Can someone explain this...

[Ratzie]

Can some one explain this...
IPLIST=/the/correct/path/sw_ip.txt
for IP in $(cat $IPLIST)
do
echo $IP
echo $IP
echo "$IP"
echo $IP ","
echo "$IP ,"
echo "$IP, changed passwd."
echo "$IP changed passwd."
echo $IP", changed passwd."
done

Output:
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50
,3.456.20.50
,3.456.20.50
, changed passwd.
changed passwd.
, changed passwd.

[Patrick Wallek]

The problem with lines 3 thru 8 is that the shell doesn't know exactly where the varialbe $IP ends and the rest starts.

To get the behavior you expect use the form ${IP} and it will work much better.

[Ratzie]

Tried that still no go...
for IP in $(cat $IPLIST)
do
echo ${IP}
echo ${IP}
echo "${IP}"
echo ${IP} ","
echo "${IP} ,"
echo "${IP}, changed passwd."
echo "${IP} changed passwd."
echo ${IP}", changed passwd."
done
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50
,3.456.20.50
,3.456.20.50
, changed passwd.
changed passwd.
, changed passwd.

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I cut and pasted your shell script and I tried it on one of my 11i boxes. It seems to work correctly:

>./ip_test.sh
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50
123.456.20.50 ,
123.456.20.50 ,
123.456.20.50, changed passwd.
123.456.20.50 changed passwd.
123.456.20.50, changed passwd.

JP

[Patrick Wallek]

I tried this and it worked fine:

#!/usr/bin/sh

IP=123.45.67.89
echo ${IP}
echo "${IP}"
echo ${IP} ","
echo "${IP} ,"
echo "${IP}, changed passwd."
echo "${IP} changed passwd"
echo ${IP}", changed passwd"


OUTPUT:
123.45.67.89
123.45.67.89
123.45.67.89 ,
123.45.67.89 ,
123.45.67.89, changed passwd.
123.45.67.89 changed passwd
123.45.67.89, changed passwd

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I believe this is a follow-up messages to

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=426931

I have no idea why your shell is behaving like this. You should have gotten atleast from echo "$IP changed passwd." withouth using {} around the variable.

Can you try it in another window?. Add #!/usr/bin/ksh to the starting of the script and see if it makes any difference.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
IPLIST=/the/correct/path/sw_ip.txt
for IP in $(cat $IPLIST)
do
echo $IP
echo $IP
echo "$IP"
...

-Sri

[Patrick Wallek]

Have you checked the file you are getting the IPs from? I would check and make sure the data is what you think it is.

I just tried the following with no problem:

Script:
#!/usr/bin/sh
IPLIST=iplist
for IP in $(cat $IPLIST)
do
echo ${IP}
echo "${IP}"
echo ${IP} ","
echo "${IP} ,"
echo "${IP}, changed passwd."
echo "${IP} changed passwd"
echo ${IP}", changed passwd"
done

iplist file:
# cat iplist
12.34.56.78
90.12.34.56

OUTPUT:
12.34.56.78
12.34.56.78
12.34.56.78 ,
12.34.56.78 ,
12.34.56.78, changed passwd.
12.34.56.78 changed passwd
12.34.56.78, changed passwd
90.12.34.56
90.12.34.56
90.12.34.56 ,
90.12.34.56 ,
90.12.34.56, changed passwd.
90.12.34.56 changed passwd
90.12.34.56, changed passwd

[Ratzie]

FOUND MY PROBLEM!!!

Had no idea that the file was created in notepad...

Had to dos2ux!
Works fine now!


THanks for all your help!
I know everyone has spent alot of time on it!

[Rodney Hills]

I think IP is getting set to "123.456.20.50\r".

The \r causes a carriage return thus over writing the first part of the data.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Bill Hassell]

Notepad is like vi, it creates a plain ASCII file (unlike Wordpad or MS Word which has numerous binary codes). However, since Notepad runs on a PC, the file would either be transfered by ftp or through SAMBA/CIFS. In either case, the foreign operating system imposes it's own file layout, something that makes file sharing less than convenient. Although not as common, sharing files with Macs and mainframes would have the same issues. Two useful commands for inspecting shared files:

cat -v some_file
xd -xc some_file