In your original script (which was passing many more of the tests), you had:
Now you have:
Other than changing p3 to FILE, what else changed?
Did you notice that the error reports you got included:
Do you see that the diagnostic messages from sed and mv refer to parts of one of the parameters passed to your script? Could changing quotes around arguments passed to sed and mv have an effect leading to the errors you're seeing?
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hi,
how to send multiple files from the shell script
eg : i have
/home/adm/file1
/home/adm/file2
/home/adm/cfg
how can i attach these files in the mail ? (1 Reply)
I have a file (email) containing email addresses.
I have a second file (terms) that contains simple regular expressions and words/characters. Here are some examples:
\.trainee
\.group
\.web
I want to go through email and delete lines containing the expressions/words from terms and write... (1 Reply)
I am a new to Linux and try to write a script to join three multiple files.
For example, there are three files
file1
# comment
a Kevin
b Vin
c Sam
file 2
# comment
a 10
b 20
c 40
file 3
# comment
a blue
b yellow (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to split lines from a file into multiple files.
my input look like this:
13
23 45 45 6 7
33 44 55 66 7
13
34 5 6 7 87
45 7 8 8 9
13
44 55 66 77 8
44 66 88 99 6
I want to split every 3 lines from this file to be written to individual files. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am a beginner for shell programming. I have a requirement to ftp multiple files. Here are the details.
I have around thiry files in one directory, I want a shell script which selects 5 files at a time and does ftp them to another host . After the transfer for first files is... (0 Replies)
Hey guys,
I'm really new to UNIX and shell scripting in general. For my internship I need to rename a bunch of files. Specifically, I need to change the first letter of each of the files to lowercase and I have to change the endings so they all basically look like "file_cone.jpg". I know I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i use the below script to send a single file to remote server from linux.
ftp -nvi <<!EOF
open $Host_name
user $USER_ID $PWD
binary
mput $file_name
quit
!EOF (where i... (2 Replies)
Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me. I have a problem that i am trying to work on and it requires me to change text within multiple files using sed. I use the program to change an occurance of a word throughout different files that are being tested. At first i had to Create a new script,... (1 Reply)
Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me. I have a problem that i am trying to work on and it requires me to change text within multiple files using sed. What i have so far is
!/bin/sh
File1="$3"
File2="$4"
File3="$5"
testNum="$File1"
while test "$testNum" <= "$File3";
do
echo... (12 Replies)
Hey everyone! I made a shell script that would go through a file and replace any phrase or letter with another phrase or letter. Helps update variable names or values. The following code is this:
#!/bin/sh
Word1="$1"
Replace1="$2"
File1="$3"
arg=$( echo "$Word1" | sed 's:\:\\&:g' )... (3 Replies)