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# 8  
Old 04-02-2009
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Originally Posted by achellstrom
Those are back ticks on the title variable line. My solution works I have tested it.

Hi,

I dont have access to unix.
Can you please paste what change you made.
And please let me know about any unix emulator i can use on my windows machine
# 9  
Old 04-02-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by achellstrom
Those are back ticks on the title variable line. My solution works I have tested it.
Sorry, it's not working here. As I said in the first post, it works perfectly from the command line (aside from returning more than 1 match), but in the script, it runs find on each word, instead of each line.
# 10  
Old 04-02-2009
./requested.sh: command substitution: line 23: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
Line 23: title="`echo $title|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]`"
# 11  
Old 04-02-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ Charlie
./requested.sh: command substitution: line 23: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
Line 23: title="`echo $title|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]`"

I think you need to put the movie names in single quotes.
Befor that try echo $title in the script.
If it is splitting then you need to put single quotes on movie names
# 12  
Old 04-02-2009
Echoing the $title shows the full line (song name), not an individual word.

I'm going to move the tr line out of the loop, to see if that helps.
# 13  
Old 04-02-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ Charlie
./requested.sh: command substitution: line 23: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
Line 23: title="`echo $title|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]`"

Try this

typeset -u title="`echo $title`"
# 14  
Old 04-02-2009
typeset: -u: invalid option
typeset: usage: typeset [-afFirtx] [-p] name[=value] ...
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