From the fact that it says file $attachment
rather than file "$attachment",
I guess your script cannot handle filenames that contain spaces.
But, be advised that filenames can contain spaces,
and well-written scripts can handle them. Note, then:
I have a couple of hundred html source code files. I need to extract the contents of a particular <div> element from each of these file so I’m going to write a script to loop through each file. The element structure is like this:
I can use ls -ld */ to list all the directory entries in the current directory. Is there a similarly easy way to just list all the regular files in the current directory? I know I can use find
I have a test.sh script
Is there a way to only execute a command after another is done without a temp file?
I have one longer running command and another command that formats the output and sends it to a HTTP server using curl.
If i just execute commandA | commandB, commandB will start curl, connect to the server and start sending data. Because commandAtakes so long, the HTTP server will timeout.
I can do what I want with commandA > /tmp/file && commandB </tmp/file && rm -f /tmp/file
What’s the difference between these:
I am trying to read user and server details from file tempo.txt and then check the disk space usage of the file system on that unix account using another script server_disk_space.sh.But I am not able to figure out why while loop is only working for first line and for loop is working fine.Please help me understand this.
I’ve written a quick-and-dirty script to time some reports from a web service:
I have a Bash script, which looks similar to this:
I have text file. Task – get first and last line from file after