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10-11-2013

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My code worked on a Mac, now it does not work in another computer

I guess Mac has default bash. Then I copy my code to another comp and run it...And it gives me an error like "bad substitution"....

How I can change my code??? Never had before this kind of situation. Help please.

Code:

if [ -f "/Users/Natalie/lastserial" ]
then
  n=$(sort /Users/Natalie/lastserial | tail -1)

  fourthoct=${n:0:4}


 thirdoct=${n:4:2}
  thirdoct=${thirdoct#0}
  secondoct=${n:6:2}
  secondoct=${secondoct#0}
  firstoct=${n:8:2}
  firstoct=${firstoct#0}

  if [ $((++firstoct)) -eq 100 ]
  then
      firstoct=0
      if [ $((++secondoct)) -eq 32 ]
      then
          secondoct=0
          if [ $((++thirdoct)) -eq 13 ]
          then
              thirdoct=0
              ((++fourthoct))
          fi
      fi
  fi

  printf  "%04d%02d%02d%02d\n" $fourthoct $thirdoct $secondoct $firstoct > '/Users/Natalie/lastserial'
else
  echo ` date +%Y%m%d`"00" >'/Users/Natalie/lastserial'
fi

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Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem(3pm)

NAME

       Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem - File object used internally by Net::Hotline::Client

SYNOPSIS

	   use Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem;

	   $file = new Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem;

	   $file->name("smile");
	   $file->comments("A happy file.");
	   ...

DESCRIPTION

       Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem is a simple class for storing and retrieving file information,  You should never have to create your own
       Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem objects when using Net::Hotline::Client.  Getting and (to a lesser extent) setting attributes is all that should
       be necessary.

CONSTRUCTION

       new Creates a new Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem object with all attributes set to undef.

METHODS

       All the Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem methods are simple attribute get/set routines.  If given an argument, they set an attribute.	In all
       cases, they return the current value of the attribute.

       comment TEXT
	   The file comments (as seen in the Mac OS Finder).

       ctime NUM
	   The creation time of the file, given as a Mac OS native time value.	Add the constant Net::Hotline::Constants::HTLC_MACOS_TO_UNIX_TIME
	   to it to change it to seconds since the Unix epoch.

       creator TEXT
	   The file creator, given as a four-letter Mac OS creator code ("TTXT", "SIT!", etc.)

       name TEXT
	   The file name.

       icon
	   The file icon given as a four-letter code.

       mtime NUM
	   The modification time of the file, given as a Mac OS native time value.  Add the constant
	   Net::Hotline::Constants::HTLC_MACOS_TO_UNIX_TIME to it to change it to seconds since the Unix epoch.

       ctime NUM
	   The creation time of the file, given as a Mac OS native time value.	Add the constant Net::Hotline::Constants::HTLC_MACOS_TO_UNIX_TIME
	   to it to change it to seconds since the Unix epoch.

       size NUM
	   The size of the file in bytes.

       type TEXT
	   The file type, given as a four-letter Mac OS type code ("TEXT", "PICT", etc.), Net::Hotline::Constants::HTLC_INFO_FOLDER_TYPE for
	   folders, and Net::Hotline::Constants::HTLC_INFO_FALIAS_TYPE for folder aliases.

AUTHOR

       John C. Siracusa (siracusa@mindspring.com)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright(c) 1999 by John Siracusa.  All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2002-11-27					   Net::Hotline::FileInfoItem(3pm)