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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cp: missing file operand Post 302877546 by rbatte1 on Monday 2nd of December 2013 07:03:45 AM

12-02-2013

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Please put code and/or output in CODE tags. It makes it much easier to read.

Code:

domlistexp=domlistexp
domlistexp_bak=domlistexp_bak
touch $domlistexp
rm -rf $domlistexp_bak
cp $domlistexp $domlistexp_bak

output:
+ rm -rf domlist_bak
+ cp
cp: missing file operand
Try `cp --help' for more information.

I must say that it works fine for me on the ksh command line (HP-UX 11.11, AIX 5.1 and RHEL 6.3)

It works fine if I put it in a script and call it with ksh -x myscript too:-

Code:

hp8:/home/RBATTE1> cat myscript 
domlistexp=domlistexp
domlistexp_bak=domlistexp_bak
touch $domlistexp
rm -rf $domlistexp_bak
cp $domlistexp $domlistexp_bak

hp8:/home/RBATTE1> ls -l dom*
dom* not found

hp8:/home/RBATTE1> ksh -x myscript 
+ domlistexp=domlistexp
+ domlistexp_bak=domlistexp_bak
+ touch domlistexp
+ rm -rf domlistexp_bak
+ cp domlistexp domlistexp_bak
hp8:/home/RBATTE1> ls -l dom*
-rw-------   1 RBATTE1    users            0 Dec  2 12:00 domlistexp
-rw-------   1 RBATTE1    users            0 Dec  2 12:00 domlistexp_bak
hp8:/home/RBATTE1>

Can you elaborate a little? How are you running it?

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

     createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories.

OPTIONS

     -s       creates home directories for server home paths only (default).

     -c       creates home directories for local home paths only.

     -b       creates home directories for both server and local home paths.

     -a       creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path.

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	      creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path.

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	      creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a,
	      -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed.

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FILES

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CAVEATS

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