Garrett Goebel wrote:
Well, perhaps you'd like to submit a "best practices" version?
Before:
bash-2.03# cat build_all_server_shutdown.sh
#!/bin/bash
USERNAME="username"
PASSWORD="password"
LOGFILE="all_server_shutdown.txt" \
COMMAND="psshutdown" \
CLOPTIONS="-s -t 1 -u ${USERNAME} -p ${PASSWORD}" \
/usr/bin/perl -ne 'BEGIN { $d=("-")x5; $r="REM"; $fn=$ENV
{LOGFILE}; @cmd=($ENV{COMMAND}." ".$ENV{CLOPTIONS}." \\\\"," >>
$fn"); $fl=<>; print "$r ${fl}erase $fn\n"; } next if /^(#)|($r)/;
tr/a-z\r\n /A-Z/d; $_=(/^(SVR_)|(other)/i?"$r\n$r [$d$_$d]\n":join
($_,@cmd)."\n"); print;' < $1 > $2
Huh. I can't even get that to run. The error I get: line 5: $1: ambiguous redirect Its basically generating a file to disk? Can you post a sample file? j