Re: sh script writing help
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250 char
all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can
see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with
no luck.
\ should work just fine:
$ echo long line \
split onto two
long line split onto two
$
You example works only because the continuation starts at position 1.
$ [ -n ${test-name-fowarding} -o -n ${test-noname} ] || \
exerr \
this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch of
spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing all
white space between code not so for white space between the .
Is there a coding method to get around this?
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Re: sh script writing help
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:36 +0800
Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote:
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250
char all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line
so I can see it on the screen and still have the command
function? I tried \ with no luck.
\ should work just fine:
$ echo long line \
split onto two
long line split onto two
$
You example works only because the continuation starts at position
1.
$ [ -n ${test-name-fowarding} -o -n ${test-noname} ] || \
exerr \
this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch
of spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing
all white space between code not so for white space between the
.
Is there a coding method to get around this?
Do you try to read your expression from a file?
exerr `cat /path/to/data`
the contents of /path/to/data are your very long string.
Regards,
--
Anh Ky Huynh
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Re: sh script writing help
Anh Ky Huynh wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:36 +0800
Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote:
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250
char all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line
so I can see it on the screen and still have the command
function? I tried \ with no luck.
\ should work just fine:
$ echo long line \
split onto two
long line split onto two
$
You example works only because the continuation starts at position
1.
$ [ -n ${test-name-fowarding} -o -n ${test-noname} ] || \
exerr \
this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch
of spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing
all white space between code not so for white space between the
.
Is there a coding method to get around this?
Do you try to read your expression from a file?
exerr `cat /path/to/data`
the contents of /path/to/data are your very long string.
Regards,
Thanks I never though of that solution.
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Re: sh script writing help
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On 30/05/2010 07:58:58, Aiza wrote:
Anh Ky Huynh wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:36 +0800
Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote:
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250
char all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line
so I can see it on the screen and still have the command
function? I tried \ with no luck.
\ should work just fine:
$ echo long line \
split onto two
long line split onto two
$
You example works only because the continuation starts at position
1.
$ [ -n ${test-name-fowarding} -o -n ${test-noname} ] || \
exerr \
this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch
of spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing
all white space between code not so for white space between the
.
Is there a coding method to get around this?
Do you try to read your expression from a file?
exerr `cat /path/to/data`
the contents of /path/to/data are your very long string.
A standard means of doing this sort of thing is to use a 'Here' document:
if ! [ -n ${test-name-forwarding} -o -n ${test-noname} ]; then
exerr -E_O_EXERR
x
xx
xx
xxx
E_O_EXER
fi
The '-' operator is a variant on the usual '' operator used for
this: the only difference is that it strips leading tabs from the lines
in the here document.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: sh script writing help
On Sun, 30 May 2010 13:14:01 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote:
In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250 char
all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I
can see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried
\ with no luck.
If the message does not have to be a *single* command-line argument of
the exerr function, you can split the message in multiple arguments
and use '\' for continuation lines, e.g.:
echo This is a very long message \
that does not fit in a single \
line of text.
This might not work if you _have_ to pass the string as a single
argument, but even in that case you can use shell substitution to wrap
the exerr() function, e.g.:
exwrap()
{
return exerr $*
}
exwrap This is a very long message \
that does not fit in a single \
line of text.
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sh script writing help
In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250 char all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit. Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with no luck. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sh script writing help
In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said: In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250 char all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit. Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with no luck. \ should work just fine: $ echo long line \ split onto two long line split onto two $ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
