Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/sh

eOutput=$eOutput"Y "

hOutput=$hOutput"NA "

printf "${hOutput}\n${eOutput}\n" > "checkOutput.`date '+%d%b%Y'`"

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Need some help in solving this mystery please, anyone?
Ok, here is my problem for eOutput and hOutput are strings and i have been appending values into these two strings.

Towards the end of the script, i would want to save the data to file checkOutput with today date but no file is created.. I really need a file to be created....... WHO can help...

If i just print out the sentence, it can print out the value. Why is this so..
printf "${hOutput}\n${eOutput}\n"

anyone to this qns??? I am getting veri frustrated with this forum. Posted two threads. NO replies for both... This forum is really not helpful at alll...

Kinki,

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Thanks,
ZB

valerie, you posted a question at 2:45 in the morning and complained about no response less than 90 minutes later. Then you PM'ed me with this question. Don't PM your questions to moderators, that's not what it's for. Your lack of patience is astounding. And to top it off, this was your only thread without a response. If you need instant support 24 hours a day, you need to buy an expert.

As for your question, I don't see a problem with the code you posted. I put those 4 lines in a script and they ran fine for me. Don't know what to tell you.

I too ran your script and found no problem.
Working for me tooo ...

Try to print the o/p on stdout first ...

Hi..

I ran the script

and it worked fine from here...

Hi all,

Apologies for yesterday frustration posted on the thread..

For all who tested the script. I know whats wrong.
1) I printed the script to another file
eg. my script "test.sh"
i execute it with ./test.sh > "hello.txt"
if i just execute ./test.sh. Of course there will be no problem.

2) Then i put the sentences in the script to print another file again. That is why it doesn't work.

eOutput=$1
hOutput=$2

eOutput=$eOutput"Y "

hOutput=$hOutput"NA "

printf "${hOutput}\n${eOutput}\n" > "checkOutput.`date '+%d%b%Y'`"

Hmm, a big headache. Anyone got any suggestion?