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Date:      Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:00:03 -0700
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        'Erik Trulsson' <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Scripting Help
Message-ID:  <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A050@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239E33F72@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:ertr1013@student.uu.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:44 AM
> To: Drew Tomlinson
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Scripting Help
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:37:02AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > I'm attempting to write one of my first scripts.  What I 
> want to do is
> > create a simple script that I can pass arguments to from 
> the command line
> > and have it run the appropriate webalizer command(s) to 
> create stats for
> > various virtual hosts on my machine.  However, I am running 
> into problems
> > figuring out how to set variables in the script.  Here is 
> what I have so
> > far:
> > 
> > #! /bin/sh
> > 
> > #  8/8/01
> > #  An attempt to write script to run webalizer to generate 
> web stats for all
> > #  virtual web sites.
> > 
> > #  Set command line variables
> > set web=$1
> > set odir="/usr/local/www/data/webalizer/$1"
> 
> No need to use 'set'. Those lines should just read:
> 
> web=$1
> odir="/usr/local/www/data/webalizer/$1"

Thanks!  This worked just fine.

> > 
> > #  Time stamp log
> > date
> > 
> > echo $web\n
> > echo $odir\n
> 
> The \n at the shouldn't be there.
> The default behaviour for echo(1) is to add a newline at the end.
> (Can be overridden by the -n flag.)
> So this should be
> 
> echo $web
> echo $odir

This worked too!

Thanks,

Drew


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