how to cat a text file and save it as a variable

mrobertson · 07-05-2005, 07:18 AM

I tried tail -f sample and it just printed my code to the screen. I need to execute the code. How do I do this?

mrobertson · 07-05-2005, 07:26 AM

Could the problem be that you can not execute code from a telnet session?

keefaz · 07-05-2005, 07:42 AM

Maybe you could try :
sh sample
instead of:
./sample

mrobertson · 07-05-2005, 07:49 AM

I tried sh sample and got the following error:

sample : 7: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "do")

What does this mean?

keefaz · 07-05-2005, 07:53 AM

That means it expects 'do' at the 7th line of sample script...
I don't see why though, is your sample script exactly the
same you posted ? Maybe add a blank line at the end
of the script ? Also did you write the script in windows ?
That does matter because windows's end of line are \r\n
while linux ones are \n

mrobertson · 07-05-2005, 07:59 AM

Yes, I wrote the script in windows, notebook to be exact. I added a blank line to the end of the code and still got the same error. when I went into the text editor to add the blank line......each line of code had a ^M at the end of the line and even the blank lines had it too. I dont know if that could be the problem, but I am still getting the same error even after adding a blank line

hk_linux · 07-05-2005, 08:13 AM

Use a text editor (like vi or emacs) and remove all the ^M and save the file.
Then execute "sample". That shud work.

mrobertson · 07-05-2005, 08:20 AM

That did the trick!!! Thank you very much for your help!