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Old 04-14-2012
passing data to another file on mac
Code:
#!/bin/bash

dir=/testdir

cat > testfile.sh << EOFILE
#!/bin/bash

path=`find "$dir" -maxdepth 100 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read line;do echo $RANDOM'|'$line;done |sort|cut -d"|" -f2- | head -1`

EOFILE

chmod 755 testfile.sh

exit 0

I have an issue with the above code. Again in Ubuntu it works but on a mac it tries to read the command starting path=`find...

This causes the variables in the command to go missing or shows weird output.

Is there an easier way to get the file the write properly

As always thanks

Cheers
DV
Last edited by digitalviking; 04-14-2012 at 10:35 PM..
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Old 04-15-2012
loose second #!/bin/bash
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Old 04-16-2012
substitution in specific line number
sorry
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