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I imagine your "2>/dev/null" is supressing an error message, try redirecting it to a log file to debug.

# Schedule for deletion
echo "sudo /bin/rm -f \"/$rootdir/$vendor/$outgoing/.$line\"" | \
...

Nice catch, set -f is the answer as you explained in your post.



Agreed, I was printing as an illustration that uses the extracted value, the assumption being the programmer using the code will...

This comes up enough I thought I'd drop it here (so the next time I need it I can google for it :)

Using "IFS", "set", and "for without the in keyword".

Note this will stomp on any arguments...

At the risk of sounding like a hermit (talking to myself), I recently examined some of the configure scripts and saw several patterns:

There aren't many pipe commands after all, mostly simple sed...

First try

ssh -v -v user@remote

and see if something is happening on the client side. You should see the public key being offered as part of the handshake.

You may need a new ssh (key...

Umm, you will probably need to post some more information about what you are doing. The two outputs you show are your "result", but from what action? Are you setting up a web server?
Are you...

If the original poster was close enough for only this to remain:



and if he could change his output separator from " " to some other character, say "@" it would be a simple matter of

nawk...

I thought awk scanned files sequentially? not sure what you script will do.
Consider using python...
import sys
l1 = open(sys.argv[1]).readlines()
l2 = open(sys.argv[2]).readlines()
if...

Might I suggest as well:

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
rm -f $TEMP $TEMP.diff
else
mv $TEMP $SIGS
+ chmod 600 $SIGS
echo "No prior existing report."
fi

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qneill

No reason you have to use a "here script" with <<EOF, you can pipe commands directly to the standard input of ssh, for example using echo:

$ D=/tmp; F1=x1; echo "F2=$D/$F1
echo on \$(hostname):...

Okay so I'm not really a newbie, but this bugs the crap out of me (rant on).

Every so often I need to change the system time. I run "man date" and always find the "date -s" command, but for who...

Try:
SQL insert syntax - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SQL+insert+syntax)

I think you want
INSERT INTO "table_name" ("column1", "column2", ...)
VALUES ("value1",...

What's wrong with the code now? Doesn't work? Hard to maintain? Slow?

At first blush, when I see "if [ nawk ... elif [ nawk ..." it really makes me want to convert the whole damn thing to a real...

Somewhere during your login sequence on pebblz01, something is prompting you for "Your login" and "Your passord". This could be from several things, depending on how the admin set things up.

Try...

Also, I looked at the code I posted, I had changed your "mailx ...." line into "echo mailx ...." so that particular version is just going to show you the output, not actually do anything. Taking the...

Just another dude chiming in to help.


Taranjeet - I must second Zaxxon's request for more output (using set -x) - it really helps when you include your work in progress (output, descriptions)...

But how does one do it in a shell that doesn't have PIPESTATUS? I know that autoconf (tool to install source on almost Unix that has lots of shell-independent logic in it) plays tricks with...

If your input is indeed fixed width, here's a one-liner in ruby:
$ ruby -e 'STDIN.readlines.each { |l| puts "#{l[3..7]} #{l[8..-1]}" if l[0..2] == "***" }' <filename

And the same sort of thing...

A good debugging technique in most shells is to use "-x" which prints each command as it is executed. I put your commands in a script named 'yourscript'

bash$ cat yourscript ...

I solved this problem so many times I finally wrote a real script, it allows summing of the directory content sizes down to level N:

http://www.theneills.org/src/scripts/bigdu.ksh

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As long as we're calling external programs:
echo I love scripting | python -c "import sys; a = sys.stdin.readline().split(); a.reverse(); print ' '.join(a)"

echo I love scripting | ruby -e "puts...

I don't understand your question

Are you copying a file named "XXXX1234.ABCDEF" to "XXX1234"? (#1)

Or are you transforming one file to another and transforming the contents from...

When doing bulk removes, I do it in stages: generate the list, examine, then do the remove. Then I can check that I'm aiming for the correct foot One Last Time(tm) before shooting.

In the case...