On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Cory Cline <c...@clinecreations.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cory Cline wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Cory Cline wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I ran "sh file.sh | grep error" (file.sh is
>>>>> the name of the for script. I ran this outside of the bash -e so
>>>>> that I could see where the error
>>>>> was coming in. It seems that it is erroring on the first commented
>>>>> line in my proto-7.7.md5 script. Is there any reason that it would
>>>>> ignore the #?
>>>>
>>>> Paste the script.
>>
>>>
>>> cat > proto-7.7.md5 << "EOF"
>>> #c1d50749c3ac5215a1a9425818e856c1 applewmproto-1.4.2.tar.bz2
>>
>> That's not a script, it's a list of md5sums. The # means that the line
>> is commented out. The grep -v '^#' skips the line. If you are trying
>> to run that as a script, then of course it will fail.
>>
>> -- Bruce
>>
>> --
> Ok. There is a misunderstanding here. The script I am running is the
> for loop in a .sh file. The for loop references a file named
> proto-7.7.md5 which I mistakingly called a script. Sorry for that. I
> am not running that as a script, I am running my sh file as a script.
> Now. That being cleared up, When I run that loop, it seems that it
> attempts to run the loop on applewmproto-1.4.2 regardless of the #.
> Therefore, it errors out. When I ran the loop OUTSIDE of the bash -e
> shell, it obviously showed the error on that file, but continued on
> and finished just fine. So basically, my problem has been resolved.
> I just thought it would be worth yall noting that the loop is not
> ignoring the # files for w/e reason.
Ok. Time for a facepalm....I just double checked my proto-7.7.md5
file and it had the cat command in it, which was causing the error.
Forgive my stupid moment and thanks for your help.
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