Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

So I sorted my file as I was supposed to:

Code:

sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2

and when I wrote

Code:

> cat file2

in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself

Code:

 
...
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp
cat file2

It wrote a whole different thing, why is that?

Thanks,
Shira.

Do you realize that you are referring to different filenames in you 2nd example?
Your 1st example file1 > file2, then cat file2
Your 2nd example average > temp, then cat file2

LOL...joey, I had to log back in...you got to this before I could

It was a typo; in the second example I meant:

Code:

sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2
cat file2

(I forgot to change the names of the files in this example. I changed the names, so it would be clear that these are files.)

sorry

Please don't laugh at me.
Channel your enrgies to help me.

Oh no...I wasn't laughing at you...I thought perhaps you made a typo but I was too slow to reply to this thread and joey pointed out what we saw was obvious.

Could you post an example of what you see as different between the script output and the command line output?

... without looking at actual script and outputs you are getting, we can only guess. My guess is that you are running the script from a location different to the location where the targeted file1 is.

If, say, file1 is in /tmp, and you manually cd to /tmp and run your commands, you will get the expected result. But if your script is in, say, /home/myhome, if you don't give the script a full path to where the right file1 is and where file2 will be created, you will get something else