11-14-2005
Doesn't recognize the mv command
I'm nearly finished my program i've got everything in place and than when i run it it comes back with the reply mv: command not found. This is the code that seems to be causing the problem.
elif [ $NUM -eq 2 ]
then
echo "There are more than one '$1' files in the system."
echo "Please select from the options below"
echo "1) Deleted from:$PathVar1 Deleted at $TimeVar1 on $DateVar1"
echo "2) Deleted from:$PathVar2 Deleted at $TimeVar2 on $DateVar2"
echo "3) Exit"
echo "Please enter the number of the file that you wish to restore"
read ANSWER
case $ANSWER in
1) mv $1 $PathVar1;;
2) mv $1 $PathVar2;;
3) exit;;
esac
But i can't see anything wrong with it. Why does the cpu not recognize the mv command. Has anyone else experienced this, Please let me know.
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getopt
GETOPT(1) BSD General Commands Manual GETOPT(1)
NAME
getopt -- parse command options
SYNOPSIS
args=`getopt optstring $*`
set -- `getopt optstring $*`
DESCRIPTION
getopt is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by shell procedures, and to check for legal options. [Optstring] is a
string of recognized option letters (see getopt(3)); if a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument which may
or may not be separated from it by white space. The special option ``--'' is used to delimit the end of the options. getopt will place
``--'' in the arguments at the end of the options, or recognize it if used explicitly. The shell arguments ($1, $2, ...) are reset so that
each option is preceded by a ``-'' and in its own shell argument; each option argument is also in its own shell argument.
getopt should not be used in new scripts; use the shell builtin getopts instead.
EXAMPLES
The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments for a command that can take the options [a] and [b], and the option
[c], which requires an argument.
args=`getopt abc: $*`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo 'Usage: ...'
exit 2
fi
set -- $args
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
-a|-b)
flag=$1
;;
-c)
carg=$2; shift
;;
--)
shift; break
;;
esac
shift
done
This code will accept any of the following as equivalent:
cmd -acarg file file
cmd -a -c arg file file
cmd -carg -a file file
cmd -a -carg -- file file
IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') mandates that the sh(1) set command return the value of 0 for the exit status. Therefore, the exit status of
the getopt command is lost when getopt and the sh(1) set command are used on the same line. The example given is one way to detect errors
found by getopt.
DIAGNOSTICS
getopt prints an error message on the standard error output when it encounters an option letter not included in [optstring].
SEE ALSO
sh(1), getopt(3)
HISTORY
Written by Henry Spencer, working from a Bell Labs manual page. Behavior believed identical to the Bell version.
BUGS
Whatever getopt(3) has.
Arguments containing white space or embedded shell metacharacters generally will not survive intact; this looks easy to fix but isn't.
The error message for an invalid option is identified as coming from getopt rather than from the shell procedure containing the invocation of
getopt; this again is hard to fix.
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