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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
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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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