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Operating Systems Linux Ambiguous redirect error and syntax error when using on multiple files Post 302688513 by Don Cragun on Sunday 19th of August 2012 01:43:13 PM
Old 08-19-2012
Please use the CODE and /CODE tags around your scripts. (Highlight the code and then press the symbol in the Message: menu that has the work CODE in a rectangular box with a hand pointing into the box.) When you don't, HTML processing can significantly change the meaning of what appears to be your code. Please either edit you last posting to include these tags, or repost your code (with tags) in a new message.

Note, however, that you still have the command line:
Code:
grep -i "^.............ASPRODUCTSUMMARY"< "$i" > "$i"; done;

which, as we mentioned before, in this loop will delete everything in every regular file in the current directory.

I also note that the command:
Code:
 echo $files $(mv -v $files 'UNPROCESSED/ASPRODUCTSUMMARY/'${files%}.CSV)

seems strange. The mv -vwrites the source and target files to stdout, and when combined with the echo $files in front of that, you're writing the source file twice on these output lines. Then the ${files%} is missing the word that identifies the pattern that is to be removed from the end of the expansion of the files variable.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

safe_asterisk

SAFE_ASTERISK(8)					     Linux Programmer's Manual						  SAFE_ASTERISK(8)

NAME

       safe_asterisk -- A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop

SYNOPSIS

       safe_asterisk [ asterisk_params ]

DESCRIPTION

       safe_asterisk is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you fear asterisk may crash.

       The  script  does  not run in the background like a standard service. Rather, it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, by default).	It
       also uses the option '-c' of asterisk(8) to avoid detaching asterisk from that terminal.

       safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus asterisk will dump core in case of a crash.

       To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a remote shell session) you can use:

	 screendump 9

       The init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe_asterisk as the  asterisk  service,  if  so  configured.  See  coments	in
       /etc/default/asterisk

FILES

       /tmp
	      safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.

       /tmp/core
	      If core files were generated there, they may be

       /etc/asterisk/startup.d
	      Files  in  this directory will be 'source'd by the safe_asterisk script before it starts Asterisk proper, allowing them to set addi-
	      tional environment variables or run any other steps that are needed for your system.

BUGS

       While showing the output on a console is useful, using screen(1) as the terminal may be better.

       The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc

       It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a symlink attacks.

SEE ALSO

       asterisk(8), screendump(9)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

Asterisk							  Jun 30th, 2005						  SAFE_ASTERISK(8)
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