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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help using wildcard (*) within script Post 303002792 by Corona688 on Friday 1st of September 2017 11:32:29 AM
Old 09-01-2017
And get_str? What is get_str? And where does $v1_file come from?

Honestly, it'd be better to replace this stuff than fix it. It's all a horrible mess. Most of that top code could have been just
Code:
read cmdstr cmd_opt search_key

instead of 5 lines of echo | awk.

They're not using if-statements properly either. They could have just done

Code:
if chk_str "$arg"
then
...
else
...
fi

Also, that "/* ... */" style comment is not treated as a comment by the shell! It should be command stuff # comment stuff instead!

Last edited by Corona688; 09-01-2017 at 12:42 PM..
 

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SHCOMP(1)						       Korn shell utilities							 SHCOMP(1)

NAME
shcomp - compile a shell script SYNOPSIS
shcomp [ options ] [infile [outfile]] DESCRIPTION
Unless -D is specified, shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh can read and execute with the same effect as the original script. Since aliases are processed as the script is read, alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly. If -D is specified, all double quoted strings that are preceded by $ are output. These are the messages that need to be translated to locale specific versions for internationalization. If outfile is omitted, then the results will be written to standard output. If infile is also omitted, the shell script will be read from standard input. OPTIONS
[D dictionary] Generate a list of strings that need to be placed in a message catalog for internationalization. [n noexec] Displays warn- ing messages for obsolete or non-conforming constructs. [v verbose] Displays input from infile onto standard error as it reads it. EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. SEE ALSO
ksh(1) IMPLEMENTATION
version shcomp (AT&T Research) 2003-03-02 author David Korn <dgk@research.att.com> copyright Copyright (c) 1982-2010 AT&T Intellectual Property license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt 2003-03-02 SHCOMP(1)
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