Re: Bash – am I getting MAD here?
Jared Greenwald
greenwaldjared at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 17:08:52 UTC 2016
The problem you have is that of namespace. Even though you're declaring
the "FileName" variable within ToURI as a local, you're also declaring it
in the global context in the (now disabled) line. It wouldn't necessarily
be a problem, but you're declaring FileName as an array in the global
context, so when you go to use it the ToURI context, bash basically doesn't
know what to do with an assignment to an array without a positional
reference. Basically, you *could* override the global value in ToURI if
you wanted to by using a positional reference (eg [1]) or remove the
positional reference in the global context. My best suggestion would be to
just change the local variable name in ToURI to something that doesn't
collide with the global namespace.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I really really don't understand what's going on here. I have a rather big
> script and there is something that doesn't work properly, and after hours
> of debugging, I found the problem line.
>
> Since the script is very big, 19 files at the moment, I made a shorter
> example that has exactly the same problem. Here it is:
>
> *#!/bin/bash*
>
> *FullPathName() {*
> * # Declare local variables*
> * local Path="$1"*
> * if [[ ${Path:0:1} != / ]]; then # Relative path.*
> * echo "${PWD}/${Path}"*
> * else # Absolute path.*
> * echo "${Path}"*
> * fi*
> *}*
>
> *ToURI () {*
> * # Declare local variables.*
> * export local FileName="$1"*
> * perl -MURI::file -e 'print URI::file->new($ENV{'FileName'})."\n"'*
> *}*
>
> *File[1]=$(FullPathName "${1}")*
> *FileName[1]=$(basename "${File[1]}")*
>
> *SelectedProject="Projekt Johnny Guitar"*
> *RemoteRootFolder="http://web.comhem.se/something
> <http://web.comhem.se/something>"*
> *RemoteProjectFolder="${RemoteRootFolder}/"$(ToURI "${SelectedProject}")*
>
> *echo "${RemoteProjectFolder}"*
>
> as you can see, the *File* and *FileName* variables are not used for
> anything in this example, but they still illustrate the problem. I named
> the file *TEST.sh*, put it in my *~/bin* folder which is included in my
> *PATH* environment variable, so I will run this test with a random file
> as an argument.
>
> Now, let's run this:
> *~$ TEST.sh .netrc*
> *http://web.comhem.se/something/ <http://web.comhem.se/something/>*
> *~$ *
> Obviously, *$(ToURI "${SelectedProject}" *didn't do anything, but why?
>
> So, as I said, after hours of debugging, I came up with this:
> *#!/bin/bash*
>
> *FullPathName() {*
> * # Declare local variables*
> * local Path="$1"*
> * if [[ ${Path:0:1} != / ]]; then # Relative path.*
> * echo "${PWD}/${Path}"*
> * else # Absolute path.*
> * echo "${Path}"*
> * fi*
> *}*
>
> *ToURI () {*
> * # Declare local variables.*
> * export local FileName="$1"*
> * perl -MURI::file -e 'print URI::file->new($ENV{'FileName'})."\n"'*
> *}*
>
> *File[1]=$(FullPathName "${1}")*
> *# FileName[1]=$(basename "${File[1]}") ############## Disabled line
> ###############*
>
> *SelectedProject="Projekt Johnny Guitar"*
> *RemoteRootFolder="http://web.comhem.se/something
> <http://web.comhem.se/something>"*
> *RemoteProjectFolder="${RemoteRootFolder}/"$(ToURI "${SelectedProject}")*
>
> *echo "${RemoteProjectFolder}"*
>
> So, the only difference is that I disabled the line *FileName[1]=$(basename
> "${File[1]}")*.
>
> Now, let's try again:
> *~$ TEST.sh .netrc*
> *http://web.comhem.se/something/Projekt%20Johnny%20Guitar
> <http://web.comhem.se/something/Projekt%20Johnny%20Guitar>*
> *~$ *
>
> So, suddenly it works, but WHY?
> I early suspected *basename*, but in the original script there are
> several *basename* statements, but they don't mess anything up.
>
>
> Seriously, what is going on here?
>
> *~$ bash --version | grep release*
> *GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)*
> *~$*
>
>
>
> *Any help is greatly appreciated, since this is a real showstopper for me
> at the moment.*
>
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