Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:56:39 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: youshi10@u.washington.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need /bin/sh script help Message-ID: <20060411225358.K27739@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060411.131512.22840.701172@webmail32.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060411.131512.22840.701172@webmail32.nyc.untd.com>
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:30:32 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote (my brief response follows all of his text): > > Just making a series of sh scripts to help automate updating and > whatnot of my fileserver (since I am trying to avoid having mistakes > occur with my system, and maybe help the community out a bit by > providing some decent means of updating their own machines), and I was > wondering if anyone could help me out with the following script I've > developing (the grep if statements are incorrect..): > I see a problem in the line > if [ -n `grep -e s/KERNCONF=/ /etc/make.conf` ] # want to look for > you should have double-quotes around the `grep ... conf` > because it is likely to produce more than one token and so the > [ -n ... ] statement violates the syntax (there should be exactly 1 > token between the -n and the ] , even no token there is an error, the > way that is handled is to quote it. I am writing this quickly without > bringing up my FreeBSD system to check it. Good luck. Or simply use the error status of grep, no "[" invocation: if grep -q ... then ... fi Note that if you're looking at automating the update process you should probably pay careful attention to the world/kernel update process described in the handbook; there are steps (like an initial mergemaster -p) that you will want to include. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ If you have received this email in error, do whatever the hell you want with it. It's not like I can stop you anyway.
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