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pylej
Level 4
15 years ago

script for vmchange -d to multiple tapes

Hello, I would like to write a small shell script or use perl to be able to change the description of mulitple tape from a flat file list of tapes. So something that would do the same as ./vmc...
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  • Andy_Welburn's avatar
    Andy_Welburn
    15 years ago
    The single quotes '  '  behave similarly to double quotes "  ", but much differently from the action quotes `  ` !! ;)
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pylej
Level 4
15 years ago
Hi Andy,

I know what I did wrong now, I was using ' instead of `  for the cat /tmp/tape_list.txt .  This has been very helpful for me, thanks alot to everyone who has posted.

Jim