IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH PATHWAYS, eg. "\\xxx\yyy"?? 1

[PrgrmsAll]

I am appending lines to a file ($MESSAGE) and then attaching the file to an email. One of the lines is a network pathway string. However, I am having issues with it. The following code:

echo "<\\server1\dept\share\transfer>" >> $MESSAGE

produces:

<\server1\dept\share ransfer>

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

 

[MikeLacey]

You need, would you believe to write it like this.

echo "<\\\\\server1\\dept\\share\\\transfer>"

Unix doesn't really *do* backslashes in pathnames, and the \t was being interpreted as a TAB character.

Mike

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[PrgrmsAll]

Mike, thanks once again. I was a Gupta SQLWindows Programmer for about 18 months and that RAD Environment also behaved similarly. That is great to know.

Thanks again.

 

[johngiggs]

PrgrmsAll,

That is because of the way the shell interprets it. To get the result you are looking for, try:

echo '<\\\server1\\dept\\share\\transfer>'

man ksh and read about escaping.

\ Escape next character. Editing characters, the user's erase, kill and interrupt (normally ^?) characters can be entered in a command line or in a search string if preceded by a \. The \ removes the next character's editing features (if any).

John

 

[PrgrmsAll]

I have a job that calls another job. The second job sets up
a textfile and emails it to a recipient list. It all works great.
The only thing I am having bother with (now that I sorted out
the \\ issues (thanks!)) is passing a file name from the first
job to the second one. Let me give an example:

============================================================
JOB_1.sh
============================================================
/home01/userme/jobs/job1.eml
============================================================

============================================================
JOB_1.eml
============================================================

rm email1.txt
MESSAGE="email1.txt"
TO="123@xyz.com"
CC="456@xyz.com 789@xyz.com"
echo ~c "$CC" >> $MESSAGE
echo ~s "File Transfer: Successful" >> $MESSAGE
echo "The file created by JOB1 is now ready. It is located in the
following directory:" >> $MESSAGE

echo "<\\\\\server1\\dept\\share\\\transfer\\>" >> $MESSAGE

echo "" >> $MESSAGE
echo "The process date & time was:" >> $MESSAGE
date '+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S' >> $MESSAGE
echo "" >> $MESSAGE
echo "If you are receiving this email in error or need to request a
change, please submit a Change Request." >> $MESSAGE

mailx -s $SUBJECT $TO < $MESSAGE
============================================================

My issue is that I want to add a filename onto the end of the path.
This will be different everytime. Typically a JobName + JulianDate + .xls.

When calling 'job1.eml' from 'job1.sh', is there a way I can pass the
filename as a parameter?



Thank you.

 

[johngiggs]

PrgrmsAll,

If the other script you are using accepts the filename parameter, you just have to define the variable.

I.E.

TODAY=`date +%m%d%y`
/home01/userme/jobs/job1.eml $TODAY.xls

John

 

[PrgrmsAll]

Thanks John. Currently the second script is not expecting nor accepting anything. How do I set that up? Just simply by defining the variable in there (by 'there' i mean JOB1.eml)?

 

[johngiggs]

Depending on how your script is set up, you could just set a variable equal to $1.

Ex.

#!/usr/bin/ksh

if [ $1 ]; then
ABC=$1
else
echo "\nThis script requires a date parameter\n"
exit 1
fi

If you post your script, that could help us determine what changes need to be made.

John

 

[PrgrmsAll]

I have the variable/parameter part working, I am just have problems with concatenating strings. I thought the double-pipe combination did this ( Hello || World ) but this is not working. I actually want to do something like:

$TODAY + ".xls" + $ABC (where the + is a concatenation).

Surely I am missing something easy here?

Thanks.