aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > On May 3, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > >> 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 > > Does this work for HVMs? > > - aurf Can not say. I use only one KVM gueat and virsh does not even work on my server: virsh: /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0: version `LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_0.6.1' not found (required by virsh) so my involvement is for now only because I am very good "bash" programmer and willing to help. Ljubomir