Re: OT: shell script problem

2003-02-21 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski 
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:14:22PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote:
 i have this script with one input file and i keep getting the error:
 /files_???/19980527/???/servermyname #  sh doc_id.sh input.txt
 /files_???/19980527/???/: No such file or directory
 /files_???/19980527/???/
 
 sh doc_id.sh
 -
 #! /bin/sh -x
 
 INPUT=$1
 
 for i in `cat $INPUT`; do
 echo ls -1 ${i}
 RES=`ls -1 ${i}`
 done
 exit 0;
 
 
 input.txt
 
 /files_???/19980527/???/
 
 but when i run the command ls /files_???/19980527/???/ the files are
 found...
 
 any suggestions?

Yes, change cat to echo.

Have fun!
Greg
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OT: shell script problem

2003-02-20 Thread Brian Henning 
i have this script with one input file and i keep getting the error:

/files_???/19980527/???/servermyname #  sh doc_id.sh input.txt
/files_???/19980527/???/: No such file or directory
/files_???/19980527/???/

sh doc_id.sh
-
#! /bin/sh -x

INPUT=$1

for i in `cat $INPUT`; do
echo ls -1 ${i}
RES=`ls -1 ${i}`
done
exit 0;


input.txt

/files_???/19980527/???/



but when i run the command ls /files_???/19980527/???/ the files are
found...

any suggestions?

brian

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