Before you forget, you should put that into your ~/.exrc so vi always has it on your login!
One of my vi interview question answers was, to see hidden characters on a one time basis, ":.l". I missed that one, but they hired me.
I use "cat -vte" on problem files, too, to see control characters and spaces/tabs at end of line. It even works to look around in binary file streams without linefeeds.
It feels easier to see problems with "cat -vte" than with the more aggressive "od -bc", where lines are merged into a rectangle of dump.
I use << rarely, not because Imight forget that the control string must be on a line absolutely by itself, but because I like the finer control and the pipe-friendly data-up-front flavor of echo pipe to achieve the same end:
I usually start out my echo with the single quote and for stuff that needs expansion use the double quotes, like "$variable_name" or nothing, like $( command inline data generator ), which is somewhat implicitly protected.
This works especially well if you want the commands to run on a remote host, since the single quote keeps all the remote metadata unexpanded without individual escapes. Why write two scripts, when you can keep all the process in one, in sync.?
1 echo -e "Enter a filename"
2 read filename
3 if
4 then
5 echo -e "do you want to delete?"
6 read answer
7 if
8 then rm myfirst
9 else
10 echo -e "file not deleted"
11 fi
12 exit0 (1 Reply)
Hi,
We have installed linux6(RHEL) OS and installed datastage application on that.
First time installation worked fine and our all services related to datastage was up and running.
When we stopped the datastage and restarted its giving below error while restart:-
./uv -admin -start
DataStage... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I am very new to programming and even newer to this forum as well, so I apologize if this should have been in the Newbie category, but...
I am currently trying to figure out Shell Scripting and am running into problems early. Not having taken any kind of programming class, I am not even... (2 Replies)
Below is a test script I'm writing in the process of learning to write script. When I try to run it I get an unexpected end of file error on line 56. Thoughts?
SCRIPT:
#!/bin/bash
# system_page - A script to produce a system information HTML file
##### Constants
TITLE="My System... (1 Reply)
Hi All ,
My below script is for chacking vaule and then trucating table :
___________
test4@aceuatcs04:/u01/test4/SOLID/Testscript>cat TRUNCATE-PS_TXN.sh
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# Created by:Kaushlesh Yadav
# Generated on: 15/07/2010
# Job... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm having a syntax error at line 752: `end of file' unexpected. However, i didn't make any changes on line 752. I just inserted a new code in an existing program. Can anyone please check if there is something wrong with my code:
if
then
lline=`tail -5 $badfile`
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
i am installing glut-3.5 using that ./mkmkfiles.imake
its showing an error msg as
root@lxdevenv:~/Desktop/openGL/glut-3.5# ./mkmkfiles.imake
./mkmkfiles.imake: line 51: syntax error: unexpected end of file
root@lxdevenv:~/Desktop/openGL/glut-3.5#
actually there are 49 lines in... (3 Replies)
I have a file called test.dat which contains
a b
I have written a shell script called test.sh
for i in `cat test.dat`
do
echo $i
done
When i run this script using
sh test.sh
I get this message -
test.sh: syntax error at line 6: `end of file' unexpected
What is the... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have written a korn script (code pasted below). It is giving the error while debugging "new.sh: syntax error at line 62: `end of file' unexpected".
I have re-written the whole code in VI and explored all help related to this error on this Unix forum and tried it. Somehow, I could... (7 Replies)
Hello...
I'm trying to run the sshd script, but I keep geting the Syntax errot message .
Here's the last few lines on the script. set nu in vi shows 58 lines, but I keep getting error referring to line 59. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Remi
else
echo... (4 Replies)