I've been working on a bash script to help with backups that I have to do at work.
One of the lines in the script is supposed to launch an xterm, log into a specific server node and launch a tar backup to tape. This part works ok, but I've been trying to get stdout and stderr to display in the xterm and output to a log file using tee.
To this end, this is my current code:
When the script launches this though, the xterm presents an 'Ambiguous output redirect' error.
I suspect that this is actually due to the system using csh as the default shell such that the xterm is actually running csh rather than bash.
I've tried
to fix this but this seems to end up opening the xterm, running the rsh and THEN running bash.
So I guess my question is, what am I missing? Is it even possible to achieve what I'm trying and if so, how?
I am using a program that opens up an Xterm window, where the simulation running sends a lot of messages to.
I would like to keep these messages, but I guess the buffer size is not large enough to show all of them, they get truncated. So my questions are:
1. How can I redirect the messages... (1 Reply)
i have following statement in the script
echo -e "$str_XML_col_name:$str_field_type;" >> $i_DC_Key_$i_Tgt_DC_key_Schema
here $i_DC_Key is DC key and $i_Tgt_DC_key are the variables...............
when i ran the script i am getting error rec_merge.sh: $i_DC_Key_$i_Tgt_DC_key_Schema:... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone, While I was trying to do
DATE=`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
STARTLOG=$TUXSTDDIR/start_$DATE.log
tmboot -y > $STARTLOG 2>&1
I got an error i.e. Ambiguous output redirect error. Here the first part is to boot the account so there is nothing wrong with that.... (6 Replies)
I am trying to run the following script and I am getting an "ambiguous redirect" error. I have checked to make sure that the files are all where I have specified and are read/write as needed. Any ideas?
Note: I have removed the actual path info for privacy sake. I have triple checked to make... (1 Reply)
Hello there,
I'm totally new in bash programming and ran into my first problem.
My script should generate 3 textfiles where the content of the first and the third row are the same in each file. Only the second row is different.
This is what I did in a very simplified explanation:
... (6 Replies)
This script has ambiguous redirect error.
...
cd $HOME
cd folder/work
# search all subfolders in work directory
find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read directory
do
CUR_FOLDER="${directory#"./"}"
cd $CUR_FOLDER
chmod 644 *
for ff in *; do
if ; then
... (5 Replies)
I came across the command string on https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/141885-awk-removing-data-before-after-pattern.html which was what I was looking for to be able to remove data before a certain pattern. However, outputting the result to a file seems to work on an individual basis... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need help on following linux bash script. When I linux commands for loop or while loop on individual file it runs great. but now I want the script to run on N number of files so it gives me ambiguous redirect error on line 12 and syntax error on line 22 : (pls help );
#!/bin/bash
#... (16 Replies)
New to the site, please let me know I'm not meeting the post guidelines.
I'm creating a bash script to generate a report with output from a grep command. The goal is to direct
the output to a different log file by using a 'logger file'. But I get this error during the run: $1: ambiguous... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
resize
resize(1X)resize(1X)NAME
resize - set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm window size
SYNOPSIS
resize [-u] [-c] [-s[row col]]
OPTIONS
The following options may be used with resize: This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user's cur-
rent shell is not /bin/sh. This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell is not
/bin/csh. This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the special xterm escape code. If rows and col-
umns are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change.
DESCRIPTION
The resize command prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm win-
dow from which the command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually
done with a shell alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh),
the following alias could be defined in the user's
% alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`'
After resizing the window, the user would type: % rs
Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that do not have command functions will need to send the output to a tem-
porary file and the read it back in with the "." command:
$ resize > /tmp/out
$ . /tmp/out
FILES
for the base termcap entry to modify. user's alias for the command.
BUGS
The -u or -c must appear to the left of -s if both are specified.
SEE ALSO csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1X)AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium
See X(1X) for a complete copyright notice.
resize(1X)