Re: [cobalt-developers] Shell Script Errors

["Stanislav Tsikin" <stsikin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might get this kind of weird errors if you have developed the script
on windows platform, and then have moved it over to UNIX/Linux.

On Windows, each line ends with \r\n, while on Unix/Linux it ends with
\n only.
If this is the case, get rid of the all '\r' and you should be fine.

Regards,
--Stas

Kevin Thomson wrote:
> 
> Alright, I'm writing a simple shell script to execute a few commands based
> on what time of day it is, after fixing the outdated and stripped down
> version of the date command cobalt has on its Qube3's I managed to get the
> command line to start printing out times via 'date +%H%M' (to print out
> Hour:Minute) but now I'm having problems with my case statments and I'm not
> sure why its happening. Below I'm stating the exact instances where I'm
> having problems:
> 
>         [root /root]# sh qubebackup-0.4.sh
> I run the shell script, it starts printing errors
> 
>         : command not found
>         : command not found
>         : command not found
>         : command not found
>         : command not found
>         "t: unknown command "status
> 
> To this point there are no commands being issued, I'm setting variables
> like:
> BUFSIZE="32k"
> DOW=`date +%w`
> TIME='date +%H:%M'
> HOUR='date +%H'
> DATE=`date +%D`
> DAY=`date +%A`
> DEVICE="/dev/nst0"
> DATA="/home"
> REWIND="mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind"
> EOD="mt -f /dev/nst0 eod"
> FSF="mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf"
> 
>         usage: mt [-v] [--version] [-h] [ -f device ] command [ count ]
>         commands: weof, wset, eof, fsf, fsfm, bsf, bsfm, fsr, bsr, fss, bss,
> rewind,
>                 offline, rewoffl, retension, eod, seod, seek, tell, status,
>                 erase, setblk, lock, unlock, load, compression, setdensity,
>                 drvbuffer, stwrthreshold, stoptions, stsetoptions,
> stclearoptions,
>                 defblksize, defdensity, defdrvbuffer, defcompression, sttimeout,
>                 stlongtimeout, densities, setpartition, mkpartition, partseek,
>                 asf.
> 
> I'm not quite sure WHY its printing this out considering its in responce to:
> mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> which should give me an echo of the status of the non rewinding device.
> 
>         : command not found
> 
> Here this is again... I'm going crazy, I swear.
> 
>         'ubebackup-0.4.sh: syntax error near unexpected token `in
>         'ubebackup-0.4.sh: qubebackup-0.4.sh: line 63: `case "$TIME" in
> 
> This one I really don't get, its in reponce to my case statement:
> case "date +%H:%M" in
>         10:00) bru -L "${TIME}'s Hourly Backup" -cvvvVZXGBf \
>                         $DEVICE $DATA > /tmp/backup.txt
>                    mail $MAILLIST < /tmp/backup.txt
>         ;;
>         12:00) bru -L "${TIME}'s Hourly Backup" -cvvvVZXGBf \
>                         $DEVICE $DATA > /tmp/backup.txt
>                    mail $MAILLIST < /tmp/backup.txt
>         ;;
>         "14:00) bru -L "${TIME}'s Hourly Backup" -cvvvVZXGBf \
>                         $DEVICE $DATA > /tmp/backup.txt
>                    mail $MAILLIST < /tmp/backup.txt
>         ;;
>         "16:00") bru -L "${TIME}'s Hourly Backup" -cvvvVZXGBf \
>                         $DEVICE $DATA > /tmp/backup.txt
>                    mail $MAILLIST < /tmp/backup.txt
>         ;;
>         18:00) bru -L "${TIME}'s Hourly Backup" -cvvvVZXGBf \
>                         $DEVICE $DATA > /tmp/backup.txt
>                    mail $MAILLIST < /tmp/backup.txt
>         ;;
>         *) exit *
> esac
> 
> Am I going insane? Can someone help me out? I mean this should be working,
> simple line by line from any good linux developers book would tell me that,
> so I must be missing something.
> 
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