[ale] scripts, file I/O, and loss of hair

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> I have a simple test script my_script
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # this is a crap script
> myout="$2"'.crap'
> directions=$(cat $2)
> echo "$myout"
> echo "$directions"
> exit
> 
> It is launched by:
> 
> ./my_script < test1.dat

You're not passing a $2 ???

> 
> which is a file containing one line
> /tmp/
> 
> which will be used later once the I/O issue is corrected.
> This is being done to replicate a much larger scenario
> 
> When it is run, the output is:
> .crap
> /tmp/
> 
> Notice that the file I want to be named test1.dat.carp is only named .crap
> 
> I need to get the name of the input file into the script itself somehow. 
> Positional parameters as not doing it.
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> 
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to 
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as 
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - ////2011 Noam Chomsky////
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Until later, Geoffrey

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