topic Re: Help with script in Operating System - HP-UX

Help with script

Junior C. — Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:33:41 GMT

Why am I getting this error when I run this script. script and output error attach

Thanks,
Junior

Re: Help with script

Rick Garland — Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:36:05 GMT

Put a backslash in front of the *. The shell is trying to interpret

Re: Help with script

Andreas Voss — Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:05:40 GMT

Hi,

could it be that whithin your subirs there are files that begin with -* ?
Check this with a find command.
If so change your ll command to:
ll ./$FILE
This will prevent interpreting the filename as an option for ll.

Regards

Andrew

Re: Help with script

Alan Riggs — Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:17:39 GMT

Might I suggest replacing the entire structure with:

ll -d $RETAILRE/*/* $RETAILRE/*/data.*/* | grep -v "^d" >> $LOGFILE

Re: Help with script

Jeremiah Campbell — Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:10:51 GMT

What is it you are trying to do? Perhaps that would help to figure out the best way to get this script to work.

Re: Help with script

Douglas Nakamoto — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:58:15 GMT

I would think that the problem is with the syntax of your 'for' statement.

The following logic (utilizing your structure, excerpted from your script - it will have to be inserted, replacing the old logic, to work properly) will do what I think you want:

cd $RETAILRE
for DIR in `ll | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}'`
do
echo $DIR >> $LOGFILE
cd $DIR
for FILE in `ls $DATA`
do
if [[ -f $FILE ]]
then
ll $FILE >> $LOGFILE
fi
done
cd $RETAILRE
done

Re: Help with script

Jeremy Dean_3 — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:32:02 GMT

Alan and Douglas are on to a winner.

for file in *

will work fine when there are files to match, however when there are none it will return "*" as file once.
This could have been explicitly tested in the original coding loop as an exception case.
Alternatively Alan and Douglas's suggestions are (better) alternatives.

for file in $DATA/*; do
if [ "$file" = "$DATA/*" ]; then
break
fi
...
done

Note that the shell expands $DATA, but not * within the quotes!