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Reputation: 5038

Piping echo, tail and sed leads to wrong output

I want to add an entry in fstab and I'm using this command in my /bin/bash script:

echo -n | tail -1 /mnt/etc/fstab | sed 's/\(-\).*/-03/' >> /mnt/etc/fstab
echo -e -n "\t" >> /mnt/etc/fstab  
echo -n "/home" >> /mnt/etc/fstab
echo -e -n "\t" >> /mnt/etc/fstab  
echo -n "ext4" >> /mnt/etc/fstab
echo -e -n "\t" >> /mnt/etc/fstab  
echo -n "default,noatime" >> /mnt/etc/fstab 
echo -e -n "\t" >> /mnt/etc/fstab  
echo -n "0" >> /mnt/etc/fstab 
echo -e -n "\t" >> /mnt/etc/fstab  
echo "2" >> /mnt/etc/fstab

this is the original content:

proc                  /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=ee397c53-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=ee397c53-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1

and this is the expected output:

proc                  /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=ee397c53-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=ee397c53-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
PARTUUID=ee397c53-03  /home           ext4    defaults,noatime  0       2

instead the output is the following:

proc                  /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=ee397c53-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=ee397c53-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
PARTUUID=ee397c53-03
    /home   ext4    default,noatime 0   2

What's wrong in the piping?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 567

Answers (2)

RavinderSingh13
RavinderSingh13

Reputation: 133528

Following also may help you in same.

awk -F'[- ]' 'END{val=sprintf("%02d",$2+1);print $1"-"val," /home           ext4    defaults,noatime  0       2"}'   Input_file

If you are happy with above awk's result then you could save results with following command too.

awk -F'[- ]' '1;END{val=sprintf("%02d",$2+1);print $1"-"val," /home           ext4    defaults,noatime  0       2"}' Input_file  > tmp && mv tmp Input_file

Upvotes: 1

JNevill
JNevill

Reputation: 50034

Your first line is off. You are piping echo -n to tail. echo -n produces no output so you are piping nothing to tail.

You could append the output of your tail | sed command using echo -n instead:

echo -n $(tail -1 /mnt/etc/fstab | sed 's/\(-\).*/-03/') >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Wrapping the tail | sed bit into $() allows echo to take the stdout of those commands and echo out the results (without the line feed as desired) back into fstab.

Alternatively you could use xargs to pipe TO echo so it can read from stdin.

tail -1 /mnt/etc/fstab | sed 's/\(-\).*/-03/' | xargs echo -n >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Also, you could use printf to do the whole script:

printf "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", $(tail -1 /etc/fstab | sed 's/\(-\).*/-03/') "/home" "ext4" "default,noatime" "0" "2"

Upvotes: 2

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