topic Re: Shell script problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Shell script problem

Alex Lavrov — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 07:06:18 GMT

Hello,

I have a little problem in my script.
I'm trying to run omnidb command with next parameters:
-filesystem serv1:/opt/alex 'serv1:/opt/alex'

for some reason, when
x="serv1:/opt/alex"
y="'serv1:/opt/alex'"

or

x="serv1:/opt/alex 'serv1:/opt/alex'"

it does not run properly.
in debug mode (sh -x), I see the command that it's tryng to run and it looks correct, even if I copy&paste it to the command line it works, but from the script itself it does not.
The proble I think is in '. But every thing I tried to do with " or sed or whatever does not fix the problem ...

any ideas?

thanx.

Re: Shell script problem

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:23:14 GMT

omniback has logs, there might be an error.

What shell are you using?

omniback can be scripted, but lots of people think the GUI does just fine (Bill Hassell: read sysadmins don't use GUI's).

Maybe post the sh -x output?

SEP

Re: Shell script problem

G. Vrijhoeven — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:14:27 GMT

Hi.

I did not test it but i think this will elininate the ' in yu vars.

y=`echo $y | sed s'/\'//'`
x=`echo $x | sed s'/\'//'`

Gideon

Re: Shell script problem

john korterman — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:23:06 GMT

Hi,
please show us the lines used in the script.

regards,
John K.

Re: Shell script problem

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:29:55 GMT

Hi,
I have had some problems with those ' in the label too. Here is one solution I have used:

store the label in a variable without any '

in the command line, fubstitute the label with

$(echo "'"$label"'")

Re: Shell script problem

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:46:25 GMT

Hi,

why do you use no quotes for the first parameter and quotes for the second one. Could you post the command, you try to run and any error messages?

greetings,

Michael

Re: Shell script problem

Alex Lavrov — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:57:47 GMT

Well, looks like it works without quotes too .... strange, I thought I tried it. but probably not.

thanx all for your replies,
Merry Christmas or Hanukah! :)