Shell Programming and Scripting

Not sure why my sed script is not working..need extra eyes..Any help would be aprreciated.

I want to add this line into the 1rst line of the $EJECT FILE
sed '/">>>>>>>>>>>>> TAPES TO BE EJECTED /a\<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"'> $EJECT

This is the error message I get:
+ sed /">>>>>>>>>>>>> TAPES TO BE EJECTED /a\<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"
sed: command garbled: /">>>>>>>>>>>>> TAPES TO BE EJECTED /a\<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"+ cat /export/home/legato/tapemgr/rpts/offsite/unallocate_IP_tapes.092508


After the read function, it does not return back to main menu:
Read Function problem:



Once I enter the date and it processes, I would like it to go back to the tapemgr_main_menu.. but it does do that..it prompts again for the read input date.

Tapes_Offsite_Menu()
{
while true
echo "Please enter date as xx/xx/xx "; read input
do
total=`mminfo -r volume -q "location=SL8500,savetime<$input,volretent>01/01/09" |wc -l`

echo "$dat BUR-COSD Offsite(CDC) SL8500/MOD2 Tape Report" > $OFFSITE
echo "TapeOps .. Please send these tapes to OFFSITE" > $OFFSITE
mminfo -r volume,%used,volretent,pool,location -q "pool=NDMPool,location=SL8500,savetime<$input,volretent>01/01/09" >>$OFFSITE >&1
echo "Total OFFSITE cosd TAPES..$total" >> $OFFSITE ; cat $OFFSITE
echo "Did you want to unallocate these tapes from Networker? '(y/n)'";
read unallocate;echo $unallocate
case $unallocate in
n|N) echo " --TAPES NOT EJECTED OR UNALLOCATED .. REPORT LIST ONLY";RPT_ONLY="y";;
y|Y) mminfo -q "pool=NDMPool,location=SL8500,savetime<$input,volretent>01/01/09" -r volume|tee $EJECT_TAPES
echo "Tapes will be unallocated--UNALLOCATE_TAPES"
cat $EJECT_TAPES;
UNALLOCATE_TAPES;;
esac
unallocate=" "
EMAIL_NOTIFICATION
tapemgr_Main_Menu
done
}

Does sed understand that syntax at the command line? Are you sure the script executes the same version of sed? There are different sed versions and not all of them accept the a\ string on the same line. Perhaps this would work better:

Code:

sed '/">>>>>>>>>>>>> TAPES TO BE EJECTED /a\
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"'

I'm a bit surprised by the double quotes but perhaps they are supposed to be that way?

You have the "do" from the "while" after the "echo" but it should apparently be before. The while command can accept multiple commands before the do (that's why the special token "do" is required to show where the commands for the condition ends) but I don't think you want that here.