[SOLVED] What shall I do to remove the strange charachter â in the begining and the end ? Bash shell script please help

Merh · 05-16-2017, 02:13 PM

lsof /mypath/paths* >> x.x
while IFS= read -r p;
do
dest="$p"
f="${dest#*/}"
echo "$f"
if test `find "$f" -mmin +60`
then
echo "$f"
fi
done <x.x

find: âoperat/32385â: No such file or directory
but it must be operat/32385.
When I echo before the command find, everything is ok. What shall I do to remove the strange charachter â in the begining and the end ?
Thanks in advance
Merh

NevemTeve · 05-16-2017, 02:42 PM

Please explain what is your goal, what this script is supposed to?
Edit: also read this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post5707388

ondoho · 05-16-2017, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merh

find: âoperat/32385â: No such file or directory
but it must be operat/32385.

this has nothing to do with why your script fails; it's just find's error message and i'm guessing it's putting the filename in curly “quotes”, and your terminal is using a font that cannot display that, or doesn't use UTF-8.
in other words, it's harmless.
that said, my find does not do that.
what version of find (and what linux distro) are you using?

Code:

$> find --version
find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0

hydrurga · 05-16-2017, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

this has nothing to do with why your script fails; it's just find's error message and i'm guessing it's putting the filename in curly “quotes”, and your terminal is using a font that cannot display that, or doesn't use UTF-8.
in other words, it's harmless.
that said, my find does not do that.
what version of find (and what linux distro) are you using?

Code:

$> find --version
find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0

For info, my version of find (Linux Mint 18.1; find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git) places E2 80 98 (U+2018; left single quotation mark) before the filepath in the error and E2 80 99 (U+2019; right single quotation mark) after.

Habitual · 05-16-2017, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merh

Code:

if test `find "$f" -mmin +60`

Looks funny to me, as a [[ conditional expression ]]
Tons of links on using them.

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...ect_07_01.html
is one.

See if that helps.

Are you processing /proc with this lsof routine? Because it seems strange to me.