[SOLVED] Variable Corruption

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2 Weeks Ago

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eccapt

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[SOLVED] Variable Corruption

Given the following code I am expecting the variable $NewFile to be /var/ftp/pub/faxes/myfile.txt.pdf
However my system is returning: ".pdf/ftp/pub/faxes/myfile.txt"

$Ext returns: "txt"
$oFileName returns: "/var/ftp/pub/faxes/myfile.txt"

I have tried this a hundred different ways with no luck.

Code:

PDF=".pdf"

#extract the file.ext from the script
FileName1=`head $f -n1 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sed 's/\"//'`
FileName2=`head $f -n1 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sed 's/\"//'`
FileName3=`head $f -n1 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sed 's/\"//'`

FileName=`basename $FileName1`
Ext=`echo $FileName | awk -F . '{print $NF}'`

FileName=`basename $FileName2`
oFileName=/var/ftp/pub/faxes/${FileName}

FileName=`basename $FileName3`
NewFile=/var/ftp/pub/faxes/${FileName}${PDF}

echo $oFileName
echo $NewFile
echo $Ext

Any help is appreciated.

1 Week Ago	#2 (permalink)
mehorter Just Joined! Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12	Ther e must be a good reason but whynot write: NewFile=/var/ftp/pub/faxes/${FileName}.pdf I myself tried to use the $PDF variable and ${PDF} worked for me but so did using just plain .pdf at the end of the line. I will watch this thread and stew on a bettter answer for you.

1 Week Ago	#3 (permalink)
mehorter Just Joined! Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12	A few thoughts: If $filename=myfile.txt. Code: ${filename/txt/pdf} would return "myfile.pdf" Code: ${filename}.pdf would return "myfile.txt.pdf" A better way still would be to use Code: ${filename%.txt}.pdf . The "%" strips off the ".txt' from the end of filename only. so if FileName=mytxtfile.txt using "% " would give you a correct result but $ Code: {filename/txt/pdf} would yield "mypdffile.txt". Another thought: if $oFileName returns: "/var/ftp/pub/faxes/myfile.txt" why not do Code: NewFile=${oFileName%.txt}.pdf

1 Week Ago	#4 (permalink)
eccapt Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	thanks for the replies everybody: FileName1=`head $f -n1 \| awk -F/ '{print $NF}' \| sed 's/\"//'` what I didnt realize was that the file in $f contained a char(10) character at the end of the string which I did not see at first, I ran this script with -x and realized that %f was returning with a \r at the the end. I changed my script to: Code: FileName1=`head $f -n1 \| awk -F/ '{print $NF}' \| sed 's/\"//' \| tr -d'\r'` All good now.

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