[clug] can't invoke ex from inside an if statement

[Rousak, Boris]

Thank you very much. It works now :) This should teach me to be more careful
next time...

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Holburn [mailto:kim.holburn at anu.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, 24 November 2003 3:17 PM
To: Rousak, Boris; 'CLUG'
Subject: Re: [clug] can't invoke ex from inside an if statement


At 2:57 PM +1100 2003/11/24, Rousak, Boris wrote:
>Greetings all,
>I am stumped on this seemingly obvious problem so any hints/advice would be
>very much appreciated. I wrote the following script using ex:
>
>#!/bin/ksh
>ex - myfile << EOF
>/15:01:06/ | .= | d | a |Nov 14 15:01:06 /usr: 1
>.
>.
>wq

Well you've forgotten the end of the inline redirector:

#!/bin/ksh
ex - myfile << EOF
/15:01:06/ | .= | d | a |Nov 14 15:01:06 /usr: 1
.
.
wq
EOF


>And it works fine, when run from the command line like so ./myscript
>But when I add a simple if statement to the script:
>
>#!/bin/ksh
>if [[ 1 = 1 ]]; then
>{
>ex - myfile << EOF
>/15:01:06/ | .= | d | a |Nov 14 15:01:06 /u20: 1
>.
>.
>wq
>}
>fi

#!/bin/ksh
if [[ 1 = 1 ]]; then
{
ex - myfile << EOF
/15:01:06/ | .= | d | a |Nov 14 15:01:06 /u20: 1
.
.
wq
EOF
}
fi


>and run again I get the following error message:
>./myscript[2]: syntax error at line 4 : `
>where line 4 is the line invoking ex i.e. ex - myfile << EOF.
>I've tested the if statement on its own and it works fine, so does anyone
>have any ideas on what am I doing wrong here?
>
>Cheers,
>Boris
>
>
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