Re: error in script

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 09/04/08 20:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I have a script as follows
> #!/bin/bash
> rm -f ~/stock/flstock.csv
> grep FUTSTK ~/stock/today/$1 |grep "25/09/2008"|cut -s -d, -f9|sort -nr 
>  > temp
> i=0
> for trv in $(cat temp)
> do
>     grep $trv ~/stock/today/$1 >> ~/stock/flstock.csv
>     i=$((i+1))
>     if [ $i -eq 20 ]
>     then
>     exit 0
>     fi
> done   
> rm -f temp
> cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort >> ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt
>
> Last line is not getting  executed . But if I run last line afterwards 
> in console, it works.
> Can someone throw somelight why it happens.

("temp" is a horribly generic name.)

Add "set -x" to the top of your script, to see exactly what happens.

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