Re: bash related question, adding variable into path

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:14:39 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:

> 2012/6/22 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:34:40 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> echo "Username? then [ENTER]:"
>>> read username
>>> id=`/opt/zimbra/bin/mysql -e 'use zimbra;select id,comment from mailbox;' | grep $username | cut -f 1` 
>>> mkdir /tmp/$username 2>/dev/null 

Put an echo here.

>>> for i in `egrep '(1[8-9]|2[0-2]) Jun 2012'
>>> /opt/zimbra/store/0/$id/msg/0/* | cut -d : -f 1 | uniq` 

And another flag here.

>>> do 
>>> cp $i /tmp/$username

And just in case, also print the value of $username to track all the 
variables used in the script.

>>> done
>>>
>>> there must be something that i had missed...
>>
>> Print/echo the $id variable to check for its current value as seen in
>> runtime by your script :-?
> 
> 
> i had checked with echo that $id indeed output a id and running

Care to send the output of the script when you run it once you added the 
echo lines? :-)
 
> if i put the id value exactly as output of "/opt/zimbra/bin/mysql -e
> 'use zimbra;select id,comment from mailbox;' | grep $username | cut -f
> 1", it worked

So you mean the whole script works okay.

> what else could should i look for?

I don't know... need more data.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón