The goal is to direct
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