diff command doesnt work

[hike]

On Jan 22, 2008 6:44 AM, Ravi Shanmugam <ravi.shanmugam at sasken.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In the following code given below, after the diff command, none of the
> code is executed. "Hello1" is displayed on the screen and "logger -t
> Hello Started" is displayed in /var/log/messages. But after the diff
> command, echoing of filearray and "Hello2" is not displayed.
>
> #---------------------------------------
>      logger -t hardening Started
>      echo "Hello1"
>      logger -t Hello Started
>
>      diff /etc/lib/mgmtlist /usr/lib/mgmtlist > /tmp/difflist
>
>      filearray=( `cat /tmp/difflist | tr '\n' ' '`)
>
>      for (( i = 0; i < ${#filearray[@]} ; i++)); do
>          echo ${filearray[$i]}
>      done
>
>      echo "Hello2"
> #------------------------------------
>
> Could someone please help.
>
> Regds,
> RSR
>
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it is good form to give the absolute path of the commands that your are
calling or to explicitly set your PATH in scripts.