The reason gives you a syntax error near unexpected token newline is that the arrow brackets in whatever documentation you were following were not intended to be taken literally. A < indicates that the thing that follows is a filename to be used as input on stdin, and a > indicates that the thing that follows is a filename to be … Read more
“-F” is a command line argument, not AWK syntax. Try:
I reckon that the handle $@ in a shell script is an array of all arguments given to the script. Is this true? I ask because I normally use search engines to gather information, but I can’t google for $@ and I have grown too accustomed to easily getting served everything.
You could use printf instead: printf has more consistent behavior than echo. The behavior of echo varies greatly between different versions.
It turns out that I had not set the path. To do so, I first had to edit .bash_profile (I downloaded it to my local desktop to do that, I do not know how to text edit a file from linux) Then add this to .bash_profile:
edit: I prefer seq over the other methods because I can actually remember it 😉
Since there were no exact answers to my question, I made some investigation why my code doesn’t work when there are other solutions that works, and decided to post what I found to complete the subject.As it turns out: “ssh uses direct TTY access to make sure that the password is indeed issued by an … Read more
Note that the characters in $IFS are treated individually as separators so that in this case fields may be separated by either a comma or a space rather than the sequence of the two characters. Interestingly though, empty fields aren’t created when comma-space appears in the input because the space is treated specially. To access an individual element: To … Read more
There are two typical ways of declaring a function. I prefer the second approach. or To call a function with arguments: The function refers to passed arguments by their position (not by name), that is $1, $2, and so forth. $0 is the name of the script itself. Example: Also, you need to call your function after it is declared. Output: … Read more
I have seen this issue when creating scripts in Windows env and then porting over to run on a Unix environment. Try running dos2unix on the script: http://dos2unix.sourceforge.net/ Or just rewrite the script in your Unix env using vi and test. Unix uses different line endings so can’t read the file you created on Windows. Hence it is seeing … Read more