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Re: echo does not display from bash script

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On 5/2/26 3:13 PM, pinnerite wrote:
> This is script. None of the echo lines display(?).
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> LOGFILE="$HOME/myth_backup.log"
> TARGET="/media/alan/e06b3828-2ec7-493a-bfbc-dcdd04ac2fed"
> 
> echo "Backup started at $(date)" >> "$LOGFILE"
> 
> # Run MythTV backup
> #
> echo "Running mythconverg_backup.pl..." >> "$LOGFILE"
> /home/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl >> "$LOGFILE" 2>&1 || \
> echo "WARNING: mythconverg_backup.pl failed" >> "$LOGFILE"
> 
> # Rsync backup
> echo "Starting rsync..." >> "$LOGFILE"
> 
> if mountpoint -q "$TARGET"; then
>      if rsync -avh --delete /home/mythtv/ "$TARGET"/ >> "$LOGFILE" 2>&1; then
>          echo "Backup completed successfully at $(date)" >> "$LOGFILE"
>      else
>          echo "ERROR: rsync failed at $(date)" >> "$LOGFILE"
>      fi
> else
>      echo "ERROR: Backup target not mounted, skipping rsync" >> "$LOGFILE"
> fi
> 
> TIA Alan
> 
First, how are you running this?   Clicking on the shell script via Nemo, running from a 
cron job, running from a terminal window from the command line?

I know it's stupid but put all your variables in {}   ${LOGFILE} etc.

Try shellcheck on the script.   shellcheck <full path of script>
You can capture errors >logfile.txt if it's a lot.

-- 
Mint 22.3,  Thunderbird 140.10.0esr,  Firefox 150.0.1
     Alan K.

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