On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:37:42AM +0100, John Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> which heroe can tell me why the following does not work :
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cat <<EOF >newscriptfile.sh
[snip]
> It's driving me nuts!!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan.
Depending on what you want cat to the newscriptfile.sh, you need to
escape all the $s to prevent the parameter expansions. I.e, if you want
to cat the whole script into the newscriptfile.sh without expanding any
parameters on the way, you have something like this:
#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF >newscriptfile.sh
#!/bin/sh
NOWS=\$(date +%S)
NOWS=\${NOWS#0}
NOWM=\$(date +%M)
NOWM=\${NOWM#0}
NOWH=\$(date +%H)
NOWH=\${NOWH#0}
FROMNOW=\$1
MINUTE=\$((\${NOWM} + \${FROMNOW}))
MINUTE=\$((\${MINUTE} % 60))
HOUR=\$((\${NOWM} + \${FROMNOW}))
HOUR=\$((\${HOUR} / 60))
HOUR=\$((\${NOWH} + \${HOUR}))
HOUR=\$((\${HOUR} % 24))
echo \$HOUR" "\$MINUTE
EOF
Simo
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