Re: Bash Script Problem

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Bash Script Problem
Date	2015-08-22 19:59 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-08-22, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a Bash script. I've spent a lot of time on it
> and I'm very frustrated. I'm sure I'm going to be more upset when I find
> out what the solution is.
>
> Here are the first few lines of the scipt:
>
>    #!/bin/bash
>    logfile="file-name-wth-complete-path-containing-no-spaces"
>    datetime=`date +"%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"`
>    echo $datetime script started >> $logfile
>
> The problem is that the startup message doesnt get put to the logfile.

Interesting. I ran the above code, with no modifications, and a file
named "file-name-wth-complete-path-containing-no-spaces" was created on
my desktop containing:

15/08/22 12:58:37 script started

If you run the above code without any modifications, do you see the same
result?

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Bash Script Problem csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-22 11:55 -0700
  Re: Bash Script Problem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-22 15:18 -0400
  Re: Bash Script Problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-22 19:59 +0000
    Re: Bash Script Problem Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-23 00:53 -0700
  Re: Bash Script Problem Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-22 18:48 -0400
    Re: Bash Script Problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-23 00:44 +0000
  Re: Bash Script Problem csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-22 23:22 -0700
    Re: Bash Script Problem Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:13 +0000
    Re: Bash Script Problem Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-24 05:15 -0400

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