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Article #1454tip ~p escape in a shell script
From: James F Bond-Harris
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 20:50
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 20:50
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I am trying to write a shell script to allow me to send a file from my Sun 3/60 up to a remote machine for printing. I have been using tip as my terminal emulator, having no other at the time. What I am trying to do is: #! /bin/sh if [ $# -ne 1 ] then echo "usage: rpr filename" exit fi ~p $1 %HOME/tmp (printing command) $1 rm $HOME/tmp/$1 The problem is that the ~p escape is interpretted by sh, and it complains that it cannot find anything like ~p. The manual page doesn't seem to say anything about using the escapes in a shell script, only that tip looks for them at the start of new lines. Is there any way to have the escapes work inside the script, or am I stuck with doing things manually? Or is there some other way that I (obviously:) haven't heard of? Thanks in advance, Jim Bond-Harris ihlpy!jimx
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogccse!blake!milton!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: jimx@ihlpy.att.com (James F Bond-Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: tip ~p escape in a shell script Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1517@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 6 Sep 89 20:50:17 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 27 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 123, message 17 of 17