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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash error when using quote Post 302929303 by jcdole on Friday 19th of December 2014 10:15:51 AM
Old 12-19-2014
Bash error when using quote
Hello.
Someone can it tell me why the following syntax is incorrect. And so how to treat the filenames with spaces.

Code:
linux:~ # ls "/usr/NX/var/log/*.log"
ls: cannot access /usr/NX/var/log/*.log: No such file or directory
linux:~ #

But this one is correct.


Code:
linux:~ #  ls /usr/NX/var/log/*.log
/usr/NX/var/log/nxd.log  /usr/NX/var/log/nxerror.log  /usr/NX/var/log/nxserver.log
linux:~ #

From a bash script:
Code:
CMD="cp -v    \"/$MY_DIR_5_2/*.log\"  \"$MY_ROOT_DIR/$MY_DIR_5_2\" "
echo "COMMAND_5 : $CMD"
eval $CMD

After variables expansion :
Code:
linux:~ # cp -v    "/usr/NX/var/log/*.log"  "/root/bin/202_nomachine_4/000_backup_current_config/2014-12-18__12-29-04/usr/NX/var/log"
cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/NX/var/log/*.log': No such file or directory
linux:~ #

If either the directory source or destination contain space, I must use quote ?

Any help is welcome.
 

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nislog

nislog(1M)						  System Administration Commands						nislog(1M)

NAME

       nislog - display the contents of the NIS+ transaction log

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/nislog [-h num | -t num]  [-v] [directory...]

DESCRIPTION

       nislog  displays  the  contents of the NIS+ server transaction log on the standard output. This command can be used to track changes in the
       namespace. The /var/nis/trans.log file contains the transaction log maintained by the NIS+ server. When updates occur, they are	logged	to
       this  file  and	then  propagated  to replicas as log transactions.  When the log is checkpointed, updates that have been propagated to the
       replicas are removed.

       The nislog command can only be run on an NIS+ server by superuser. It displays the log entries for that server only.

       If directory is not specified, the entire log is searched. Otherwise, only those logs entries that correspond to the specified  directories
       are displayed.

OPTIONS

       -h num	       Display num transactions from the ``head'' of the log. If the numeric parameter is  0, only the log header is displayed.

       -t num	       Display	num transactions from the ``tail'' of the log. If the numeric parameter is  0, only the log header is displayed.

       -v	       Verbose mode.

FILES

       /var/nis/trans.log      transaction log

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

       nis+(1), rpc.nisd(1M), nisfiles(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+  might  not  be  supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are
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