[Malvern] Bash Scripts..

[Keith Edmunds]

Robin Wilson wrote:
> Angus and Keith: I can't seem to get this to work - I presume i run it like 
> this: './scriptname ./directoryname'. Is that correct? It gives an error
> "No  such file or directory" so maybe I am specifiying the directory wrong?

Yes, you can run it like that. Ensure that you have done a "chmod +x 
scriptname" as well (although not doing that will result in a different 
error message). To see exactly where it is going wrong, run it like this:

$ bash -x scriptname directoryname

That will output every line to the terminal as it runs it.

> Also, will any of these scripts work with files which have spaces in their 
> names?

Not as they stand (well, mine won't anyway), but not hard to fix so that 
they do.

-- 
Keith Edmunds

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