I have a problem with a simple script I am trying to write. I want a user to type grep, sed commands that are then stored in variables. Those variables are stored in a function, and the function is then called to execute the commands. The idea is that the user does it step by step.
script:-
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Filename: variabletest : Author: L.Pearce
function tptfunction
{
$tool $criteria $filename
}
echo
echo
echo "Type command in full:"
echo "1. Type the tool you are using."
read tool
echo "You typed $tool"
echo "2. Type criteria you wish to search."
read criteria
echo "You typed $criteria"
echo "3. Type the name of the file you are searching:"
read filename
echo "$filename is what you typed."
tptfunction
echo
echo
i just tested your script on a Solaris 8 box and it works fine with sed until you give " '/Pearce/p' " as an argument to the criteria prompt ... use "/Pearce/p" only without the single quotes ... also make sure you are using single quotes and not backticks --- backticks are with the tilde key while single quotes are with the double quotes key on both sun and pc keyboards i use ...
sed needs to know what to do with "/Pearce/" ... try "/Pearce/p" ...
and no, it doesn't matter how you're getting to the unix box as you're not executing the script on your pc ... that only matters when you're starting a Xwindows application and you need to have a Xserver (i.e., exceed, cygwin, etc.) on your PC for it to work ...
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