Re: Shell Scripts & permissions

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 07/02/03 

Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:50:55 GMT

In article <9d18d9fe.0307020643.5111b94e@posting.google.com>,
Dave from Dublin <davidmcguinness@dublin.ie> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been having a problem with a shell script I wrote. When I type
>the 4 following lines into command line, it does what I want it to:
>
> SAMPLE="../data/1/3-11/2.ref"
> COMMAND="C99"
> LOG="DavesLog1.txt"
> private.removeBoundary < $SAMPLE | $COMMAND | JBeeferman --ref
>$SAMPLE >> $LOG
>
>However when I save ithese lines as a shell script and then execute it
>I get the following errors:
>
>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:
>java.lang.Boolean
> at uk.ac.man.cs.choif.extend.Argx.get(Argx.java)
> at uk.ac.man.cs.choif.nlp.seg.linear.eval.Beeferman.main(Beeferman.java)
># C99 : Similarity matrix...
># C99 : Rank matrix (11x11 rank mask)...
># C99 : Sum of rank matrix...
># C99 : Divisive clustering (automatic termination)...
># C99 : Found 11 segments...
># C99 : Ready.
>./testDave2.sh: ../data/1/3-11/2.ref: Permission denied
>
>I have tried playing with the permissions of the file 2.ref but this
>only seems to make things worse. Does anyone have any idea what the
>problem is?

The problem is the line:

$SAMPLE >> $LOG

This is trying to execute ../data/1/3-11/2.ref as a command, which is
almost certainly not what you intended. That's probably supposed to be at
the end of the line that begins with "private.removeBoundary", but you
probably used a text editor that split the line because it was too long. 

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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