I am going to put this out there first, this is my shell script homework. However, I am finished with my work. It is just not running properly for some reason. I already asked 2 game developer graduates and a few peers and no one could figure out why is this not working! What is wrong?
Multiple lines without semi-colon
-bash-3.2$ chmod u+x names
-bash-3.2$ cat names
grep 94112 famous.dat | cut -c6-19 > famous.last3
grep 94112 famous.dat | cut -c21-35 > famous.first3
paste famous.first3 famous.last3
rm famous.first3
rm famous.last3
-bash-3.2$ names
paste: famous.first3 : Cannot open the file.
-bash-3.2$
Semi-colon with everything in one line
-bash-3.2$ cat names
grep 94112 famous.dat | cut -c6-19 > famous.last3; grep 94112 famous.dat | cut -c21-35 > famous.first3; paste famous.first3 famous.last3; rm famous.first3; rm famous.last3;
-bash-3.2$ names
nina simone
bob marley
michael franti
keith richards
: command not found
-bash-3.2$
Semi-color with multiple lines
-bash-3.2$ cat names
grep 94112 famous.dat | cut -c6-19 > famous.last3;
grep 94112 famous.dat | cut -c21-35 > famous.first3;
paste famous.first3 famous.last3;
rm famous.first3;
rm famous.last3;
-bash-3.2$ names
: command not found
: command not found
nina simone
bob marley
michael franti
keith richards
: command not found
: command not found
: command not found
-bash-3.2$
Attempt to use dos2unix:
-bash-3.2$ dos2unix names namesunix
-bash: dos2unix: command not found
