scripting question

[Benjamin Zeller]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 04:55, Linda Hanigan wrote:
> I apologize if this posts twice. I sent it earlier and it did not show
> up. I am migrating a bunch of programs from RH 7.3 to Ubuntu. I am
> having
> problems with some of my  shell scripts. Below is the first lines of the
> script through the line that causes the error and the error. This has
> always worked even back to the 1980 with unix any idea what I need to
> do? The /usr/tmp directory is present and rwx by the user running the
> script. The script is suppose to create the file.
>
> # Mprice_ prints missouiri price list
> TEMP=/usr/tmp/price
> show=MO
> echo "What type of price list do you want? (Q P)"
> read style
> echo "How many copies do you want? "
> read copies
> echo "^[E
> " > $TEMP
>
> /usr/local/lbin/Tent/Mprice_: line 9: /usr/tmp/price: No such file or
> direc tory

Hi Linda,

errormessage itself tells you everything that's wrong: /usr/tmp/price isn't 
there, so create it or change script to "TEMP=/tmp/price"

>
>
> Thank you so much
>         Linda

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