strings not appended onto the file in shell scripting

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I was trying a simple shell program as below to append data at the end of the file,

path="/root/dir"
secure="*(rw,..)"
echo "$path $secure" >> a.txt

is not appending the string to a.txt

Is it not appending anything to a.txt? Can you show output of ls -l a.txt? — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Aug 4, 2014 at 13:57
Could it be that the * is giving problems? What if you try to set secure with some content that does not contain asterisk? In bash, * is expanded. You could also try secure='*(rw,..)' (single quote), so that it does not expand. — fedorqui
– fedorqui, Commented Aug 4, 2014 at 14:45

konsolebox · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-04 14:10:57Z

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Just a guess but your script may be in DOS format that you're actually trying to write output to a.txt\r instead. Try to run one of the following to your code and try again:

sed -i 's|\r||' file
dos2unix file

answered Aug 4, 2014 at 14:10

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