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Old 05-04-2012
Errors when Run
Hello,

So here is what i have

Code:
head -3 $1 > "$HOME/tmp/interchange_hold"
tail --lines=+4 $1 > "$HOME/tmp/no_int_file_hold"
tail -2 $HOME/tmp/no_int_file_hold > "$HOME/tmp/end_hold"
head --lines=-2 $HOME/tmp/no_int_file_hold > "$HOME/tmp/rawfile_hold"
cp "$HOME/tmp/end_hold" "$HOME/tmp/end_hold_cc"
cp "$HOME/tmp/rawfile_hold" "$HOME/tmp/rawfile_hold_cc"
cp "$HOME/tmp/interchange_hold" "$HOME/tmp/interchange_hold_cc"

delim=`cat $HOME/tmp/interchange_hold | head -1 | cut -b4`
num=`cat $HOME/tmp/end_hold |head -1 | awk -F "$delim" '{ print $3}'`


When running the script, i get these errors


Code:
Usage: tail [-f] [-b number] [file]
       tail [-f] [-c number] [file]
       tail [-f] [-n number] [file]
Obsolescent usage: tail [+-[n][l|b|c]] [-f] [file]
head: illegal option -- -
head: illegal option -- i
es=-2: Badly formed number

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Last edited by Corona688; 05-04-2012 at 06:58 PM..
# 2  
Old 05-04-2012
What's your system? You may be running on a system that doesn't have --long-style options.
# 3  
Old 05-04-2012
Quote:
tail --lines=+4 $1 > "$HOME/tmp/no_int_file_hold"

head --lines=-2 $HOME/tmp/no_int_file_hold > "$HOME/tmp/rawfile_hold"
Please explain in words what you would like the commands to do. It is hard to guess from syntactically incorrect code.

Please post your Operating System and version and what Shell you are using.
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