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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Command works interactively but not in bash script Post 303041064 by gull04 on Wednesday 13th of November 2019 09:58:06 AM
Old 11-13-2019
Hi,

I'm not getting the same error, although I've tested running the shell from the same directory as the test data and a different directory;

Is there more to the script - see below for the test.

Code:
fbakirpomd5 (root) /root-> pwd
/root
fbakirpomd5 (root) /root-> ls *.csv
file_o1.csv
fbakirpomd5 (root) /root-> cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
dir=/root
new=$(ls "$dir"/*.csv -tr | tail -n 1) && echo "the current csv is from: " && date -r "$new" "+%m/%d/%Y"
fbakirpomd5 (root) /root-> ./test.sh
the current csv is from:
05/14/2019
fbakirpomd5 (root) /root-> /usr/local/bin/test.sh
the current csv is from:
05/14/2019
fbakirpomd5 (root) /root->

Regards

Gull04
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SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME

       sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts

SYNOPSIS

       sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--password=password] [--exec=script] [--execfile=file] server[:port]

       sieveshell --help

DESCRIPTION

       sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server.	It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress.

       The following commands are recognized:

	   list list scripts on server.

	   put <filename> upload script to server.

	   get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout

	   delete <name> delete script.

	   activate <name> activate script.

	   deactivate deactivate all scripts.

OPTIONS

       -u user, --user=user
	   The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials.

       -a authname, --authname=authname
	   The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user).

       -r realm, --realm=realm
	   The realm to attempt authentication in.

       -p password, --password=password
	   The password to use when authenticating to server. Note that this parameter can be seen in the process list. Use with caution!

       -e script, --exec=script
	   Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done.

       -f file, --execfile=file
	   Instead of working interactively, run commands from file file and exit when done.

REFERENCES

       [MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work
       in progress.

AUTHOR

       Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>.

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