[ale] Bash script help

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Aug 22 07:36:01 EDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 04:58 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Okay, I am trying to build my own backup script and running into an
> error trying to pipe mkisofs into cdrecord. I am getting a command not
> found on the cdrecord part. This is a bash script and the problem line
> is below.
> 
> MKCD="mkisofs -J -R -V "$(date '+%a %F')" $TDIR$IBALL" | "cdrecord
> blank=fast driveropts=singlesession,burnfree -"
> 
> The MKCD is being called as a variable in the script. I have not benn
> able to find out why the pipe fails. Ideas?

I have found that always using a defined PATH statement or explicit
command paths is essential. Basically, cdrecord is not in the PATH for
the environment running the script.
> 
> TIA
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