BASh help

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

On Thursday 30 August 2007 17:13:10 Mark Haney wrote:
> I've got a script that's not behaving itself. I know it's something
> silly, but I can't figure it out.  The script is just a for loop that
> runs through a text file list of files (/directory/filename format) and
> does an 'ls' on each one.  The problem is, I /want/ the script to NOT
> find those files, i.e., those files shouldn't be there.  That part
> works, but I can't dump the output of that into a text file.
>
> Basically ls dumps all the 'file or directory not found' straight to the
> console and not to the text file when I redirect output to it:
>
> ./missingfiles.sh > testfile.txt
>
> I get this output:
>
> ls: cannot access /home2/test/20070829/KVNX20070829_225943_744_3.bz2: No
> such file or directory
>
> to the console and not the text file.  How do I fix that?
>

First of all you should paste here the whole script, otherwise we won't be 
able to realise what's wrong.

You could also use the -x option in the #!/bin/bash to debug it when it's 
running and you might see in which step it fails...

Cheers.
Manuel

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