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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Bash Script Problem
Date: 22 Aug 2015 19:59:38 GMT
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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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