Re: [Help-bash] flummoxed

[Federico Prades Illanes]

Additionally don't 'set -x' instead set the shebang in the first line with
-x. That way you could see all the invocations to profile scripts if any,
etc.

#!/bin/bash -x
> # your script contents.

# go here
>





On 9 October 2014 14:52, Federico Prades Illanes <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm just guessing here, is is possible that your script is using the cd
> built-in. The default behaviour is to change the directory back to $HOME,
> so you might be doing this accidentally, for example as cd $NOTSET.
>
> It will also help to send the contents of your 'If' script.
>
> On 9 October 2014 11:14, Brian Tew <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Brian Tew
>> address@hidden
>>
>> Ok I have this tiny bash script callef lf to list files only (no sub
>> directories).
>> Problem is that it lists the files in my home dir no matter what dir I am
>> in.
>> I want it to list the files in the current directory.
>> The lf command is in /usr/local/bin, and there are no aliases or
>> functions with that  name.
>> I also put an exact copy of lf called lfx in /usr/local/bin except it has
>> 'set -x' in it.
>> Here it the output of my tests below.
>> I am flummoxed.
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Script started on Mon 06 Oct 2014 09:39:44 AM CDT
>> ~$ls
>> home1
>> home2
>> tmp
>> ttt
>> typescript
>> ~$lf
>> home1
>> home2
>> typescript
>> ~$cd tmp
>> tmp$ls
>> tmp1
>> tmp2
>> tmp$lf
>> home1
>> home2
>> typescript
>> tmp$cd
>> ~$ls
>> home1
>> home2
>> tmp
>> ttt
>> typescript
>> ~$lf
>> home1
>> home2
>> typescript
>> ~$cd tmp
>> tmp$ls
>> tmp1
>> tmp2
>> tmp$lf
>> home1
>> home2
>> typescript
>> tmp$which lf
>> /usr/local/bin/lf
>> tmp$cd /usr/local/bin
>> bin$cat lf
>> for f in *; do [[ -d "$f" ]] || echo "$f"; done
>> bin$cat lfx
>> set -x
>> for f in *; do [[ -d "$f" ]] || echo "$f"; done
>> bin$cd
>> ~$ls
>> home1
>> home2
>> tmp
>> ttt
>> typescript
>> ~$lfx
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d home1 ]]
>> ++ echo home1
>> home1
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d home2 ]]
>> ++ echo home2
>> home2
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d tmp ]]
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d ttt ]]
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d typescript ]]
>> ++ echo typescript
>> typescript
>> ~$cd tmp
>> tmp$ls
>> tmp1
>> tmp2
>> tmp$lfx
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d home1 ]]
>> ++ echo home1
>> home1
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d home2 ]]
>> ++ echo home2
>> home2
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d tmp ]]
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d ttt ]]
>> ++ for f in '*'
>> ++ [[ -d typescript ]]
>> ++ echo typescript
>> typescript
>> tmp$uname -a
>> Linux Laggy 3.11.0-26-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 04:02:06 UTC 2014
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> tmp$bash --version
>> GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>>
>> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>> tmp$exit
>>
>> Script done on Mon 06 Oct 2014 09:46:21 AM CDT
>>
>>
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