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# 1  
Old 04-20-2011
ambiguous redirect error
This script has ambiguous redirect error.

PHP Code:
...
cd $HOME
cd folder/work
# search all subfolders in work directory
find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read directory
do 
 CUR_FOLDER="${directory#"./"}"
 cd $CUR_FOLDER
 chmod 644 *   
 
 for ff in *; do
  if [ ! "$ff" = "body.txt" ]; then 
   
   FILE_NAME=`echo $ff | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'`  #filename
   FILE_EXT=`echo $ff | awk -F"." '{print $NF}'`     #file_ext
   NEW_TXT_NAME=$FILE_NAME.txt
   NEW_XML_FILE=$FILE_NAME.xml
   
   echo $FILE_NAME $FILE_EXT $NEW_TXT_NAME $NEW_XML_FILE 
   echo "111" >> $NEW_TXT_NAME
   echo "222" >> $NEW_XML_NAME
  fi 
 done    
 cd $HOME
 cd folder/work
done
... 




like it:

./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
AB023095 PDF AB023095.txt AB023095.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
AB023069 PDF AB023069.txt AB023069.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
AB023087 PDF AB023087.txt AB023087.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Scan_201104201130 pdf Scan_201104201130.txt Scan_201104201130.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
BAN 19-04-11 #2 pdf BAN 19-04-11 #2.txt BAN 19-04-11 #2.xml
./get_mails: line 36: $NEW_TXT_NAME: ambiguous redirect
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
0001 txt 0001.txt 0001.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
BAN 19-04-11 pdf BAN 19-04-11.txt BAN 19-04-11.xml
./get_mails: line 36: $NEW_TXT_NAME: ambiguous redirect
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect
Header Header Header.txt Header.xml
./get_mails: line 37: $NEW_XML_NAME: ambiguous redirect


please, tell me what wrong with this script?
# 2  
Old 04-20-2011
Can you change as below and try..?
Code:
NEW_TXT_NAME=${FILE_NAME}.txt 
NEW_XML_FILE=${FILE_NAME}.xml

# 3  
Old 04-20-2011
No, this didn't help Smilie\

It's strange that error appears with NEW_XML_NAME variable...
# 4  
Old 04-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by candyme
No, this didn't help Smilie\

It's strange that error appears with NEW_XML_NAME variable...
The variable NEW_XML_NAME is not defined anywhere.
# 5  
Old 04-20-2011
Further to Franklin52 who has identified the main error, the latter part of your error messages did not come from the script posted.

I also suspect that shebang line (the very first line of your script) contains an error and that you may not be running the shell you think you are running.
Should be something like:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/sh

# 6  
Old 04-20-2011
Thank you, all

I solved this problem

I have to use

"$NEW_TXT_NAME "
echo "222" >> "$NEW_XML_FILE"
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