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Old 08-17-2011
BASH script outputting strange file formats
Hi

I am very new to using BASH, but I have a problem with a piece of script that I have been working on. Basically the script goes through a mailbox file looking at particular aspects of the file, for example how many spamwords there are email address etc. It does this pretty well except for an error on the command line telling me about some kind of symbol not being a valid identifiereclare, which I dont know what it means but it still kind of works. It displays the results then from the mailbox file about how many email address etc are present in to a html file which the script creates with a predefined filename for the html file, however when it does this it creates the html file with the filename.html and a fullstop on the end of that. So it looks like "filename.html.". Obvioulsy this doesnt open but when you remove the fullstop from the end it works. Has anyone got any idea what is going on, I have tried looking through the code but I cant see anything wrong and I have tried looking on forums and websites but there is no mention of this.
Also I am using an emulator, working on the BASH file on windows using "cygwin". I can show what I have so far, just wondering first if anyone else has experianced this problem.

Thanks to all who help.
# 2  
Old 08-17-2011
No magic. There is a typo or a bug somewhere in the script.
# 3  
Old 08-17-2011
Could I post the code I have to let you see, as I cant find what the problem would be.
# 4  
Old 08-17-2011
Why not? Only remove confidential information and use code tags.
# 5  
Old 08-17-2011
Here is what I have so far,
Code:
#/bin/bash
declare emailno viagra sex lolita cialis million 
emailno=`egrep -c '^Subject' sussmail.mbx`
viagra=`egrep -c -i 'v..gr.' sussmail.mbx`
sex=`egrep -c -i 's.x' sussmail.mbx`
lolita=`egrep -c -i 'l.l.t.' sussmail.mbx`
cialis=`egrep -c -i 'c..l.s' sussmail.mbx`
million=`egrep -c -i 'm.ll..n' sussmail.mbx`
echo "This file contains"
echo $emailno
echo "email messages"
echo "This file contains"
echo $viagra
echo "counts of the word viagra"
echo "This file contains"
echo $sex
echo "counts of the word sex"
echo "This file contains"
echo $lolita
echo "counts of the word lolita"
echo "This file contains"
echo $cialis
echo "counts of the word cialis"
echo "This file contains"
echo $million
echo "counts of the word million"
echo "<html>" >spamstats.html
echo "<head><title>Analysis of sussmail.mbx file</title></head>" >>spamstats.html
echo "<body>" >>spamstats.html
echo "<h1>This is an analysis of the sussmail.mbx file, the following is the result found from the file.</h1>" >>spamstats.html
echo "<h3>Total number of email messages contained in Mailbox file</h3>"$emailno >>spamstats.html
echo "<h3>Total counts of the word Viagra, however spelt</h3>"$viagra >>spamstats.html
echo "<h3>Total counts of the word Sex however spelt</h3>"$sex >>spamstats.html
echo "<h3>Total counts of the word Lolita however spelt</h3>"$lolita >>spamstats.html
echo "<h3>Total counts of the word Cialis however spelt</h3>"$cialis >>spamstats.html
echo "<h3>Total counts of the word Million however spelt</h3>"$million >>spamstats.html
echo "</body>" >>spamstats.html
echo "</html>" >>spamstats.html

# 6  
Old 08-17-2011
Ok. Maybe sometimes there is magic. Smilie
On Linux box this script works without any problems. And yes it's simple and there are not any typos.
As you can see I don't believe in magic so my fantasy is very limited. I couldn't suggest what may happen. :-(
---
Some crazy thought - may be you ran your script from "cmd" window with cmd as shell? Or from GUI?
# 7  
Old 08-17-2011
Haha ok thanks anywaySmilie. Is it possible then that it is something to do with cygwin?
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