I am struggling a bit with a batch script that I need to run in cygwin. I work in winXP and I had to write some awk scripts to do some file manipulation, and now I would like to automate the process by just running a batch file so that my colleagues can use it easily.
Now, the bat file is running almost fine, I only have a problem with the read command...
The problem I have is when trying to run this:
When I run this batch, everything is running ok, it prompts me for "version", but when coming to the next line, it's like it forgot what "version" was. When I type it line by line in cygwin, it remembers it ok, but not here
Does anyone know why and how to fix this?
I am not a good linux user, to be honest, I suck at it, but I still searched before going here and can't find a solution. It might be stupid, be I tried with
or with
but this runs the whole line at once, prompting me after to type "version" and not running the awk script
thank you very much for your help.
Teroc.
Last edited by vbe; 04-16-2010 at 05:08 AM..
Reason: code tags please
Windows environment != Cygwin environment
The variable you read in the first line is set only within that bash process, and is lost as soon as it exits (which is immediately afterwards)
You can put multiple independent statements on the same line by separating them with a semicolon, OR you could go the smart way, and put all needed statements into a script which you then call.
Ah I didn't know about the semicolon thing (yes I suck), but I should have thought about the script thing. I did a script.sh equivalent to the batch file and it works perfectly fine, but I didn't think about including one in the batch !
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