Tim Dunphy wrote: > hello list! > > I have a small shell script that I wrote that is meant to quickly bring down all of my xen instances in a quick and easy manner. Odd thing is, it does work on the command line. But if I put it into a script this happens: > > > [root at LCENT03:/home/bluethundr/bin] #virtdown > > it expects another command to happen. which is odd since all of the text delimiters (" and ') are balanced according to vim. I was wondering if I could have an opinion on why this might be happening. Here's the script: > > > > #/bin/bash > > for i in $(virsh list | grep -v -e Id -e --- -e Domain-0 | awk '{print $1}'); > do > /usr/bin/virsh shutdown $i > done > > > thanks in advance! > tim Last thing I saw is "#/bin/bash" instead of "#!/bin/bash". Fix and try. The rest of suggestions: Add plenty of unique "echo" lines so you can see where it brakes. Also try $(`virsh list | grep -v -e Id -e --- -e Domain-0 | awk '{print $1}'`) and try sending that same part to variable first and echo the variable so you can see output. #!/bin/bash list=$(virsh list | grep -v -e Id -e --- -e Domain-0 | awk '{print $1}') echo "the list is=$list"; sleep 2 for i in "$list"; do echo "Running shutdown for item $i"; sleep 2 /usr/bin/virsh shutdown $i echo " shutdown for item $i is complete"; sleep 2 done and try version with: list=$(`virsh list | grep -v -e Id -e --- -e Domain-0 | awk '{print $1}'`) Ljubomir