Re: OT: shell script problem

[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/???/myname #  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

[Brian Henning]

i have this script with one input file and i keep getting the error:

/files_???/19980527/???/myname #  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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