Re: bash help please

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:08:32 Lars Noodén wrote:

> On 06/10/2016 05:41 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > gene@coyote:~$ echo `test [${InMail} = "gene"]`
> >
> > All I get is the linefeed.  Obviously I'm losing it, so how do I
> > translate and get usefull output for troubleshooting?
>
> One option is to use 'set -x' there in the script.  It can go anywhere
> above your problem and will show each line as it is executed.  The
> contents of ${InMail} that are actually getting passed to test will be
> visible.
>
> Regards,
> Lars

I am about to call up a copy of amrecover, and restore that script to one 
that was working last week, I cannot get by the syntax errors between fi 
& done in a while loop with a bunch of if-then-elif-fi's in it.  Last 
weeks wasn't perfect, but it did work, and everytime I look something up 
in a man bash & try to fix it, its worse. 

The set -x helped, and maybe I can use that to see what the original is 
doing.

So for now, thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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