Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello guys,

I have the following commands :

Command 1: sudo find "../bundlepool" -name "merchandising2.html" -print0 |xargs -0 -I {} cp "rebranding/merchandising2.html" {}
Command 2: find "../bundlepool" -name "merchandising2.html" -exec cp rebranding/merchandising2.html {} \;
Command 3: find ../bundlepool -name merchandising2.html -exec echo {} \;


They all execute fine from the command line, but none works from a script file (just created an sh file with one command)

The problems are as follows:
Command 1: no errors, but the expected result does not happen
Command 2: find: missing argument to `-exec'
Command 3: find: missing argument to `-exec'

I tried the following solutions with no success:
1- adding #!/bin/bash
2- double quoting some/all of the parameters
3-single quoting some/all of the parametersenv
4- escaping some of the special characters with a backslash
5- gave my file full authorizations (chmod a+rwx)
6- run the script with sh and with bash

Any idea what am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!

This is my env: ubuntu 10.04
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=4d746282656dcbc99723045c4d999050-1302379429.6717-927508648
SSH_CLIENT=192.168.0.14 63899 22
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
USER=root
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:hl=44;37i=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01r=40;3 1;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42w=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01 ;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2 =01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;3 1:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*. pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png =01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=0 1;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35 :*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.g l=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01; 35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36: *.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
MAIL=/var/mail/root
PWD=/var/www/cloud/belgacom
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
HOME=/root
SHLVL=2
LOGNAME=root
SSH_CONNECTION=192.168.0.14 63899 192.168.0.15 22
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
_=/usr/bin/env



aliases:

alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias l='ls -CF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

---------- Post updated at 04:21 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:26 AM ----------

Hello guys,

Actually I found it! my script file came from a windows system and the locale of the file was set to DOS( I knew it by running ":setlocal ff" in vim).

to change it to unix, just run ":setlocal ff=unix"

Ihab

Hi; does your script contain the trailing semicolon (in 2 and 3)?

I like to construct my find calls with printf like so:

Code:

source=rebranding/merchandising2.html 
find . -name merchandising2.html -printf "cp $source %p\n"

Then you look at the output, and if it looks good, you execute it by piping to sh:

Code:

find . -name merchandising2.html -printf "cp $source %p\n" | sh

This makes debugging much easier.

Thanks for the info, this will definitely help next time I am trying to debug.

I have actually updated my post earlier with the solution! thanks a ton though for your help.