Making a few wild guesses at what you're trying to do, what operating system you're using, and hoping that you're using a shell that conforms to basic POSIX standard requirements, you might want to try the following replacement for your code:
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I dont mean to hijack, but Don, does the last 'cd' above return the shell to the previous spot then? For instance, the same as what a PUSHD and POPD do in DOS?
A plain cd would put you in your home directory, as defined by $HOME at the time you execute it. Using cd ~ has the same effect but could be extended so you can cd ~/.ssh to change to subdirectories of whatever $HOME points to.
Perhaps you would be safer to use pushd & popd or save the current directory to a variable and explicitly change to that at the end of the section.
I dont mean to hijack, but Don, does the last 'cd' above return the shell to the previous spot then? For instance, the same as what a PUSHD and POPD do in DOS?
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Originally Posted by rbatte1
A plain cd would put you in your home directory, as defined by $HOME at the time you execute it. Using cd ~ has the same effect but could be extended so you can cd ~/.ssh to change to subdirectories of whatever $HOME points to.
Perhaps you would be safer to use pushd & popd or save the current directory to a variable and explicitly change to that at the end of the section.
Robin
Hi SIMMS7400 & Robin,
As Robin said, cd ~ (which is what aksdixs's script was using), cd "$HOME", and cd all change directory to the user's home directory (unless something has unset HOME or set it to some other value).
In addition to using cd ~/directory to change to a directory in your home directory, you can also use cd ~user to change directory to the home directory of the user whose login ID is user and
to change to some/directory in user's home directory. Of course, any of these may fail if user's home directory does not grant you search permission.
After a successful cd some/directory, the commands cd - and cd "$OLDPWD" will return you to the directory you were in before the previous cd command unless something has unset OLDPWD or set it to some other value). The OLDPWD variable maintained by the shell gives you one and only one level of what pushd and popd do on multiple levels in some shells (including csh and some versions of bash). But dirs, pushd, and popd are not defined by the standards and are not available in many shells.
Hope this helps,
Don
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Hi I am getting below error after modifying the script as told by you. I am also putting my full script here.
Errors:
Script:
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Please get rid of the unneeded cat (which was not there in the code I suggested). It doesn't do anything but put more load on your system and slow down your script.
And what do the diagnostics that I marked in red above tell us? They tell us that your script has set the BDUMP_DEST shell variable to an empty string! And, where did you set BDUMP_DEST? You set it with:
which contains another unneeded use of cat which I would have expected would have made your script hang waiting for input. Since OUT_FILE is a shell variable that is not defined anywhere in your script, $OUT_FILE will expand to an empty string, and cat $OUT_FILE will copy what ever it reads from standard input into your sed command. Maybe you intended to use something more like:
Note also that the 1st line in your script:
would lead people to believe that you intend to use the Korn shell to execute your script, but with the leading spaces before the #!, that line is just a comment and has absolutely no effect in determining the shell to be used to execute your code. If you are always going to invoke your script with:
then just get rid of that line. If you always want to use sh to run your code, change the 1st line of your script to:
(NOTE THAT THERE ARE NO LEADING SPACES ON THIS LINE) and make it executable with:
and execute it using:
(or if the directory in which you have installed this script is in your PATH variable value, just using:
would be sufficient).
You should also get into the habit of indenting your code so that the structure of functions, conditional code, and loops are obvious. The way you indent your code obfuscates the structure of your code and makes it much harder to comprehend what it is trying to do.
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