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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

Primary LanguageShell

                        SOME SCRIPTS WILL NOT RUN AS IS


Note that the source code for certain of the example shell scripts
have the "&lt;" and "&gt;" in place of angle brackets (< and >), or &amp; in
place of the ampersand (&). This is necessary for the Docbook SGML
conversion. If you plan to run these scripts from the enclosed source
files, then it will, of course, be necessary to restore the angle
brackets or ampersand.

                     &lt;           becomes  <
                     &gt;           becomes  >
                     &lt;&lt;       becomes  <<
                     &lt;&lt;&lt;   becomes  <<<
                     &gt;&gt;       becomes  >>
                     &amp;          becomes  &

In some of the below cases, only the comments are affected, and these scripts
require no fixups to execute as expected.


The following sed scriptlet will accomplish the fixup:

   sed -e 's/&lt;/</g' -e 's/&gt;/>/g' SCRIPT.sh > FIXED_SCRIPT.sh

A followup double-check is advisable, of course.

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Scripts needing to be altered:
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Du.sh (line 19)
encryptedpw.sh (lines 27 and 35)
ex57.sh (comment in line 8)
ex70.sh (line 3)
ex71.sh (line 7)
ex71a.sh (line 8)
ex71b.sh (line 22)
logevents.sh (lines 31, 39-42, 47-8, 54, 56, 58, 61, 63, 67)
m4.sh (line 8: "\&amp;" --> \&)
pw.sh (comment in line 4)
read-r.sh (lines 5, 6, 20, 27)
rnd.sh (comments in lines 38, 55, 64)
rot13.sh (comment, line 6)
rot13a.sh (comment, line 5)
here-function.sh (line 16)
avoid-subshell.sh (lines 24, 25, and 33)
usb.sh (line 28)
prepend.sh (lines 18 and 28)
array-assign.bash ( comments on lines 18-19)
cdll (lines 51-53, 59, 63-69, 82-83, 85, 463, 521, 567-568, 570,
            580-586, 637, 656-658)
directory-info.sh (lines 36, 166, 273 and 353)
is-spammer.sh (comments on lines 4, 35, and 51)
bashrc (comment on line 4)
commentblock.sh (lines 4 and 23)
self-document.sh (line 14)
self-document2.sh (line 8)
dev-tcp.sh (line 14)
archiveweblogs.sh (comment in line 4)
multiple-processes.sh (line 143)
catscripts.sh (lines 12 and 21)
is_spammer.bash (comments on various lines)
iscan.sh (comment in line 10)
Hash.lib, (comments in lines lines 103 and 116: & --> &amp;)
          (comment in line 3: < --> &lt;, > --> &gt;)
hash-example.sh (comment in line 3: < --> &lt;, > --> &gt;)
quote-fetch.sh (comment in line 26: &amp; --> &)
ftpget.sh (comment in line 28)
whx.sh (comment in line 259)
pad.sh, (comments in line 6, lines 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34).
nightly-backup.sh (comment in line 4)
tohtml.sh: lines 22-33
           lines 35-36
           lines 38-41
           line 74
           line 83
           lines 100-101
In-line code block at beginning of "I/O Redirection" chapter, line 41.
In-line code block at "mkfifo" entro in "Miscellaneous Commands" section of
"External Filters, Programs and Commands" chapter.

insertion-sort.sh:
                  line 8 (comment)
                  line 44
                  line 45
                  line 57 (two instances)

tree2.sh:
         line 38 (comment)
         line 88

petals.sh
         line 56

realname.sh
         line 26

qky.sh
         line 7
	 line 63
	 line 87
	 line 113
(The unaltered, executable script can be downloaded.
 See:  http://bash.deta.in/qky.README.html)

maned.sh
         line 6 (comment)

progress-bar.sh
         line 26
	 line 30
nim.sh
         line 27

paragraph-spac3.sh
         line 6

sw.sh
         line 5 (comment)

here-commsub.sh
         line 5

UseGetOpt.sh: line 4 (comment)
UseGetOpt-2.sh: line 11 (comment)

bash64.sh
         line 4 (comment)