On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:46:49PM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers alleged:
> I'm writing a script that has logging via a simple routine:
>
> LogIt() {
> Msg="$1"
> echo "$THISSCRIPT: $Msg"
> echo "$Msg" >>$LogFile
> }
>
> #A portion of this script sends a file via ftp:
> #
> ftp -vn >$tempfile <<$$EOD
> :
> :
> $$EOD
> #Then reads the temporary file to log
> while read line
> do
> LogIt $line
> Done <$tempfile
> rm -f $tempfile
> --------------------------------------
> All worked fine when I tested the ftp to a temporary file and reading it
> back to log the output, but once I created it as a cron entry (or so it
> seems) it now seems to take each line up to the first space:
>
> Connected
> 220-TCP/IP
> Copyright
> 220
> Remote
> 331
> 230
> 250
> 200
> local:
> 227
> 150-About
> :
> :
>
> See anything I'm doing wrong....any better way of handling this?
The first line in your function is only logging its first argument, not
all arguments; and since you pass $line unquoted, the first word is the
first argument.
You could either quote $line: ``LogIt "$line"'', or use all arguments in
LogIt: ``Msg="$@"''.
--
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California
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