On Thursday 30 August 2007 17:13:10 Mark Haney wrote: > I've got a script that's not behaving itself. I know it's something > silly, but I can't figure it out. The script is just a for loop that > runs through a text file list of files (/directory/filename format) and > does an 'ls' on each one. The problem is, I /want/ the script to NOT > find those files, i.e., those files shouldn't be there. That part > works, but I can't dump the output of that into a text file. > > Basically ls dumps all the 'file or directory not found' straight to the > console and not to the text file when I redirect output to it: > > ./missingfiles.sh > testfile.txt > > I get this output: > > ls: cannot access /home2/test/20070829/KVNX20070829_225943_744_3.bz2: No > such file or directory > > to the console and not the text file. How do I fix that? > First of all you should paste here the whole script, otherwise we won't be able to realise what's wrong. You could also use the -x option in the #!/bin/bash to debug it when it's running and you might see in which step it fails... Cheers. Manuel -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
