Search Results

You get the prize. That appears to have been the problem. ONE non-quoted variable was all it took to change a double space to a single space. Thank you very much.

By the way, anyone know why...

Let's get it down to two lines

PATH3=`/bin/pwd` > /dev/null
PATH4=`echo $PATH3 | /bin/sed -e 's/\/A/\/B/'`

And the trace output is

++ /bin/pwd
+...

That is a great pick up about the extra space. I wish I knew where it came from. The three lines below

echo `/bin/pwd`
HOLDPATH=`/bin/pwd`
...

You've got to provide some output for the diagnosis.
Do a ps with whatever options you need in your flavor of unix to get the process name and ID as output, and pipe that into a grep for the script...

I've got an NTFS file system mounted on my Linux box, which means I can have multi-word directory names. I want to recurse through the directory structure copying stuff from /A to /B when it does...

ps to get the process number, and then do a kill